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Very nice indeed Mr Webster

Is the the machine that I saw trying to take off though a tent the other year? 
 
It's amazing what you can create from a pile of parts Nigel

All my words revolved around that same word too

It's a epic from j.r.r. Stig I love this story of how a dream can evolve with passion and ingenuity into something so awesome

It's a epic from j.r.r. Stig I love this story of how a dream can evolve with passion and ingenuity into something so awesome

On a good windy day go out side 
And presto one comes down the road
Empty (You hope)   

Attaching wheel rim to tyre machine before soaping tyre.
 
First fitting tyre over rim.
 
Using our other tyre machine attachment with wheel to press tyre on.
 
Stops catching freshly painted rims.
 
Finished product. all tyres now on painted rims ready to fit.
 
Next job painting (weather permitting)  

That Secret Nuclear Bunker is soooo top secret that knowone knows it exists
 
Sounds like some Essex Blonde put that sign up

Thanks Andy, what it's actually crying out for is a vise on one end

British Engineering at its best
 
 
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vx6hmSclbRE&feature=player_detailpage#t=2

Indeed.....    

I've the same 1953 myford ML7 lathe as Richard, only with 3 phase and an inverter. I'm untidy though, so it's a mess

Looking forward to seeing photos of the completed shed Mark

Missus wanted an island for the kitchen, so I made her one for Xmas.
It's 50% recycled too! top is made from the old garage roof timbers

Since we are all missing it here in the UK, thought I'd post of few pics from the other year where I live.
We get some good cold snaps, -13c is the coldest, with the kitchen down at 7c. Pretty well everything freezes, no where like the US recently though
Last pic will show you how I get around

He termed it a 'jolly good disaster' only he could get away with that....

hehe
 
black jacks/spangles
walking 3 miles to school in all weathers
Lifts to school in the back on a van or trailer - or milk float unrestrained
riding on the wheel arch of my dads JCB
bob a job (scouts)
doing 2 paper rounds to have money to buy things
progging - collecting wood to build massive bonfires
watching The A team, Fall guy or Dukes of Hazzard on a saturday night
Being forced to watch Dynasty or the Colbys an hour later
British Leyland cars...

Neat, never knew they existed!

A couple of years ago now, should have double glazing really...

Missus wanted an island for the kitchen, so I made her one for Xmas.
It's 50% recycled too! top is made from the old garage roof timbers

i combined a boating holiday with a camping vacation
 

Whilst trawling through some of my dads old literature from the years he had his own horticulture engineering business I found these and thaught you all might like to see them.

here's one of my all time favourite tractors - A Roadless Super Dexta. It's what has inspired me since being a teenager to own/make a 4x4 tractor. The front axles were military design, and the mods were made by a UK company Roadless traction.