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Apr 13, 2019 11:35:14 GMT
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Lovin' it! Deckings pretty good too, although given your claimed level of unfitness, perhaps a gentle ramp rather than a step...? Indeed. A ramp. Or ramping it up..... Started to build a new BBQ table. Hopefully strong enough to handle any behaviours.
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skinnylew
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Apr 13, 2019 23:19:42 GMT
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Excellent work, I will be doing this at some point this year so good to see how other people do it. Although I'm looking into composite boards because laziness.......
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Excellent work, I will be doing this at some point this year so good to see how other people do it. Although I'm looking into composite boards because laziness....... But.... So the question is, what foundations are you using?? Bearers? All composite? Will be interesting to see a report, even on this thread so people can use it as a resource.
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Having lived here since September 2010, yes, time certainly flies and the world has changed somewhat, there has been a procession of used deck furniture, chairs, tables etc. And when we rebuilt the deck, I carried the chairs and table down to the bottom of the garden, in order for them to be out therapy. The table, which I got from Mickey two years ago as a cast off, started to self destruct. Fortunately I had a plan. craigrk had found me a wooden garden gate plus one that was cut up, when he went to buy some wooden garage doors last year, or was it this year? Yes, last year. Delivered them and I stored them knowing the deck needed replacing. So yesterday I started off by cleaning up some more of the old decking timbers, angle grinder on hand to cut back some of the embedded nails as there were some weird galvanised nails used that one just will not shift despite all sorts of encouragement. Carried the gate up to the house followed by the wood and all the tools. Hail and rain and a freezing breeze saw me in 5 layers again till about midday. Cleaned up wood. Amazingly, this stuff looks like new, except for old stains and water marks. Bit of trimming here and there. The biggest problem was actually what style of legs and support I was going to add. A-Frame shaped trestle legs, straight with jointed sections or what. As I tend to use furniture as load bearing tools. In the end I decided to not go with the loose trestle style, but to attach it all, with cross braces and then again, braced diagonally and attached to the table. I had o relocate some of the gate bracing in order to move the legs inboard from the sides so one can seat 8 people comfortably around it, this is what happens when you have a group BBQ here. Sally had a day with friends, and Bear her dog, so I was alone, and able to get on with the job, with the occasional chat to Mickey next door who needed some tools, and was fitting cut bricks to his newly decorated and recessed electric fireplace. We also agreed to remove 25 foot of the hedge between our homes and replace it with concrete posts and gravel boards plus 6 foot panels in order to regain about a meter of my property next to the deck. Won’t look good till my eyes get used to it, but needs to be done. Legs, cross braces in position. Diagonal braces in position too. Table looking skinny. Done.......!! Well, it was meant to be done. Then realised it looked pretty rubbish. So went to the pile of good decking and pulled a board out, they are 35mm thick. Screwed one to the table top and ran the circular saw down the length, guided by the centre groove, and made some sides to screw on and tidy it all up. Screwed the sides on and then fetched the belt sander because it’s never really done, is it. I had planned a simple, rustic table to use on thendeck. Wrong.....!! It was turning into a bigger job again. And finished. Or was it finished?? Errrrrmmmm.......?? Nope. More to come. Dinner date with Sally at Kevin’s meant a call in for a shower and closing the shop early. PS. Dinner and time together with friends was lovely too.
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Last Edit: Apr 14, 2019 5:16:29 GMT by grizz
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One more pic. Final underside assembly. I suspect you could put a V8 engine on there now (carefully) Off to the Kent American car meeting in Prozac in a bit as the Blazer is stuck behind a pile of wood down the bottom of the garden.
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That's one sturdy and awesome table. That will not blow over anytime soon. Great job.
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Apr 14, 2019 20:30:32 GMT
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That's one sturdy and awesome table. That will not blow over anytime soon. Great job. Sturdy for sure.
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Apr 14, 2019 20:36:32 GMT
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Was out for most of the day, home by 2.30pm Flipped the table over and gave it two coats. Then another good thick coat on top and dragged it onto the deck. Also tested the tailgate that will be cackrest to the bench I plan to build. Next job will be to build the framework for the bench. And then get it completed.
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A quote from a Garage Journal member. Easier to copy and paste. Morning Bob, Those Self Driving carts are very goood at dividing communities. Table is great, had a friend around to collect my sledge hammer yesterday morning early as she has concrete to break (does not need me) and we had a coffee and chat at the table, it feels really good. I actually increased the leg height by 30mm as 99% of visitors will be full sized adults, and the patio table it replaced was always a touch low. Regarding the toy score, I think partly it’s a mindset, and so many people fall foul to advertising, opinions and nonsensical false pride. How often do kids prefer the box an item comes in, wonder why.....? Anyway, this girl knows the value of her pounds that she works incredibly hard for, so anyone giving her or her son free £50.00 toy, is putting £50.00 back into the kitty. I could just imagine what went on inside Liane’s head (well, as a man we never really know, do we?) Sally has also opted to take the small two seater bench that was on the deck the last three years for her garden. I had inherited it from Mickey next door, and the new one I will be building will be bigger and more robust. Painted it for her on Monday evening after work. She was very pleased. Now to find time to build a bench. It’s WHEELS DAY on Friday so my time is allocated.
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Apr 18, 2019 18:09:17 GMT
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Quickly after work. Varnish. Halfway Done. Happy.
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So the BBQ/Feelgood patio or deck build continued yesterday after getting Sally’s wood sorted and delivered. As you may recall, craigrk and I managed to get an 80’s Chevy tailgate at the NSRA Swapmeet Next trick is to build it into a bench that’s been in my head simpnce last year when we were doing the USA Road trip, and went shopping with Clem Johnson and Dennis in Arkansas followed by melting metal in Oklahoma at Andy Martin’s place. ROAD TRIP LINK forum.retro-rides.org/thread/205913/grizz-craig-dennis-2018-humdingerThe pieces were already collected for it then. So very basic lay out planned. Then the job to remove all the closing and hinging hardware as I need to recess the tailgate into the frame of the bench backrest. The next part of the job took a lot longer than planned as the large fitting screws were all rusted solid, so various forms of force and manipulation were employed to get the rods disconnected and out. At that point I called it an early day as my guest was soon to be headed over. Some of the inner clips to the ally trim were missing and rusted away, so even reassembly was interesting. Packed up and closed shop. Hope to have it built and in use by sunset today. If not.......
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Last Edit: Apr 22, 2019 6:53:29 GMT by grizz
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Apr 22, 2019 13:32:04 GMT
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Have you ever seen the salvager with Rico Daniels? He is of similar abilities and might be interesting for you to watch ☺
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Apr 23, 2019 18:10:43 GMT
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Have you ever seen the salvager with Rico Daniels? He is of similar abilities and might be interesting for you to watch ☺ Not seen it, or may have, but would have to go look for it. Thank you
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Apr 23, 2019 18:29:12 GMT
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All in all, I failed...... Had hoped to complete the bench by end of Monday. But it was the right thing, to pack up early by 3pm. Started by drawing a basic plan, not something I usually do, mostly I just cut and make it up as I go building stuff. I tend to lay stuff out as I go, in order to edit if needed. By 2pm this was where I had got. And by 3pm all the parts were just laid out, balanced and visually illustrated. And looking like it was complete, at this point I packed it all away for another day, to do assembly. And cut the grass, And then a pic of Dennis’ truck, 1987 model, which is what the tailgate came from. Shortly after a good friend, and famed memeber of various forums, Glen Anderson arrived with his 1959 Land Rover. After he left, I started a fire to do a BBQ for Sally who had her last shift after 7 years at her job, she starts working as a nurse in a local hospital next week, so will be unemployed for the first time in her life for a week.
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Last Edit: Apr 23, 2019 18:35:06 GMT by grizz
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Looks good, especially for just 1 days work I'll just copy the comment from @leadfoot (saves me making the same point) : "Just my 2 cent. I would add some Wood to the back side of the feet, then the Construction will rest on solid Wood and not hanging on 2 screws." In the past I've used damp proof membrane (DPM) between the framework and decking boards to stop any rising damp Pics of my last project might give an idea forum.retro-rides.org/thread/197691/womble-improvising-south-wales-chepstow?page=3
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Apr 27, 2019 16:50:41 GMT
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Looks good, especially for just 1 days work I'll just copy the comment from @leadfoot (saves me making the same point) : "Just my 2 cent. I would add some Wood to the back side of the feet, then the Construction will rest on solid Wood and not hanging on 2 screws." In the past I've used damp proof membrane (DPM) between the framework and decking boards to stop any rising damp Pics of my last project might give an idea forum.retro-rides.org/thread/197691/womble-improvising-south-wales-chepstow?page=3 I am very happy with the outcomes here. Massive improvement on what was there. Funny how things change. Prozac is not Digger or skid steer bucket, but certainly is not shy of any jobs. So today Sally and I decided to change and restart the small bed next to the newly rebuilt deck, after clearing the side beds and cutting the rotten tips, and other off cuts for the neighbors from the old decking materials. So we decided to use Prozac along with a heavy duty cargo strap, to pull out the conifers one by one. Two of the six were trying to put up a fight, one made Prozac’s wheels squeal, followed promptly by Sally squealing even louder. In the end the whole bed was cleared, excluding the little windbreak hedge. I will find some more new and different plants at the next Bootfair I find. While at it, I also cleaned and serviced the water feature, another two part skip find from years ago. All back together, just awaiting new plants. Mickey hanging over the hedge was impressed too. Tomorrow ai need to assemble the tailgate bench as well. If no Bootfairs are on.
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Boot fairs are go 😂😂😂
Good idea to pull those conifers out,one less thing to scrape the Blazer on,gives you a bit more “swing room”. Just need to find some tyre proof flowers to put in that bed 😂
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Last Edit: Apr 28, 2019 4:48:19 GMT by Deleted
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Boot fairs are go 😂😂😂 Good idea to pull those conifers out,one less thing to scrape the Blazer on,gives you a bit more “swing room”. Just need to find some tyre proof flowers to put in that bed 😂 They certainly are going........ Berlingo or Noberlngo..... Long weekend in England.p Saturday weather had me packup no less than 4 times Plan was to complete the bench. After all that, this was what I had. Bootfair today. For mate craigrkPlants, nice and affordable. All our purchases The poor quality wobbly children's play pony was £8.00 but retails at £50.00 + My best was probably hinges, 50p per pair. Then home.
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One of the things I thought of doing was to create a “license plate” to hang below the front beam of the seat. Something like GRIZZ’S BENCH but in my case, too many of my license plate collection would have to die. So just a nice idea. So after breakfast etc, I carried on with the bench. Sally had stuff to do, dog to walk and other home jobs, so went off for a while returning later to supervise ad help. Harley always has to be there to help. Armrests made wider, and screws clocked for those who need to see that. Also added a strip of wood to the front of the seat. And as craigrk said to Sally, I have been trying to kill myself for 56 years, one day I will succeed. Final result for the day. And of course, Branded. More to come.
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Last Edit: May 6, 2019 15:34:17 GMT by grizz
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So at 3.30 am my night was over, backache and then a chat with Dennis. By 04.00 a mug of tea and forums. Sally was up at her place by 05.00 to get her son to work for 05.45 as his car snapped an alternator belt yesterday, So by 06.00 she came to pop in and bring me a mug of tea in bed. Perfect ehhhh. Anyway, once I was up, we made brekkie toasts d tea. And of course had to use the new bench. I can report it got approval from all parties. Once done, I went to the garage to fetch out some hinges for Mickey next door and the cast pieces we made at Andy Martin’s place in Oklahoma last year, plus the cast iron ones bought at various venues. They needed to be mocked up as part of the bench decorating But before that, mixing PVA wood glue and sawdust from my wood-shop lathe table, to fill in the holes where all the screws were countersunk. Filled, needed to dry in the sun, then sanded back to flat and smooth. Still need to look in my badge pile for a Chevrolet badge to fill the gap where one used to live. Sally and I tried the stars in various configurations and settled on this. Once selected, there always is more to be done. In the mean time, a few hours later, the holes all filled, and sanded back to standard. Stars next, Probably some time this week if I get time after work. Thanks for checking in.
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