kevstar · Tuesday at 20:58

Hippo said:
Moomins are 80 years old. Well 80 years since their first story was published. Top telly when eye were a nipper.

Moomin 80 – 80 years since the first Moomin story was published

Moomin 80 celebrates the 80th anniversary of the Moomin stories. It all began with the first Moomin tale, The Moomins and the Great Flood, published in 1945.

www.moomin.com

Eye didnt think yer were older than 80.

DanClarke · Tuesday at 21:00

The old gal had another procedure today.
Wifey went there at 5PM to find that the old'un had only been carted off to theatre 10 mins earlier.
At 8PM she called to be told that her Ma was back on the ward but not yet fully with it (is she ever?).
So they have cleaned that wound out once again and she is on Vancomycin and we hope this will take and she will start healing.
Who knows what's in store for them eh?

DanClarke · Tuesday at 21:04

Stanleysteamer said:
G'day all.
Bin "taps aff" yessdi pm and today more or less so far.
Bin workin int polytunnel so got extra sweaty.
Forgot how hard it is for me to work at ground level. After a while, and not a very long while, either my knees or my back, or both at once pain me so much I have to try and work sittin down. Then me flipping legs get in the way.
Anyway repair pieces what I made yessdi have gone in, so the loose poly side panel is now secured to the wood edging round the base, by folding it under and around other pieces of wood which are now screwed down hard to trap it. Touch and go as there was very little poly left to play with.

I split those bits of wood I mentioned earlier, yessdi, by careful use of the circular saw and (watch out, I am going to "swear" now) my (coughs) WORKMATE!!! (and a trestle).
Dunno why so many peeps poo-poo the workmate. I find it useful at times and this was one of them.
I have also seen quite a lot of tradies pull them out of their vans, all beat up.

I'm getting better at using a jack saw, (at 70 I should flipping hope so!) but tbh I don't use one all that often. I use hacksaws, dovetail saw, jigsaw, circular saw and plunge saw more.

So here is "Stan the Handyman's Tip of the day!"

(Get off the floor and stop rolling about you lot!!!)

"When starting a cut in a piece of wood, as usual pull the blade towards you, then ( and this is the bit no one ever told me or showed me) when starting to cut pushing the blade away from you, maintain an 45 degree angle. That way it cuts much more easily and accurately. Once deeper into the cut you can vary it for all sorts of reasons, like to make a cut you want to follow or summat, but that 45 deg angle really does make it cut better, faster and easier."

OK?!

you can go back to the rolling and laughing now!!

Enjoy the rest of the day folks!!

I suspect that this might have been a bit of "preaching to the choir". Anyone who has spent any time on the business end of a handsaw to build anything significant knows this approach. The other thing you didn't remind us was "let the saw do the work, don't force it".

Stanleysteamer · Tuesday at 21:09

kevstar said:
Kev's tip of the day..... Chip hand saw on to the back of the bench.

Place timber on mitre saw adjust angle you want, hold in place pull trigger & TAA DAAA.

Yer but using the mitre saw means getting the flipping thing out, finding a safe place to put it, getting an extension lead etc etc.
I agree it does make great cuts but.........

So you ain't a fan of the jack saw then?

Fact is, if I am moving around the land with all the kit I need in a box, I ain't gonna be humping the mitre saw around with me nor searching for ways of plugging it in!!

Stanleysteamer · Tuesday at 21:11

DanClarke said:
The old gal had another procedure today.
Wifey went there at 5PM to find that the old'un had only been carted off to theatre 10 mins earlier.
At 8PM she called to be told that her Ma was back on the ward but not yet fully with it (is she ever?).
So they have cleaned that wound out once again and she is on Vancomycin and we hope this will take and she will start healing.
Who knows what's in store for them eh?

So sorry to hear all this.

Commiserations, mate.

Hippo · Tuesday at 21:13

kevstar said:
Eye didnt think yer were older than 80.

They wos repeats

kevstar · Tuesday at 21:14

DanClarke said:
The old gal had another procedure today.
Wifey went there at 5PM to find that the old'un had only been carted off to theatre 10 mins earlier.
At 8PM she called to be told that her Ma was back on the ward but not yet fully with it (is she ever?).
So they have cleaned that wound out once again and she is on Vancomycin and we hope this will take and she will start healing.
Who knows what's in store for them eh?

Poor wee soul I hope she recovers soon.

kevstar · Tuesday at 21:15

Hippo said:
They wos repeats

Eye didnt think yer were older than 80.

Hippo · Tuesday at 21:20

So me water butts collected 200L. Me ole meal wurm tub gotted 350ml. Mouth 250mm wide. Web ses:
Pie x r x r x h = volume ov tub
So vol / ( pie x r x r ) = 350 / 49087 = 0.00713
x1000 is 7.1mm deep
Which is about right.
200L / 7.1 = about 28 square meters ov castle roof.
Bit lower than recent figures. Will keep monitoring.

Hippo · Tuesday at 21:21

kevstar said:
Eye didnt think yer were older than 80.

Eye ain't

Stanleysteamer · Tuesday at 21:27

DanClarke said:
I suspect that this might have been a bit of "preaching to the choir". Anyone who has spent any time on the business end of a handsaw to build anything significant knows this approach. The other thing you didn't remind us was "let the saw do the work, don't force it".

I think the point I am making is that I never had a dad, or an uncle or a grandpa to show me all this sort of thing. When like me you just have to get stuck in, you go out, you buy the tools and the materials and go for it.
Remember this was in the days before youtube etc.
My one and only uncle left the country in 1963 which was when I was 8 and we left Hull. My two grandpas could have taught me shedloads of stuff but it was too late, they were in Hull and I was down south. My pa was an arty sort of bloke and taught me a bit about painting and decorating, but I really wasn't interested.
But I did learn a lot off a neighbour who had run his own small garage for years after training as a shipwright. I was 33 by then! And had done a lot of stuff self-taught.
At least the old Haynes manuals were decent back in the day.
And yes, you are right about "let the saw do the work".
We could go on, about only using a file in one direction and TBH I try to do that with a new hacksaw blade.
But I do have mates whose Dads gave them their first tool kits, etc. My dad, hmm, one day I came home to find he had cleared out the garage, including throwing away a cardboard box full of my stuff, which included tools and the steering wheel off my first car. He was unrepentant, as usual!

But he could cook really well, speak French, play the piano really well, was very well read took great photos and could develop and print.
Some of which I can still do, (don't play the piano as well, never could, but I do still play other instruments) So I guess I am a mish-mash of all sorts.

We are what we are.
Life's a funny old thing really!

Wimblowdriver · Tuesday at 21:27

kevstar said:
Kev's tip of the day..... Chip hand saw on to the back of the bench.

Place timber on mitre saw adjust angle you want, hold in place pull trigger & go get the first aid kit

adjusted that for you

kevstar · Tuesday at 21:31

Stanleysteamer said:
Yer but using the mitre saw means getting the flipping thing out, finding a safe place to put it, getting an extension lead etc etc.
I agree it does make great cuts but.........

So you ain't a fan of the jack saw then?

Fact is, if I am moving around the land with all the kit I need in a box, I ain't gonna be humping the mitre saw around with me nor searching for ways of plugging it in!!

I do like a nice new sharp jack saw, I was just pulling yer leg.

You do get cordless mitre saws. I also have a dewalt circular saw
which is cordless, tis a great bit of kit. Does yer angles/depth cuts.

Stanleysteamer · Tuesday at 21:33

Wimblowdriver said:
adjusted that for you

Twas my plunge saw that trimmed my left index by 8mm. And that was after I had taken it off the work piece and de-triggered it as I realised that what I had planned to use as a guide wasn't going to work.

The nurse in A&E said that I was right in the age bracket for that sort of thing and that most of them started with "I was in my shed..." I was in my flipping kitchen!! OK, I was refitting it!

Stanleysteamer · Tuesday at 21:37

kevstar said:
I do like a nice new sharp jack saw, I was just pulling yer leg. You do get cordless mitre saws. I also have a dewalt circular saw
which is cordless, tis a great bit of kit. Does yer angles/depth cuts.

Well that is funny. When my ex sil gave me his batt powered Dewalt drill, batt charger etc, it came with a cordless saw. As you say does all the angles etc, but it runs out of puff very quickly.
I am slowly returning to wired stuff.
Batt stuff is great for jobs that don't take too long, but I get fed up of having to change batts and go off and find somewhere to put the charger. Mind my Chinee replacement batts prolly aren't up to much!
When I do use wired stuff I do love the sheer power of them!

brianp38dse · Tuesday at 21:59

landowner said:
Afternoon
Showers here and cool
I'm researching water tanks to go under the caravan, fed up with humping water containers about
I got some square tubing to go across the chassis for the tank/tanks to sit on (fill em up on site)
Shovelled half a ton of stone into the back of me old truck today
Lazy day otherwise
Stay dry all

Try these people they do lots of nice kit https://www.caktanks.co.uk/

kevstar · Tuesday at 22:08

I lost the plot with my apprentice today, I was putting the gas axe through the lower part of that digger....
(bits that carry the tracks with drive motors ect)
The rear balance weight was slewed out to the nearside so lifting the offside 3ft of the ground so I could do all the underside cuts
when I had done all 4 corners (its an 40mm thick steel) I was cutting the balance weight off (7ton)so there must be about 20 tonne on whats left. Again I done all the underside cuts so I had 3 cuts to do....
Middle one first then when I was halfway though the outer cut the machine moved, I said to the lad who was to keep the hoses
out the way & fire watch "this whole thing has just moved so keep out the way" I was nearly through the 2nd cut & something
caught my left eye !! The walloper was reaching under the raised part of it which was about to fall off OMG what a fright
I got.

kevstar · Tuesday at 22:11

Stanleysteamer said:
Well that is funny. When my ex sil gave me his batt powered Dewalt drill, batt charger etc, it came with a cordless saw. As you say does all the angles etc, but it runs out of puff very quickly.
I am slowly returning to wired stuff.
Batt stuff is great for jobs that don't take too long, but I get fed up of having to change batts and go off and find somewhere to put the charger. Mind my Chinee replacement batts prolly aren't up to much!
When I do use wired stuff I do love the sheer power of them!

Wingwanwo batterys are not very good.

kevstar · Tuesday at 22:14

Stanleysteamer said:
Twas my plunge saw that trimmed my left index by 8mm.

I was in my flipping kitchen!! OK, I was refitting it!

You've still not finished it

Stanleysteamer · Tuesday at 22:16

kevstar said:
You've still not finished it

I know you are just winding me up, but, no, it is finished. It is the utility that is long drawn out!!
The opposite (new) neighbours actually complimented me on the kitching, then laughed at the mess in the ute!!

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