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1 hour ago, MaxPower said:

i divined for the water, used a post hole borer with 1.5m homemade extensions till i hit the water, i will put a submersible sump pump with float switch on it when i hit the water, i will stop digging at about 4m then lower the concrete rings down and keep digging and stacking the rings, if the pump won't keep up then I'm deep enough. the rings will stop the hole collapsing and the rings have been cured for more than two months. thats the plan anyway

Looks like solid clay to!!

I'm sure you have thought of this but watch out for carbon monoxide poisoning to, if you have anything running in or above the hole. Learnt the other day how little it takes to farrk ya system 2percent shes all over.

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1 hour ago, MaxPower said:

i divined for the water, used a post hole borer with 1.5m homemade extensions till i hit the water, i will put a submersible sump pump with float switch on it when i hit the water, i will stop digging at about 4m then lower the concrete rings down and keep digging and stacking the rings, if the pump won't keep up then I'm deep enough. the rings will stop the hole collapsing and the rings have been cured for more than two months. thats the plan anyway

 

My father in law does devining, can tell where it is, how wide/deep and which direction it's running..  Pretty crazy.. 

 

 

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My kids keep hanging onto my house garage door like monkeys and getting lifted up by it as it opens...little fuckers@!!!

No matter how much I yell or threaten violence (that's half true) they wont stop, until I hear "dad...dad...dad...!!!" Yup - door finally shit itself.

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Quick YouTube tutorial and I'm suddenly an expert on all things doors...

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Springs pretension set. New track with a belt drive to replace the now fucked chain track system...and viola...all sorted.

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1 hour ago, ajg193 said:

I wonder how long it will be before you reverse square into that pole

Unlikely, there's about 300m2 of concrete with a purpose built turning bay facing the other way to back into. However if one of my wives friends comes for a visit...who knows, I wouldn't rule it out. Some of the fucked up positions they wedge their vehicles into always has me scratching my head in bemusement!??

 

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Straight to the pool room!

I had some scrap stainless steel that has been taking up room in my shed. The plan always way to make something furniture related, however I only had a limited amount of material to work with.

After some careful thought, I realized that I could make a bench seat out of it, and not a scrap more...

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Cutting and tig welding it together along with some smacks from a big hammer...all this activity at 8am is sure to please your neighbors?

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*Insert bender joke*

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Folded and tig welded to keep it together. I had to do it this way due to the sizes of the scrap I had to work with.

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And finished.

It's not perfect...but I had to work with the limited resources I had. Theres a few dia4mm holes in the left side that were in the material already, but hey you can hardly notice it and it was free...so calling it a win!

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On a mission today. 

Rifle scope mount welded to angle iron. This will hold a solenoid valve, that in turn is connected to a timer switch.

This will automatically drain the water out of my compressor...

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Test fit

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Yup, nice! This will work, so paint it and install it tomorrow.

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Small things...but makes life easy if you never need to think about it again.

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22 hours ago, Kimjon said:

Straight to the pool room!

I had some scrap stainless steel that has been taking up room in my shed. The plan always way to make something furniture related, however I only had a limited amount of material to work with.

After some careful thought, I realized that I could make a bench seat out of it, and not a scrap more...

Resized_20191223_095638.jpeg.428dfd768855a7a9ac415e070c9bd362.jpeg

Resized_20191223_095419.jpeg.cad7f04bc339250240bc5eea378405f3.jpeg

Cutting and tig welding it together along with some smacks from a big hammer...all this activity at 8am is sure to please your neighbors?

Resized_20191223_095501.jpeg.b24d4c5afa77150eab6f29f85fdd6371.jpeg

*Insert bender joke*

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Folded and tig welded to keep it together. I had to do it this way due to the sizes of the scrap I had to work with.

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And finished.

It's not perfect...but I had to work with the limited resources I had. Theres a few dia4mm holes in the left side that were in the material already, but hey you can hardly notice it and it was free...so calling it a win!

Bloody hell you get though some work! Your missus must encourage shed time?

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