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winter projects - Straight Shooter - 20 October 2013
Well the nights are closing in , its getting cold , for me its my busy time in THE MAN SHED . The wood for the stove is piled up ...the new kettle is ready and that's where you will find SS most days if no work or nights if I have , this is where I excell, making and doing STUFF I am in my oils here , that said what projects do you have lined up for This winter , I have lots of things to get done , for example I changed my heating system this summer got in a new multi fuel boiler to run the whole cottage ,hot water,central heating...at the expence of loosing the Rayburn...which is sat over my shed doing nothing.....and I miss that old bugger .....sooooooo I intend to get the old gal into shape ready to install into another position as another back up for heat ,hot water and cooking, just one of many projects and no doubt more great ideas coming from members on here, happy days.!
RE: winter projects - Sunna - 20 October 2013
going to try storing apples , got plenty iv already started and have stacked them in the carboard boxs you get with aldi beans ect, ill put them in my larder [nice and cool] not sure about my shed worried that pests may get at them.
lovley smell when i open my larder door....
RE: winter projects - uks - 20 October 2013
Got to put in a new kitchen.
RE: winter projects - Stewart - 20 October 2013
taken on a new allotment closer to home and it is rough,will take most of this winter to clear it.
RE: winter projects - Tibbs735 - 21 October 2013
Cutting lots of wood, getting used to walking a few miles each day in the cold (possibly snow.) Maybe doing a practice bug out or two.
RE: winter projects - PreparednessUK - 21 October 2013
I have just got another garage for storing kit in so putting in shelving etc. also hoping for some decent snow been along time since I made snow shelters
RE: winter projects - ErikEst - 17 November 2013
RE: winter projects - BDG - 17 November 2013
Mrs BDG wants a proper store at the side of the chimney breast for logs, rather than a couple of trugs on the floor. Above that she said she wants a storage cupboard for tinned and preserved goods that are next in the roll to be used. A wine store above that (old house, high ceilings, plenty of space and it means if the good reds are up a height, they are less likely to be quaffed).
Finish off my patio - it is a terrace I created, about 35 sq/m, front wall 5ft heigh - it has took some back filling bringing in old bricks and rubble scavenged from skips in the area - always knocked and asked people who have the skips if I can take, then bring home and smash it all up small with a big riveting hammer. It would have been much less work to buy in 20mm, or doli or MOT1, but where is the fun in that?!
After that, new greenhouse to put up, many log piles to get moved in front of the patio Austrian style, garden to get back in shape from not growing this year, two new metal sheds to put up, new ceilings in living room and dining room and re-plaster living and dining room.
That is on top of the day job, two days a month cutting and splitting wood and collecting manure whenever I can.
Keeps me busy and I do not have to be a gym wanker to keep myself trim.
Hope to get a few nights cod fishing in too, but it is probably dying off now until February.
RE: winter projects - Geordie_Rob - 19 November 2013
(17 November 2013, 23:01)BDG Wrote: Mrs BDG wants a proper store at the side of the chimney breast for logs, rather than a couple of trugs on the floor. Above that she said she wants a storage cupboard for tinned and preserved goods that are next in the roll to be used. A wine store above that (old house, high ceilings, plenty of space and it means if the good reds are up a height, they are less likely to be quaffed).
Finish off my patio - it is a terrace I created, about 35 sq/m, front wall 5ft heigh - it has took some back filling bringing in old bricks and rubble scavenged from skips in the area - always knocked and asked people who have the skips if I can take, then bring home and smash it all up small with a big riveting hammer. It would have been much less work to buy in 20mm, or doli or MOT1, but where is the fun in that?!
After that, new greenhouse to put up, many log piles to get moved in front of the patio Austrian style, garden to get back in shape from not growing this year, two new metal sheds to put up, new ceilings in living room and dining room and re-plaster living and dining room.
That is on top of the day job, two days a month cutting and splitting wood and collecting manure whenever I can.
Keeps me busy and I do not have to be a gym wanker to keep myself trim.
Hope to get a few nights cod fishing in too, but it is probably dying off now until February.
Plenty cod out there if you can cast far enough. For years I couldn't until my old neighbour showed me how to do it. If you can sling 6oz the length of a football pitch, you're sorted
RE: winter projects - Steve - 19 November 2013
I have fencing and arks to build for the pigs and a pond to dig, but the fun project is adding CNC control to a heavy old milling machine I just bought.