DIY dray for our ringtail possum family – part 1

While plodding through ALDI Scoresby this afternoon came across these hanging baskets @ five bucks each – grabbed two.

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Camera photos backup

Besides the usual Win10 backup I also do a manual file copy to USB HDD using the DOS XCOPY command.

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Started taking digital photos way back in 1998 with the purchase of a Agfa ePhoto 1680 Digital Camera. Was expensive something like $1,600 bucks!

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Al’s auto fill/recycle bird bath–some alterations

The birdbath is close to the workshop so decided to do away with the car battery and bring all the electrics inside and run from a 12V power supply. Loosing light and then had a double injury to the right wrist so we’ll have to come back in the morning – that’s fine.

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Running a 12V power cable in some old electrical conduit into the workshop.

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Speckles – headless chook

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Turning fence palings into dressed timber–part 3

Setting up for planing the edges of fence paling boards.

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I have relocated the dust extractor from the top of the table (thicknesser mode) to underneath the table.

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Turning fence palings into dressed timber-part 2

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Turning fence palings into dressed timber–part 1

Turning fence palings into dressed timber with the ALDI WorkZone Planer/Thicknesser.

Dressed pine timber is expensive – very expensive. Wherever I can I use cheap fence palings for my projects and… if needed (like here) I can dress my own timber.

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The machine has two configurations – planer and thicknesser. We are setup for the latter here to smooth the paling faces.

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Speckles – Back home from shopping

Back home from shopping trip and first thing is to let Speckles out

Back home from shopping trip and first thing is to let Speckles out

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Black & Decker Alligator Lopper–part 2

Testing the unit after repair.

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Black & Decker Alligator Lopper–part 1

This beast that belongs to a family friend has – lost it’s bite.

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This looks tricky – lots of screws and even springs (OMG) with a layered build.

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