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If they are very old they may very well be carbon steel, which is easy to spoil on a grinding wheel. Perhaps they'd benefit from a graceful retirement in a display case and a replacement set of modern tools, jig and grinder for ongoing use

Base 3" wide, central boss 1 1/4", outer ring 2 1/4", ring is 3/8ths deep. Former is 2" dia, hole is 1 1/2" wide, 1/4" deep. Cylinder is 3" long but I should have made it 4 as I use the pots for sweet peas and they like a long root run. Hth

https://www.thecaterer.com/archive/hand-raising-experience Dimensions for a 1lb pie dolly and recipe in this article

Sorry, I was assuming two beams coming together at right angles on the top of your post, not sure why I thought that. A blind mortice and tenon, pegged, with wind braces should be fine

Guess now's the time to look into chainsaw mills 😎

Bridle joints horizontal on the beam ends, then a blind mortice cut vertically 2/3rds through the bridle joint. That mortice fits on a tenon at the top of your post Could just use a lap joint and through tenon but I would avoid the upward facing exposed end grain if possible

Growing up in a time when being on the spectrum meant waiting 15 minutes for a game to load

Busted! 😄

When I was 15 I thought my father didn't have a clue about life, by the time I was 21 I was amazed how much he'd learnt 😉

Probably easiest to swap the motor and lead, plenty on eBay for about £20 or so

Sticky flies of course!

And the screwdriver has every bit except the one you want

The Bandsaw Book by Mark Duginske is old but still very useful if you are looking for ideas and maintenance tips. A thinner blade, even as small as 1/8th may be useful if you want to make the more intricate boxes. I see tuffsaws website is down at the moment, I can highly recommend Trucut in...

https://www.briantsltd.co.uk/product/rubber-tree-tie-18-inches/ I find these work very well too

A few years back we had a goosander pair roost in a poplar for a couple of weeks at this time of year. Reckon they'd be big enough to lay one that size. It's quite strange to see a duck 30ft up a tree!

Great idea and a fun piece. What is going on with the door frames in pic 4 though? I'm getting 80s music video vibes 😄

This is an adaptation of a method I used years ago on a pole lathe. Make a scrap disc of ply screwed to a block of wood that fits in your chuck. Drive short pins through the ply so they will stick into the waste on your half log and tap ply to log. Mount the block in the chuck, bring up the...

I'd second Triton's suggestion about tightening the screw slightly if possible, then I'd try heat from a soldering iron with a chisel tip in the screw head. It might be possible to get enough swell and shrinkage to break the rust bond and undo them. If that doesn't work I'd go with Gordon's...

Also Winston Churchill (allegedly): LA: If you were my husband I'd poison you. WC: If you were my wife I'd take it.