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Could be any make! as to value, it is rusty & old, it is liable to be little more than scrap value as it is, cleaned up a bit with its tooling you might see £150 - £200 on a good day.

I bet that barn is bloody freezing. I would be looking to insulate, parrtition, fit a stove asap!

This site is full of good info, http://www.mig-welding.co.uk/forum/ , Everything you ever wanted to know about welding & a host more besides. If starting out above all try & avoid an air cooled stick welder, they are hard to learn on. If you can find a smal Oil cooled oxford or similar stick...

My other half is a food safety officer,we would not eat sou vide at any price no matter who cooked it. Giles coren had it right when he commented on a sou vide pigeon breast dish he was served, "an awful raw rubbery purple schlong swimming in insipid sauce".

I also am a boatbuilder, i have done quite a bit of restoration & new stuff over the years. I would not use water based varnish anywhere near a boat. Virtually all the wooden boatbuilders i know prefer to use Epifanes oil based. Once opened it has a short shelf life & must be used up, but it...

Mobile phone charged & in credit? Can you get a signal up there? A blanket for smoke signals might be useful. I remember moving from our flat, we had a single garage / workshop & small shed. We hired a transit & did the move ourselves, The flat took 2 loads, the garage & shed took 3 loads alone!

I fully agree with the above post! we have a crazy situation where high emphasis is put on laser cut products & we are encouraged to use "smart" materials yet our budget is ever shrinking! As for 3d printing we had one at the college, expensive to buy & run & so monumentally temperamental that...

We still have a forge at our school and yes it gets used. Its probably the case that too many D&T teachers & school management are horribly risk averse to the point where they wont allow anything to be done. The young lady teacher & male teacher i work with are not like this, their attitude is...

Restricting skills training in schools assumes that all kids are going to be academic & go to uni. A lot are more practically inclined & need a basic grounding in practical skills. I have worked until a few years ago in a sixth form college engineering department & you have no idea how soul...

The new single subject D&T GCSE will be taught from next september, thank god food technology has been taken out of it, quite why it was ever thought a sandwhich or meal had to be designed i have no idea. Trouble is now it would seem all the old standard projects that allowed yr 7 & 8's to...

I am a workshop technician in a secondary school, i work with some great people & most of the kids are great too. The other day we had an exibition of final projects that the year 11 kids had made, great event & really positive. But im finding myself getting very disillusioned with it. Our...

Never heard of her!

Best timbers for hearth boards are Elderberry or Ivy, the drill part can be ivy as well, pick a section that has died & is dry then split it down. The notch is critical & must not go right to the centre. I use a bow drill & a stone with natural hole in it to push down on the dril. With a hearth...

You have made a good choice, i have a Boley & the build quality is light years in front of a Myford or far eastern lathe.

Silicon Bronze plate is available, strictly speaking its a copper alloy but is very strong & corrosion resistant. Try Anglia Stainless or Speed Alloys, if they cant help i know someone else who uses the stuff.

The car trade uses inline sanders a lot, known as Air files they are air powered & take a stick on pad about 18" long by 2 1/2" wide. The stroke is about 1 1/2", they are great for fairing curved surfaces & also excellent at sanding clinker built boats! You need a big compressor to drive one as...

I started out in the boatbuilding trade back in 79 when i left college. I never got rich but learnt a lot & have enjoyed most of it! There is absolutely nothing like building & launching a wooden boat & feeling it come alive for the first time. It is also said that the best way to turn a large...

It could be Blackthorn, it grows to quite a size & has a dark bark just like that.

Thats Iroko for sure. I had a load out of a college where i used to work. You may think the tops are one piece but you will find they are joined sections about 6 - 8" wide, joined with a plywood tongue & glued with cascamite or similar. Teak might have been used prewar but all the benches i have...

I have one like that, it has a close shave story attached to it. Years ago i had need to split 50ft of garden hose to cover a fibreglass boat hull edge. I sharpened the lino knife & mindful of its wicked edge cut away from myself with both hands while standing on the hose to keep it straight...