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I've did this on the Tom Senior milling machine as the motor on it was a modern motor, single phase but was 2800rpm not 1450rpm as it should be, fortunately the original 3 phase motor was with the job lot I bought. Below shows the original motor on the left and the motor that it was using on the...

I bought a 10hp 240v to 415v inverter from Direct Drives about 2 years ago. It was ecpensive but serves the whole workshop including a 7.5hp lathe. The quote fo 3 phase to the farm was well over 20k so was cheap in comparison and means I can buy cheaper 3 phase macines. I only ever use on...

The bobcat is on its limit if its a full IBC of wet logs but ok if your on the flat. I stacked the full IBCs no problem, the logs have been seasoned a little bit it rained overnight. It does chew up soft ground but if you have hardcore and,/or scalpings it will be fine. I can't go bigger as...

Well, if you want to try....... :)

I got 4 IBC cages out of the "6 tonne" load of logs, so £75 per cube which going by Beau's costs sounds not a bad deal. I've just ordered another load or two, depending if they have any left. I have another 8 IBCs to fill, here's what I have so far, the four IBCs on the left are mostly filled...

Many thanks Beau, you have just quadrupled my knowledge of firewood :) Cheers Andy

a That would be an ideal tool to hire for a weekend up here, your a bit far away Beau :) I left it a bit late this year as I had surgery, but next year I am up for getting a large load of logs in the round and doing this. I'm not sure how to go about it yet, minimum hire period, if you need...

Price varies a lot over here, but from my experience, its about £50 a cube collected, and if I get 4 IBCs out of the latest delivery, about £75 delivered. So in Macedonia its £40 delivered so almost half price. One issue we have over here is wood source certification, biomass is not very...

Interesting, I just bought a loose load of 6 "tonnes" of firewood delivered for £300. Sounds not bad for UK however that really means equivalent to 6 tonne builders bags which is probably about 1.5 maybe 2 tonne in weight maximum. It looks like it may fill 4 IBC containers. I will probably go...

Thanks Wallace and Rob. I hope I haven't hijacked the post with shiny machinery however as it was my second and biggest overhaul, I did find out the hard way on several issues that hopefully others can avoid. I would scrape off the hammerite if it was a bare casting or sheet metal, and sand...

I renovated an old Tom Senior M1 milling machine a couple of years ago. It too had been attacked with hammerite, a right mess. I tried scraping with the intention of potentially sandblasting and discovered that there was lots of filler underneath the paint which would have been a...

I was looking for something similar but then the bronze thing came up and I had to have it :) The decision has been made on the wood to use for the vice chop lamination, it is the walnut as SWMBO wants the oak for the kitchen and dining table builds. Here it is in glue up. Cheers Andy

A bit more progress so far today, I've just about finished thicknessing, I should think about having a clear up and maybe get some chip extraction on the PT :lol: I've now started to workout how to pimp or personalise the bench. Firstly while I have the PT out, I was thinking of laminating...

Nothing too exciting happening on the bench, I have been planing the stretchers for the base to size, not much point posting any pictures, I guess you have all seen planed timber and a huge pile of shavings before. I now have a 5/8" mortise chisel which I should be using tomorrow on the legs...

Not much done today, I was helping a friend hang a stable door in an old farm building and the door hole needed a lot of fettling with the angle grinder so we could fit the galvanised frame to something approaching being square. However the benchcrafted criss-cross arrived from Fine Tools...

A bit of a mixed day, I managed to get all the top boards through the PT in the 2" dimension so I can think about lamination glue-up, but made a school boy error in cutting them to rough length first. There was always going to be one or two slightly bent ones that didn't sit on the outfeed stand...

In the interest of saving time and effort, I have decided to make the top a tad thicker. The benchcrafted plans stipulate 4". The timber I have is 4-7/8" rough sawn so I will take it down to about 4-5/8" when it is planed up. Here's a couple of pictures of the timber end, the sap wood on one of...

n0legs' vice is a thing of beauty. I have all the gear to make this stuff, just not the time, very frustrating. :( I currently have half the roof off the back of the house as we are building an extension, and the weather has been appalling so I spend more time dragging tarps over holes and...

I've been a very naughty boy! I was on t'internet late last night when I accidentally pressed the buy button and filled in all my shipping and purchading details, how careless of me! I bought a HNT Gordon 150mm tail vice mechanism. It's small and perfectly formed. I looked at the screw I...

Slight change of plan. I decided to select all the timber I'm using in the bench and cut it to rough size so I can get the rest of the Douglas Fir out of the main workshop as I want to put set of steel shelves where the timber currently is so I can continue to tidy up. I've cut all the rails and...