WORKING SURFACE

Benchwayze · 4 Dec 2013

Pete Maddex":j1q4d09x said:
We have a ski tunnel as well, its jolly useful thing.

Pete

There's a very obliging guy at my local sawmill, who willingly carts all my stuff to the car. I bought three 2metre
lengths of 4 x 2, one day, and he asked me how I was going to cart the stuff without a roof-rack. You should have seen his face when I said. 'No problem. I'll open the boot and you can put it in there!'

His eventual summation was. 'Now, that's a B^$#£*g! great idea!' :lol:

Good as Gold!'

Alexam · 6 Dec 2013

Thanks John,

I'm not too bothered about lumber, as my Honda will convert to estate with the back seats down and the passenger seat lowered there is good space. It's the 8' sheets of plywood that would be the problem. However, that's why Wickes free delivery sounds good. Hope the knee sorts itself out soon.

What part of West Mids are you in?

Alex

Benchwayze · 6 Dec 2013

Alexam":248lykvz said:
Thanks John,

I'm not too bothered about lumber, as my Honda will convert to estate with the back seats down and the passenger seat lowered there is good space. It's the 8' sheets of plywood that would be the problem. However, that's why Wickes free delivery sounds good. Hope the knee sorts itself out soon.

What part of West Mids are you in?

Alex

Hi Alex.

I'm lucky with sheet goods as the supplier I use for that stuff offers a free cutting service. I can either get the sheet broken down into specific parts for a cupboard for instance, or I get them to halve the sheet into 8 x 2s. Up to four of those, clamped to the roof bars with G clamps. is no problem over the half-mile journey home.

I'm in North Birmingham. just over the border into Walsall, near Barr Beacon. Walsall is a great place to live... :roll: Yeah... Okay!

Alexam · 7 Dec 2013

Cheers John,

I sorted the problem today by going to our local sawmills. They are in Wythall and although IO have lived around the are for yonks, I never bothered to visit. What a helpful lot they are there ( www.daviestimber.co.uk/ ), they have everything one could want, including a shop with all sorts of tools and equipment. I hadn't planned it, but dropped the back seats and passenger seat down and managed to get in two sheets of 8' x 2', plus a load of timber and the boot closed as well. Brought it home and got stuck straight in and finished altering the work surfaces, raising one end that will take the bins, new supports and that just leave the screwin and gluein to do another day. Well pleased with my efforts today and smiles all round from my son.

Alex

MMUK · 7 Dec 2013

Benchwayze":1s3l7rci said:
I'm in North Birmingham. just over the border into Walsall, near Barr Beacon. Walsall is a great place to live... :roll: Yeah... Okay!

Do you use GBS by any chance then? :mrgreen:

My first job there in the wood yard when I left school many many years ago......

Benchwayze · 7 Dec 2013

MMUK":1q4xz8o3 said:
Benchwayze":1q4xz8o3 said:

I'm in North Birmingham. just over the border into Walsall, near Barr Beacon. Walsall is a great place to live... :roll: Yeah... Okay!

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Do you use GBS by any chance then? :mrgreen:

My first job there in the wood yard when I left school many many years ago......

Absolutely. My father worked there too in the late 1940's. He was on the firewood bundling machine and managed to catch a big pitch pine splinter, which went very bad ways. Dad got the sack because he couldn't work for two weeks!!!

I don't hold that against them, as I don't believe in nose cutting to spite one's own face! I use them only for 'carpentry' jobs, mind, as their hardwood is priced to the gold-standard! :shock:

Sykes I find to be just about right, and they deliver from Atherstone free. :mrgreen:

Cheers MM

PS I just glimped your profile by the way. We might have been at the same school!