A Place to post my astro log, and hobby adventures.
All things built or relating to my Shop
So some time back I built a box for deliveries and parcels. The object being to hide any deliveries from passers by. While the box does not lock, you also don’t see boxes sitting on my front porch or driveway. …
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So, this is mainly a post to present some photo’s & measurements to Don, a fellow amateur astronomer, and a parts dealer. he’s very helpful for those looking for spare / replacement parts. Also, please forgive the background mess in…
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Well, after some brainstorming I finally got around to motorizing my $50 wheat grinder. What’s remarkable, is that this little beast actually grinds flour fine enough to bake with, it’s just a tad slow, and sometimes you need to re-grind…
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Using some examples I found on youTube, I built some self watering Tobacco pots out of 5 gallon bucket parts. While most folk seem to use 2 buckets per pot, I couldn’t stand poking that many holes in perfectly good…
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I regret that I didn’t get a before image, but this is the final installed product. It’s basically just a sheet of 3/4″ MDF with a dog door made out of cut carpet, and a plexiglass window. The window is…
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Finally… I built this cabinet right after the shop was finished…. 4 years ago?!? anyway… I finally put doors on it. 🙂 I also added a bunch of shelves and finally started hanging tools on the wall instead of piling…
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Well, as you can see in the photo below, the old threshing machine has been rent for salvage. I was able to recover all the parts without damaging them, so I can always try for a rebuild in the future,…
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I have a couple video’s and a photo from the 2016 harvest. Again, not much changed from a hardware point of view. You can see that there is a new blower attached to the machine, but I had that in…
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here is a quick pick I copied from the web. I haven’t had time to take pictures of my new mower myself. that’s what the weekends are for. I’ll update this once I get the photo’s. – Tobin
I copied this photo from the company I purchased it from. I’m excited about it, and can’t wait to get it delivered. Which I’m guessing should be sometime in march. first off, the only place I could find this was…
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