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Re: Latest minor project

Posted: Sat Mar 06, 2021 2:05 pm
by Greynomad
T1,
I have a set of six of those chairs.
I’ll sell them to you for $100 each.
:lol: :lol: :lol:

Re: Latest minor project

Posted: Sun Mar 07, 2021 3:04 pm
by T1 Terry
Greynomad wrote: Sat Mar 06, 2021 2:05 pm T1,
I have a set of six of those chairs.
I’ll sell them to you for $100 each.
:lol: :lol: :lol:
But they were only 3 legged tables, so there would have been 3 in a set ...... do they have the fancy pattern created by pieces of cheese and ham stuck to the legs so the match the table legs?

T1 Terry

Re: Latest minor project

Posted: Mon Mar 08, 2021 6:38 pm
by Greynomad
Yep,
I collected two sets of chairs when I ordered two Sooper-Dooper King Size Pizzas. They were a Special Two-for-Price-of-One Offer.
I used one pizza as a roof on the back verandah.
Not only do the chairs have the requisite cheesy dags, but bits of meat & seafood form the chair backs...
:lol:

Re: Latest minor project

Posted: Thu Mar 18, 2021 3:54 pm
by Greynomad
Refer to OP...
This is what I have done with the second tractor seat:
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Re: Latest minor project

Posted: Wed Apr 28, 2021 3:54 pm
by Greynomad
Despite the end of lockdown, SWMBO has continued to wield the whip.
Here's the latest:
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Another rock garden, under the Eucalypts, where nothing will grow (note ‘grass’ in foreground — we're praying the succulents are immune!)...
SIX TONNES of rock in this one! Again, all spread by hand. :shock:
Compared to the previous rock garden (shown in the background of the pic in the OP) which took only three tonnes.
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A close-up of the main feature.
(Thanks to Faye — Mrs Riverlander — for the idea of burying half a broken pot. :P )

ps. I have discovered that the plants in the tractor seats are called Dichonderas. :)
pps. After 10 weeks at the powdercoaters, we collected our other cast iron bits today. Stand by for progress reports...

Re: Latest minor project

Posted: Wed Apr 28, 2021 4:08 pm
by T1 Terry
In this part of SA, they all start out as rock gardens, 6 tonne of soil if you want a garden you can grow something in ;) and you deliberately move rocks onto the property and move them around to make it a feature :? Victorian's really are a strange bunch eh :lol:
But it does look good Ray, 8-) paddocks over this way look like they are growing rocks when the dry is on and we appear to have a breed of sheep that must eat them .... hundreds of sheep in a paddock with nothing but rocks as far as the eye can see .....

T1 Terry

Re: Latest minor project

Posted: Wed Apr 28, 2021 4:20 pm
by Newcastle George
Ray, I see you have put the mower with the other rubbish because there is no grass to mow. :) ;)

George

Re: Latest minor project

Posted: Wed Apr 28, 2021 8:39 pm
by Greynomad
Mower is totally u/s.
Rusted solid. A gift ( :? ) from Son-&-Heir’s partner’s father, when he saw the photos of our restored & functional push mower.
Still, it is decorative...

Re: Latest minor project

Posted: Fri Apr 30, 2021 8:37 am
by Greynomad
Progress report:
Two chairs completed. Two to go. Then I start making benches.
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In all, five sets (and a table) shown here to go...
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Timber slats have to be trimmed to width, cut to length, stained & custom drilled, as the holes vary in position on the iron frames.
That’s a little bit more than a weekend’s work...

(I tried pre-drilling to a standard position. That’s when I discovered the casting holes varied in the distance from the end of the channels. :roll: )

Re: Latest minor project

Posted: Fri Apr 30, 2021 11:04 am
by Noggins
Looks good
Don't forget to put the side movement restraining straps on though. they go from the lower part of the pattern to a middle point on one of the seat rails.
Having done similar to this many years ago I can speak from experience about side movement when a very heavy mate sat in one I'd restored.
It was funny to all of us around him, but he wasn't impressed and a lot of "F" words flew around at the time as he was trying to get up off the ground.


Ron