Finished making the mallet - well pleased. Progress on shaving horse. Started chisel wrack. Shopping in Leek - collected spade end connectors and push connectors to make switches. Black and Decker bit the dust today, ordered a new drill.
Fitted 'push to make' switch in solar panel cupboard. Shaving horse now usable. Used it to make the legs for this shaving horse. Shopping in Leek, got a stepped drill bit. Fitted extra light strip in workshop.
Moved cupboard from workshop to bedroom, remade it on the way.
Shopping in Leek for 'Old Spot' sausages -not in till Saturday so will have to make do with something else. Collected drill, chain saw chains discovered sharpening stones. Ordered lino. Finished shaving horse (sort of, will probably never be finished finished as there will always be changes and modifications to be made).
Sawed wood. Prepared for lino delivery. Gas and coal delivery 13kg gas and 2 x 20 kg coal.
Lino delivered and laid in workshop.
Progress with pole lathe. Put lino down in wet locker. Went into Leek to get a threshold, fitted it. Sewed an old trainer onto the button at the front of the boat, now I use a foot to fend off from the locks. Started steps for the cratch using the doors off the gate leg table.
Into Leek to collect the grinder/honer.
Moved today. Lost the cratch in the process. As I approached a bridge hole I got the sun in my eyes and misjudged my position. Just caught he top left corner of the woodwork but that was enough to totally demolish the framework . Spent the rest of the day dismantling the debris, tidying it up making the steps for the cratch doors.
Continued work on the pole lathe. Started sharpening the drawer knives. Collected wrist braces from Argos. Checked that Richard can park in gateway Monday or Wednesday. Poppet stocks finished (the bits that the wood turns on) and made a good start on the tool rest.
Worked on Pole lathe. Fitted tunnel lights. Moved table and stools onto my travelling companion's boat so she can check them out, so far she likes them.
Finished pole lathe. Got rind of two of the folding chairs that came with the gate leg table on Forty Two and a directors chair. Solar panels charging at over 8 amps at one point.
Fitted horn. More work on pole lathe.
Finished pole lathe (again) with bungee hooks in the ceiling. Works sort of , need chisels to test it,
Log sawing and splitting. Ice on cut. Made a tool rest for lathe. Collected chisels.
Pole lathe works. Broke treadle- made a new one. Could be improved. Ice on cut. Shortened one of the cratch curtains so that it no longer drags on the floor and sewed 2p pieces into the lining to weight it down.
Tool rest iffy -sorted design for a better on. Shopping for Sunday dinner.
Shopping for 10mm threaded rod. Looks like I am not getting table and chairs back from my travelling companion. Changed cassette.
Split logs with sharpened hatchet, surprisingly good. I think it is an old hatchet that has been ground right down till it is more like a maul than a hatchet, anyway, it works really well. Made a template for a stove top. The stove on Forty Two has a roof like top with no room to use it for cooking on. The idea is to make a plate that sits on top of the existing fire so that pots and pans can sit on it. Walked down to Stockton Brook - bot a good place for Richard to visit so will have to stay here for a few more days.
Did a puzzle, topped up water on Olive.
Went for a walk. Ordered water pump. Went into Leek to get my mobile phones adjusted, something not working right. Started another puzzle.
Into Leek for dog food and vegetables. Carried on with yesterdays puzzle.
Finished puzzle. Went shopping in Leek.
Tried the market in Leek today, nothing of particular interest.
Collected water pump from Argos (click and collect), fitted it. Let D'fer out for a wee wee, took forever. I called and called. Eventually I just said in a normal voice "I have some biscuits" and he flew through the doorway, nothing wrong with his hearing.
Just about to set off wooding when I spotted a vole on a raft of grass in the canal. It did not look very happy so I got my landing net and lifted it out, complete with the raft of grass and put it in the hedge. It sat there for several minutes, presumably sussing out it's new surroundings, before it plucked up the courage to wander off into new territory. Carried on wooding and collected enough wood to last a couple of weeks. I have been getting a cheese from the Farm to Shop shop called Fiery Dragon, it melts in the mouth like chocolate. Changed the cassette. Although the Caldon Canal was very pleasant for a winter stopover, albeit lacking in TV, radio and internet signal, the metalled towpath was a nightmare due to the excessive volume of grit brought on to the boat by shoes and paws and the chalky residue that accompanied it tramped everywhere.
