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Brian Lovejoy
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The news is that we've recently moved house, 5 days ago in fact (still in Glos.shire) and am having to squeeze into a single garage workshop.
Downsizing has meant the end of making large lumps of furniture for others and concentration on small intricate projects for my own indulgence.
Having said that, I'm also planning to get involved in canal restoration with the Cotswold Canal Trust - they've got a nice big w/s apparently, so knocking up the odd pair of lock gates may be a possibility :ROFLMAO:
We'll see
Brian
 
Welcome - glad you have finally moved - your drum sander is still working well in its new home!

Look forward to seeing your first lock gate - often made from opepe or ekki I have offcuts from both in my garden as seats around the fire pit - nightmare to work - heavy and dense but good for use in water!
 
Welcome Brian. Nice to see you here.

I hope you get your workshop organised soon.......and my big advice to people who work in single-garage sized workshops is to get everything out of it that you can. Store your wood somewhere else. Have a bike shed. Stand the tumble drier and the freezer in the garden if you have to!
 
Mike G said:
I hope you get your workshop organised soon.......and my big advice to people who work in single-garage sized workshops is to get everything out of it that you can. Store your wood somewhere else. Have a bike shed. Stand the tumble drier and the freezer in the garden if you have to!
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... and don't fill three quarters of it with a motorbike, a metalworking lathe and a milling machine leaving one quarter for woodwork :ROFLMAO:
 
Welcome from me too. CCT look like a really good outfit to get involved with. I'm sure they will be pleased to discover your skills and free time!
 
Mike G said:
Welcome Brian. Nice to see you here.

I hope you get your workshop organised soon.......and my big advice to people who work in single-garage sized workshops is to get everything out of it that you can. Store your wood somewhere else. Have a bike shed. Stand the tumble drier and the freezer in the garden if you have to!
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I think I'm going to need a shed as well. There's a tiny one here which I've filled with the small amount of timber I retained (£hundreds worth sold off in the downsizing). It's on a much larger concrete slab but it's in the wrong place so I'll be starting from ground zero. No MikeG structure I'm afraid.
Yesterday I finished unpacking all the w/s small items and got them housed in cupboards and shelves left by the previous owner. It all needs rationalising but the omens are good for achieving a workable space. The first job is to replace the up-and-over door with a roller type which will free up a lot of wall and ceiling area.
Brian
 
Blackswanwood said:
Hello Brian. I love canals and that sounds like a great opportunity.
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I've been interested in canals since my student days when I was introduced to the joys of cruising in unconverted Willow-Wren 72' narrowboats. Perhaps 'joy' is not quite the right word.
Got engaged to the present Mrs L at Lapworth Junction and bought a ring next day down the cut in Stratford.
AndyT said:
Welcome from me too. CCT look like a really good outfit to get involved with. I'm sure they will be pleased to discover your skills and free time!
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The CCT is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year and I was a member for a few years back then when it was known as the 'Thames and Severn Canal Society'. A more authentic but less snappy name.
It's exciting times on the project as they're about to start work on getting the navigation under the M5.
Brian
 
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Greetings.

Good for you with the canals. For 5 years I valued all of the Scottish canals and associated property assets. Annually. So, every year I drove the lengths of the Caledonian, the Forth and Clyde, the Union, the Crinan puddle, two even smaller puddles that constitutes what is left of the Monkland, and a bit of damp earth somewhere near Aberdeen.

Neptune’s staircase at Banavie is one of my favourites, but I think the lock gates weigh about 20 tonnes each. So good luck working on something like them.

The ones at Fort Augustus are quite good too. But the canal walls there collapsed big time a few years ago. Now mostly fixed.
 
Await to see you featured in the Trow, certainly an organisation worthy of a few donated skills and a source of a host of new in-sights into age old engineering problems.
 
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