hoose-owner – This Old Hoose

Homemade Charger Adapter

How do you charge this with that? I now have a whole bunch of connectors which will come in useful in the future for any…

Garage Gable Ends

Replacing rotten timbers at each end of the garage — turned out to be more involved than anticipated.

Blacksmithing: Third Leaf

The Hedge Needs Trimmed

Blacksmithing: Second Leaf

Not much better than the first! Though I did forget to create the taper first.

Blacksmithing: Forged Hook

This old house had a heavy duty iron/steel bird feeder left when we moved in. After gradually rusting for 10 or 15 years, I’ve cleaned…

Whisky Tasting

I’m excited to be attending an online whisky tasting this weekend. 5 Single Malts are lined up and ready to go – this should be…

Morning Walk

From winter time – Jan ’19

Blacksmithing: Hammer-refacing

The hammer I’ve been using has quickly shown some limitations – it had two flat-ish faces with angled chamfers. I’ve ground them down to something…

Square rounding hammer

Blacksmithing: First Leaf

The leaf is supposed to be a good exercise for beginners, for hammer control and moving material in the right way. I’m reasonably happy with…

Simple Things

Picked up this pocket knife in Amsterdam for a not many €€ in a second-hand/antique shop. Realised it was still in my pocket as I…

Blacksmithing: First Tongs Complete

Despite my positive last post, that second attempt at tongs was way off too. My third, however was closer… close enough to make a working…

Essential Craftsman Forge

As described in my last post, I built the forge that the Essential Craftsman described in his channel. Fairly easy to build overall. The burner…

Anvil Forge Hammer

Forge, Hammer & Anvil

After considering it for a couple of years, I finally tried by hand at blacksmithing. I built a forge along the lines of the Essential…

blacksmithing Brian Brazeal Essential Craftsman tongs

Time for Some Colour

Axe Sharpening

The axe blade had a nick in it from hitting something hard. It was too big to deal with using only the sharpening stone. So…

Updating SSL

After a bit of procrastinating, I finally updated SSL. The main change was to remove the use of insecure protocols; TLS 1.0 and 1.1. I…

Security

Firewood Drying

07/10/2019 Oldest from top Date Small woodstore Unknown 4B/T, 2B/T Unknown 1B front & 1T (been drying @ back of garage since early 2019) chopped…

logs

Motorbike

We have a small motorbike in the family! It’s a 90cc pitbike, and was a generous donation from a colleague. It’s got a Chinese copy…

Fixing up an old trailer

I’m fixing up an old trailer I was given a couple of years ago. It was originally a trailer tent (a Conway Challenger, no less).…

SMAW trailer welding