My week this week, my workshop videos!

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Hi folks,
 Holbrook painting, antique repairs, and a future project on a Watsonian D type jaguar replica. If anyone remembers the very popular TV series Lovejoy, he had a guy called Tinker who was always "improving" antiques, I am begining to feel like Tinker should be my middle name!
Phil, in bloody cold East Yorkshire!

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Hi folks,
 Monday didn't happen due to a visit to Hull Eye Horstipal, and Tuesday, after a small poo run we tackled a job which has been laying around for a few years! A large ash tree branch had fallen into a hung up position in a hawthorn and until we moved it we could not start the fence we were going to start when lockdown occured! It is now gone, and fencing can commence eventually, more tree demolition next week! Then onto the Holbrook auxilarries and I finally get the guard assembled and into primer!
Phil, in a little warmer East Yorkshire!

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Hi folks,
 Monday didn't happen AGAIN due to taking DIL to Dewsbury to buy a car, chariot racing on the M1 was NOT fun!!  A mixed week of painting, showing you all the faults it is possible to get in paintwork! I get there in the end though! Tree work and logging follows as we fell a leylandi growing in the wrong place next to a wall and log it all up. I do some outside clearing at the workshop, and end up taper turning some wood for a tool I broke, then its back on the Holbrook and get the underskids sorted for captive nuts! I'm fair knackered!!
Phil, in cold but springlike East Yorkshire

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Hi folks,
A very busy mixed week of welding, logging and final assembly on the Holbrook! I get the skids and countershaft support back on the lathe, and make the jacking bars to make the lathe easier to move around the workshop. Tuesday is a field day! we finish logging up the Leylandi, get the 2CV tractor going and and move all the brash to the "chicken run" for a future conflagration. I pack up  a spare tailstock for the colchester student lathe as it is being shipped to Thailand!, and as usual have a cup of tea or two and a good tidy up. Sold two Motors this week and loads of other gear this week, so my "goods Outward area is almost empty!
Phil, in sunny and warm East Yorkshire, AT LAST!!

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Hi folks,
A very busy mixed week again!! Monday a bit of painting, a bit of tidying and organisation as my FB marketplace sales campaign gets underway and all my accumulated junk flies out of the door in exchange for good hard cash!!Tuesday in the field was awful! Raining on and off all day and quite cold again so we did a poo run and then some maintenance on the Westwood garden tractor, which is still going like a train, albeit one with a very loose engine, but we soon fixed that!
Wednesday I explore the depths of the eternal dilemma, should I fix it or just bin it? Well I fixed it, but it took a day and a half, and the fix (on a garden shredder) is not perfect, After that, as an aside I get my old jack up in the air and find its problem, and fix it! I did not realise how old it was! It is an antique from about 1930! No matter cos it flew out the door one day after advertising it! All in, a good week!!
Phil, in cold and wet East Yorkshire!

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A short week this week, Monday O got excellent news from my surgeon, and Friday Catherine got a neurological shakedown that was shall we say, less than rigourous! We started, or at least continued the tuesday field day with a final log clearance and a bonfire of the remaining brash and twigs, , Wednesday I finished the Holbrook, and Thursday I wired some 3 phase sockets for uncle Michael (my brother) for his Boxford VSL  lathe and his  drill press, which we have to convert back to 3 phase at a later date! A short but productive week!
Phil. in More springlike East Yorkshire

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Hi folks,
A varied and interesting week of sorts, creating space in the workshop by dejunking and removing stuff that really should be stored elswhere, or used up! I pop down to Mikes just to oversee his fitting of a new burner motor to the oil fired boiler, I wasn't needed as he did it all and off it went! Tuesday we were once again outstandng in our field, and got a start on the fencing. The rest of the week involved coming to terms with the fact that if I was going to get rid of the rust old dexion shelving, I would have to build something to replace it! Woodwork sometimes brings out the worst in me, and my efforts to make a good job  end up in frustration, but I soldiered on through the black clouds of doom, and eventually achieved a bright new tommorow or at least built some usefull storage shelves!
Phil, Spring at last in East Yorkshire!

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Hi folks,
A very productive week with some Rapidor sawing, welding and fabrication, fencing and workshop gets a complete ground up rejig in order to get the Holbrook lathe into its new position now that it is completed apart from the shakedown trials and any mods I need to finesse(?) its operation! The post knocker I made on Monday revolutionised Tuesdays fencing the field session but it is a bit too long for six foot posts so I will be making a smaller one next monday! it has already been christened "son of cyberman" All good fun and a very productive week!
Phil, Cool again in East Yorks!

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Hi folks,
A very varied week of jobs, encompassing consumer electronics, Welding and fabrication, garden tractors, fencing and tree husbandry! The yard tidy got more or less finished, the westwood got some much needed carb attention,and we got a lot more bank clearing and fencing done. Then back to the workshop for more clearing out and repairing!
Phil, in sunny and warm East Yorkshire!

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A shorth week due to a trip to York on Friday, but we get stuck into the mini D
type, get the body off and get the engine layout sorted and fitted as far as the drive mechanism is concerned, when I get chain and sprockets finished I want to put the body back on to finalise the engine position. I get some more sorting out and spring cleaning done in the workshop, and a lot more items for sale photographed and listed. Sales have been made already!!
Phil, in sunny but fresh East Yorkshire

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Hi Folks,
hours late with my posting, due to being in the workshop selling odds and sods and completely losing track of time! We crack on with the Dtype engine fit, while Andy gets on with the body shell and get the drive built and working, and also spent a day moving 3/4 of a ton of dogfood and fixing tractors. I also recieved a very generous gift from a viewer, Mr John Johnson from Darlington way, a genuine Rapidor run off stand, Tis a beautiful thing!
Phil, in sunny warm East Yorkshire!

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Late again, but I thought it might not happen at all because I lost (mislaid?) the camera! In actual fact I had mislaid it on the floor of Keiths car after filming the ride to Driffield, and only found it again this morning.! What I shot is what there is, and I missed a lot because of the pre-occupation with clearing the house and then cleaning, redecorating, clearing two blocked chimneys and 12 years of nicotine off the walls, normal service will be resumed as soon as possible!
Phil, Summer in Langtoft, rain by June!!