Recent content by Ruffgeezer

Well once again its been a minute, hasn't it? This year life has gotten busy beating the **** out of us all, but in-between it tearing us one way or another, I did some work on a friend's vehicles. He is a semi retired builder but he found a day to bring some help and shore up my awful old...

It's late, we are home and the kids are off to bed, so time for a quiet sit down with my GJSS package and a glass of Aucentoshan American Oak. I'm grateful as always that folk are prepared to send gifts around the globe, this time @noid did the honours. Some genuinely useful kit here -...

Is this activg as the reveal thread this you, too? Nothing doing here yet, so have a bit of dog tax instead. Merry Christmas all!

Churro is excited to report a GJSS labelled package is now nestled under the tree.

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Read this from start to finish today, can I say I hope the shoulder has improved and the redundancy was short lived - I had similar a few years back but was lucky enough to find work fairly promptly. I do like your 90% rule, perhaps something I can aspire to rather than "f**k it, that'll have...

Only the second time I've laid bricks, some of the mortar cracked a week or so later, so there must be something wrong with the mix, but nothing structural here, the gap had more weed control laid and was back filled with the same stone as the allotment. We had a couple of bulk bags of top...

Well ****, I just didn't get in the habit of posting updates did I? Well I rebuilt the pallet truck with new wheels and seals, I must have spent almost enough to.buy a new one, but there we go. We shifted a good 4 tonne of materials the 100 or so yards from the roadside, through the garage...

Cross posting this here for those who don't look in the classified forum. Facom Workbench

A mobile workbench that can be raised and lowered from its wheels so mobile when needed and a good solid bench to work on when not. It has 3 drawers on spring catches and a stainless steel top, it is used and is missing the fold down door from the lower compartment, an unusual and sturdy bit of...

I put up a terrible wall after work last night. It separates the allotment part of our garden from the pad where the garage will be built. I elected to put piers in for a bit of extra strength, I shall add more to them later today. I was visited by some local wildlife: A male pheasant...

It's been a while since I updated here, to be honest I've not made a deal of progress on the new garage. By the time my back had recovered from the last exploits, we had a workman in to lay a new patio out the back of our house - I decided that a few more shifts in the office at work would be...

I've seen this advertised locally as a Snap-On box - sure it has a little badge but I have never seen one like it before. Could it be the real deal? This one certainly isn't, and isn't cheap either! It's up for £475 // $590 I suspect it's actually a 1950s Garage forecourt oil...

My secret santa certainly surpassed themselves- look at this haul! A lovely set of Hi-Q screwdrivers, a gearwrench brake spring launching tool 😆 , a German- made Felo Pz2 screwdriver some Autosol and some nifty Bluepoint socket adaptors. All accompanied by a Union Jack that will take pride of...

Just received the grey label telling me the miserable tax bastards are having me over on my inbound SS parcel, it should arrive with me on the 2nd now that I have paid clearing on it.