Introduction

**mosquitochalkie** · Feb 26, 2016, 06:44 AM

Hi all,
I am a science teacher and a general builder and I am hoping to spend my retirement years in the shed. I have had a lifelong interest in tools, especially making my own. Problem is, I have never documented any of them. This will change, hopefully. Currently I am flat out renovating my own house as well as renovating my church, and with the public speaking I am doing all over the place, I haven't been able to spend much time in the shed.
Every blessing.
Mosquitochalkie

**kbalch** · Feb 26, 2016, 08:59 AM

Hi Mosquitochalkie,

Welcome!

What sort of homemade tools have you built along the way?

Are you working on anything currently, perhaps to assist with one of your renovation projects?

Ken

**mosquitochalkie** · Feb 26, 2016, 10:52 AM

Thanks for the welcome Ken. Many years ago I built a saw bench with a micro-incrementing fence which served me well for about 15 years in the building trade. I recently dismantled it and bought a professionally built replacement. A cart for my MIG welder which I used to convert a public transport bus into a motor home. We lived in the motor home, Myrtle the turtle, for 17 years, travelling Australia as an itinerant teacher and preacher. I have also built a welding/cutting table, a workbench, a trailer with cage, a fully enclosed small trailer for transporting stuff in wet weather, a fully enclosed car trailer, toolboxes, small hand tools for specialist jobs, a large saw for cutting firewood, a slide hammer Canadian splitter, an upright panel saw, an air powered paper log compressor, a sack truck, a mobile timber storage rack, furniture moving dollies, a continuous hot water heater and storage unit for camping, and lots of other stuff I can't think of right now.
I don't have anything on the go at the moment but I am intending to make some mobile bases for some of my larger tools so I can move them around the shed easily. I have been searching the web for ideas. The web is such a fabulous goldmine of ideas, I wish I had it 40 years ago.
I hope that you and yours are well and thanks again for your welcome.
Every blessing.
Peter