Turning fence palings into dressed timber–part 3

Setting up for planing the edges of fence paling boards.

I have relocated the dust extractor from the top of the table (thicknesser mode) to underneath the table.

Turning fence palings into dressed timber-part 2

Turning fence palings into dressed timber–part 1

Turning fence palings into dressed timber with the ALDI WorkZone Planer Thicknesser.

Dressed pine timber is expensive - very expensive. Wherever possible I use cheap fence palings for my projects and… if needed I dress my own timber.

The machine has two configurations - planer and thicknesser. We are setup for the latter here to smooth the paling faces.

Speckles - Back home from shopping

Back home from shopping trip and first thing is to let Speckles out

Black & Decker Alligator Lopper–part 2

Testing the unit after repair - all good.

Black & Decker Alligator Lopper–part 1

This beast that belongs to a family friend has - lost it's bite.

This looks tricky - lots of screws and even springs (OMG) with a layered build.

Speckles all tucked in and quite cosy-

The automatic coop heater (under the table) is coming out of hibernation. Check out the inside and outside temps.

Channel 1 – Inside coop temp. Channel 2 – Outside shed temp.

Sprocket watching the footy with me

Sprocket cheese treat

Sprocket demonstrating his preferred way to accept human treats

Speckles having lunch

Speckles having lunch - corn and rice

Sprocket–it fits!

Sprocket snoozing after his dinner

Sprocket–dinner time

Sprocket is spending Easter with us while his mum is off camping.

Sprocket - dew claw mishap!

While coming up the stairs got his legs in a tangle and broke off a dew claw when trying to apply brakes to stop sliding backwards a step or two.

Lifeguard doggos in Croatia

How good is this, vigilant Golden Retrievers ready to hit the water!

Dell network switch - revisited

From 2004 - 2019 this Dell PowerConnect 2016  switch was our main switch located in the upstairs linen cupboard. When it died I had a go at repairing the power supply but gave up and it was replaced with a Netgear switch. The photo below is was taken in 2019 photo when the switch died.

While cleaning up Al's Workshop came across it again and decided to have have another look – to repair.

Where is Speckles?

Been in the workshop for a while doing some electronics repairs. Decided to go inside for a coffee break and on the way looked for Speckles - where is she?

Did the rounds of both the back and front yards, no sign of her?

Finally found her here... near the garage/workshop tucked in behind that English Box

On the right is my Auto refill / Auto water recycle bird bath