Im a patient woman. I live in a building site and dont complain while he tells the UK Woodworking chatgroup why they shouldnt be using routers, puts up shelves for his mum, insists he has to dig the allotment NOW. I believe him when he says he’s researching building construction on the internet. But now Grimsdale has spent about 3 weeks making ….. (duh-duhduhderderrrrrr!!!!) sawhorses!!!
Not just ordinary sawhorses. These have double splayed legs which are also square in plan while the section has to be rhomboid. They can only be made after masses of geometrical and trigonometrical calculation. You have to work out the dihedral he tells me over tea, either with a calculator or by drawing. It’s the fundamental exercise you have to go through in setting out a roof.
Yes but, we had the roof done by a proper roofer when we still had some money. Why the dihedral etc etc?
He needed to make the sawhorses so he had something to put the windows on! Silly me. This is the year of the windows. It’s the end of November and there are 10 more to do. I spect we’ll get there.
December 1, 2007 at 8:32 am
Winter and no windows? Brrrrrrrr!
December 11, 2007 at 8:10 pm
Well it wasn’t the only thing I was doing so there!! And I did ALL the woodwork on the roof – up and down 50 feet of scaffolding like an elderly pirate friggin in the riggin, day after day, come rain or shine. And there was the resurection of the cross er how do you spell resurrection? erection no prob ha ha! It’s the second coming can be problematic.
Have photos somewhere of new stone cross being winched on high, the original having been lost overboard in a storm.
The dihedral project was a bit of CPD = continuous personal development. There will be payback, make no mistake
cheers
G
March 20, 2008 at 9:10 pm
Shes tucked you right up here mate
) but i must say 3 weeks is good going for a few saw horses . Some say you can make at least four a day as they are hard to make right but they dont spend 2 and a half weeks making a rod 
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I do hope this is taken as the light hearted banter i intend it to be as i am wetting myself here getting Mr G in trouble