Me and my stuff

[dirtyvinylpusher]

You know that guy who's always doing something, always drives around with random bits of scrap on the back of his pickup truck.
The guy who's always wearing workboots and has 10 different projects on the go?
(Most of which are ALMOST finished)

Or when you were younger, the guy who rode a home made chopper pushbike with extended forks, banana seat and huge handlebars.

Or when you were even younger, the guy with a box full of LEGO bits who used to build crazy contraptions with 8 wheels.



That's me


I'll post some of my stuff I've built/made/modified in this thread.
Pelase don't take it as bragging.
I simply love sharing my creations with people.
I get inspired by what other people do and maybe my stuff can inspire someone else.


I'll start with the latest project in our backyard.
I'd wanted to get rid of that shed for a long time and build a deck in that spot.
But until I sourced a bigger one to house all the crap in this one that wasn't gonna happen.



Then one day I came across a shed and it was on.



Shed gone, I brought in some feature rocks...
(I didn't drive the loader personally by the way)




Rocks in place I started on the frame work.




I'll skip straight ot the finished(-ish) product.
The Photobucket album with tonnes of project pics can be found here --> s433.photobucket.com/albums/qq60/dirtyvinylpusher/wx/










I've since removed that green shade cloth which was just temporary while I was working on it and will get a proper triangular one made up one day.
The coloured glass cubes in the front of the seat will also get lights behind them one day.


And some pics of the mutts.

[dirtyvinylpusher]

When I'm not diggin holes and swinging bits of timber around I like to tinker in my shed.
Something I've been doing a lot of the past few years is trying to build radio controlled cars, using veious bits of scrap and chainsaw/weedwacker motors.

I have a mini lathe which I use to make stuff like wheel hubs, bearing mounts etc, and a lot of the other stuff is cut and filed by hand.
The building and figuring out how to do stuff is more fun to me than the actual driving.















Vids of some of them in action.
This vid was just a compilation of some footage to test out Sony Vegas when I had just got it so there's lots of unneccesary FX and stuff.

There's more vids on my YouTube channel of all these cars and more.

[dirtyvinylpusher]

Here's what I did to make the beer fridge a bit more appealing...

[dirtyvinylpusher]

As our youngest dog was a bit naughty when we first got her she destroyed a couple of couches and one dog bed on the patio so I decided I had to build something dog proof.

It's been working so far.
















She's settled down a bit now though and is behaving a lot better when we go out and leave her alone for the day.



Right that's all for now but I'll keep adding to this thread from time to time.

[onamirrorsedge]

You made a dog? JK...is that your job? You sell stuff too?

[driftin]

Show 'em the desk!

[dirtyvinylpusher]

Haha no I didn't make the dogs.

I'm a self employed landscaper/gardener, and like to tinker in my spare time.
I don't sell anything, it's all for home use.
Also made some other furniture which I'll post some pics of later.

Show 'em the desk!

The TV unit?

[neenee]

Jeez - that is all very impressive!

Like I said before you have a place in my zombie apocalypse survival squad/ generic action movie team although you have been promoted a good few places now lol!

:-)

[darko]

I can see the apocalypse happen as me and my group run up on Nee running and screaming around and here comes Dirty lugging all his stuff on his back, The big speakers and all lol nah that is good stuff buddy, thanks for sharing and sounds like u have a cool job

[dirtyvinylpusher]

Been working on some flashing lights for the mobile boombox




Using a simple circuit along with the circuitboard from an old pair of walkman speakers.

(Not sure if this means anything to anyone here, but here it is)




And this is what it looks like in real life...




Lots of fiddly stuff and soldering and little connectors and stuff.




What remains of the walkman speakers




I'll be using these little red LED lights.



They will be placed along the front panel of the box.
Still trying to decide if I should put them in a pattern or just randomly dotted around the place.
Leaning towards random.

More to come.

;D

[dirtyvinylpusher]

The latest incarnation of my RC car project










;D