Adam's videos of his neighbours would be even more interesting if he had wall penetrating radar.
A laser cutter would be fun but I'd probably end up with a house looking like it was owned by a fretsaw fetishist with fret-work in everything.
Owain
My best pliers were found on a rural footpath years ago. Much better quality than the other ones I had before. Still bemused by what circumstances led to them being about a mile from the nearest road.
In message , Steve Firth writes
Commonly carried by ramblers in case some errant land owner has erected a fence discouraging trespass:-(
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If that's the case, I'm glad that I have them. It's a credible explanation these are stamped "piano wire" and have very good cutters that will go through fence wire easily. I used them when I ran a couple of kilometres of fencing around a field last summer.
The lot. Then PP to build whatever I like, with BR exemption. I'm sure I could do far better for much less.
NT
I've found many tools on the road/verge, including a ring spanner that was too big to go in the large saddlebag diagonally
Next door had a double ladder leant neatly against the inside of their inner fence, some way from the road. To get it through two gates and put down, in the middle of the night sometime, without waking the dogs...! Never did find out whose it was.
Hmmm.... All mine (Epilog 36EXT) seems to do is to eat me out of house and home. Two grand for a fresh fill of CO2?
I've never really seen the point in these Ti hammers, but I do like my huge= Vaughan framing hammer (30 quid, Axminster). If you are doing any large sc= ale nailing, it's money well spent.
(But attach a lanyard to the handle)
One of those 3D printers would be good.
Brian
Yes, tempting thought. What would you build and what you do differently?
Passed a monkey wrench the other day. Did think about going back and picking it up, obviously it's a hazard to traffic and you must try to be good.
But then I already have one about that size.
Andy
Something like the Kennington water tower above ground, and a nuclear bunker - cum - workshop and museum below.
Owain
2 tonne digger, skip loader, large jcb, a 6ft square, electric/hydraulic fold away flat platform for getting on an off rooves, top of the range petrol husqy chainsaw and lifetime supply of chains, electric/hydraulic logsplitter, stumpgrinder, vibrating 1t roller, and this is just off the top of my head, if I had time to make a list, I'm sure I could easily get it past £1m
A biggish detached house with large shed. I've a long list of what I'd do different, starting with shredded scrap insulation & papercrete as insulation, and finishing with a roof structure of green timber sawn on site.
NT
Good grief. Lay off the Irn Bru.
Ooh, easy...
A Thiel 158 milling machine with all the tooling, carving metal in straight lines for the use of; A Holbrook Model H No.17 lathe (or a Holbrook Marquis...) to complement the Model C No.13, making metal round for the use of; A decent (not Chinese!) 300 Amp AC/DC inverter TIG welder, water cooler and magic everlasting argon bottle, sticking metal together etc. Power hacksaw and vertical bandsaw, cutting bits of metal off and cutting it apart again...; Surface grinder.
Several hundred yards of steel and aluminium stock, reduction to swarf for the use of.
Importantly - a secure, warm 30 x 50 shed to put it all in, with 3-phase power to run everything.
Even More Importantly - somewhere with room for the shed!
I'd need a big chimney, I think? Might be easiest with an inverse chimney (topologically unfolded with the flue on the outside)...
Dave H. (the other one)
Festool Domino Jointer. I keep trying to justify it on the basis that building some built-in wardrobes myself I'll save a couple of grand compared to getting someone in to do it, however since I would never consider getting someone in to do it in the first place the saving isn't real and I'll just have to manage with my cheap biscuit jointer. Also tried to justify it on the basis that I could sell it on for a good price once the wardrobes are built, however once I had it in my hands I know I would never be able to part with such a beautiful machine, so that one doesn't work either.
Really good tools are a pleasure in themselves, rather like really good components (the difference between working on, say, Campag hubs and el cheapo ones). Anyway, here goes for my wish: the knowledge, skills and ability to tackle any job - and the money to buy the gear needed.
Perhaps you should consider the Domino XL....
Now go by the Domino on the grounds that its way cheaper than the XL, and hence you have saved loads! ;-))
I would like to have my own Petromax lamp:
An evening after Xmas we all gathered in the school to celebrate the big Xmas feast. There was a lot of good food, walking and singing around the Xmas three and some silly talk about Jesus. Someone with a job and an income brought a Petromax lamp; an amazing tool! I will never forget its massive flood of white light.
Today I can buy a new Petromax lamp from China, but I would prefer to get a used one for free. When I tell that it is possible that its mantle is made from thorium, someone with very strong radio phobia may be willing to give it away for free:
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