What Preps are you doing this week

[jansman]

I am sure I have seen them in 99p too.

[arnieh]

I am sure I have seen them in 99p too.

I will have a look to-morrow, I have just stripped the first pallet down those ring nails are hard work. I will see my friend for some more pallets over the week end

[SooBee]

Damson jam, damson and apple jelly, apple and bramble jelly.
The place will smell wonderful and I'll collapse happy when it's done.


Soobee

[grenfell]

I will have a look to-morrow, I have just stripped the first pallet down those ring nails are hard work. I will see my friend for some more pallets over the week end

A good way to take pallets apart if you want timbers left as long as possible is to use a reciprocating saw with a metal cutting blade and cut through the nails, it's quick and easy no mess or timber smashed to pieces.

[dazthechippy]

i'm a chippy by day so have to sometimes pull up floor boards without ruining them - same priciple applies to pallets -search on amazon for "nail pullers" and you'll see for the cost of £40/60 a range of tools that'll help you pull nails. OK they cost a few quid but you're not paying for pallets are you (tell me you're not). there is also a video for a hulfours nail puller on youtube. hth

[pseudonym]

Two more oil lamps:



Smaller than the Vapalux's and more pleasing on the eye.

They'll sit out in the front room and be a visible prep that won't scare the sheeple.

[grenfell]

i'm a chippy by day so have to sometimes pull up floor boards without ruining them - same priciple applies to pallets -search on amazon for "nail pullers" and you'll see for the cost of £40/60 a range of tools that'll help you pull nails. OK they cost a few quid but you're not paying for pallets are you (tell me you're not). there is also a video for a hulfours nail puller on youtube. hth

Yeah me too , I.ve spent many years in restoration although I don't do it so much now so have lifted god knows how many boards that "can't be damaged" and spent time with wedges, hacksaw blades , punches and so on. I'll check out that hulfours thing though, thanks.

[2ndRateMind]

Asda have wind up LED torches at £3.00 each, currently. It blew my £5.00 a fortnight budget, but I bought one. Also got cotton wool and vaseline, to make firelighters out of, 10 x boxes of swan vestas matches from sainsburies, and the zippo fuel from Amazon. Reckon my fire preps are now in place. Next: water.

Cheers, 2RM.

[arnieh]

Thanks to all re the stripping down of wooden pallets I will be looking into getting a nail puller. No dazthechippy I don't have to pay for the pallets I get them from my local building supply company. Today I ordered the first of the ply sheeting to sort the outside of the revamped store shed, Quite looking forward to getting stuck in we need it sorted A.S.A.P as we do not have a great deal of room in our bungalow.

[nickdutch]

Still working on my appalling fitness. Been doing these one hour sessions on my crosstrainer and its fun in a kinda sweaty way , but always leaves me knackered and cant do anything that requires any really concentration afterwards. Am looking forward to my dumbells coming (probably Monday now) so I can get in shape properly. I gestimate that after six months of this pleasant torture I should have picked up nicely on my cardio health, have boosted my immunological defenses and will be capable of doing more generally speaking. I'm also researching more equipment to get that I can actually fit into my tiny flat.