Be Excellent To Each Other

I’d already insulated and clad inside a few years back.

I did the first (overdue) oil change on the wood chipper. Despite sitting unused in the damp garage for a couple of years, with fresh fuel it started on the very first pull! Honestly amazed, I was half expecting it to be seized to death.

It was also easier to restart than I remember it being after stall - it seems to love 99RON petrol, which it got because I needed to fill the car and I couldn't be bothered to put another transaction through just for a couple of litres into the can.

This comes after spending most of yesterday afternoon processing felled conifer using (powered) secateurs and garden saw before Helen said "hang on, we should be putting all this through the chipper shouldn't we?" - we'd both forgotten about the bloody thing.

I don’t truly know how this happened. The owner of the nursery Darwin used to go to sent me a message on Saturday:



So I gave her advice as she’d already purchased it, so there was no point saying it was in a terrible state and to just not buy it.

Anyway, then she said ‘can you please revitalise it when you have time’ and I didn’t quite catch that I was going to be the one doing it until too late. Anyway, Russell and I gave it a tidy up over the weekend, and it’s far from perfect but I’m still proud of the before and after:

Before:


After:

Utterly sensational!

(The expectation on you: not so much.)

But gosh. It's lovely.

I did fix the spacing ion the numbered dials before I delivered it to its new home

I hope you charged them a shit load.

Well, I did it for nothing so… no?

Admit it. You made a brand new one to the same spec, didn't you?

I think you should claim it! "That old thing? Rubbish, threw it away - made this, though"

I don't believe in heaven, but I still think Meems is going there. So fab.

That will be the first of many treasures then

Forgot to say it’s an amazing restoration job!