Show us your man cave

[Cuchilo]

A few updates on the man cave

Its now fully powered up with 42" screen, pc, turbo, bikes and sky tv

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Ha ha , spot on mate . Thats just how my shiv is set up but with a smaller tv . I think i need to do something about that

 

[The_Weekend_Report_Guy]

Hell after seen all this I am not posting a pic of my almost falling apart garage full of humidity and spider webs..!

But is fits 5 bikes at the moment and two turbo trainers.

P.S: has a fridge with beer in it...!

 

[Cuchilo]

A small corner of mine
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What machines are those running ?

 

[slowmotion]

I have been inspired by this thread and started excavating a potential cave floor. I discovered some signs of very minor pre-intelligent life, plumbers and electricians from a long gone era. Some say that they disappeared to the Iberian peninsular and drank themselves to death in a state of smugness inside their tiled villas. Others say that tribes from Poland over-ran them and made them redundant. Who knows? You never can be entirely sure about archeological reconstructions , can you?

I suspect that it might be a while before my cave floor is covered with Mammoth shag-pile, but I'm hoping for a fire pit for the charred bones of small animals in the corner....fire regs.

permitting.

 

[PaulSecteur]

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So it was you that brought Fred Dibnahs` old house.

 

[Hover Fly]

What machines are those running ?

In that corner we have Victorian to early 30s lathes, pillar drills and a boring machine, elsewhere there is a machine with the sole purpose of drilling traction engine rims for the spoke rivets, a huge vertical boring machine nicknamed "the roundabout" because the operator sits besides the tool as it goes around the stationary work and various other oddities of engineering history.

 

[Cuchilo]

In that corner we have Victorian to early 30s lathes, pillar drills and a boring machine, elsewhere there is a machine with the sole purpose of drilling traction engine rims for the spoke rivets, a huge vertical boring machine nicknamed "the roundabout" because the operator sits besides the tool as it goes around the stationary work and various other oddities of engineering history.

Dont suppose you have a Bursgreen BEN spindle moulder in there do you ? The rise and fall has snapped on mine and i'm after a spare .

 

[sir adrian dangerous]

Thats it I'm clearing the garage out this weekend and turning it into a man cave. No kids or wife will be allowed and the beer will flow like wine.

 

[jowwy]

Few changes and finally happy with it

 

[gds58]

So it was you that brought Fred Dibnahs` old house.

bought!!!!!! unless of course, you uplifted Fred's house and brought it with you!

 

[totallyfixed]

Not wishing at all to put a damper on this thread, but is it the most sensible thing to be advertising where you keep your bikes?

 

[Drago]

I keep my bikes close my the new Beretta shotgun I got for Christmas, which is next to my bed in the gun safe. I'd just like to advertise that too.

If a thief thinks we have bike to steal its going to be pretty bleeding obvious they're on the premises somewhere, so short of never ever venturing out on your bike there nothing you can do.

 

[jowwy]

Not wishing at all to put a damper on this thread, but is it the most sensible thing to be advertising where you keep your bikes?

Not unless its fully secured and alarmed.......

 

[Milkfloat]

I keep my bikes close my the new Beretta shotgun I got for Christmas, which is next to my bed in the gun safe. I'd just like to advertise that too.

You Sir are a Browning* man, one of those dainty Berettas just would not suit you.

* - If you won the lottery tonight it would be a Krieghoff.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

[QUOTE 4093870, member: 9609"]that looks like an old Seddon Atkinson tractor unit (could even be a 'borderer'), does it have a cummins engine in it ?[/QUOTE]
Yes it is indeed a Borderer

He sold it a couple of years ago, but he restored it
'It' being used to tow the Emergency Winder trailer around to various Collieries, if needed, I'm sure he told that it was plated to well in excess of the usual (trailer weight) limits of the time
50 tons plating seems to ring the proverbial bell

http://www.ukemergency.co.uk/kku-655p-national-coal-board-mines-rescue-atkinson-borderer/

2nd picture down, with 'winder' http://www.healeyhero.co.uk/rescue/Station/winder4.htm#top







Edit
Just read the winder page, states '47 tons' for trailer/winder/cables (1000 yards of it!!)