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Making a railroad track anvil

Anvils are very expensive, besides bring a large lump of steel, second hand anvils are often quite old, so despite being beat up and damaged they attract a prem...

Various native fibres made into rope

I have been experimenting with some locally available plant to extract fibre to make string and rope for fun. I have always been interested in self sufficiency ...

Building an anvil stand

I needed a heavy stand to hold an anvil and had some old red gum fence posts and treated pine laying around. The wood grain came up nice after a bit of sanding ...

Homemade Fire Bricks

I have been been working on some recipes to make a homemade refractory fire brick. Initially I was building them with sand and clay and they would just crack wh...

Flamingo from Adelaide Zoo

A flamingo sleeping maybe, at the Adelaide Zoo. I think there used to emote but one died just recently....

Interesting photos

Grass tree in full flower. Hops creeping up a steel pole. Bark on a gum tree....

Building a small propane forge - Part 3

I have recast the top panel institu and it seems much more successful. No sign of cracking like last time. A toilet roll holder makes a good mould for the burne...

Building a small propane forge - Part 2

The refractory set and I successfully stripped out the cardboard mounds. It came out pretty good except for the roof panel, which has cracked a little and is in...

Building a Small propane forge - Part 1

I started with a small foundry to melt aluminium, but I have grown out of this for a number of reasons. Firstly summer is here and open charcoal fires don’t mix...

Gold Cradle

I was cleaning out a part of the yard and deciding what to do with some scrap timber. So I thought I would finally get around to making a gold rocker cradle on ...

Unusual little bee

I came across a tiny little busy bee in the garden yesterday, it was buzzing around what we call sour sops here. It had unusual markings on it, not sure if it i...

Fly with iridescence on a lemon

Was looking around in the garden and found a fly with iridescent wings sunning itself on a lemon!...

Tiny brown spider on a leaf

I was looking at some bees flying around some flowers in the garden and I noticed this little guy hiding in plain sight. Does anyone out there in steemit land k...

North Korea Nuke test tried to influence the price of bitcoin

Image credi https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2009/sep/06/nuclear-weapons-world-us-north-korea-russia-iran Ok, so here is a wild theory not based on any...

Gnarled old stump

I came across this old stump that has really interesting patterns in the wood!...

Wildflowers are coming in bloom

Walking through a conservation park at the weekend I came across lots of wildflower, just starting to bloom, Spring is coming! Hakea Grevillea...

Trying to make homemade lava

So after successfully melting aluminium and copper, I thought I would try to melt some rocks to make home made lava, although I expected glass of some type. I g...

Wattles in the bush

I love this time of year when the wattles start to flower and light up the bush. This is a closeup of the golden wattle. The Kangaroo Thorn wattle is a scrub ra...

NEM Faucet

I have been using this faucet for a couple of months, it is basically the only faucet I could find for NEM tokens. The payouts are based on a random percentage ...

Mini copper and aluminium foundry

So, after a couple of previous attempts, and a slightly larger foundry - a 12 litre steel bucket instead of the 10 litre one I had before, with a better placed ...