How are you preparing for the post Covid 19 world?

[Borchester]

There is already automatic grave diggers for that.

You mean Romanians ? The trouble is that a lot of them went home. Still, I want to do my bit. As an ex civil servant I will volunteer to count the corpses.

[papasmurf]

I plan to volunteer to dig the mass graves

There is already automatic grave diggers for that. (If they can be got running after all these years they were designed for the aftermath of a nuclear attack.)

[Wiggles]

I think we can wave goodbye to the 20p tax rate. VAT on luxuries will have to go up.



The ban on football can stay, we can pay them the same as nurses or shop workers, who have been found to be the essential people in society.

As for pop stars and Twitter experts they can all go swivel

I think your getting opinions mixed up with reality

[johnofgwent]

I plan to volunteer to dig the mass graves

[T00ts]

an auger?

Maybe. I just remember it had a wooden handle.

[cromwell]

I remember Dad using a tool like a cork screw to 'drill' through wood. I wouldn't be surprised if I still have it lurking somewhere. I also remember him making a lamp standard when I was very small with a red hot poker held in the fire and he burned his way through. He must have had something longer to complete the job but that I don't remember. Slow but very successful, the lamp was in use for decades. I have an old bit and brace too. You never know perhaps I have found my treasure trove!   :dncg:

an auger?

[Barry]

I think we can wave goodbye to the 20p tax rate. VAT on luxuries will have to go up.



The ban on football can stay, we can pay them the same as nurses or shop workers, who have been found to be the essential people in society.

As for pop stars and Twitter experts they can all go swivel

[Streetwalker]

I'm just going sit outside the pub and wait for it to open

 :hattip





Indeed Wiggles , the pubs will need rescuing ,every man must do his duty .

[Wiggles]

I'm just going sit outside the pub and wait for it to open

[T00ts]

I have been thinking on similar lines. I have a couple of shower doors that I could use as lights and maybe use to grow melons in. Something else I could do with is some No 6 threaded rod, a supply of hacksaw blades, wing nuts and a solar charger for my cordless drill. I would really like to get an old fashioned bit and brace but the modern ones don't seem to grip the bit properly. Or maybe my hands don't work as well as they did. Anyway, I want to keep things as low tech as possible but drill wise, I am a bit stumped.

I remember Dad using a tool like a cork screw to 'drill' through wood. I wouldn't be surprised if I still have it lurking somewhere. I also remember him making a lamp standard when I was very small with a red hot poker held in the fire and he burned his way through. He must have had something longer to complete the job but that I don't remember. Slow but very successful, the lamp was in use for decades. I have an old bit and brace too. You never know perhaps I have found my treasure trove!   :dncg:

[Borchester]

In the process of using an old window frame wombled out of a skip some months ago and a lot of timber offcuts I had hanging about to make a cold frame.

I have been thinking on similar lines. I have a couple of shower doors that I could use as lights and maybe use to grow melons in. Something else I could do with is some No 6 threaded rod, a supply of hacksaw blades, wing nuts and a solar charger for my cordless drill. I would really like to get an old fashioned bit and brace but the modern ones don't seem to grip the bit properly. Or maybe my hands don't work as well as they did. Anyway, I want to keep things as low tech as possible but drill wise, I am a bit stumped.

[papasmurf]

How about you guys?

In the process of using an old window frame wombled out of a skip some months ago and a lot of timber offcuts I had hanging about to make a cold frame.

[Borchester]

I am on the lookout for  wooden fruit boxes to store next year's seed potatoes. I am also going to let a few carrots, parsnips and other roots bolt for the seed. I am also looking for a couple of high carbon steel saws and a few more triangular files. These modern saws are ok but buggers to sharpen. And I think I will get a fruit press and a manual fruit crushers and make a few drops of cider.



How about you guys?