Latest minor project

[Greynomad]

T1,
I have a set of six of those chairs.
I’ll sell them to you for $100 each.

[T1 Terry]

T1,
I have a set of six of those chairs.
I’ll sell them to you for $100 each.

But they were only 3 legged tables, so there would have been 3 in a set ...... do they have the fancy pattern created by pieces of cheese and ham stuck to the legs so the match the table legs?

T1 Terry

[Greynomad]

Yep,
I collected two sets of chairs when I ordered two Sooper-Dooper King Size Pizzas. They were a Special Two-for-Price-of-One Offer.
I used one pizza as a roof on the back verandah.
Not only do the chairs have the requisite cheesy dags, but bits of meat & seafood form the chair backs...

[Greynomad]

Refer to OP...
This is what I have done with the second tractor seat:

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[Greynomad]

Despite the end of lockdown, SWMBO has continued to wield the whip.
Here's the latest:

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Another rock garden, under the Eucalypts, where nothing will grow (note ‘grass’ in foreground — we're praying the succulents are immune!)...
SIX TONNES of rock in this one! Again, all spread by hand.
Compared to the previous rock garden (shown in the background of the pic in the OP) which took only three tonnes.

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A close-up of the main feature.
(Thanks to Faye — Mrs Riverlander — for the idea of burying half a broken pot. )

ps. I have discovered that the plants in the tractor seats are called Dichonderas.
pps. After 10 weeks at the powdercoaters, we collected our other cast iron bits today. Stand by for progress reports...

[T1 Terry]

In this part of SA, they all start out as rock gardens, 6 tonne of soil if you want a garden you can grow something in and you deliberately move rocks onto the property and move them around to make it a feature Victorian's really are a strange bunch eh
But it does look good Ray, paddocks over this way look like they are growing rocks when the dry is on and we appear to have a breed of sheep that must eat them .... hundreds of sheep in a paddock with nothing but rocks as far as the eye can see .....

T1 Terry

[Newcastle George]

Ray, I see you have put the mower with the other rubbish because there is no grass to mow.

George

[Greynomad]

Mower is totally u/s.
Rusted solid. A gift ( ) from Son-&-Heir’s partner’s father, when he saw the photos of our restored & functional push mower.
Still, it is decorative...

[Greynomad]

Progress report:
Two chairs completed. Two to go. Then I start making benches.

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In all, five sets (and a table) shown here to go...

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Timber slats have to be trimmed to width, cut to length, stained & custom drilled, as the holes vary in position on the iron frames.
That’s a little bit more than a weekend’s work...

(I tried pre-drilling to a standard position. That’s when I discovered the casting holes varied in the distance from the end of the channels. )

[Noggins]

Looks good
Don't forget to put the side movement restraining straps on though. they go from the lower part of the pattern to a middle point on one of the seat rails.
Having done similar to this many years ago I can speak from experience about side movement when a very heavy mate sat in one I'd restored.
It was funny to all of us around him, but he wasn't impressed and a lot of "F" words flew around at the time as he was trying to get up off the ground.


Ron