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  • Not the best weather this week and its set to continue this way for a few days yet so most work this week is inside out of the weather.Work continues on the refurbishment of the large bandsaw. We found a broken casting while dismantling the lower guide assembly so this has gone off with a […]
  • Having removed various inconvenient internal wall concrete footings before Christmas the floor and associated walls have been finished by screeding over. Now we can easily move heavy equipment throughout the workshop.Nellie's steam boiler is getting cleaned up and painted.The winter gales had removed the cover we had over our larch planks so this had to […]
  • Orkney spent a week covered in snow and with strong winds snow drifts were a problem so only the hardiest crew turned out. 
  • This week we removed a couple of old evaporator units from our machinery area. After disconnecting the units from the electrical and refrigeration systems we dropped the heavy units onto a scaffolding tower then moved the load to our lifting hard point then lifted off and dropped the units onto a pallet.