What do you do for a living? With pics.

[Jesus325iTouring]

Trying to think of things to yabber about, work is always good.

I do property maintenance & renovations for quite a bit of my time but also build statuary moulds, could be of anything, but things such as busts, bird baths, urns, benches etc. Have done some odd things in the past like being asked to mould the hands of a dead man, he was a surgeon and his wife wanted a copy of his hands. Interesting job!

Done some urns for Longleat house, 18 years ago, will try to find some pictures.

But here is where I work, 3 workshops, the kitchen, my plastering shed, and my garage. With my rather dusty X5 parked in it.











So where do you work and what do you do?

[Satan]

I work from home and for the last 20 months have done bugger all as I just had enough of working in IT but I did manage a project which took a while to get off the ground due to issues with the planning department being total c0cks.

Some major issues did crop up, cracks in wall so needed strengthening, wall in living room had to be demolished and rebuilt as it was bowing out and a load more render was required as the wall was 70mm out of true, great British workmanship eh......

Fully insulated, fire proofed, breathable render jeeeez you hardly need the boiler on to heat this place.

If the photos are too large can someone resize them please.

From











To this, okay the external won't win any awards but thats what the planners would allow,













Now its been sold I need to find a job in something that I would like to do as well as getting the plans sorted for the house rebuild, was looking at something like this, fascia wise.

[Bonymaenjack]

Very nice . both of you

[Satan]

Very nice . both of you

I think Jesus makes sex toys for Catholic Nuns, you need to look further in to the photos he posted up......

[Satan]

Apologies for more photos but this was my first major project, so I need to show off a bit.





BMW Shot,



Lotus Shot,

[Jesus325iTouring]

Very nice . both of you

I think Jesus makes sex toys for Catholic Nuns, you need to look further in to the photos he posted up......

Thanks Bony, and Stefanny, sex toys, not quite, however I have made various casts and moulds with my wife

Thats an impressive build that, not my style at all, but impressive nonetheless.

[Satan]

Very nice . both of you

I think Jesus makes sex toys for Catholic Nuns, you need to look further in to the photos he posted up......

Thanks Bony, and Stefanny, sex toys, not quite, however I have made various casts and moulds with my wife

Thats an impressive build that, not my style at all, but impressive nonetheless.

Thanks, total gut roof off then one floor upwards, was a worry when things started to go wrong as in "it will cost more money"

[Bonymaenjack]

Cars and houses. both money pits I'm afraid but something we can't do without

[sadham]

I work for a company that sell bathroom furniture. No pics but this is the site: www.elegantshowers.co.uk

If you guys ever need anything from there let me know I should be able to sort you out with better prices.

[Jesus325iTouring]

I have a bathroom to strip and re tile (always fun on new house, you know all the walls will come down with the old tiles!) Couldn't see tiles though, mind postage might be an issue with the weight.

[steve_k]

well before i came out of work due to two severe health scares, i've never worked in one sector.

always worked in different fields.
i've worked in warehousing, distribution, food production, foundry work,
been self employed twice, once in car detailing, & also in building glass houses (huge greenhouses) for nursery's/garden centres,

favourite job was when i was working rebuilding mud & stud/wattle & daub houses with an old skool thatcher,
Rog, you'll know what i mean by that job surely?

now i'm stuck on long term sick doing what i can when i can, & in the spirit of "falkster" my cooker has been detailed to within an inch of it's life

[aimlessrock]

impressive Stef and Rog.

After years of working for major law firms in the NW of England i made the move in house with one of my clients (just over a year ago) and am much happier.

I have a parcel of land in the Ireland (gifted by the in laws) that the wife and I are planning to build a house in the next few years- this will be a creative focus for me (if indeed i even have one).

a big garage is a must

[martauto]

Stuff similar to these.
Bepsoke medical equiptment.
Not the everyday stuff but things that frighten you and only the surgeon knows what they are for, again maybe he "invents" thing for his own mind ??
Some sets (one offs ) could cost in excess of £30,000 so someone is very serious.
But thats when I`m at work, just waitng now for a hip joint replacement, again.lol

Mart.

[aimlessrock]

Mart - those look like props from a horror movie!

[martauto]

These are the "tame" examples.
I have seen some of our "items" in use on you tube and hell the guy who thought of what was needed is a God to me.
I`ll dig a bit further as I will call at work on Friday and see what is on-going.


Mart.

[Satan]

That looks interesting mart, I am bored and looking for new opportunities.

[hennared323i]

my toys:

[aimlessrock]

now that's a toy

[martauto]

my toys

See you are still digging.lol How you going ?

Mart

[Jesus325iTouring]

If you're going to dig a tunnel............

I would be too scared undeground, fair play to you!

[martauto]

If you're going to dig a tunnel............

I would be too scared undeground, fair play to you!

I was a Fireman in the West Yorshire Fire Service back in the day .
I can not do ladders or even under the car stuff at all now .

Mart.

[hennared323i]

my toys

See you are still digging.lol How you going ?

Mart

Fine mate, buggering about with HS2 at the moment - freaking massive

Bit of a lurker here these days though

[hennared323i]

If you're going to dig a tunnel............

I would be too scared undeground, fair play to you!

The small stuff can be a bit unsettling (once did a 900mm id tunnel that was 200m long - proper scary that. The big stuff is a bit like a mobile factory - you wouldn't really know your underground

Have another couple of pics of my pre tbm tunnelling days:

[paultv]

Blimey, Hardcore Guys.

I've worked, and still work in the music business as a film maker. Abbey Road Studios, then my own production company - worked with most well known pop idols of the 80's and 90's, but more recently Jazz and Classical - Kate Bush to Bowie and Radiohead, Dave Brubeck to Placido Domingo.

Here's a shot of Beatrice Rana, who is a fine classical pianist, at 21 years old. This is from Berlin whilst recording her last album sitting on my vert!




and here's Bea playing some Bach:



I also went to Iraq during the last debacle with the The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards, who happen to fix tanks and play the pipes:



Shot and edited by yours truly

Paul

[martauto]

A few moons ago when we used to make moulds for "Really useful box".
This one is half of the 64 litre size.
Mart.

[Jesus325iTouring]

Hennared, thats ass puckering stuff I just couldn't do it, in those tight tunnels with explosives I would imagine, bugger that! Hope it paid well! That said, minors been doing it for years and I dare say the pay was crap.

Mart is that injection moulding?

Steve, yes, I know what you're talking about on the old buildings, just my kind of thing that.

I do enjoy doing the lime pointing work, a pleasure to work and preserve old buildings.

[Satan]

Shame you are so far way my house needs repointing.

[Jesus325iTouring]

Grand a day Stefan, i'm there

[maxfield]

I’m a Manager of My local Halfords Autocentre... awaits the comments.

Unfortunately no pics as there’s not much to show.

[Satan]

Grand a day Stefan, i'm there

£38.76 I am fine with that, when can you start as I need to get to the money exchange to take out a couple of 1000 Mexican Peso's ;o))))

[Kos]

I am Diable

Hello Stefan

Goodbye Stefan

[Jesus325iTouring]

Grand a day Stefan, i'm there

£38.76 I am fine with that, when can you start as I need to get to the money exchange to take out a couple of 1000 Mexican Peso's ;o))))

Excellent, can only do a month though because i'll be bankrupt by the end of it

[Jesus325iTouring]

Couple more of some of my work......

Traditional lime pointing on a circa 18c farmhouse





Posted this before but was a job I was pleased I managed on my own with nothing more than ingenuity, a trolley track and several blocks of wood...




Been making mirrors like this for 18 years..




And the urns I made for Longleat House

[Satan]

Great job Rog, must be great doing something you enjoy and working for yourself.

[steve_k]

Couple more of some of my work......

Traditional lime pointing on a circa 18c farmhouse





Posted this before but was a job I was pleased I managed on my own with nothing more than ingenuity, a trolley track and several blocks of wood...




Been making mirrors like this for 18 years..




And the urns I made for Longleat House

love the mirrors,

the work at longleat looks very impressive.

as for the lime pointing, i don't think there are many folk left who can do it properly these days, seems to be a dying art worse luck. maybe a skill to teach the kids just in case.

just had a look online & they say there's only a handfull of mud & stud houses left in lincolnshire but i know there is a fair few more than the "experts" know about as most have had a brick "skin" put up around them over the years in an attempt to "protect" them,

i think one of the biggest we worked on was just outside spilsby on the way to boston, it was a huge 4 bed-roomed mud & stud that the owners of the land were unsure what to do with, safe to say that after me & a mate had given them a quote as to it's worth after it was rebuilt they changed their mind & as far as i know were going to use it as a hotel of sorts, might have to go back & see what they've done with it.

also, while in that line of work we also worked at bagenderby near somersby the birthplace/home of lord tennyson, while my mate did some lime pointing on st Margaret's church in the village,

unfortunately i was'nt working with him when he was asked to help build flag fen by francis pryor thoigh i did meet him when it was part way through, really nice guy & so passionate about his work.

i really miss being in that line of work but can't go back to it as the materials would do my chest in even more