Author: kookaburra2

Central Coast Leagues Club was the venue for our 2017 annual dinner and yet again they did us proud with an excellent variety of dishes. A wonderful meal was followed by a few short speeches and the awards to members of the Shed. Unfortunately for Joe Sciberras this stage of the proceedings interrupted his marathon attempt at his n'th plate of prawns. We had a number of awards for members, the recipients being: (more…)

During our break over the Christmas period the maintenance crew were busy with the shed clean up and de-clutter. Essential maintenance was carried out, along with cleaning and safety checks of our machinery. Thank you to all that contributed on our clean up days, your efforts are greatly appreciated. The thicknesser planer was striped down, cleaned and gearbox given an oil change, then new blades fitted. Good job done so we thought, but why is it not planing smoothly. So strip down again, check and re-tighten the blades, but still no improvement. So what can be the problem? Well after much thought and deliberation it was discovered that the incorrect blades had been supplied by the manufacturer and sourcing the correct ones may take some time. So it was strip…