Homemade snow plow

Ever got annoyed with the snow and wish you could just push it all out of the way?

Check out what few people in tog built last week. Improvements to be made on next version (When it snow) larger angel on plow, heavier wheat on the blade on the bottom.


Gallery

Builders: Christian, Liam

Shopping list:

  1. Scrap wood
  2. Scrap mettle
  3. 2 x hinges
  4. Bolts

Tools

  1. Car
  2. Welder

Can Crusher

Just finished up an other project, its a wall mounted can crusher

Shopping List:

  1. DUFF NORTON 24V 4INCH STROKE LINEAR ACTUATOR 250LBS
  2. Power supply 24v
  3. 3 way switch ON, OFF, ON
  4. Cables ties
  5. Scarp wood
  6. Bit of time

A new toy

Following on from my recent post and post on building a CNC router. We just received a new toy today.

CNC Mill

Many thanks to Anthony for giving TOG this old Contour Minor CNC Milling Machine. The mill is in good working order, though it does rely on some old MS-DOS based software (I’ve already checked that it works with FreeDOS), I’m hoping we’ll be able to get it going with LinuxCNC.

CNC Router

If you’ve been following along very closely you’ll know I’ve been working on the design of a CNC Router for TOG. In recent weeks I’ve actual started experimenting and prototype some parts while collecting various materials, components and tools.

CNC Prototype Router

The prototype is shown below.

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