Quick Tip: Easy Paint Brush Storage

Easily store your paint brushes in a bucket I was always taught to store paint brushes ‘upside down’ to protect the bristles, trouble is, they always fall over in the bucket for me. So I had a think about how I could stop the brush handles sliding around on the bottom of the bucket and came up with this tip… Keeping chickens means I always have a few egg trays handy, so I cut one up to be a tight fit in the square bucket I use to store my ‘paint brush …

How to Split Difficult Logs

Introducing the Splitting Maul and the Log Splitter These two new tools came into the ‘armoury’ this week and not before time because I always end up with 2 or 3 big logs that laugh at my normal axe (as it bounces off). But now I have two sure fire ways of splitting those difficult to break logs. Logs become difficult to split usually because there was a large branch joining the main trunk, which makes the grain real gnarly. No1: The Splitting Maul OK, tool No.1: the splitting maul. Now I’ve been hanging my …