What is the biggest thing you have ever built?
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massive bonfire Once rebuilt bit by bit a 71 Mach1 plus ive restored a couple of sierras and mechanics and cleaned and rebuilt the chassis and suspension on my Black ZR-1.
Ive built houses on my own,extensions,garages,walls,manholes and have enjoyed the challenge,mainly when i had my own little building firm.
I would hand dig the footings most of the time ,do all the groundwork then i would load it all out with the hod do the scaffold then build it,i found it was the best thing for all round fitness.
My biggest challenge was building a huge heated self filling and emtying swimming pool for a boss of a taxi firm,i had to hand dig it as it had awkward access then barrow the chalk into skips,needless to say i had first swim,the deep end was 7'it was about 15' by about 30'...great project.
My recent challenge was to rebuild my 600+ hp ZR-1 engine,which was pretty difficult as it has 4 cams and learning to time it was a SOB,i timed it 14 times before i was satisfied.
I build models all the time.
Timing a 4 cam 7litre V8,made the temp chain tensioners aswell
Ive built houses on my own,extensions,garages,walls,manholes and have enjoyed the challenge,mainly when i had my own little building firm.
I would hand dig the footings most of the time ,do all the groundwork then i would load it all out with the hod do the scaffold then build it,i found it was the best thing for all round fitness.
My biggest challenge was building a huge heated self filling and emtying swimming pool for a boss of a taxi firm,i had to hand dig it as it had awkward access then barrow the chalk into skips,needless to say i had first swim,the deep end was 7'it was about 15' by about 30'...great project.
My recent challenge was to rebuild my 600+ hp ZR-1 engine,which was pretty difficult as it has 4 cams and learning to time it was a SOB,i timed it 14 times before i was satisfied.
I build models all the time.
Timing a 4 cam 7litre V8,made the temp chain tensioners aswell
Hummm. As a contributor I helped put together Saudi Aramco's new x-ray bay at Dhahran which has walls 4 feet thick and a 26-tonne door. But since my contribution was just the radiation warning and control systems I don't think I can claim that one 
I also single-handedly assembled a 'hot cell' which is a lead-block chamber for handling radioactive substances (think Homer Simpson and his tongs) - with the exception of the base and the roof slab which had to be forklifted, I manhandled the best part of 7 tonnes of lead blocks in two days. Whilst an idle Arab sat and watched me...
I have also designed and fabricated from scratch my infamous rat-nuking radiation cabinets which comprise 1 tonne of lead in slabs 2" thick, all positioned by hand with the result that the lead door, which weighs 250 lb alone, slides up and down with 1mm clearance all round Good job really, since I forgot to design in any means of adjusting it... 
I also single-handedly assembled a 'hot cell' which is a lead-block chamber for handling radioactive substances (think Homer Simpson and his tongs) - with the exception of the base and the roof slab which had to be forklifted, I manhandled the best part of 7 tonnes of lead blocks in two days. Whilst an idle Arab sat and watched me...
I have also designed and fabricated from scratch my infamous rat-nuking radiation cabinets which comprise 1 tonne of lead in slabs 2" thick, all positioned by hand with the result that the lead door, which weighs 250 lb alone, slides up and down with 1mm clearance all round
Good job really, since I forgot to design in any means of adjusting it... Gassing Station | The Pie & Piston Archive | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff