A colourful cultivator

Submitted by Bob Pymm on

Well it is now! This cultivator turned up at the Men’s Shed not so long ago looking really like a pile of rusty junk. It hadn’t tilled the soil for a very long time. Then Wayne, our mechanics guru, took up the challenge of restoring it and getting it going. Some months later, after a lot of TLC, creative engineering and sourcing of new parts it is nearly ready to start its new life. At the same time, out came Wayne’s creative and colourful side. He made the most of all those odds and ends of paint we often have left over but can somehow never steel ourselves to throw away.

Size doesn’t matter

Submitted by Bob Pymm on

Here at the Men’s Shed our projects come in all shapes and sizes. From the simple and straightforward to the complex and demanding. Rod’s hand-turned pens are a good example of the small-scale and he’s been happily training a few of us in the production of these pens. They can be made to order – your name or any pattern that will fit can be laser-etched onto the barrel which is usually wood but can be resin or metals such as steel and copper. At the other end of the scale, Stephen our fine furniture craftsman has been building benches and again, helping others to do so as well.

All change

Submitted by Bob Pymm on

The Men’s Shed shed is under new ownership. Yes, the shed workshop, which is a commercial space rented by the Helensburgh Men’s Shed (the Shed gets no financial support and so has to raise the necessary funds itself) is about to change ownership with the recent sale of the property.

Okanui!

Submitted by Paul Blanksby on

Okanui! What is that?! Godzilla’s bride? Frankenstein, when he dropped a hammer on his toe?
No! An Okanui is a 1950’s era hollow timber surfboard, made in the hundreds in Australia. Ken Holloway had one, rescued from Maroubra SLSC. But it wasn’t quite, let's say, a surfboard. It was more a box of firewood, some long interesting curvy bits, and a beautiful painting of a swordfish.

Going Strong since 2016

Submitted by Paul Blanksby on

A bunch of blokes from Helensburgh, Otford, and Stanwell Park got together
in 2016. ‘Let’s start a Men’s Shed,’ they said. ‘It’s been tried before, but let’s make it
happen this time. Plenty of land in the Burgh, we’ll be right.’
Here are three of them, creating a tabletop for a local café.
Hope Church and the Anglicans lent their support, more blokes joined up, and
the Shed was born, in the Stanny Park Anglican Hall.
So, we began. Making possum boxes, a play car for a Kindy, garden seats for

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