As always, I have no real idea of what you're doing, Gavin, but just continue to admire your ruthless determination. All the very best to you and yours for 2023. May all your holes line up!
Greetings Michael. I'm hoping it all comes together. If not, I'll keep building them and when I finally get it right, I'll present that one as the finished product. Or just buy one and pretend I made it.
Mate bloody good to see you are still going with the Landy and it hasn’t become embedded in cobwebs somewhere at the back of the shed. Nice! The game of Tetris to get the panels to work is legendary! I’ve also just started the madness of a Series 2 1960 restoration with the added bonus of trying to have Lola kind of working by the 75th Landrover anniversary in Cooma this year. At rolling chassis stage and the rust carnage is a thing of beauty.
If I'm reading this right you've put a bit of pressure on yourself to have the restoration finished so soon. Don't try and film the process as it will add years to the workload. A 1960 series 2 is a nice truck. I wish you good fortune in the endeavor.
Well a man has to have a hobby. I should really be farming so tinkering with a landrover seems like perfect procrastination compared to fencing or chasing cows. Luckily cameras scare me so no filming. Keep the videos coming mate- I figure if you can learn panel beating then I’m in with half a chance too
We've been gone a while although that's fairly normal. We did take a road trip last September filming a river trip that slowed things down. Still working on other films before that one comes out. Happy new year to you also.
Awesome. Happy to see that you continue to find the time and will to move that project forward. May the Land Rover gods smile on you for that and shield you from major troubles going forward. 😃👍
Your welding skills have vastly improved also it is a good idea to take photos as you did (20:23) to stimulate your memory and mine. Look forward to more still photos for us old gentlemen. My regards to your lovely wife.
I was wondering if anyone would notice the photos and appreciate them. A sneaky addition. A major reason my welding skills have improved is my re-wiring the workshop project. Previously only set up to run lights on a flimsy 110 v system I've cheekily beefed up the wiring and now running 240 volts on the welder. No more pops and splutters, the thing now burns.
After just 28 quick episodes your fabrication and welding skills are 28 times better, I admire your resilience with that fkn bulkhead, I would have given up 28 episodes ago, sold the project and bought a runner from an old bloke that has wasted his life restoring it. Good to see you back in the shed tormenting yourself, only a couple of episodes to go and its done!!! Best to you and Wilms for this trip around the sun old mate.
Greetings Steve. I've seen you working on a bulkhead making spot welds and doing stuff. It looked like you were enjoying yourself. The project has slowed down a bit as we're having constant rain on my side of the pond and the little workshop isn't set up too well for wet windy weather.
Great to see you back! I wondered at 8:18 if you were using a mixture of AF, Whitworth and Metric, just to keep it authentic, then heard your comment at 11:50 😂- as for 20:28, "So I can remind myself how things used to be" - comments like that will find you sleeping on the couch if Wilms sees them 😂😂
Love your channel, editing skills and your content of course. Just a quick tip with your taps. Rather than running it straight down until your through, inch it down a quarter of a turn per go. So quarter turn in, back it out a quarter turn, back in half a turn, back out quarter turn, back in half turn and so forth until you’re through. Saves potentially stressing and breaking the tap. Ask me how I know😂😂
Admiration for your persistence and determination continues unabated, Gav. My late Uncle John would have likened the bit-by-bit fabricating, rebuilding, and refitting that you're doing to "picking fly shit out of black pepper." Carry on, mate!
Hey Macgyver. There is a product called weld through primer for those in between bits , stops rust forming in between panel seams and joins. Love the the show.
You're a bloody wizard Mr. Harding! Thanks for the tip and I've gone ahead and ordered the primer already. Never knew the stuff existed! I'm glad you told me about that before the big stitch-up, I've also ordered some waxoyl for the innards. Cheers.
I am so glad my 53 is in better shape than yours! Really have been enjoying your series 1 build and have learned a lot! Thank you from Alaska and Nanook Alaska’s first Land Rover!
Greetings Randy. I'm glad your old chariot is in better shape also. It's quite the ordeal otherwise. Say hello to all your fellow Alaskans for me, I haven't ventured up that way yet but hope to do so before the sands run from the hourglass.
This old S1 is a long way in place and time from the factory in Solihull, near to where I grew up. When it's finished it will be in better nick than it was when it rolled off the production line 70 years ago. Bravo brave Sir. This project is terrific and you have made it entertaining, funny and engaging. I really appreciate you sharing your travails and hard work. Your skills as a welder are hugely improved. Best wishes to you and yours for the year ahead. My 1976 S3 109 Pickup is running smoothly with the Holden 186 sporting old new manifolds and electronic ignition and the brakes are working! Best wishes from Wellington, New Zealand, where it's blowing a southerly gale.
@@ForemanAndWilmsAdventures The Holden 186 was swapped in with gearbox and Fairey overdrive in 2000, before I owned Solly (that's his name, short for Solihull). Sorry I can't advise where to get an adapter plate, but I know that your homeland has tons of parts for early Land Rovers. The overdrive is good on the open road but I don't like to exceed 80km/hr. Electronic points were a good upgrade last year, as I live by the sea. All the best to you, Mr Foreman. I love what you do on your channel and the story you weave.
Great effort I can’t believe how you have the patience to cut and shape each piece, very well done it will be a testament to your perseverance. And your welding has improved to professional levels will you now go back and redo your previous attempts or leave them as witness to your humble beginnings. All the best to you and family.
Greetings Gippy. I'm obviously taking my time with this project so I'm good with patience. My welding skills were greatly hindered by an underpowered electrical system which has been rectified. The world is now my mollusc.
Inspirational as usual!!! My '53 also has only one of those support rods but brackets for two, someone before me put a 186 red motor in mine so i'm not sure if there is supposed to be two attached or not. I kinda remember someone telling me they were also used to pull the Bulkhead back into square, kind of like an adjustment device, thats why they are threaded. Merry Christmas and a safe new year to you and yours.
LHD & RHD use the same bulkhead threaded rod goes on to the opposite side to the steering wheel...I`m restoring a 59 S2 for a client here in Portugal...
What am I going to do with all this new knowledge Im learning ? I am sure Wilms doesnt realize what she has living in that house with her. This is not the direction a lot of people would normally go. But I get it. Thanks for including myself and others into a extremely private time in your life.
In terms of man hours, what has been more work? The restoration or the videos of the restoration(complete with animations ect)? I've built plenty of cars but I've never done any proper video/video editing let alone animations so it wouldn't surprise me to hear that they contained the greater workload. Anyway I love this series (pardon the pun), so as ever thank you for the excellent content!
I can say with confidence the videos are 75% of the work. I'd have finished the job years ago. The films initially were meant to be simple amusing updates then rapidly developed into cinematic epics. Some of these animations take weeks or months to create. 19 Deeper Water has a giant fish in the intro that took ages to build and rig for animation. A pro would do it much quicker but I'm just a self-taught 3D artist, so it takes a lot longer.
John Craddock sells them and Radford bulkheads also. There can sometimes be a bit of a wait time. I'm not sure if the top rails are the same for the different trucks but I'd reckon if not, a series 3 would be easier to get. best of luck!
Greetings Melker. I've been too frightened to keep track of the ongoing costs of this project. It's been affordable as it has been spread out so far over 4 or 5 years and counting. Other considerable costs a first time restorer like myself has to contend with are the tools and equipment outfitting the workshop like a press, welder, grinder, metal saw and a million other odds and ends. Once purchased however would make a second project a lot cheaper. I see these expenses as an investment as I've learned and developed a lot of skill and knowledge I didn't have before all this started. Best of luck on your series 1!
Greetings Terry. As I don't want to put the V8 back in the little truck I've commissioned a company to build me a 2.25 ltr land rover engine. An expensive option but options are something I'm very short of where I am. It will probably arrive just before we go adventuring delaying things a little more. However once it arrives the truck will go together quickly. I think 4 more episodes to the series and it will be done.
G'day Mister Foreman and Wilms, and Crickit. (Please forgive the bed spollenge). Happy New 2023, and what an awesome surprise opening present this video is. :) Ummm, please excuse grandma two, too. She has a unique way of totally ruinin thuh Englesh lingwich; as she is spoke. Anyway, having absorbed some of the mysty sizzumz of this 'ere pitchwerk kreashun, end marked it it four ferther exhamin nationings, allow me to say how impressed I am with this continuing saga of wondermeantal restorative magical brilliance. Umm yeah. Good job. But sadly, I see neither visual vocal written nor inferential reference to the other parties to this sojourn. Summer and Kriccut (oh well "the dog" is so insufficient; but I forget how you are spelt!) Happry New 2023. I know 'you are still there'. The incredible direction producer initiatives graphics and award-deserving postage preductioning wizardry is very evident. Wave~wave from Coffs Harbour NSW. We miss you!. {which makes your videos all the more Precious to us mob}. :) 🤠
Greetings Mr. Brettoner. Wilms did appear briefly like a 'where's waldo' far off in the background. The little dog is 6 now and finds workshop business too boring, she now hangs out on the couch by the fireplace. Happy new year!
@@ForemanAndWilmsAdventures 🙃🤠Hi Gavin and Summer, and little dog, Please forgive me for my outlandish impropriety. Please call me noel, if you like. :) My apologies Mrs Foreman for inexcusably missing your appearance. I must have left the room. Oh and Gavin (Alias Mister Foreman Esq.) how on earth can you expect to continue your miraculous in depth tinkering; without suitable directive supersion?, ie The Little Dog?. (MIght refer to him as TLD for now, but the sporty type he is lends towards the previous Krickit (my bad solly). Please enjoy ALL of 2023. ~ ~
I would happily employ you in my company. The Rough as Bags Construction Co. Another entertaining instruction video as only you can produce in your inimitable style. HNY to you and yours. 👍🏻🙏🦘
Mr Foreman you are and absolute legend! Your workmanship and your documentation of the process astounds me. 👍
As always, I have no real idea of what you're doing, Gavin, but just continue to admire your ruthless determination.
All the very best to you and yours for 2023.
May all your holes line up!
Greetings Michael. I'm hoping it all comes together. If not, I'll keep building them and when I finally get it right, I'll present that one as the finished product. Or just buy one and pretend I made it.
What a great way to start the new year!
These old landy's always had the best aircon's, open for on, closed for off, simple no mess, no fuss. Nice photo's 😁!
Great episode. Keep going and all the best for 2023!
As ever a brilliant video mix of instruction and entertainment!
Mate bloody good to see you are still going with the Landy and it hasn’t become embedded in cobwebs somewhere at the back of the shed. Nice! The game of Tetris to get the panels to work is legendary! I’ve also just started the madness of a Series 2 1960 restoration with the added bonus of trying to have Lola kind of working by the 75th Landrover anniversary in Cooma this year. At rolling chassis stage and the rust carnage is a thing of beauty.
If I'm reading this right you've put a bit of pressure on yourself to have the restoration finished so soon. Don't try and film the process as it will add years to the workload. A 1960 series 2 is a nice truck. I wish you good fortune in the endeavor.
Well a man has to have a hobby. I should really be farming so tinkering with a landrover seems like perfect procrastination compared to fencing or chasing cows. Luckily cameras scare me so no filming. Keep the videos coming mate- I figure if you can learn panel beating then I’m in with half a chance too
Excellent work and enjoyable to watch as always. Good reference picture for the location of the audible warning device.
Great to see you back. Hope you all had a fantastic Christmas and New Year!
We've been gone a while although that's fairly normal. We did take a road trip last September filming a river trip that slowed things down. Still working on other films before that one comes out. Happy new year to you also.
its my favourite time when you post a video mi old mukka
Impressed as always, and very entertaining Gav, tremendous.
Love the Blue Peter "Here's one I made earlier", and no sticky backed plastic or cardboard loo rolls in sight!
Pop culture reference may only apply to UK viewers ;-)
I love these rebuild episodes.
Happy New Year all 🏴
Awesome. Happy to see that you continue to find the time and will to move that project forward. May the Land Rover gods smile on you for that and shield you from major troubles going forward. 😃👍
Your welds are looking good Mr Foreman. Happy New year.
Your welding skills have vastly improved also it is a good idea to take photos as you did (20:23) to stimulate your memory and mine. Look forward to more still photos for us old gentlemen. My regards to your lovely wife.
I was wondering if anyone would notice the photos and appreciate them. A sneaky addition. A major reason my welding skills have improved is my re-wiring the workshop project. Previously only set up to run lights on a flimsy 110 v system I've cheekily beefed up the wiring and now running 240 volts on the welder. No more pops and splutters, the thing now burns.
Fantastic... good to see you're still committed to completing it before u retire ;)
It's good to see you back mate,I like the new format where you get work dune, keep going to the finish line, good luck.
Happy New Year !! I was super happy to see a new episode pop up, you’re doing great.
Hey, about time we got another one mate.
After just 28 quick episodes your fabrication and welding skills are 28 times better, I admire your resilience with that fkn bulkhead, I would have given up 28 episodes ago, sold the project and bought a runner from an old bloke that has wasted his life restoring it. Good to see you back in the shed tormenting yourself, only a couple of episodes to go and its done!!! Best to you and Wilms for this trip around the sun old mate.
Greetings Steve. I've seen you working on a bulkhead making spot welds and doing stuff. It looked like you were enjoying yourself. The project has slowed down a bit as we're having constant rain on my side of the pond and the little workshop isn't set up too well for wet windy weather.
A work of bloody art mate.....happy new year.
Well done that man. I see your welding skills have improved immensely. A drill press would be a good idea though. Keep up the good work.
Funny you should mention a drill press. Santa dropped off a budget model on Christmas. Haven't used it yet but it's set up and ready to go.
Great to see you back! I wondered at 8:18 if you were using a mixture of AF, Whitworth and Metric, just to keep it authentic, then heard your comment at 11:50 😂- as for 20:28, "So I can remind myself how things used to be" - comments like that will find you sleeping on the couch if Wilms sees them 😂😂
A big thumbs up 👍🍑👀on your photography work. Attention to detail will take you a long way. Having historic reference points to work from is key.
Love your channel, editing skills and your content of course. Just a quick tip with your taps. Rather than running it straight down until your through, inch it down a quarter of a turn per go. So quarter turn in, back it out a quarter turn, back in half a turn, back out quarter turn, back in half turn and so forth until you’re through. Saves potentially stressing and breaking the tap. Ask me how I know😂😂
Thanks Gavin as always great viewing, good to see you have the boots on Bro
This is one of those videos where I'm conscious of the running time cause I don't want it to end.
It's so good I watched it again, this time I fully appreciated those 'reference' pictures 😄
Good work! The reference pics were a sneaky addition to see if folks were paying attention.
Admiration for your persistence and determination continues unabated, Gav. My late Uncle John would have likened the bit-by-bit fabricating, rebuilding, and refitting that you're doing to "picking fly shit out of black pepper." Carry on, mate!
Thanks Noah!
Hey Macgyver.
There is a product called weld through primer for those in between bits , stops rust forming in between panel seams and joins.
Love the the show.
You're a bloody wizard Mr. Harding! Thanks for the tip and I've gone ahead and ordered the primer already. Never knew the stuff existed! I'm glad you told me about that before the big stitch-up, I've also ordered some waxoyl for the innards. Cheers.
I am so glad my 53 is in better shape than yours! Really have been enjoying your series 1 build and have learned a lot! Thank you from Alaska and Nanook Alaska’s first Land Rover!
Greetings Randy. I'm glad your old chariot is in better shape also. It's quite the ordeal otherwise. Say hello to all your fellow Alaskans for me, I haven't ventured up that way yet but hope to do so before the sands run from the hourglass.
20:22 Nice picture. ❤🤪
This old S1 is a long way in place and time from the factory in Solihull, near to where I grew up. When it's finished it will be in better nick than it was when it rolled off the production line 70 years ago. Bravo brave Sir. This project is terrific and you have made it entertaining, funny and engaging. I really appreciate you sharing your travails and hard work. Your skills as a welder are hugely improved. Best wishes to you and yours for the year ahead. My 1976 S3 109 Pickup is running smoothly with the Holden 186 sporting old new manifolds and electronic ignition and the brakes are working! Best wishes from Wellington, New Zealand, where it's blowing a southerly gale.
Good to hear your old truck is running well. I assume there is an adapter plate between engine and gearbox? Where do you find such things?
@@ForemanAndWilmsAdventures The Holden 186 was swapped in with gearbox and Fairey overdrive in 2000, before I owned Solly (that's his name, short for Solihull). Sorry I can't advise where to get an adapter plate, but I know that your homeland has tons of parts for early Land Rovers. The overdrive is good on the open road but I don't like to exceed 80km/hr. Electronic points were a good upgrade last year, as I live by the sea. All the best to you, Mr Foreman. I love what you do on your channel and the story you weave.
Great effort I can’t believe how you have the patience to cut and shape each piece, very well done it will be a testament to your perseverance. And your welding has improved to professional levels will you now go back and redo your previous attempts or leave them as witness to your humble beginnings. All the best to you and family.
Greetings Gippy. I'm obviously taking my time with this project so I'm good with patience. My welding skills were greatly hindered by an underpowered electrical system which has been rectified. The world is now my mollusc.
@@ForemanAndWilmsAdventures wish I could say the same mine still looks like clag
Happy new year Mr Foreman🙂
Good progress on your bulkhead,lots of clever creating going on.
Will be looking forward to seeing the
“Big Stitchup”🙂
Thanks Wayne. Waiting to start the 'Big Stitchup' once the seemingly endless bad weather buggers off. My workshop needs a 4th wall.
coming along nicely... more reference pics please we need to know what we are comparing things to😉
Inspirational as usual!!! My '53 also has only one of those support rods but brackets for two, someone before me put a 186 red motor in mine so i'm not sure if there is supposed to be two attached or not. I kinda remember someone telling me they were also used to pull the Bulkhead back into square, kind of like an adjustment device, thats why they are threaded. Merry Christmas and a safe new year to you and yours.
LHD & RHD use the same bulkhead threaded rod goes on to the opposite side to the steering wheel...I`m restoring a 59 S2 for a client here in Portugal...
Happy New Year Champ....good to see the project continues.
Happy new year to you also. We'll be coming home for a visit dome time in February.
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What am I going to do with all this new knowledge Im learning ? I am sure Wilms doesnt realize what she has living in that house with her. This is not the direction a lot of people would normally go. But I get it. Thanks for including myself and others into a extremely private time in your life.
In terms of man hours, what has been more work? The restoration or the videos of the restoration(complete with animations ect)? I've built plenty of cars but I've never done any proper video/video editing let alone animations so it wouldn't surprise me to hear that they contained the greater workload. Anyway I love this series (pardon the pun), so as ever thank you for the excellent content!
I can say with confidence the videos are 75% of the work. I'd have finished the job years ago. The films initially were meant to be simple amusing updates then rapidly developed into cinematic epics. Some of these animations take weeks or months to create. 19 Deeper Water has a giant fish in the intro that took ages to build and rig for animation. A pro would do it much quicker but I'm just a self-taught 3D artist, so it takes a lot longer.
...HAPPY NEW YEAR, KEEP SAFE IN '23
Happy new year to you Bob.
So what exactly are your plans for the engine?
Can I ask where you got the top rail from? Im doing a similar job on series 3 this week . Im in pieces bits and pieces!
John Craddock sells them and Radford bulkheads also. There can sometimes be a bit of a wait time. I'm not sure if the top rails are the same for the different trucks but I'd reckon if not, a series 3 would be easier to get. best of luck!
How much has the restoration costed so far. Planning on restoring my grandparents 1949 series 1
Greetings Melker. I've been too frightened to keep track of the ongoing costs of this project. It's been affordable as it has been spread out so far over 4 or 5 years and counting. Other considerable costs a first time restorer like myself has to contend with are the tools and equipment outfitting the workshop like a press, welder, grinder, metal saw and a million other odds and ends. Once purchased however would make a second project a lot cheaper. I see these expenses as an investment as I've learned and developed a lot of skill and knowledge I didn't have before all this started. Best of luck on your series 1!
@@ForemanAndWilmsAdventures thanks for answer. I will post progress on TH-cam. It has stood in a barn for 40 years so a real barn find😀
Genuinely my favourite theme song. When you're finished this one, can you just sell it and buy another project please?
I don't think I will live long enough to film another project. I might not live long enough to finish this one.
When do start work on rebuilding the engine?🤔
Greetings Terry. As I don't want to put the V8 back in the little truck I've commissioned a company to build me a 2.25 ltr land rover engine. An expensive option but options are something I'm very short of where I am. It will probably arrive just before we go adventuring delaying things a little more. However once it arrives the truck will go together quickly. I think 4 more episodes to the series and it will be done.
Promo-SM ✌️
G'day Mister Foreman and Wilms, and Crickit. (Please forgive the bed spollenge). Happy New 2023, and what an awesome surprise opening present this video is. :)
Ummm, please excuse grandma two, too. She has a unique way of totally ruinin thuh Englesh lingwich; as she is spoke.
Anyway, having absorbed some of the mysty sizzumz of this 'ere pitchwerk kreashun, end marked it it four ferther exhamin nationings, allow me to say how impressed I am with this continuing saga of wondermeantal restorative magical brilliance. Umm yeah. Good job.
But sadly, I see neither visual vocal written nor inferential reference to the other parties to this sojourn. Summer and Kriccut (oh well "the dog" is so insufficient; but I forget how you are spelt!) Happry New 2023. I know 'you are still there'. The incredible direction producer initiatives graphics and award-deserving postage preductioning wizardry is very evident.
Wave~wave from Coffs Harbour NSW. We miss you!. {which makes your videos all the more Precious to us mob}. :)
🤠
Greetings Mr. Brettoner. Wilms did appear briefly like a 'where's waldo' far off in the background. The little dog is 6 now and finds workshop business too boring, she now hangs out on the couch by the fireplace. Happy new year!
@@ForemanAndWilmsAdventures 🙃🤠Hi Gavin and Summer, and little dog,
Please forgive me for my outlandish impropriety. Please call me noel, if you like. :)
My apologies Mrs Foreman for inexcusably missing your appearance. I must have left the room. Oh and Gavin (Alias Mister Foreman Esq.) how on earth can you expect to continue your miraculous in depth tinkering; without suitable directive supersion?, ie The Little Dog?. (MIght refer to him as TLD for now, but the sporty type he is lends towards the previous Krickit (my bad solly).
Please enjoy ALL of 2023. ~ ~
I would happily employ you in my company. The Rough as Bags Construction Co. Another entertaining instruction video as only you can produce in your inimitable style. HNY to you and yours. 👍🏻🙏🦘
Greetings Mr. Roberts. I'd fit into the 'Rough as Bags Construction Company' quite well I reckon. Sounds like my thing.