Mounted orchid workstation project.

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One of the things I always love is when you find a solution for a problem.

Working on mounted orchids, fixing them on or doing repairs is awkward, and there's the risk of snapping a lead spike off if you are unlucky and the damn thing falls over or slips out of your grasp.

Having done just that, I was wondering if it were not possible to do something about it. Find a way to work on such mounts without snapping a lead, and raising my blood pressure.

The solution would be, hang the damn thing where you can work on it, making sure that it is in the shade. The problem is that such a structure would then get in the way.
Fortunately, I have bars at the shade end of the greenhouse, so I was able to weld this up to hook on, and then just lift off to store.

The gibbet, as it were works a treat. I cursed when I went to use it that there wasn't a hook to hold the reel of braided line and then I realised that I could slide the reel up the centre shaft and let it drop back onto the horizontal bar.

Now I appreciate that not everyone will have the same setup, but with a bit of ingenuity, it is possible to build something like this. For example, two eyebolts vertically fitted will take the vertical rod, and two bits at the top will stop it swinging from side to side.

The job of repairs to the mounted orchid was the smoothest and easiest that I have done so far, and I am delighted with it.