Above 1200 Sq/FT building my BIG PARTY garage

[BuickFarmer]

Nice restore! Must be the door to the General Store? Awesome

 

[dlcwent]

Don, you certainly "find" a lot of very cool stuff. That door push is the cat's meow.

 

[don long]

Nice restore! Must be the door to the General Store? Awesome

Thanks BF
Yes that is the general store door.
I wanted to put it on the barber shop door but it was too big

Thanks for that PM yesterday. I studied those pics. and found some other cool stuff to be on the look out for and Tuesday I'm going to a place like that to pick
I'll post a few shots then

Don, you certainly "find" a lot of very cool stuff. That door push is the cat's meow.

Thanks DLC

My wife was with me when I found it at a swap meet and could not believe that I would pay $$ for that ugly old piece of tin. She loves it now.

 

[colt zantop]

DON, I see a light up x-Ray Dodge Viper gts hanging on your wall in one of those pics! I use to have 2 of those...they are pretty RARE! Where did you find yours?

 

[Bears Fan]

You just call yourself a old school body man, But I think your a artist The projects you finish are incredible, they are works of art

 

[BUGTHUG]

Love the old push bars, Coca Cola, and Rainbo Bread are a few of my fav's.
I remember the door from the mom and pop store here in Winfield. It was 4 blocks from our trailer house, it was called Fowler"s Grocery. They would put all the empty Coke and Mountain Dew bottles by the back door. The front door had the red, yellow and blue Rainbo Bread sign painted on the screen, then it had the Coke push bar to cover the screen. They were in business over 50 years and closed down around 2000. My mom had an account there, and she allowed me to buy me and my best friend a pop and a candy bar, or potato chip about everyday in the summer.
I have lots of Coke bottles from there. They were one of the last place to still sell and take the 6 1/2 oz bottle. Winfield had the very last privately owned Coke bottling plants. I have a few items from both places. Kindda like a Norman Rockwell painting.

 

[Garageke]

Hi Don

Thanks for allowing us to visit the party garage, we enjoyed the tour.

I'm amazed at what you've accomplished. Kind of neat seeing the completed push bar and now seeing what it was like when you got it. Your workmanship is first class.

PS. Saw your DJ budy at the races and had to tell him I met you.

Terry and Elizabeth

 

[shortykorte]

You do fine the coolest stuff (push bar) and of course the workmanship

 

[mygarageone]

Wow

Don , nothing more I can add. You have done your self proud , you are the kind of person I highly respect . You share you blessing with others and that is very honorable .

Thank you for sharing

 

[NedNorton]

Don,

Man, things have been busy in your neck of the woods! The projects are looking great, as usual. You are so unassuming about it all. The Coke push bar is fantastic. Thanks keeping the motivation going.

Cheers,
Chris

 

[don long]

DON, I see a light up x-Ray Dodge Viper gts hanging on your wall in one of those pics! I use to have 2 of those...they are pretty RARE! Where did you find yours?

Hi Colt
I bought my Viper in 1996 and found that x-ray light on ebay shortly after.

You just call yourself a old school body man, But I think your a artist The projects you finish are incredible, they are works of art

Thanks Bears fan
I did enjoy restoring that door pusher and do think it turned out pretty good

Love the old push bars, Coca Cola, and Rainbo Bread are a few of my fav's.
I remember the door from the mom and pop store here in Winfield. It was 4 blocks from our trailer house, it was called Fowler"s Grocery. They would put all the empty Coke and Mountain Dew bottles by the back door. The front door had the red, yellow and blue Rainbo Bread sign painted on the screen, then it had the Coke push bar to cover the screen. They were in business over 50 years and closed down around 2000. My mom had an account there, and she allowed me to buy me and my best friend a pop and a candy bar, or potato chip about everyday in the summer.
I have lots of Coke bottles from there. They were one of the last place to still sell and take the 6 1/2 oz bottle. Winfield had the very last privately owned Coke bottling plants. I have a few items from both places. Kindda like a Norman Rockwell painting.

BugThug

I too remember those old door pushers and I have been on the hunt for one of those Rainbow bread pushers for a while.

Hi Don
Thanks for allowing us to visit the party garage, we enjoyed the tour.

I'm amazed at what you've accomplished. Kind of neat seeing the completed push bar and now seeing what it was like when you got it. Your workmanship is first class.
PS. Saw your DJ budy at the races and had to tell him I met you.

Terry and Elizabeth

Terry

I'm glad that you called for a visit while you were in town. I hope you enjoyed the races and our fine weather. It was my pleasure showing you around. As you had said that the pictures don't do the place justice so I'm pleased to have the opportunity to show it to you.

You do fine the coolest stuff (push bar) and of course the workmanship

Thanks shorty

Most of the fun is the hunt for this stuff.

Wow
Don , nothing more I can add. You have done your self proud , you are the kind of person I highly respect . You share you blessing with others and that is very honorable .

Thank you for sharing

mygarageone

Sharing my lifes journey is what life is about for me and my sweet wife. I'm glad you have found my thread enjoyable and thanks for posting your nice thoughts.

Don,

Man, things have been busy in your neck of the woods! The projects are looking great, as usual. You are so unassuming about it all. The Coke push bar is fantastic. Thanks keeping the motivation going.
Cheers,
Chris

Chris

You are right, things keep moving along here at the party garage.
Saturday evening we hosted a little get together for 250 guests. We served BBQ stake, chicken and Italian sausage with salads and desserts we had music and door prizes and all were entertained.
Now its time to hit the workshop hard again but I went pickin today instead.

Thanks for checking in everyone

Don

 

[don long]

Like I said today I went pickin on a 5 acre ranch / machine shop.
There were tractors large and small peppering the grounds along with water pumps, oil pumps, vintage table saws and air compressors. There were small gas engines cement mixers and a variety of other treasures.
I brought home 2 truck loads and 2 24' trailer loads of stuff. I will take pics. tomorrow (too late tonite when I got home) and post them up

I just peeked inside the big building and took a couple of pictures of some equipment that needs to find a new home

 

[BUGTHUG]

OH MY whats the story of this? Estate sale? moon and stars are aligned.

 

[jbmatth]

Herb, It looks like we need to make a trip out to Cali. and get some of that stuff before it disappears. Don, I can't wait to see what you picked up if you brought back two truck and trailer loads.
JB

 

[BUGTHUG]

Yes that would be an epic trip like mate Rian and Martin took when they came to America.

 

[don long]

Ok Herb
Here's the story. an elderly gentleman with aluheimer.s disease and his property (5 acres) has been neglected for several years. His wife contacted my friend to clean up the place and get it ready to sell.
We started in the yard and didn't make a dent in it.

Here is a few shots of the haul

The last load

Everything spread out

Wooden pulleys

An old swing saw

 

[don long]

A vintage bandsaw

Here is a foot feed grinder

An old oil pump

More to come but I'm having trouble posting my pics.

 

[BuickFarmer]

Oh my.......I am absolutely breathless. First the auction in AU and now this, how much more can I take before passing out from lack of air. Those pulleys are awesome. I have collected pulleys for 20 years and have never even seen one quintuple and now I am seeing TWO side by side. Here is my little collection.
Wow Don, you have hit a gold mine it looks like. Would I ever love to be out their with you, if nothing else but to just help load. Happy for you that you got called in to "help".

edit) here is part of my little collection. I remember where I got just about every one of them

 

[BBChevro]

Incredibly nice haul there Don.

 

[don long]

Oh my.......I am absolutely breathless. First the auction in AU and now this, how much more can I take before passing out from lack of air. Those pulleys are awesome. I have collected pulleys for 20 years and have never even seen one quintuple and now I am seeing TWO side by side. Here is my little collection.
Wow Don, you have hit a gold mine it looks like. Would I ever love to be out their with you, if nothing else but to just help load. Happy for you that you got called in to "help".

edit) here is part of my little collection. I remember where I got just about every one of them

BuickFarmer
Thanks for those kind thoughts. I would be proud to work along side of you doing what we love. I almost wet myself when I pulled the weeds back and found those pulleys. I like the fact that the big wooden pulleys have a locking system built into them. My task now is to take most of this fine treasure to the swap meet and share it with others (just the stuff I don't need)

Incredibly nice haul there Don.

Thanks BB
There is plenty more to share. I feel very fortunate to be involved with this project.

Here is a piece from a blacksmith shop

How about this monster vice

And another scale for the collection

 

[rmalkow2]

Oh man, what a haul! I'm speechless except to say congrats!!!!

 

[56vette461]

Wow Don, what a haul. Love the blacksmith stuff. I've got a trailer for the haul if it needs a home

 

[1/2 Cup]

Don, just awesome and it could not have gone to a better place.

Regards

 

[akdiesel]

don

Great eye candy. Man if those pieces could speak words of the life they have had. Thanks for showing.
If you happen to loose power at your place some of those items could keep you moving right along like that foot pedal grinder.

 

[BUGTHUG]

I see another building in your future
Great that you know whats what. Some people would see scrap metal and trash.
To bad the oldtimes disease got the OG owner. Seems a lot of that going around.
There are times I'm glad I don't live closer, man I'd have put a 3rd mortgage on the farm.

 

[ODIS]

There is no better home for these treasurers.

 

[Bears Fan]

Nice haul! There is some really cool vintage tools, I would just love to go threw that shop

 

[1949 caddyman]

Don, your going to need more space, Gary

 

[akdiesel]

don

Well its been a bit since you have written. Must be knee deep in resto work.
Please keep us updated.

 

[don long]

Oh man, what a haul! I'm speechless except to say congrats!!!!

Thanks rmalkow
Can you believe that we have just scratched the surface!!

Wow Don, what a haul. Love the blacksmith stuff. I've got a trailer for the haul if it needs a home

56vette

Thanks! Its good to hear from you again. Hows your vette coming along?
I like the blacksmith stuff too but don't think I will be keeping it this time

Don, just awesome and it could not have gone to a better place.

Thanks Cup
But I'm only keeping some of it. The majority of this stuff needs to be sold off to raise $$$ for the machines inside the building

don

Great eye candy. Man if those pieces could speak words of the life they have had. Thanks for showing.
If you happen to loose power at your place some of those items could keep you moving right along like that foot pedal grinder.

Thanks for the visit AK

I'm thinking of keeping the foot feed grinder and the swing saw because hey are a bit rare most of the other stuff goes to the swap meet next weekend.

I see another building in your future
Great that you know whats what. Some people would see scrap metal and trash.
To bad the oldtimes disease got the OG owner. Seems a lot of that going around.
There are times I'm glad I don't live closer, man I'd have put a 3rd mortgage on the farm.

Yea Herb I agree
Old age *****, but it's in all of our futures. It's surprising how much of this stuff goes to the scrapper.
I could use some help with this project (start the mortgage ball rollin) lol

 

[don long]

There is no better home for these treasurers.

Thanks Ody It's good to hear from you again too
Some of the more unusual stuff will find a new home in my garage

Nice haul! There is some really cool vintage tools, I would just love to go threw that shop

Bears Fan
You're right and I'm excited to go back into the building again but it sure smells like rat **** in there I will be sure to ware my paint respirator next time in. There are huge piles of **** from larger animal in there as well.

Don, your going to need more space, Gary

Hi Gary
We will be filling in the corners and pushing things closer together for a long while. Long before another building. Don't forget that the old red barn is still available too.

don

Well its been a bit since you have written. Must be knee deep in resto work.
Please keep us updated.

Hi again AK
Nice guess but far from it
I took the last 5 days off and went on a mini vacation to the Colorado river.
I traded a buddy my 4 post lift from out there for some wood tools so we met out there to take it down and load it up onto his trailer.
The weather was perfect 85 degrees during the day and 55-60 at night

Thanks for your concern.

Don

 

[shortykorte]

You know Don, instead of hauling all that old rusty stuff to the swap meet, you could have put it on GJ Don's Delightful Diamonds in the Rough Tool Emporium. We buy the stuff then when you traveled around the country delivering the items to us, then you could find even more cool things.

Sounds like a smart plan to me.

 

[don long]

You know Don, instead of hauling all that old rusty stuff to the swap meet, you could have put it on GJ Don's Delightful Diamonds in the Rough Tool Emporium. We buy the stuff then when you traveled around the country delivering the items to us, then you could find even more cool things.

Sounds like a smart plan to me.

Great plan Shorty

 

[don long]

I started my next project yesterday.
This old oil pump seems like an interesting project so I tore it down and sandblasted the parts
The pump is all there but has the crank handle broken off.
It was frozen solid I couldn't even move it with my dead blow hammer.
After blasting all the parts I dropped the piece with the broken handle into a tub of diesel fuel for a few hours while I worked on other pieces.
When I took the part out of the fuel the handle spun freely

Here is the pump

After teardown

 

[HOTFR8]

How about that Car after the damage? All good again? What about the COE?
Mind you I expect that pump will get the full on works like you do with everything else.

 

[jrhaas60]

I can't help thinking about the stories behind the tools either. When I responded to an ad for a lathe and mill I met an old man who terminally ill who had a garage machine shop he'd made his livelihood from. We hit it off and he threw in a lifetimes worth of tooling and accessories just to see them go to a good home. A couple of months later when I'd say he was pretty close to the end he came to my house to see the tools new home. I'd had time to clean them up (they had been unused for 10 years) and get everything in place. Well, the old mans eyes just sparkled to see that what he had poured his life into wouldn't wind up in a scrapyard. I was so happy to give him that peace and I think about him often even though I only spent maybe 3 hours with him. I think we all hope someone can build on what we start.


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[dlcwent]

Great stuff Don. You need to put something next to that post vise so we can realize the true size of it. It looks like a a brute.

 

[BUGTHUG]

I can't help thinking about the stories behind the tools either. When I responded to an ad for a lathe and mill I met an old man who terminally ill who had a garage machine shop he'd made his livelihood from. We hit it off and he threw in a lifetimes worth of tooling and accessories just to see them go to a good home. A couple of months later when I'd say he was pretty close to the end he came to my house to see the tools new home. I'd had time to clean them up (they had been unused for 10 years) and get everything in place. Well, the old mans eyes just sparkled to see that what he had poured his life into wouldn't wind up in a scrapyard. I was so happy to give him that peace and I think about him often even though I only spent maybe 3 hours with him. I think we all hope someone can build on what we start.


true dat

 

[Davenr]

Hi Don,
I see you are really busy again! Looks like there will be a lot of new stuff to show the Aussie invasion in May!
I'll need a group photo with Ringo to use in the magazine!

cheers david

 

[don long]

How about that Car after the damage? All good again? What about the COE?
Mind you I expect that pump will get the full on works like you do with everything else.

Hi Simon

The zephyr is sitting in the corner of the big garage out of my daily sight.
I haven't had the stomach to get involved with the car yet.
The C.O.E. is also sitting in the big garage waiting for some more attention.
We speak of pulling it back into the workshop from time to time but the vette must get finished first.
And the pump is a diversion for the headaches from the vette

I can't help thinking about the stories behind the tools either. When I responded to an ad for a lathe and mill I met an old man who terminally ill who had a garage machine shop he'd made his livelihood from. We hit it off and he threw in a lifetimes worth of tooling and accessories just to see them go to a good home. A couple of months later when I'd say he was pretty close to the end he came to my house to see the tools new home. I'd had time to clean them up (they had been unused for 10 years) and get everything in place. Well, the old mans eyes just sparkled to see that what he had poured his life into wouldn't wind up in a scrapyard. I was so happy to give him that peace and I think about him often even though I only spent maybe 3 hours with him. I think we all hope someone can build on what we start.

Thanks jrhaas
I agree the tools have history and it's a shame to loose it.
I have made friends with 2 guys in the same boat (not much time left) and they are so happy to see their stuff going to a great new home

Great stuff Don. You need to put something next to that post vise so we can realize the true size of it. It looks like a a brute.

Hi dlc
I'll do that tomorrow as I will be working with the new treasures.

I can't help thinking about the stories behind the tools either. When I responded to an ad for a lathe and mill I met an old man who terminally ill who had a garage machine shop he'd made his livelihood from. We hit it off and he threw in a lifetimes worth of tooling and accessories just to see them go to a good home. A couple of months later when I'd say he was pretty close to the end he came to my house to see the tools new home. I'd had time to clean them up (they had been unused for 10 years) and get everything in place. Well, the old mans eyes just sparkled to see that what he had poured his life into wouldn't wind up in a scrapyard. I was so happy to give him that peace and I think about him often even though I only spent maybe 3 hours with him. I think we all hope someone can build on what we start.


true dat

Hi Herb