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I basically did the same thing with a birthday present from years back ( my kids bought me a pedestal from somewhere) it was too short so I welded it to an old truck brake drum (my boys are both truck mechanics they are readily available to me) lifted it up another foot or so to get it the...

if ever anything needed a like button this board does for Thomas's projects always so organized (unlike mine) I like the wheeled pedestal grinder and just wish it was up to 29 again LOL the center of the universe is like a heat wave to us up here in ND

do you have a heat pump with this? all the schematic is showing is a 2 stage electric furnace. its really hard to tell where your wires are all going and breaking it up did not help its hard to tell you what goes where as we only have part of the system shown

Backfeeding a panel is what linemen who are out in stormy weather trying to get power back on for everyone die from. should never never never be done

I can't blow up your schematic enough to be sure but it looks like a 2 stage electric furnace? A/C on it too? be careful if you need a 2 stage electric stat and you got one at a big box you might be buying a couple thermostats and some other electrical components Furnaces are not all the...

I love the skirting job on the 5th wheel LOL Believe it or not there are people moving up a couple hundred miles NW of me in the oil fields that set them up like that and are shocked when it gets destroyed in the first wind Great details on one of my all time favorite builds reminds me of...

My Folks owned a Montgomery Ward catalogue store along with a gas station and light duty shop back in the dark ages. My first job other than lawn mowing or delivering papers was doing repair work on Lawn Mowers and small engines. I overhauled a few of those engines and rebuilt the mechanics on...

Maybe its that cute navigator in the right side of the vette rubbing off! Thomas you have a very nice simple delivery of things, What a shop teacher you would have made. Love everything about this thread from start to finish the shop the cars the tools and the flying insight is well...

Looks to be a good second cutting of hay there!! you sir are too busy Flying, Fixin, Farmin, and even a little time for drag racing Hope your having a wonderful summer in the center of the universe even if it is officially fall. Up here in ND we are still in summer although finally a bit...

You have a great project going on and one cute lil helper there too

One of the guys who is part of the team here is Jason. You guys dont see him much but he is around. He is a metal fabricator, painter, and one awesome air brush artist. I wanted to share some pictures of his work for you guys to check out. Once I get my C10 pickup done he is going to work his...

Don't anybody get mad at me for saying this but after working in the trades for 25+ yrs that inspector is probably what we called a book-smart work-dumb inspector He went to school passed the tests never apprenticed out or became a journey man just did the school and passed an ispector's...

absolutly killer items from the tool shed. A competing gas station in our town had an auto-lite spark plug machine like that worked as good as our old square champion did they worked so slick back in the day when your repaired things not replaced things. Now days people willl look at you...

A few pages back we had a short discussion on young people and hanging around and learning things. A humorous story to come about. I spent this morning with 2 neighborhood kids, I caught them trying to steal gas from my mowers ( I won't get started but I know when younger a hose or two was in...

fantastic video Thomas great link I toured the museum at Palm Springs last year, spent a day borrowed a wheel chair so I could spend even more time there got a tour from an old navy fighter pilot there was a fantatstic time. Got to see even more stuff up front and personal when they guys there...

for truck work where most of your vehicles are extremely heavy they work great as long as its built right and most of the guys using it are the same height. We built one in a shop we had in 1981 worked great for 3 or 4 years then we hired a new employee (there were my dad myself and 2 other...

Your ambition and attention to detail are outstanding ( severe thunderstorms rolling thru our area tonight bad knee not liking the weather massive amoutns of pain killers in my system so not typing or spelling test tonight) had a busy day today it rained so I got off the yanmar and spent the...

fantastic build you have going keep it up

Its a different world out here today! I remember hanging out at a blacksmith shop when in the single didgets like 8 or 9 they used to laugh if I was hanging out I should be working, they taught me how to chisel rivets off sickle sections rivet new heads on even weld by the time I was 10. I...

Thomas you are an inspiration to all of us. that was a great rebuild on your loader no doubt your son will someday give it to one of his children along with a bottle of touch up paint. Fantastic