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That was the first staircase I'd built. Kind of a fun puzzle to wrap my mind around.

Working on this tree fort inside the farm shop. Going to be my office on the top and a bathroom, mop closet, store room on the ground level. Real slow burn, I pick away at it as time allows between important work.

Just found this thread, nice work all around. Didn't realize we were neighbors - I'm a little west of St. Joseph.

Another fun one from a few years back. I helped a friend cut this New Beetle in half and then we fabricated a trade show display out of it, crated it up and shipped it LTL to Vegas, where it served as the centerpiece of his company's booth for the 2017 SEMA convention. Even got to use the car...

I hate electric jacks so much. :LOL:

Fun one before I dump a bunch more photos in here. :LOL:

They bill by the pound, and it's just a flat fee until your parts surpass about 700 lbs, if memory serves. I have done a bunch of smaller jobs that don't exceed that weight threshold, and they've cost less than $350. If I recall correctly, all the F-650 flatbed parts cost about $1300. It's...

Yeah. I sought out the best refrigerated body I could find for our Kenworth (Johnson Truck Bodies in Rice Lake, Wisconsin,) and even their upfitters managed to deliver the truck with one of the rear service brake lines pinched under a washer and hissing air. Come onnnnnnnnn guys, this is day...

Yeah, I feel that. The average product available in the aftermarket is hot garbage, and the average upfitter tasked with installing it is even worse. Every time I spec a new box truck, I have this urge to build everything from the ground up.

More welding projects... more galvanized stuff... I built a matched pair of ICC bumpers for our family business' delivery trucks. The original bumpers were rusty C-channel and they were tucked under the back of the body, exposing the stainless door surround to impacts every time we slammed a...

With regards to the galvanizing? Venting and drainage are pretty straightforward - you're suspending the part in a liquid and you want to eliminate any air pockets. With regards to the thermal aspect, the molten zinc is about 850°F and the expansion has to be taken seriously. I considered...

I stopped short of painting whitewalls on them. Don't tempt me!

Another project: cart for my Square Wave 175. I got a Lincoln water cooler for $20 because it was leaking coolant out of the heat exchanger. Found a heater core from an old Buick that was a perfect fit, but the cooler wouldn't fit on my old TIG cart. Built this one to fit everything. Got a...

Thanks! It's so much more functional now, and it doesn't elicit all the dumb questions when I stop at the gas station.

Lots of welding...

Got a couple projects I could share here. I designed and built this flatbed body after I blew a recap drive tire on my F-650 and destroyed the dually box. It was designed with hot-dip galvanizing in mind, so drainage, venting, and warpage were major considerations. I dropped it off at the...

I beat it up with a needle scaler and then peppered it with impact marks from a ball peen hammer and various punches and chisels, and then used an abrasive stone to bring all the edges back to flat before paint and assembly.

This was the last one I cleaned up, for a friend of mine who's a traditional coachbuilder. He has 2" receiver hitch tubing set into his shop floor in a few spots, so I made the vise pedestal accept a short stub of square tubing that would drop into the floor.