Above 1200 Sq/FT 86's 20HP shop

[86turbodsl]

Strouty, stop the snow talk now... you're going to curse us with an early snow! LOL.

I was talking with my boy, with the 4 day weekend coming up, we might be able to get enough stuff cleaned up and out to get a lift up and/or clean out the space next to the truck and get the tractor in. we're going to start with more pallet racking and get more off the floor. if we can get it down to just machinery sitting on the floor, i think we can start to get final positions figured out.

 

[Strouty]

Having help will definitely make things easier, sounds like you are well on your way to being ready for the sknow.

 

[86turbodsl]

I won't be ready for the snow until the dang burner is done. I have started on the design changes. Need to cut out some more flanges and harvest a few things from my burner pile. At least most of the existing infrastructure carries over.

On a related note, i put the 150 gallons of waste oil into my storage and found (the hard way) that the sight gages are only an approximation. I got an overflow on the main motor oil barrel. It ran over and i was right there and shut the pump off, but it still over flowed and started raining down. BUT it was raining MOSTLY into the normal drain barrel. That gave me an idea to connect all the vents together, and run a line down to right over the barrel. That way if there's an overflow, it goes right into the barrel i drain into anyway. That SHOULD prevent all future spills, *I THINK*.

 

[Strouty]

I thought we discussed this "dumping oil all over the shop" thing and agreed it wasn't going to be done again.....

I think your plan makes perfect sense and I would implement it ASAP, I don't want to hear "cleanup on aisle 86" anymore.

 

[86turbodsl]

Sorry boss. Won't do it again... [emoji3525]

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[racer-john]

Yeh,no more spilt oil.

 

[Strouty]

Happy B-Day!

 

[86turbodsl]

Shhhhh!!! [emoji6]

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[Strouty]

I bet you got the same thing I get every year for my birthday.................






older!




Any updates, get to do anything fun, productive, or otherwise?

 

[86turbodsl]

Been cleaning all weekend. Got some floor space back. In an amazing note, I sold the remaining pallet rack, less than 2 weeks after I brought it home. A record for sure. Brings my total for 4 sections up to a whopping $60.

Stacked all my wood on mezz or in corner. Moved 3 bikes to under mezz. Moved wood tools to wood area. Every where I look I see stuff to sell.

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[86turbodsl]

I bet you got the same thing I get every year for my birthday.................






older!




Any updates, get to do anything fun, productive, or otherwise?

Remember I bought those tool chests. It counted for birthday and father's day.

Went for dinner with the family. That's it.

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[Strouty]

Those are the best dinners, unless you don't like your family, then they ****.

Looks like you were very productive, weekend isn't even over yet!

 

[86turbodsl]

It was only ok. We had an issue with the son that didn't get ironed out until later. I had a couple beers and some fajitas and got a $100 bill.

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[86turbodsl]

Operation cleanup continues.

Almost a car stall empty. Cleaned a pile in front of one of the fairlanes and put it over the bathroom.

Wife made me put the couch together. Bad idea. Too comfy.



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[86turbodsl]

Working my **** off today. Got the front of the shop cleared out of all the junk. All that's left is stuff I want to keep. Probably could get a car in here pretty easy. Going to burn trash tonight. Going to shoot for splitting the tractor by next weekend.

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[Strouty]

Looking very good, I bet it feels nice to look at the space.

 

[86turbodsl]

It feels awesome. I'm stoked to get the room. Trying not to fill it immediately.
Got ads on facebook for some of the stuff that i don't want to ship. Some of the other stuff needs national advertising. I could take the rest of the year off and sell stuff. it's that bad.

Everywhere i look in there, stuff that needs to go away or get installed somewhere. I've probably got 50% of the stuff on the floor that doesn't need to be there. Mostly project parts that need to get finished. Most of that stuff i'm looking for space on the pallet racking to get it off the floor.

 

[Strouty]

I am in a similar situation, except you got a jump on me, I don’t have anything listed yet.

 

[1Garageman]

Looking so much better, you can see the floor! I love how you have the metal shelves on the wall stacked up. That is so much storage space.

 

[86turbodsl]

Thank you. I don't have much time this week, but enough i think i can get it sorted. Thurs or Fri i have to go get my engine drive. That'll kill some time.

Saturday is a wash. Work day at church and dinner with family an hour away.

 

[86turbodsl]

Just about ready for a tractor split.

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[Strouty]

All the hard work is paying off, the nice painted racking, the white ceiling, the lights, the floor!

 

[jbmatth]

Nice, I think that is more floor space than I've seen in one spot in your thread since following along. Good job on sticking to it.

JB

 

[86turbodsl]

Thanks. I'm encouraged that eventually I'll have a lot more too. Nearly everything on the floor right now has a spot it needs to move to. Either project or infrastructure.

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[86turbodsl]

Anybody got good suggestions on wood storage? I have a ton of cherry, about 16' long, and probably weighs a couple thousand pounds. I have been saving it for years to build new kitchen cabinets, but it is always in the way and just doesn't fit anywhere. Has to stay in the shop to stay flat/straight. Thought about pallet racking, but that would take up just as much space and less movable. Ceiling is too low to stand up. Just doesn't fit anywhere. Thought about a combo wood/metal rack for long metal too. Just not sure what makes sense and it's really in the way.

 

[Growlertdi]

Have access to any Unistrut? Have you seen the Unistrut wood/metal racks people have built?

you can also make the same kind of rack out of 2x material with slightly angled holes and EMT conduit pieces.

Lots of options if you have the wall space.

 

[86turbodsl]

I have unistrut but I dont think it can hold this load. It flattened casters I had itparked on. Been moving it with pallet jack

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[86turbodsl]

I brought the engine drive home last night, finally found a trailer that would carry it. Had a bit of a dicey moment rolling it off the trailer, 2000lbs of steel coming at me and i realized that nothing i was going to be able to do was going to stop it once moving, so i jumped out of the way. Let the tongue drop and it dug a channel in the lawn. Good thing i had moved the tractor out of the way. Exciting.

I'll get a photo or two later. That should complete my welder ensemble and allow me to get a couple things done in the yard / property that i was unable to do without it.

 

[Strouty]

No fun having unstoppable things headed towards you.

 

[86turbodsl]

No not really. Glad it was outdoors.

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[86turbodsl]

Big weekend. Party with brother man a little. Was in town for the army Michigan game.

Got the tractor in the shop and split.

Pics of the engine drive finally.



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[Strouty]

Looks like you have plenty of room to work on the tractor, plus plenty of welding power too.

 

[86turbodsl]

I'm not happy with the tractor. I found a lot of bent and broken parts. It was a mouse hotel in there, and the grease tube for the pto bearing was knawed or rotten off. grease wasn't getting to the bearing. All the levers for the pto were bent over and link plates are all broken and gone. I think parts are going to be a problem. These are not common parts anymore. Last production date was 1975.

The engine drive runs great, just need a little tlc to be perfect. It's probably more of a winter project at this point.

 

[Strouty]

It would be neat to change the engine to a V8 and then make it an air compressor too.

 

[86turbodsl]

ha, i need another project like a hole in the head. That Ford I6 runs just fine...

I was checking on parts prices this morning. The pto problem is NOT good. I may end up fabbing parts. We will see. I can make anything but it's rarely cost effective.

 

[86turbodsl]

Got the PTO out and cleaned up, there's one set of parts still good, so I might be able to get away with just 2 of the expensive levers. Side plates I can probably make at 11 each.

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[matt_i]

I missed a few pages but I didn't see why you had to split up the tractor? Clutch? Rear Main? I'm impressed a couple of 5 gallon pails can hold that much up...I have these repurposed pieces of 2x4 glulam beam, probably a foot tall, that's turned on end with a big foot & gussets, etc from that original split.

Shop's looking very good, I actually was on the same track, I'm a year behind you +/- and I'm like its time to get going on this stuff and not just hoard the space sucking stuff until the next generation has to haul it to the scrapper....I was trying to take the incremental approach, just do about 20 minutes every time I go out. Its starting to be noticeable now, so keep it up

I bet if you made an as-built diagram and stripped every hay-wire out of that welder and go back with a new harness that you design, make all good connections and use glue-based heat-shrink and split conduit for chafe protection, it will run for 30 more years without ever having to touch that part of it again. I've done roughly the same to 3 tractors so far, a 4th is waiting for a window, and they have never been so trouble-free.

 

[86turbodsl]

Thanks. Probably the biggest issues of all the used stuff I've bought has been wiring related.
There's a ton of ppl out there who just don't understand it.

There's no buckets holding that tractor up?
Jacks and jackstands.

The PTO clutch self destructed last fall.

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[86turbodsl]

Ok, got the PTO cleaned up and this is what I have. Bent levers.

I thought they were cast, but the wide parting line indicates forged. I straightened one. Looks good. Question is should I heat treat? Been a long time since metallurgy.

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[Strouty]

Did you use heat to straighten it? If you did it cold, I would leave it alone.