Above 1200 Sq/FT Cleaning Up My Shop

[BUGTHUG]

I'm surprised they didn't make those kids on top of the cho choo, wear safety helmets and harness's. That's why I live here in Winfield. We have the K & O Gas and Steam show. (Kansas & Oklahoma). They do the same thing on a big scale. I love seeing how they baled hay, cut logs, etc.
Your trip looked like a lot of fun, glad the weather co operated.

 

[jbmatth]

I go away for a week and you just go nuts and post 4 pages of new material, darn you and your productive nature! Also I just about went to that show, but I'm glad I didn't now. I thought it was in Fairfax, they have a steam and early gas engine show around there once a year too. That would have put me about an hour and a half the wrong direction. Doh! Next year perhaps...
JB

 

[oldironfarmer]

Just went through your build thread and thoroughly enjoyed it, and you've done a great job chronicling the adventure. Looks like you are going to have a great space there. Seems I've been working on mine for ever, but finally getting close. Mike

Thanks for the visit and comments! Reporting on progress is motivating, and I think I am not so lazy knowing I'm going to report on what I do. Of course getting my addition complete is just the beginning to getting my shabby cluttered shed uncluttered and deshabbified, if that is possible.

A very interesting machine. I would like to see how it works.

I guess I need to get a video made and posted. I'd like to see how it works too

I'm surprised they didn't make those kids on top of the cho choo, wear safety helmets and harness's. That's why I live here in Winfield. We have the K & O Gas and Steam show. (Kansas & Oklahoma). They do the same thing on a big scale. I love seeing how they baled hay, cut logs, etc.
Your trip looked like a lot of fun, glad the weather co operated.

I'm surprised they even let them on the locomotive, much less out the windows and on to the boiler and up on the tender. No children were harmed in the production of this fun. We had a couple of rain near misses with local farmers hoping for a rain out. We finally had rain Saturday afternoon so everyone was happy. Me too, as I had rain at home as well.

They steam plough, belt drive hay press, corn shelling, and wheat thrashing, anvil shooting, antique tractor pulling, steam powered sawmill, land run Friday for kids (they have to pull their wagon, set stakes, and go to the land office to register their claim), rope making, skillet throwing, nail driving, and a lone broom maker.

I go away for a week and you just go nuts and post 4 pages of new material, darn you and your productive nature! Also I just about went to that show, but I'm glad I didn't now. I thought it was in Fairfax, they have a steam and early gas engine show around there once a year too. That would have put me about an hour and a half the wrong direction. Doh! Next year perhaps...
JB

Dang me Only four pages I'm slipping, and now I'm going stir crazy waiting on the sheet rock finisher.

Fairfax is not that far from me, north into Osage County, or as my son in law (who was raised there) "the Osage".

If you could come to a show you could tape a broom being made

 

[oldironfarmer]

Friday evening I took a little tour of Fairview, and found an old GM dealership with marvelous signs, so I took a few pictures for Don. Regrettably the sun was wrong and I had no chance to go back.

Art Deco all the way, and a gorgeous Pontiac sign. Still an active dealership. Same style GMC Trucks sign.

And a sad through-the-dirty-windshield-tourist-shot showing an equally attractive Buick sign. I might have to go back and negotiate for a car deal just to look at the building.

And a shot of the attic insulation. It is THICK!

Though not as thick as it looks in this picture. It is about 12".

Yesterday, I managed to get up on the roof of the shop after the rain had quit and did additional repair in three areas where I still had some seeps during the rain. Some leaks are hard to figure out, even on a tin roof. And with the insulation in place it is somewhat more important to stop them. Also climbed up on my barn roof to do more sealing there and stepped on a rotten board. Didn't bend the tin but at least I have something to do now, I was afraid boredom was about to set in.

 

[oldironfarmer]

Not much shop work today. I'm helping my son in law put a 30x30 slab in his shop (he has had gravel for 14 years, but that is good for backhoe storage and maintenance). That will give him half concrete and half gravel for heavy equipment. We rebuilt my bulldozer engine in his shop because of the gravel floor.

We went to the lumber yard to get rebar and while there I picked up the bolt and nut bins they had surplus. I don't have a count, but about 70 boxes. Metal boxes with plastic buckets. The buckets are installed backwards because that's what they did when they were emptying them.

Two and a half pallets. Notice somebody is slacking on mowing and trimming. Around a mower no less. Don't you just hate lazy people? And several of the boxes have shallow trays for small bolts, nuts, clips, etc. Now I need to get a good label maker liek I saw on GJ. If I can just remember where I saw it.

They pretty much filled up where the blue car had been in the machine shop

So the blue car gets to be the first in the new space!

It's the best one to set outside if necessary during mud work.

The son in law insisted on bringing over some gravel to help old blue get inside.

Then I needed to go brush hog part of 1/2 Cup's five acres and hooked up the hydraulic mower on my Bobcat. It does a nice job.

You can raise it up and go right into big stuff.

But the Bobcat overheated, and did again after an air filter change (it was embarrassingly dirty) so I think I have another problem, and got it hot enough I could have created yet more problems. Boredom is fleeing from me

 

[BUGTHUG]

Oh my That's a lot of bolt bins? Man nice find on that. I think that's the first time I've seen the caboose, what are the plans for that? I always wanted a caboose. They had one for sale in a little town between Caney, Ks and Coffeyville, Ks. It was a gas station convenience store, they also had the front half of a GE diesel/ele locomotive. I haven't made a trip to Branson, Mo in a long time. That is the way I would go.
New shop area is looking good. Its going to cost you a small fortune to fill all those bins up

 

[Grumblebum]

Nice work on the Walmart expansion Andy, those bins should come in handy. Maybe SIL will install them for you since he is familiar with the bolt repository

I think the label maker discussion was over in you future curators thread - I think.

Hope the bobcat is an easy fix that has been a handy piece of kit.

GB

 

[Guster]

Nice trip. Did you sell all your brooms? Good to see people leaving kids to be kids and explore things. We have a locomotive installation at the local transport museum were kids are allowed to climb and explore, open things and pull levers. My young son often mentions it and think it will be a lasting memory.

Shop is looking good too.

CABOOSE! Why is there a caboose? Dang... now I'm going to have to go through the thread again as I missed why there is a caboose on the farm.

That is almost a rude amount of bolt bins but that may just be my jealousy talking. BTW... are you familiar with the 'you ****' term in forum etiquette when such a gloatworthy score is demonstrated? Either way that will make for some really nice bit for shop organisation. Nice score!

 

[Terrick down Under]

OIF, I was wondering! are you going to organise the bolts by size, by thread type or alphabetically?
The garage is looking grand! I got up early this morning to read the last few posts, the pic download was so slow last night that I went to bed early. e.g. the first pic took 12 minutes to load but the colour was all green and yellow...so frustrating.
This morning was better, all the school kids are still in bed asleep. How was the broom sales? We are getting ready for our main field day here. I gives us lead sales for at least 12 to 18 months at a time. With people planning their new build for a house - we can supply and install the waste water treatment plants, fresh and bore water pumps and the poly water tanks for domestic water, usually around 100k litres (20k gal) gives them a years water storage. We also sit down and help them plan out the pipe sizes they need to run and how to do it. There are some rip-off people around here that love to stitch up newbies which really gets me angry.
Any how, have a great day out in the shed!

 

[jbmatth]

...
Fairfax is not that far from me, north into Osage County, or as my son in law (who was raised there) "the Osage".

If you could come to a show you could tape a broom being made

Andy,
I have been to Fairfax many times, probably more times on a bike than in a car.

I'd like to tape you making a broom to show everyone all that is involved, but I left my VHS recorder with my VCR in the 1990's, I think they may be packed up next to my dad's bell bottoms and 8 tracks. I do still have a record player stored at my parents house though, that part is true. I could record you on my phone and load directly to youtube without leaving the fairgrounds in Fairview, but not Fairfax. Got that?

Lots of catching up to do, I'm so far behind it is scary.
JB

 

[oldironfarmer]

Oh my That's a lot of bolt bins? Man nice find on that. I think that's the first time I've seen the caboose, what are the plans for that? I always wanted a caboose. They had one for sale in a little town between Caney, Ks and Coffeyville, Ks. It was a gas station convenience store, they also had the front half of a GE diesel/ele locomotive. I haven't made a trip to Branson, Mo in a long time. That is the way I would go.
New shop area is looking good. Its going to cost you a small fortune to fill all those bins up

Thanks for the visit! We were watching TV one night and they announced the demise of general caboose use. I told her "If we're going to buy one, now's the time". She "were we going to buy one?" Me "Hadn't thought of it til now". Looked around and found two in Stillwater for $7,000 each. OK, that's doable. Due diligence, called Santa Fe. They had forty in Topeka at $3,500 each. This was close to the end of the year, and the guy in Stillwater called and offered both for $7,000 I countered one for $3,500 and there it sits.

Painfully true story: Gave the caboose to my wife one day, on the way to church. She "whatever". We were having a hay ride for the church the next week. After services I was polling who would be coming, she standing next to me. One couple said they didn't know, so I pulled out my hole card "Oh, you need to come and see my wife's big caboose! You won't believe how big it is until you get up next to it (true), it's as broad as a barn". The ingrate promptly gave it back.

Not planning to buy anything for the bolt bins, just set up storage for stuff I just have no place to keep. Frank and Ernest one time "A place for everything and everything all over the place", seems to be my motto.

Nice work on the Walmart expansion Andy, those bins should come in handy. Maybe SIL will install them for you since he is familiar with the bolt repository

I think the label maker discussion was over in you future curators thread - I think.

Hope the bobcat is an easy fix that has been a handy piece of kit.

GB

Yes, I've had several friends offer to take the extra bins.

Label maker, I guess I'm at least 1/2 interested, thanks.

I hope the Bobcat is an easy fix too!

Nice trip. Did you sell all your brooms? No, but I sold a goodly number, and the sales are not the issue, still fun to sell!

Good to see people leaving kids to be kids and explore things. We have a locomotive installation at the local transport museum were kids are allowed to climb and explore, open things and pull levers. My young son often mentions it and think it will be a lasting memory. Great use for leftover locomotives! Kids of all ages enjoyed it I was surprise dhow hard it was for me to climb after seeing the little monkeys.

Shop is looking good too. Thanks!

CABOOSE! Why is there a caboose? Dang... now I'm going to have to go through the thread again as I missed why there is a caboose on the farm. The caboose has been in lots of pictures. I really thought everyone had one. Why is there a caboose? Why is there air? You're just not much of a man without a caboose. My wife even had one for a short while...

That is almost a rude amount of bolt bins but that may just be my jealousy talking. BTW... are you familiar with the 'you ****' term in forum etiquette when such a gloatworthy score is demonstrated? Either way that will make for some really nice bit for shop organisation. Nice score!

I have seen the term "you ****" and I think I understood it, but I appreciate the explanation. So, maybe I'll gloat a little See if I can draw some ire.

OIF, I was wondering! are you going to organise the bolts by size, by thread type or alphabetically?

There is is again. OIF. You had me with that one. I could not figure out the acronym, I know lots of them, LOL, WTF, etc. (for those that don't know, LOL-Living Out Lies, WTF-Why Trees Fall) I almost asked, I could not figure it out, I felt so stupid. Even looked it up on the portion of the internet I have access to. Nothing. Everyone knows but me, it must just be me. Hmmm....

Alphabetically, under B, how would you file them?

The garage is looking grand! I got up early this morning to read the last few posts, the pic download was so slow last night that I went to bed early. e.g. the first pic took 12 minutes to load but the colour was all green and yellow...so frustrating.
This morning was better, all the school kids are still in bed asleep. How was the broom sales? Broom sales were gratifying. got to demonstrate to lots of kids, love their interest. Now that you mention it, when their parents borrow money from me, I love their interest too! We are getting ready for our main field day here. I gives us lead sales for at least 12 to 18 months at a time. With people planning their new build for a house - we can supply and install the waste water treatment plants, fresh and bore water pumps and the poly water tanks for domestic water, usually around 100k litres (20k gal) gives them a years water storage. We also sit down and help them plan out the pipe sizes they need to run and how to do it. There are some rip-off people around here that love to stitch up newbies which really gets me angry.
Any how, have a great day out in the shed!

Sounds like interesting work. And having 12 to 18 months lead time is unreal. "stitch up newbies" made me "Live Out Lies"

Andy,
I have been to Fairfax many times, probably more times on a bike than in a car.

I'd like to tape you making a broom to show everyone all that is involved, but I left my VHS recorder with my VCR in the 1990's, I think they may be packed up next to my dad's bell bottoms and 8 tracks. I do still have a record player stored at my parents house though, that part is true. I could record you on my phone and load directly to youtube without leaving the fairgrounds in Fairview, but not Fairfax. Got that?

Lots of catching up to do, I'm so far behind it is scary.
JB

Ok, I think you knew what I meant by "tape". Don't take me so literal, it's disgusting when you're like me. (that's what dis guster does) I've had to tell young engineers "don't be like me, you'll get fired". You can appreciate that my goal in a refinery meeting of twenty or more was to get everyone to laugh at least once, and I rarely failed, but I did sometimes get fired. Or was that fried? Or roasted?

Thanks for the visit, I'd love to have you record my broom making, but I'm thinking video would be better than audio, even though you still have a turntable (as do I).

 

[oldironfarmer]

Bob the Bobcat is sick. So sick. He hurled smoke all over everything. And he feels weak.

He usually spends the night in the hay barn with his implements. I encouraged him to come to the shop so I could try to make him feel better.

When we got to the shed he really opened up to me.

Unfortunately, he had to push Miss Vicky out of her favorite spot. She in turn made me clean up the spot for the blue car in the machine shop.

So I had to stack my bolt bins to give her room. 60 boxes of 6 bins each, (that's a total of 360 bins for the arithmetically challenged, actually 359, one is AWOL). There are also 120 trays with lidded boxes for small parts. And 40 extra lidded boxes. Trays are 3"x5"x12". Boxes are 1-1/2"x5"x10". Sorry, I just had a Gust er I mean a bit of gloat on my good fortune in finding ample storage for small parts.

How'd I do Meister Geuster?

 

[-Brent-]

I envy your local hardware stor...age.

 

[oldironfarmer]

A side note on Bob the Bobcat. I have to pull the head, too much oil coming out with the smoke. I can get a used engine for $1,400, and a rebuilt head for $600. So depending on what it looks like inside, it may not be a very expensive fix. I did a cooling system pressure test and it will not hold pressure with no obvious external leaks. Consensus is that Kubotas typically will break the head on overheating. I'm hoping with my fingers crossed that the overheating due to low coolant was caused by a leaking head gasket since I see no external coolant leaks. So maybe the gasket blew out from an ongoing seepage. Hoping. I didn't get it really really hot, but it was well into the do not operate range.

Jokes to the contrary, I'm bummed out that I let it fail, and really don't want to take time to fix it now. But I need it and use it regularly. I have the sheetrock finisher coming tomorrow!! And the overhead doors are coming next week. I have to put up some trim for them, and have the two Lowe's 8 ft doors I'm going to install. And I really want to get the doors in and secured as soon as possible after the mud is dry.

I don't switch from carpentry to mechanics and back very quickly. When I get into the engine I won't be wanting to work on the shed.

A note on why I sorted the bolt bins. Roy Underhill (Woodwright's Shop) says when everything is going wrong, oil your planes and sharpen your chisels, things you know you can do. If nothing else, you will always have sharp chisels and well oiled (wooden) planes. Good advice, when things go wrong, do something you can do to avoid stewing on your problems.

And I have another show Oct 15 I need to be making brooms for, and I start feeding the cows 1/2 ration Oct 15 as well and need to find time to go get a couple tons of feed.

And I still have hay on another guy's field I need to haul home, as well as some of mine that is off the home place and need to be moved here.

Now that I'm whining, the cows will probably be on the road tomorrow and I'll have to fix fence....

And I ordered a Bend Pak HD-9 for the tall room. I would like Bob to help me unload it, but we could unload with the son in law's backhoe.

I'm not AS concerned about being bored tonight.

Oh, and I did take Miss Vicky to town today to get the radiator test kit, and took her by to meet my insurance agent. A nice pleasant trip. We even went to the pharmacy, where an old friend works, and went to O'Reilly's. I told her it was a car pharmacy...

 

[Craptain]

All I have to say is I love to read your posts. Thanks Andy for keeping me entertained.

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[don long]

Andy
I thought I had the most hardware bins here on the GJ but I think that you took the title away from me.
You just keep entertaining the group by dropping small hints of all that you have sitting around your place

I have been looking for an affordable old wood caboose in good condition with no luck, and a passenger or diner car would be nice to have around as well.
So how did you move the broad side of a barn car onto your property?

 

[Terrick down Under]

OIF, Keep your chin up, I also divert my thoughts when things go wrong. Usually take up wood work....when in town I would get a big hammer and knock all the fence palings off behind the garage and then nail them back on....great therapy.

 

[1/2 Cup]

Andy, what more can I say other than FAR OUT you never cease to amaze..

Regards

 

[Lyndon]

. . . . . . . . .

Sorry, I just had a Gust er I mean a bit of gloat on my good fortune in finding ample storage for small parts.

How'd I do Meister Geuster?

Andy

I think that's a great Guster......

I think he'll be proud.

But he's probably 3 glasses of red into the evening now and not looking... Or he's reading my thread (see what I did there?)....

Lyndon
Yep - impressed with Mr Bin!

 

[jbmatth]

Now you've gone and done it, you've managed to break Bob the Builder bobcat, now who are we going to get to fix it? I hear Handy Manny is pretty good with such things. If nothing else you could take him to see Doc McStuffins for a little checkup. Now there I go acting like you again and getting off track (not your cabboose, or your wife's caboose either for that matter, I don't think it is moving anytime soon). Those are some of the better shows for young kids now, my daughters enjoy all of them. I gotta keep after them to make them engineers after all.

JB

 

[oldironfarmer]

I envy your local hardware stor...age.

Thanks I guess I need to post a picture of my home made bolt bin, what my Son In Law calls Walmart.

All I have to say is I love to read your posts. Thanks Andy for keeping me entertained.

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Glad you find me amusing. Hmmm... (was I insulted?)

Andy
I thought I had the most hardware bins here on the GJ but I think that you took the title away from me.

Say it ain't so!! I can't outdo my hero!! I'll throw some out with the rubbish. What is my maximum?

You just keep entertaining the group by dropping small hints of all that you have sitting around your place

Trust me, dropping hints is unintentional. The caboose, by the way, is seen in post 54. It's just always there, and you know after several years you kind of forget about it.

I have been looking for an affordable old wood caboose in good condition with no luck, and a passenger or diner car would be nice to have around as well.
So how did you move the broad side of a barn car onto your property?

Affordable, caboose, and in good shape are a three way oxymoron, unfortunately. The guy I bought it from had house movers lined up, and they did a good job. 45 miles down public roads at 55 mph.

OIF, Keep your chin up, I also divert my thoughts when things go wrong. Usually take up wood work....when in town I would get a big hammer and knock all the fence palings off behind the garage and then nail them back on....great therapy.

Good plan, knock down the fence then fix it!

 

[Guster]

The caboose has been in lots of pictures. I really thought everyone had one. Why is there a caboose? Why is there air? You're just not much of a man without a caboose. My wife even had one for a short while...

I always knew I was packing a bit light…

Bob the Bobcat is sick. So sick. He hurled smoke all over everything. And he feels weak.

****** about Bob being knackered. Let’s hope it just needs a head job. So good of Vicky to help get Bob sorted and stop him seeping all over the place.

So I had to stack my bolt bins to give her room. 60 boxes of 6 bins each, (that's a total of 360 bins for the arithmetically challenged, actually 359, one is AWOL). There are also 120 trays with lidded boxes for small parts. And 40 extra lidded boxes. Trays are 3"x5"x12". Boxes are 1-1/2"x5"x10". Sorry, I just had a Gust er I mean a bit of gloat on my good fortune in finding ample storage for small parts.

How'd I do Meister Geuster?

I would give away my caboose for a wall like that – if I had a manly caboose… or a manly wall big enough.

You’ve done well Monsignor OIF. You have even gone well beyond a ‘you ****’ by mentioning the parts trays. The gloatiest of gloats indeed.

Ok, I think you knew what I meant by "tape". Don't take me so literal, it's disgusting when you're like me. (that's what dis guster does) I've had to tell young engineers "don't be like me, you'll get fired". You can appreciate that my goal in a refinery meeting of twenty or more was to get everyone to laugh at least once, and I rarely failed, but I did sometimes get fired. Or was that fried? Or roasted?

Hey now… I see what you did there! But you are onto something… do we still ‘tape’ footage when using a GoPro or other handheld digital device?

Andy

I think that's a great Guster......

I think he'll be proud.

But he's probably 3 glasses of red into the evening now and not looking... Or he's reading my thread (see what I did there?)....

I’m starting to resemble remarks all over the place…

But it was only 2 glasses(and they were the little ones) and early to bed because we’ve gone daylight savings already and it always catches up with you after a few days. Maybe I just can’t handle daylight savings – because I don’t have a caboose you see!

 

[oldironfarmer]

Andy, what more can I say other than FAR OUT you never cease to amaze..

Regards

Wow! Thanks 1/2 But you've seen nothing yet, wait until you've seen me rebuild an engine In college I broke a piston in an old 235 Chevy pickup. Went to a salvage, bought a used piston, rings, rod with rod bearings, got it in the hole and after tightening the rod bolts the engine would turn so back on with the old head gasket and down the road we went. It was still smoking but had 20% more power. Roughly. I had to sell it at graduation because I had too many cars to take 1,000 miles to my new job. I didn't have a checklist.

Andy

I think that's a great Guster......

I think he'll be proud.

But he's probably 3 glasses of red into the evening now and not looking... Or he's reading my thread (see what I did there?)....

Lyndon
Yep - impressed with Mr Bin!

Our favorite kiwi. Wait, is the kiwi a fruit? Never mind.

Hmmmm... I have to store ammunition, so wait til you see Mr. Bin laden with bullets

Now you've gone and done it, you've managed to break Bob the Builder bobcat, now who are we going to get to fix it? I hear Handy Manny is pretty good with such things. If nothing else you could take him to see Doc McStuffins for a little checkup. Now there I go acting like you again and getting off track (not your cabboose, or your wife's caboose either for that matter, I don't think it is moving anytime soon). Those are some of the better shows for young kids now, my daughters enjoy all of them. I gotta keep after them to make them engineers after all.

JB

I'm a donkey, I am slow! I broke my friend I knew about Bob the Builder, but not Handy Manny nor Doc McStuffins.

In school the girls used to call me handsy Andy, a compliment I think

Speaking of getting off track, I got the rails for my caboose from abandoned lines at the Sunoco Tulsa Refinery. The junk man would not take them because they were in the middle of large trees and he said it wasn't worth the trouble. The area foreman took me to look at them, and I thought I could get them out with a Farmall and chain. Tonkawa tank was repairing a tank nearby. I went by there going home that evening and the tank contractor had pulled out the rails. Said he didn't want an engineer on equipment near his job I paid him to haul them to the house. Interestingly, they are dated 1883, long before the land run, so they were used rail brought in for the refinery.

I always knew I was packing a bit light…

That's OK, if the stars weren't there the moon wouldn't look so bright


****** about Bob being knackered. Let’s hope it just needs a head job. So good of Vicky to help get Bob sorted and stop him seeping all over the place.




I would give away my caboose for a wall like that – if I had a manly caboose… or a manly wall big enough.

I'll take your caboose and raise you two plastic bins

You’ve done well Monsignor OIF. You have even gone well beyond a ‘you ****’ by mentioning the parts trays. The gloatiest of gloats indeed.

Thank you! I think...

So a little story, prolly all the Aussies know the routine. I was standing at the pub (I don't use alcohol for a drink) surrounded by work associates in Sydney, after work (sound familiar?) calling them Limeys. One big electrical engineer says "why would you call me a Limey?" me "Because you're no better than a Limey" he "what's a Limey" me "you know" he "no, it's your word" me "a British sailor" he "why did they call them Limeys" me "because they took citrus fruits on voyages to avoid scurvy" he "what did they do with them" me "they would **** on them" he "is that why they call Americans cocky?" I was led down the primrose path and all had a good laugh at my expense. A great bunch of guys, they were.


Hey now… I see what you did there! But you are onto something… do we still ‘tape’ footage when using a GoPro or other handheld digital device?

Do you still dial a phone? Are they still called record companies? Why does AT&T keep the second T? Of course, in America we park on driveways and drive on parkways


I’m starting to resemble remarks all over the place…

But it was only 2 glasses(and they were the little ones) and early to bed because we’ve gone daylight savings already and it always catches up with you after a few days. Maybe I just can’t handle daylight savings – because I don’t have a caboose you see!

Sir, I greatly respect your insight and depth of wisdom, and I am so sorry to learn you do not have a caboose. My deepest sympathies. Would you like a signed photograph of mine?

 

[oldironfarmer]

Sheetrock finisher showed up about 7:00 this morning. It was only about 7C this morning. How refreshing! Then it warmed to 83F so the mud they had put on dried nicely.

We both had doctor's appointments in Tulsa so I got precious little done today. But the mudders did well

I did get another order for a broom stitching needle, and I had forged four last time and have two rough forgings left so I spent a couple of hours on them. Think there's any interest in how I forge, machine, and grind a needle?

 

[Lyndon]

. . . . . . . . .

Think there's any interest in how I forge, machine, and grind a needle?

Andy

I'm surprised you asked...... I'm going to go with - Ummmmmm, yep

Lyndon
Watching with interest.

 

[Terrick down Under]

Sign me up to watch this also! I love smithing.

 

[1/2 Cup]

Andy, you are right in saying "you ain't seen nothing yet"

Done well...

 

[dlcwent]

Ya Andy, there might be a little interest, I'll follow along. But I guess you probably already knew that.

The addition looks great. Sheet rockers did a super job.

 

[oldironfarmer]

Andy

I'm surprised you asked...... I'm going to go with - Ummmmmm, yep

Lyndon
Watching with interest.

OK, twist my arm. I guess I'll add that to How I Make a Broom since I had to make my needles before I could make my first broom.

Sign me up to watch this also! I love smithing.

OK! Thanks!

Andy, you are right in saying "you ain't seen nothing yet"

Done well...

OK! Yes, you ain't seen nothing yet, which means maybe you'll get to see nothing later!

Ya Andy, there might be a little interest, I'll follow along. But I guess you probably already knew that.

The addition looks great. Sheet rockers did a super job.

Thanks! Sheetrockers are back for more fun in the mud this morning!

 

[drivesitfar]

OIF: i'm sorry i haven't made the time to keep up with your thread, but i will catch up at some point cause it is great and you sure know how to put a spin on a story.

first of all is the wall of organizers next to Vicky full of STUFF and can you find anything? i thought i had a lot of drawers, but you sir have some too and i'm guessing that isn't all of them.

the new sheetrock looks great and looks like you can use the extra space so hope that keeps progressing.

OF COURSE WE'D ALL LOVE TO SEE YOU DO A LITTLE BLACKSMITHING cause hell you made making a broom a fun thing to watch. you might have to get one of Denwood's time lapse camera set ups or Thumper68 makes some great videos if you might need a little help.

cheers and have a great day

 

[polexican23]

Could you also make a video of How To Use A Broom, so I can show it to my wife?

 

[BUGTHUG]

Its amazing how sheetrock makes the room look smaller. I'm sure glad there are people out there that do that for a living
That's not a needle, that a harpoon
I'm watching though!

 

[madoc1]

oif, sorry to hear about your good friend bob. hopefully it is just a head cold. the addition turned out nice! yes, i would like to see you make a needle. i think anything made on a forge is worh watching. i once had a friend who bought an old wooden train station and turned it into his home. a caboose was tied in to be used as his son's bedroom. turned out nice. i also see a small mention of a lift-don't remember you mentioning that before. will it go in the new addition?

jim

 

[Guster]

Sir, I greatly respect your insight and depth of wisdom, and I am so sorry to learn you do not have a caboose. My deepest sympathies. Would you like a signed photograph of mine?

I signed photo of your caboose?

OF COURSE WE'D ALL LOVE TO SEE YOU DO A LITTLE BLACKSMITHING cause hell you made making a broom a fun thing to watch. you might have to get one of Denwood's time lapse camera set ups or Thumper68 makes some great videos if you might need a little help.

Yes, yup, yessir, affirmative, right'o'didgireedoo ol'chap! Time for some drawing, flatting, upsetting, punching, bending and quenching. But only once Bob has his head on straight again. Blimey!

 

[oldironfarmer]

OIF: i'm sorry i haven't made the time to keep up with your thread, but i will catch up at some point cause it is great and you sure know how to put a spin on a story.

first of all is the wall of organizers next to Vicky full of STUFF and can you find anything?

No, they are empty, I just bought them at my local lumber yard. I hope I don't fill them all, but have some space for expansion. And I know it's going to be a big job to get the organizers organized for organizing the dis-organized stuff in my organization.

i thought i had a lot of drawers, but you sir have some too and i'm guessing that isn't all of them.

Kind of embarrassing to show folks your drawers.

the new sheetrock looks great and looks like you can use the extra space so hope that keeps progressing.

OF COURSE WE'D ALL LOVE TO SEE YOU DO A LITTLE BLACKSMITHING cause hell you made making a broom a fun thing to watch. you might have to get one of Denwood's time lapse camera set ups or Thumper68 makes some great videos if you might need a little help.

Thank you very much. I've made some time lapse movies. Takes a lot of time but that's a good idea for broom making and blacksmithing.

cheers and have a great day

Thanks for the visit and comments!

Could you also make a video of How To Use A Broom, so I can show it to my wife?

Absolutely! My mother in law, who worked in an auto oriented hardware store, used to laugh that somebody would come in and ask if they had batteries. She would pull a hearing aid battery off the rack and say "sure". You didn't tell me which use you would like a video of:

1 A wedding celebration where the betrothed jump the broom
2 Transportation, as in witches flying
3 Transportation, as in young cowboys riding
4 Discipline, as in how Willie's wife woke him up after sewing him in the bed sheets while he was drunk

I know there are even other uses, but that's a pretty good selection

I'm thinking a video showing her how to whack you with a broom might be the most interesting to her.

Its amazing how sheetrock makes the room look smaller. I'm sure glad there are people out there that do that for a living

I'm glad too. I'm really slow at sheetrock. Although I did learn a few excellent hints from the finishers, and the hangers. It will make what little I have to do, easier. I'm thinking this sheet rock work may be the best money I've ever spent!

That's not a needle, that a harpoon

No, no, no, a harpoon has a barb. These needles will get you in stitches.

I'm watching though!

Thanks for stopping by!

oif, sorry to hear about your good friend bob. hopefully it is just a head cold. the addition turned out nice! yes, i would like to see you make a needle. i think anything made on a forge is worh watching. i once had a friend who bought an old wooden train station and turned it into his home. a caboose was tied in to be used as his son's bedroom. turned out nice. i also see a small mention of a lift-don't remember you mentioning that before. will it go in the new addition?

jim

Bob is down for the count. His head is cracked in two places so we're talking to neurosurgeons about a head transplant. I'm also concerned he has cracked some ribs (or rings) which would mean pulling the engine.

Interesting train themed house.

Part of the new addition is for storage, and the plan was to put a four post lift in the 12 ft room for double decking two cars. However my plan right now is to make that room a Skelly service bay and use it for oil changes as well as car storage/display.

I signed photo of your caboose?

I don't offer that to many people

Yes, yup, yessir, affirmative, right'o'didgireedoo ol'chap! Time for some drawing, flatting, upsetting, punching, bending and quenching. But only once Bob has his head on straight again. Blimey!

So here's Bob's symptoms:

Crack between injection chamber and intake valve in cylinders 2 and 3.

So a new head is in order.

And the unknown, a scratch in cylinder 2, I can't feel it, but if a ring broke due to liquid from the crack and it only ran a few minutes the scratch might be light, and do I want to button it up without new rings?

I need to get Bob back on the bench ready to go, and he doesn't need ot be perfect, but he needs to be able to run a half marathon.

 

[1/2 Cup]

Andy, not nice, looks like surgery to me ( aka 1/2 Cup - Google Doctor )

 

[oldironfarmer]

Andy, not nice, looks like surgery to me ( aka 1/2 Cup - Google Doctor )

You're thinking the piston needs to come out?

 

[don long]

Well Andy
I must say that I have had a great laugh catching up on your clean up project.
I like your skelly Idea.

Don

 

[dlcwent]

You're thinking the piston needs to come out?

More like, Are YOU thinking the pistons need to come out?

I would take the lazy mans way out and just replace the head but knowing "Lazy Andy", he'll probably not go that route. That picture doesn't show a need to re-ring. At least not from my perspective.

 

[oldironfarmer]

Well Andy
I must say that I have had a great laugh catching up on your clean up project.
I like your skelly Idea.

Don

My dear sweet wife hired on at Skelly fifty years ago. Met Bill Skelly a couple of times. She liked the company, but all too soon Getty bought them out, then Texaco bought them out, and her retirement check comes from Chevron, and she never changed jobs. So I had a selection of oil companies to choose from. I also worked for Sunoco and contracted long term for Conoco, Phillips, and ConocoPhillips. I really like Phillips' logo but Mr. Skelly won out. I'm sure it won't be up to your standards, but then what is? Yours is the best But it will be fun to have a "theme" to go with.

Thanks for visiting.

More like, Are YOU thinking the pistons need to come out?

I would take the lazy mans way out and just replace the head but knowing "Lazy Andy", he'll probably not go that route. That picture doesn't show a need to re-ring. At least not from my perspective.

Well Lazy Andy really really does not want to pull the engine, lots of big hydraulic hoses. If I think I will not have low compression, just a little smoke and oil consumption it's going to go right back in. Not the GJ way, but I do have a farm to run and always look for the minimum acceptable solution to issues.

This will draw fire, but I've said many times over the years "I've never found time to do it right and I've always found time to do it over". If you choose your solutions, you find that 90% of what others think of as half-*** work fine, and the time to re-do the 10% is acceptable. You just have to choose what you do and what you don't. You also have to judge the impact of additional downtime. But in my opinion lots of people pay a lot of money to avoid very little impact from an additional failure.

Case in point: When I was commuting and averaging 100 miles per day, I would occasionally slip up and get metal to metal on my disc brakes. I would sacrifice a set of pads and they would slick the rotor right up before they were worn out. You buy pads for both sides, install on the bad side only, then a few thousand miles later install the second set on the bad side. I've never had pulsating pedal, warped rotor, or any other side effects. New pads on grooved rotors wear in quickly and you actually then have more braking area with the grooved profile. This method is not for everyone, and I would not do it on someone else's car, but it was my minimum overall cost solution. Mind you, I never intended to get to metal to metal, but when trying to get pads to under 1/8" to avoid throwing away good pads, sometimes you do get busy and forget to check. Not much of an engineer, am I