Above 1200 Sq/FT Harley Jim's place
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Wokspaces above 1200 squarefeet.
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harley jim
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Kevkx125
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Nice work on the handrails Jim!! The running boards look like they would be a nice addition to the truck.
shortykorte
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Looking good. The rosette? adds a nice, professional touch. I’ll have to check out King Architectural.
Cold “apple cider”to end the day. [emoji106]
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Cold “apple cider”to end the day. [emoji106]
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driftpin
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I like the detail on the railing. Something like that flower can make you smile every-time you see it.
Do you know about the engineer who started Amp Research? Horst Leitner, a very-creative fellow, who unfortunately was consumed by depression, he killed himself. He did small-run cars for the Detroit auto industry, and Japan too. They did sunroofs, T-tops and convertibles.
Leitner also did a mountain bike suspension system which was simple and effective.
The Leitner apple doesn't fall far from the tree. Here's a clever product lineup from Horst Leitner's son.
https://www.leitnerdesigns.com/blog...buts-acs-forged-active-cargo-system-sema-2019
Specifications: FORGED Active Cargo System for Ford pick-ups F150 6'6" bed 2004-'19
85 lbs. light
23” Tall when measured from top of bed caps
Forged aluminum construction
Grade 10.9 black Zi-NI coated fasteners
Heavy Duty 2.0” square load bars
Rubber wind diffuser/ load pad to keep your cargo from shifting
Quad-rail load beam design for endless mounting options
Fits many Thule, Rhino-rack and Yakima accessories
Dual-stage powder coated Steel brackets
Fully upgradable with an ever-growing line of accessories.
Off-Road Dynamic Weight Capacity | 400
On-Road Dynamic Weight Capacity | 800
Parked Static Weight Capacity | 1400
Compatible with DECKED storage system
Designed, engineered and manufactured in the USA
U.S. Patent 9586629
I know, a lotta-dough. I've had a couple AMP Research products and have been very-pleased with them, and the service I've gotten. I have an AMP Research bed-extender on my GMC pick-up, it sure is handy.
Do you know about the engineer who started Amp Research? Horst Leitner, a very-creative fellow, who unfortunately was consumed by depression, he killed himself. He did small-run cars for the Detroit auto industry, and Japan too. They did sunroofs, T-tops and convertibles.
Leitner also did a mountain bike suspension system which was simple and effective.
The Leitner apple doesn't fall far from the tree. Here's a clever product lineup from Horst Leitner's son.
https://www.leitnerdesigns.com/blog...buts-acs-forged-active-cargo-system-sema-2019
Specifications: FORGED Active Cargo System for Ford pick-ups F150 6'6" bed 2004-'19
85 lbs. light
23” Tall when measured from top of bed caps
Forged aluminum construction
Grade 10.9 black Zi-NI coated fasteners
Heavy Duty 2.0” square load bars
Rubber wind diffuser/ load pad to keep your cargo from shifting
Quad-rail load beam design for endless mounting options
Fits many Thule, Rhino-rack and Yakima accessories
Dual-stage powder coated Steel brackets
Fully upgradable with an ever-growing line of accessories.
Off-Road Dynamic Weight Capacity | 400
On-Road Dynamic Weight Capacity | 800
Parked Static Weight Capacity | 1400
Compatible with DECKED storage system
Designed, engineered and manufactured in the USA
U.S. Patent 9586629
I know, a lotta-dough. I've had a couple AMP Research products and have been very-pleased with them, and the service I've gotten. I have an AMP Research bed-extender on my GMC pick-up, it sure is handy.
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driftpin
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Columbus.
The Leitner Products says the system also will work with many Thule and Yakima pieces.
One source for more info:
https://www.autohome-official.com/en/products/accessories/columbus-accessories/
The Leitner Products says the system also will work with many Thule and Yakima pieces.
One source for more info:
https://www.autohome-official.com/en/products/accessories/columbus-accessories/
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Kev
Thanks, I need to get it in gear and get this done. I kind of got off track.
Shorty
The paper catalog is amazing it's almost 2" thick, it's hard to see it all on the net but they have leaves, grape vines, spheres, anything you can think of. That peach sider was real good and cold.
Driftpin
You are right they just look like bars stacked in rows otherwise.
Didnt know about Leitner, some people think on a completely different level. I know when I put the boards on Pat's truck they fit perfect using all existing holes and bolts already in the truck, it was the slickest install I have ever done.
We are in whitewater rafting country and I have seen the modular truck racks and roof tents on a lot of vehicles around here the thought process of the engineers is amazing.
Baylor
I'm not sure about the racks but the boards are on amazon and actually cheaper there than any other place I know of. Maybe they have racks also?
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Thanks, I need to get it in gear and get this done. I kind of got off track.
Shorty
The paper catalog is amazing it's almost 2" thick, it's hard to see it all on the net but they have leaves, grape vines, spheres, anything you can think of. That peach sider was real good and cold.
Driftpin
You are right they just look like bars stacked in rows otherwise.
Didnt know about Leitner, some people think on a completely different level. I know when I put the boards on Pat's truck they fit perfect using all existing holes and bolts already in the truck, it was the slickest install I have ever done.
We are in whitewater rafting country and I have seen the modular truck racks and roof tents on a lot of vehicles around here the thought process of the engineers is amazing.
Baylor
I'm not sure about the racks but the boards are on amazon and actually cheaper there than any other place I know of. Maybe they have racks also?
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harley jim
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Dalton stopped by this morning and wanted to weld up some holes in a couple of chairs he was restoring for his grandma. I told him ok but I didnt think that would be the right way to do it and he agreed. Getting the whole story out of him is sometimes difficult as he doesn't want to add work to me and tries to find a solution himself. That's what I like about him. After some discussion he told me that the plastic arms had broken but he didnt know how to repair them I said we dont we make new ones from wood. Dalton said he would go buy some pine and we could make them from that I suggested we find something a little harder than pine he said his grandma liked cedar, I said that would work fine go find some and he left. He came back about an hour later with an old cedar tree trunk so we trimmed the branches off with a sawzall and ran it through the table saw a few times to square it then quarter it to expose the heart wood.
The holes he wanted to fill. After we decided what we were going to do he powder coated the chairs and put them in the oven to bake. I got the pic after they came out of the oven
The tree after we limbed it
Ran it through the table saw a few times, then split it to get to the pretty wood
The scraps, save them they smell good
Ran them through the router to cut a trough down through the bottom then round over all of the edges
Preliminary sanded and ready to test fit
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The holes he wanted to fill. After we decided what we were going to do he powder coated the chairs and put them in the oven to bake. I got the pic after they came out of the oven
The tree after we limbed it
Ran it through the table saw a few times, then split it to get to the pretty wood
The scraps, save them they smell good
Ran them through the router to cut a trough down through the bottom then round over all of the edges
Preliminary sanded and ready to test fit
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harley jim
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Precision gauge for alignment
Clamping them down like this insures they are level to each other, when you are setting in the chair they feel level
While they are clamped I drilled them from the bottom up.
Test fit, all looks good
Close up
This is the old plastic arm rest that came on them
Kind of cheap
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PelicanPines
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Nice chair arms... ...will last "long time" as said in one of those movies I watch.
BuffettFan
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Those chairs are awesome Jim!
Love the color and the cedar.
Love the color and the cedar.
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harley jim
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Pines
Were not back in viet nam!
Terry
Thanks, it was a fun job, Dalton thought I was kidding him about using an old tree. It was free and he is broke most of the time, 27 years old, wife, 2 kids we were all there once.
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Were not back in viet nam!
Terry
Thanks, it was a fun job, Dalton thought I was kidding him about using an old tree. It was free and he is broke most of the time, 27 years old, wife, 2 kids we were all there once.
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shortykorte
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That was a great idea to use cedar and arms came out great.
Pines-you number 10 butterfly.
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Shorty
Thanks, I have a couple more that we are going to take to the mill and have cut. We are going to make some live edge tables and a little of it for my truck bed on the 65
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Thanks, I have a couple more that we are going to take to the mill and have cut. We are going to make some live edge tables and a little of it for my truck bed on the 65
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Did some parts chasing this morning and serviced Pat's truck this afternoon.
I'm going to Athens Tn. In the morning to rekey Kaylas Grandfathers business building, he thinks there are some rogue keys in the wrong hands. He builds custom kitchens.
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I'm going to Athens Tn. In the morning to rekey Kaylas Grandfathers business building, he thinks there are some rogue keys in the wrong hands. He builds custom kitchens.
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Got back from Athens around 1:00 had some lunch and went to the shop where I sanded and second coated the chair arms. I started putting a new set of running boards on my truck and about half way through it started raining
Second coat
What we started with
Got the brackets mounted
Close up, it started raining
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Second coat
What we started with
Got the brackets mounted
Close up, it started raining
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BuffettFan
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Arms look awesome Jim!
All that shop space and you're working on the truck in the driveway??
Sounds like my place!
All that shop space and you're working on the truck in the driveway??
Sounds like my place!
Strouty
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I like the rails, will have to check out the place you ordered the fancy bits from. Keep in mind, that ford is the 6.0 powerstroke, the ones known to have issues with oil and EGR coolers, welcome to the next club. 
cbacres
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Cool use of the cedar branch, I love working with that stuff.
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Terry
Yep, 2000 sq. ft. And I'm in the gravel. The last set I put on Pat's truck took about an hour and a half, they are the best designed system I have ever used. It would have taken longer to pull the mower and Jeep out. Going out now to finish.
Strouty
Yea, I was on the fence about a diesel but it's something I have needed to do for too long.
Amp Research boards, Amazon was the cheapest.
Cbacres
Those cedar trees are leaning against the wall behind every barn around here, they cut them and use them for fence posts. The one I used was cut 10 years ago. I like using them for walking sticks also.
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Yep, 2000 sq. ft. And I'm in the gravel. The last set I put on Pat's truck took about an hour and a half, they are the best designed system I have ever used. It would have taken longer to pull the mower and Jeep out. Going out now to finish.
Strouty
Yea, I was on the fence about a diesel but it's something I have needed to do for too long.
Amp Research boards, Amazon was the cheapest.
Cbacres
Those cedar trees are leaning against the wall behind every barn around here, they cut them and use them for fence posts. The one I used was cut 10 years ago. I like using them for walking sticks also.
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We had a huge circle maybe 200 feet diameter of cedars 30-40' tall in the forest area in front of my house about 1/2 mile in. It was technically the only place cedars were growing cept for a random child tree. It was mystical.
They wholesale cleared that area of the forest for a developments "drainage pond"...
Since that... Cedars have been popping up along everyones property edges that go against the forest line. I have about 20 or 30 trees growing on my 3 sides.
They sent all those beautiful 40' trees thru a wood chipper... <sad face>
They wholesale cleared that area of the forest for a developments "drainage pond"...
Since that... Cedars have been popping up along everyones property edges that go against the forest line. I have about 20 or 30 trees growing on my 3 sides.
They sent all those beautiful 40' trees thru a wood chipper... <sad face>
racer-john
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"They sent all those beautiful 40' trees thru a wood chipper... "
Stupid Fellers!!!!!!!!
Stupid Fellers!!!!!!!!
PelicanPines
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My world smelled like a cedar closet for about a month...
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harley jim
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A lot of the time my shop smells like cedar, the shavings get quite deep at times. I burn the scraps in the wood burner. Dalton's uncle has a saw mill, we are taking the big logs to him when the weather cools down. He will saw the to what we want. Were going to make some live edge tables from some of it.
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I finished the running boards today. I made a video but cant get it to post so I guess pics will do. They tuck completely behind the rockers
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Kevkx125
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Thats pretty nice Jim, looks cool!! Bet they come in handy.
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Kev
It had the round tubes on it when I bought it but I cant turn my foot far enough to stick my toe in the slot to get out. I wish the video would work they are so fast.
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It had the round tubes on it when I bought it but I cant turn my foot far enough to stick my toe in the slot to get out. I wish the video would work they are so fast.
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rattle_snake
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Nice steps, looks like Amp brand. Have a set on my SD, they are low when you need them and not when you don't. Considering for my 72 Ford as it's up pretty high, have to climb in at this point.
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Rattle snake
They are, they drop about 8" I have bone issues and they make it possible for me to get a big boy truck, lol. I put a set on my wife's truck last year and liked them.
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They are, they drop about 8" I have bone issues and they make it possible for me to get a big boy truck, lol. I put a set on my wife's truck last year and liked them.
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don long
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I love the looks of that wood Jim.
I love the step on my new ford truck. I wouldn't be able to get into it if they weren't there. The damn thing sits way too high.
I love the step on my new ford truck. I wouldn't be able to get into it if they weren't there. The damn thing sits way too high.
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That was my problem Don, my old 1/2 ton was easy to get in and out of but it couldn't handle my dump trailer. The F250 is at least 6 inches higher.
I have sprayed four coats of clear on the cedar arm rests they are looking like glass. Dalton is redoing them for his grandma, the old arm rests are a bakelite and are crumbling. Should finish them today.
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I have sprayed four coats of clear on the cedar arm rests they are looking like glass. Dalton is redoing them for his grandma, the old arm rests are a bakelite and are crumbling. Should finish them today.
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Got the chairs finished this morning, ready to deliver
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Jayman17
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Jim, the chairs and your truck rails look great, nice job.
Jay
Jay
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Jay
Thanks another one of those fun projects.
I hauled my propane tank home today, it got blasted and painted, it looks so much better now with about ten less coats of paint on it.
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Thanks another one of those fun projects.
I hauled my propane tank home today, it got blasted and painted, it looks so much better now with about ten less coats of paint on it.
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Finally got to work on the handrails for a couple of hours. 
This one will be on the right side of the steps
Fitting up the lambs ear
They were out of stock on 90 deg corners so we just make one out of a termination
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Cant have too many clamps
This will be the left side
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This one will be on the right side of the steps
Fitting up the lambs ear
They were out of stock on 90 deg corners so we just make one out of a termination
View attachment 1
Cant have too many clamps
This will be the left side
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PelicanPines
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I would love to help you with the grinding... I used to help my FIL...
Looks great. Your tank looks brand new. Chairs are great...
BBQ Party at Jim's house...
Looks great. Your tank looks brand new. Chairs are great...
BBQ Party at Jim's house...
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kaymccampbell
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Who's dying in the cooker?