Above 1200 Sq/FT Harley Jim's place

[drivesitfar]

Congrats on your sale of you little cart even though I know it was a sweet ride for you. Now you can take what you learned from building it and build something even better.

what product did you say you will use on trailers roof after you remove the rust and prep it? Perfect plan to keep you valuables safe while you work on the basement improvements. Good luck too

 

[mybigwarwagon]

I see my truck looking good at the top of the hill.

 

[harley jim]

I put it in the shade, it was hot out there.



This is what I bought, I liked that it is elastomeric and siloconized, it should move with the metal.


The roof isn't in real bad shape but it dose need a little love.

 

[mybigwarwagon]

Waiting too much longer on that roof would be too long.

 

[harley jim]

It's not as bad as it looks but yes it is time to fix it. PO should have coated it.

 

[harley jim]

I spent the day disassembling pallets.

It was 90 today so it was slow and steady.

I got a new pan for nails.

Got a good stack of 10' boards.

Added a few to this stack but it got a little shakey.

Collected a few nails today.

Stacked a few dow here also.
I'm thinking that I should make a set of saw horses and put a pallet on them to stack the 10' boards on

 

[don long]

Seeing that you spent the day cleaning wood today makes me think that it will be a good idea for me to clean up some fence wood for the saloon tomorrow. Same process, pull the nails and stack the wood.

 

[harley jim]

When the sun got behind the trees this evening I moved Pines and Uncle Willie's truck up top.

I wanted to spray the roof of the trailer with muriatic acid and didnt want it getting on the truck.

I used a mix of 4 parts water and one part acid, then put the mixture in a plastic pump sprayer I put the ladder up wind so I didnt get a face full of smoke and sprayed it very heavy.

 

[harley jim]

I scrubbed it with a brush on a telescopic pole then rinsed it with a garden hose. It took a lot of the rust off.

Hopefully it will dry thoroughly in this 90 deg. heat and I can apply the cool seal tomorrow evening.

 

[harley jim]

Don, I never thought I would be taking pallets apart but these are different times. I'm really enjoying myself as it is somewhat quiet out back and I get to think about my projects and the exercise is great. I'll sleep like a baby tonight.

 

[RivennHewn]

Got to watch the wind when spaying muratic.
Learned that the hard way.

 

[harley jim]

Yes, It will mess you up quick.

 

[xtremek]

Are you going to put down any rust converter/treatment before you put on the cool seal?

 

[harley jim]

I wasnt planning on it but that may be a good idea. I have a bottle of ospho rust converter in the shop.

 

[don long]

You are trying to get rid of the rust and the last time I used muriatic acid I was trying to age new shinny corrugated tin for my man cave. I poured the acid on straight and let it sit in the sun for a month adding acid every few days and after 6 weeks this is what I got



The Jersey boys are sitting on the tin on the side of the man cave (mezzanine)

 

[harley jim]

I got the ospho sprayed today, it has to set for 24 hours, I have a busy saturday so hopefully sunday it will get cool sealed.

 

[mybigwarwagon]

I am glad you moved my truck away from the acid.

I have been looking around here for some descent pallets, but all I find are junk or super thin. Good thing is lumber prices are going back down, so maybe I can afford a sheet of plywood soon without selling a child or two.

 

[harley jim]

The pallets I'm getting come from my buddy Laser Jay at southeast tn laser, check with steel shops or plasma shops. The flat steel is 5'x 10' sheets and that's the size of the pallet. Jay was burning them.

 

[xtremek]

I think your Ospho won't stop anything (I'm guessing my treatments don't either), but it should slow the rust down, a little.

 

[harley jim]

The acid wash took a bunch of the rust off, I had to rinse it for quite a while. The ospho did its thing, I feel that I do have a much better surface for the cool seal to stick. I'm going to take the A/C cover off when I seal it, the vent cover on the rear will get sealed in.

 

[don long]

Does that ospho neutralize the rust?

 

[harley jim]

Yes it will neutralize rust, the proper application is to knock off the large loose stuff, apply the ospho, it can be applied by spray or a rag. The key is after a few minutes it needs to be thourly rinsed and dryed.
It can also be used as a long term sealer if you dont wash it off, when your ready to paint just reactivate by reapplying ospho then wash and dry.
Sandblasting negates the need to reactivate, just blast and paint.

 

[harley jim]

Didnt get much done around the house this weekend, had to attend a celebration of life for the son of a friend of mine on Saturday and had a meeting saturday night. It rained all day Sunday so I worked in the shop for a while. The trailer roof is waiting on me.
Scott called me this morning and wanted to know if I could go next door and move a crate for him, he ordered a rotisserie for his 56 chevy and the driver dropped it in the road, I got the tractor and moved it to the car port.

Ran into these guys

They belong to Mirah across the road, free range goats.
I'm going out to work but I dont feel like it, we'll see.

 

[xtremek]

How's your back feeling?

 

[harley jim]

It's been better, all of this moving totes and boxes is taking a toll.
I'm going to have to take it easy.

 

[mybigwarwagon]

I guess the freerange goats keep the weeds down.

 

[harley jim]

They were on the front porch keeping Pat's flowers and Rose's trimmed down a few minutes ago

 

[mybigwarwagon]

They were on the front porch keeping Pat's flowers and Rose's trimmed down a few minutes ago

Good way to wind up in the freezer.

 

[oldmxracer]

They were on the front porch keeping Pat's flowers and Rose's trimmed down a few minutes ago

Grilled goat for supper tomorrow ?

 

[lpakiz]

Jim, hey that is quite the caulk job around that door frame. Did you mask off first or do you just have a magic finger?

Jay

 

[harley jim]

It's still raining here in sunny Tennessee. At least I got to do a real time water test on the trailer roof, no leaks to report now if it will stop raining I can get the cool seal finished.
The goats have been running loose all summer, I have been watching them drift farther from home every day and yesterday they made it inside my fence. They were feasting on Pat's hibiscus and roses.
Now I'll have to keep the gates shut, looks like there may be a gate opener in my future.

Ipakiz, welcome.

 

[loganb]

Curry goat is yummy....or at least is in Jamaica!

 

[harley jim]

I love BBQ goat, that what we served at my Sons wedding reception, the problem I have now is Pat, there is a long sad story that I wont put everyone through but the short story is that goats are pets not food.

 

[Bob Heine]

goats are pets not food

Jim, wish I had known that when I was playing with my pet steer that Dad named "Toughy."

 

[harley jim]

Bob, first rule for country folks, never name something you may eat.
Thats what happened to Pat.

 

[xtremek]

The first steer we had was Elmer. He was a good pet. I was 10 when he became steaks. I knew exactly what I was eating, and dang was he good. My parents had his hide tanned, and the farm house was so cold, I used it for a blanket.

 

[mybigwarwagon]

We name all kinds of stuff we eat. We had three ducks names Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Years. They were delicious.

 

[harley jim]

Yes but were not normal

 

[mybigwarwagon]

You are not the first person to tell me that.

 

[steaks&anvils]

Yes but were not normal

Who added the banjo music sound track to this thread?

Lady at work was lamenting that the waiting list at her ethnic butcher shop for goat was weeks long. She is waiting for heads...