That's a great picture, looks nice and peaceful.
My back yard fab shop
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Jose G
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its just metal, and insurance are there for a reason. hope nobody got hurt ? too bad for the truck I guess 
In the driveway.......I was sitting in the kitchen and heard a boom.
Simultaneously my girl friend jumped up and said ' he just ran into your truck!!
After having FREEZING RAIN all DAY the conditions were TREACHEROUS and a LITTLE SLIPPERY... I know, cause I had just come back from driving one of my boys and parked the truck at the top of the driveway, backed in parallel to the street.
Month old F-150 with a huge fiber box full of electrician gear. Came in WAY to hot and under steered into my baby. He exploded his right hand corner on the F-250 hook. Those are pretty sturdy....being bolted directly to the frame.
He backed my truck up against the fence.
F-150 $4500 damage
F-250 $2500 damage
First time meeting my sons new girlfriends dad.
I tried to make him feel better about it and kept a poker face. I could only imagine how stupid he felt.
All my life I have beaters and no dings. Get something nice after all these years and boom! Caliss de Tabarnaque!
Simultaneously my girl friend jumped up and said ' he just ran into your truck!!
After having FREEZING RAIN all DAY the conditions were TREACHEROUS and a LITTLE SLIPPERY... I know, cause I had just come back from driving one of my boys and parked the truck at the top of the driveway, backed in parallel to the street.
Month old F-150 with a huge fiber box full of electrician gear. Came in WAY to hot and under steered into my baby. He exploded his right hand corner on the F-250 hook. Those are pretty sturdy....being bolted directly to the frame.
He backed my truck up against the fence.
F-150 $4500 damage
F-250 $2500 damage
First time meeting my sons new girlfriends dad.
I tried to make him feel better about it and kept a poker face. I could only imagine how stupid he felt.All my life I have beaters and no dings. Get something nice after all these years and boom! Caliss de Tabarnaque!
onewaydave
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I don't know what "Caliss de Tabarnaque!" means but within 3 months of moving to Houston, I learned that it was against the law to drive a vehicle on public roads without a dent. People went out of their way to bang up their new vehicle just to get over the anxiety.
Sorry man.
Dave.
Sorry man.
Dave.
pain
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Any updates on what's been going on? Sat down and read the whole thread. Awesome
Updates? Here you go, and thanks for watching.
Bashed some dents out of my front plate.
Put it through my english wheel and put a small rad in it to make it stand out a little.
Yet to polish it and remount it on the now new bumper and plate holder.
Unfortunately, HTT Tech. is still having money problems, so I gave them the boot and re-claimed the space. Sort of. Now I have a stretched Topkick taking up my shop.
Looking at everyone's workbench on here made me realize that I didn't have one! So I spent a few days re-organizing the shop and built me one.
I came across some free Alu. 2 x 2 square tubing a few years back and decided to go with that.
After laying out the new work bench, I started the project.
Cut up all I needed.
On my miter saw.
Test fit to make sure.
Assembly.
All welded up.
Fitting some shelves. 1/2 inch plywood.
To get more floor space, I decided to take my drill press off it's rolling stand and place it on the bench. Look what was under the drill...
I already had a galvanized 3/8 x 18'' plate. I purchased another 3/8 plate to
finish the other half, but made it 20'' wide to fit the drill press.
The drill fits just right with the recess from the AC unit in the window.
This is as far as I got. Phase 2, doors n a little paint. For now I gotta get to the backlog of work to be done.
Bashed some dents out of my front plate.
Put it through my english wheel and put a small rad in it to make it stand out a little.
Yet to polish it and remount it on the now new bumper and plate holder.
Unfortunately, HTT Tech. is still having money problems, so I gave them the boot and re-claimed the space. Sort of. Now I have a stretched Topkick taking up my shop.
Looking at everyone's workbench on here made me realize that I didn't have one! So I spent a few days re-organizing the shop and built me one.
I came across some free Alu. 2 x 2 square tubing a few years back and decided to go with that.
After laying out the new work bench, I started the project.
Cut up all I needed.
On my miter saw.
Test fit to make sure.
Assembly.
All welded up.
Fitting some shelves. 1/2 inch plywood.
To get more floor space, I decided to take my drill press off it's rolling stand and place it on the bench. Look what was under the drill...
I already had a galvanized 3/8 x 18'' plate. I purchased another 3/8 plate to
finish the other half, but made it 20'' wide to fit the drill press.
The drill fits just right with the recess from the AC unit in the window.
This is as far as I got. Phase 2, doors n a little paint. For now I gotta get to the backlog of work to be done.
theoldwizard1
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The drill fits just right with the recess from the AC unit in the window.
Got to have that AC unit for the couple of days a year it gets above 20°C !
MP&C
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Claude, nice job on the work bench. It already looks right at home, like it's been there for years!
I agree, I saw it referenced in the other thread.
Modifieddriver
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Years ago I did some winter testing at the Transportation Research Center near St. Jerome. Is it still operational? At the time, a nice facility.
LoL!! The other day I had the back door open because it was so nice out and at one point I started sweating. I looked at the thermometer and saw it was 20Deg. C....and laughed. You are so right, us Canadians don't need much heat to jump start the AC.
Thank's Robert, I quite enjoy it. It's great not to have your tools fall to the ground all the time. I really wonder how I managed to work without it for the last 17 years! I hope work lets up a little so I can make some doors for it one day.
Thank you, it's a real joy.
Yep, there still there , crashing and rolling school buses amongst other things.
The oval is getting a little bumpy with our harsh winters though, so I hear.
racingtadpole
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Whats the chassis for?
I like the kart tyres on your oxy set, I thought about using them too and then sold them with the kart.
LutzTD
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read through the whole thread. awesome shop and wicked skills.
any build pictures of your fuel oil tank sand blaster? One of many, many cool things youve built
any build pictures of your fuel oil tank sand blaster? One of many, many cool things youve built
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Thank's for the kind words Lutz.
Here's a link to the specs. Heating oil tank.These tanks are quite common here, it gets a bit cold sometimes(for 6 months)
http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=188418
LutzTD
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Thank's for the kind words Lutz.
Here's a link to the specs. Heating oil tank.These tanks are quite common here, it gets a bit cold sometimes(for 6 months)
http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=188418
haha, I edited out my stupid question. I found them with a little searching.
maybe next trip up to Oh I will see if I can find one there. Definitely none here in sunny Florida.pepi
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LOL you had to move the drill press the base was full, that's a great shot.
BTW nice bench and cool shop all around. I agree with MP&C, the bench looks like it has ben there for years... fits right in.
BTW nice bench and cool shop all around. I agree with MP&C, the bench looks like it has ben there for years... fits right in.
pepi
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You bet parking lots are full of drivers in their motorized land mines, healthy looking Ford.
Strouty
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Question about your fork lift and railroad ties. How well does it work? I have a few sandy areas and can't get the forklift where I want without getting stuck. My forklift is not like yours, but it does get around well on the hard packed stone out front of my shop. What did you use between them, it appears that you laid them so you drive over them the long way, does that cause any problems?
R.Anderson
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I do have to say that your garage/shop setup is the best setup I have seen. A garage/shop for work not show, I highly respect that. Impressive on how much you put on a small footprint, building up and not out. I just might have to use that idea when time comes to build mine.
I got run into in my own yard.
I should of said watch where I park at home.With wheels designed for a concrete floor, going over the ties the short side is bumpy to say the least, specially with a load...Besides, you get much more road to travel going length wise.
I laid them in crushed stone. We call it 0 3/4 stone. From size 0 to 3/4'' inch I guess.
My battery is dead and a replacement is around 8 grand. I may be going for a propane one with more off road capabilities. It's 6000 lbs. that should be worth a few bucks at the wreckers.
Thank you Mr Anderson. If my build can inspire a few that would be cool.
pepi
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"I got run into in my own yard. I should of said watch where I park at home."
I am laughing and crying, I did that one myself, not hard to do. But I did not sue myself and paid off the witness...
I am laughing and crying, I did that one myself, not hard to do. But I did not sue myself and paid off the witness...
WoW! Been forever since I updated this thread! I'm always so busy that time just flies by. But still just as poor.
I have made a bunch of improvements to the shop over the years. I'll have to update that at some point but for now. Let me share my OCD retaining wall project from last summer.I start these things that just get me sucked in LoL!
Last summer marked the 9th year since building the back shop and I still hadn't built a proper retaining wall. Three times I rebuilt the thing in those years and it always crumbled and got over run by weeds.Work was a little lighter for a change so I jumped into the project before they ran me ragged again.
This is pretty bad! Good thing it's in the back yard behind a fence....
I laid down some pallets to stack the stones on so I could drive them away with Clark.
Years ago I got a **** bucket from my scrapper friend. Not sure if it hold an entire half yard.I cobbled up a frame for it so as to be able to turn the forklift into a small front end loader. Clarkbota
Actually was able to dig with it. Yeah!
I placed the ''parking brake'' in strategic spot so as to be able to get off and pull the pin to dump the dirt.
I had to add several inches to the stock Honda hitch bracket in order to be able to get at least 90 deg with the trailer.
Taking out more stones.
Wonder what the safe working angle is for one of these?
My 50 year old actually felt sorry for me and gave me a hand loading the dirt while I was breaking it up. Chickbota!
Progress!!
A little tweaking was required at first to refine the trailer dumping method.
Do not let the smile fool you. An afternoon of help is all I got for the entire project. That's ok, she does all my accounting for free.
I thought I wouldn't need all that much crushed gravel so I went and got 2 tons with the trailer at the local gravel mine. The loader there could easily bury my trailer with one mega scoop. With the trench being deep enough I laid down about a foot of 3/4 clean stone at the bottom and packed it down with a 4x4.
With that done, on with the geo-textile sheet so the stone doesn't get filled with sand. The whole idea with the crushed stone is to let the water drain away so it wont freeze under the wall and destroy it.
First layer of stones after I washed them with a power washer. Masonry sticks best to clean stone.
First session of mortaring and back filling with crushed stone.
More later if I'm not boring everyone to death.
I have made a bunch of improvements to the shop over the years. I'll have to update that at some point but for now. Let me share my OCD retaining wall project from last summer.I start these things that just get me sucked in LoL!
Last summer marked the 9th year since building the back shop and I still hadn't built a proper retaining wall. Three times I rebuilt the thing in those years and it always crumbled and got over run by weeds.Work was a little lighter for a change so I jumped into the project before they ran me ragged again.
This is pretty bad! Good thing it's in the back yard behind a fence....
I laid down some pallets to stack the stones on so I could drive them away with Clark.
Years ago I got a **** bucket from my scrapper friend. Not sure if it hold an entire half yard.I cobbled up a frame for it so as to be able to turn the forklift into a small front end loader. Clarkbota
Actually was able to dig with it. Yeah!
I placed the ''parking brake'' in strategic spot so as to be able to get off and pull the pin to dump the dirt.
I had to add several inches to the stock Honda hitch bracket in order to be able to get at least 90 deg with the trailer.
Taking out more stones.
Wonder what the safe working angle is for one of these?
My 50 year old actually felt sorry for me and gave me a hand loading the dirt while I was breaking it up. Chickbota!
Progress!!
A little tweaking was required at first to refine the trailer dumping method.
Do not let the smile fool you. An afternoon of help is all I got for the entire project. That's ok, she does all my accounting for free.
I thought I wouldn't need all that much crushed gravel so I went and got 2 tons with the trailer at the local gravel mine. The loader there could easily bury my trailer with one mega scoop. With the trench being deep enough I laid down about a foot of 3/4 clean stone at the bottom and packed it down with a 4x4.
With that done, on with the geo-textile sheet so the stone doesn't get filled with sand. The whole idea with the crushed stone is to let the water drain away so it wont freeze under the wall and destroy it.
First layer of stones after I washed them with a power washer. Masonry sticks best to clean stone.
First session of mortaring and back filling with crushed stone.
More later if I'm not boring everyone to death.