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Re: My Road Box MORE PICS ADDED

OK as promised more pics.

NUTTSGT you asked about mods done to my box. Here is the 2 Geneva boxes I added to it. I also added some cheap door/gate locks in a pinch to prevent the drawers from sliding open while parked on a incline and I figured out quickly that it help the drawers stay in place while accelerating and braking.

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As I said earlier I added a HF 44 bottom box and park it beside my box which sets on a heavy duty steel roll around. Then I have my teardown table on the left side

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Its a pain in the *** to move it all around the shop since there are no assigned bays but you do what you got to do.


OK now the good stuff.

Here is the two boxes me and my youngest son built together that we sold. One red, one black. They are identical, except color, and the owner of the black box showed me how he wanted his socket and wrench organizers mounted and I did that for him. He also wanted his top door to open as far up as it would go. He did not like how the front cover set low and straight like the red one, so I made adjustment to the mounting location of the gas shocks to raise it up.


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Here is where you can tell the difference in the front covers.

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Lids Closed

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Backsides

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Top Drawer open with liners installed

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This is the style of drawer lock that they agreed on. The bigger handles make it easier to lock/unlock especially when you are wearing gloves, or your hands are greasy. I think the black lock on the red drawers look good.

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I owe half the credit, if not more, to my 16 year old son who put in just as much time as I did on these. I paid him half of the profit on these boxes because he earned it. He did the majority of the fit and finish on them. He is very particular in his work and it showed. Words cant expressed as to how proud I am of him and what he can do at such a young age. I might add that he is pretty dam good with a set of wrenches as well. Last summer he drove around in a big GMC topkick hauling fuel, welding up broke ****, and helping me catch up on repairs when I was still working on the farm. So I will toot his horn once more and post these two pics up as they are the only ones I have on my laptop

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Comments welcome, good or bad....
 
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Thanks DanCo. Im going to buy him a TIG in the spring. I want to build one more but make it out of aluminum and polish the **** out of it and maybe give it that Spirit of St. Louis look.
 

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Ya got a cool son there. When I was 16 I could barely pull my head out of my *** with both hands to grab some air. I was so busy chasing tail, putting on parties and getting stoned that I barely made it through technical school for my painters ticket.

Oh ya - NICE Boxes!
 

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so is that the ****** for air bleeder or pressure relief? :D

Also looks like quite a bit of angle on that driveshaft even for ag app.

nevermind, I see the air vent on top the gearhead.
 
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when you are using the poly pipe (white plastic collapsible pipe hooked to the end of the pipe) to irrigate crops due to a drought you have to have a check valve in the discharge pipe OR when you kick the PTO out of gear and the well starts spinning backwards it will **** the poly back down the well.

The power unit motor was just positioned into place and was not jacked up and level yet. Driveshaft was hooked up so that we could get the distance right before we unhooked. Good eye on that one. I have seen folks run them steeper than that all year long without issues and then I have seen some that were perfect straight come apart and tear stuff up like you can not imagine.
 
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Just found this thread. Awesome is all I can say.

thanks for the comments zeke


What kind of power unit and well are you running?

The majority of them were 5 or 6 cylinder Deutz air cooled diesels without the turbo which would make it a 912 series. They had one big 6 with a turbo (913 Series) that was a very old motor that I rebuilt with all new components, including a new turbo. The crank still looked brand new and spec'd stock tolerance even with a burnt up turbo and using 2 gal of oil a day.

They have a bunch of red hood perkins motors. A few 4 cyl motors known as the 4.236 motor, some with turbos, some without. They had more of the 6cyl stuff that is considered the 1006-60TW. The remainder of the fleet of power units were 350, 427, and 454 chevys running on natural gas which is the cheapest way to irrigate if you have gas on site, downside is they are noisy as hell and the distributors were prone to moisture problems all the freaking time. Mostly they were ran at the shop to power the fans to dry grain in the bins and anywhere the cross country gas line was in the field they had a meter set up. I used to could tell you how many they had of each but it was well over 50 engines all together that I kept up with everyday during pumping season. At one time last year we were watering rice, beans and corn at the same time and it was nothing to drive over 100 miles a day on gravel roads making sure everyone was running.

As for the wells, they range from 90 to 140 ft deep and range anywhere from 8" to 15" in size. The gearheads were made by 2 or 3 different suppliers and I cant remember the names of them at the moment. Somewhere I have a notebook with what gearhead was in what field and what motor was hooked to it at the time. That way if I got a service call I could look in the book and knew what parts I was probably going to need to get it running in one trip. A new well and gearhead will currently run you close to 20K today.
 
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Those other boxes look good and it's great that your son could help you out with them. I think it's awesome that he's learning some lifelong skills at a young age.

The side boxes on your box fit right in and I can imagine that they provide some extra needed room.

Thanks for the update.
 

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Awesome work for sure! Talk about heavy duty.....A lot of us would pay extra to have heavier duty stuff if it was an option.
 

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Your son apparently has a gift for fabricating and it is great the two of you can work together,so get him a welding cap to keep the sweat out of his eyes and don't shock him when he is fitting for you.
 
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thanks for all the comments guys.

Lynchwood - He has the full gear setup (cap, sleeves, better gloves) , but it was not with him that day as he was just thrown in the service truck (with truck gear) to go do two of those ******* real quick so they could turn the water on. About the only safety issue that I have to remind him of is ear protection when he is grinding, other than that he is pretty good. I was wanting to get him a good jacket for xmas but he is still growing and i just couldnt see buying something that he will probably out grow.
 
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Great Job!How Long Did It Take To Build?&How Much Wire Did It Take To Weld?

I have no idea how much wire I used... not a clue.
I open the side door, look at the wire roll to make sure its got wire a start burning. When I run out, or know that I am about to, I change it. I should keep up with it but I dont. Sorry.

Timewise, I built my first one on vacation, So I started on a Monday, didnt really bust me *** getting it done, but stayed steadily productive and had all the fab work done in 3 1/2 days. Had to wait on the powdercoater a few days and had to wait on the vinyl wrap guy several days. Ended up taking a few weeks before I put it into service.

The two that we built at the same time, I really didnt keep up with my time real good because I would go work on them for a little bit, then my son would come out and do some stuff.
I ask my son what he thought on the time and he quick figured 60 to 70 hours for the 2. This was him working a little after school and me working a little after my full time job. I have no idea, but I do know that we had them completed, powder coated, and ready for delivery in just under 3 weeks.
 
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Does Tadpole in Oil Trough do your powder coating?

Bib and I have discussed this answer in emails over the last 24 hours, as I did not see this post till tonight, but I am mainly answering this question to tell you guys that, yes, we have a small town in Arkansas called Oil Trough. And several other ones that are pretty funny including Possum Grape and Toad ****. No I am not making this up. Bib can back me up on this one.


Congrats on your great skills

Thanks Charlie
 

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These are very impressive tool boxes!! Nice work! You are really fortunate to have a son that has an interest in working with you and learning the skills you have to pass on to him.

Where did you get the lid shock absorber supports and how did you size them?
 
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These are very impressive tool boxes!! Nice work! You are really fortunate to have a son that has an interest in working with you and learning the skills you have to pass on to him.

Where did you get the lid shock absorber supports and how did you size them?


The shocks where one of the hardest things to figure out. It was a lot of trial and error. I knew my "ballpark" length of where they would be fully extended and I could change the mounting tabs + or - a little bit each way (forward or rearward) so I ended up at O'Reillys looking through there catalog from their gas shock supplier. I think I got it the way I wanted it in 3 trips as it came down to what poundage shock was needed. Ended up using Part # SG414012 from Stabilus. Not sure what car they actually go on but seems like they are 75 to 85 lb shocks. They had to be that weight due to the mounting location/angle but they work perfectly. Feels like you are lifting 5 pounds or less when you lift the lid. It is almost as if you get it started and it just slowly pulls itself all the way open. Same for closing. Very smooth all the way down to the latching point.
 

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Nice job on the boxes and nice job on the son. Its good to see a young person these days who isn't afraid to work with their hands and get off their a**
 

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I too just found this thread. Very nice work indeed. Looks an apple and the tree thing going on! A tig at 16, nice reward! You sure sound like a good dad.

Bob
 
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