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Ultimately that is my goal, enjoyment. When things are no fun, I don't even want to be here. I am not saying that I won't do the not fun stuff, there just needs to be a better balance. I have still not found it. Moving these trucks is kicking my ***, I can remember when I was putting them in here and thought it would be a good idea to put them in sideways, but I let my Father talk me out of it. It would have taken an extra hour with the two of us and now it is going to take me the better part of a day by myself. :( :mad: :confused:
 
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I use a come along and a logging chain to move cars around. Three or four cranks gets all those dolly wheels facing the way I want, then I push.
If my back is out like it is about 30% of the time, I just row away with the come along, there is almost no resistance and pulling the car 10' goes quickly.
 
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Believe me, I thought of that, but short of drilling a bunch of holes in the floor I have no where to anchor the come along. I am on a hunt for friends now. My back is at the point that I don't think I can push it by myself, going to need some rest tonight.
 
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You can anchor to about anything, it really does not take much. I've anchored to an empty 4 post, racking, another car, the garage door frame, etc.
You can use the knack boxes, air compressor, that giant drill press. You will be surprised what will hold still, if you can't move an item by giving it a good shove, it will anchor for a dolly pull.
 
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It would be great if the heavy stuff was in the correct location!

The late is the only thing close and it is up on wooden blocking, I also know it is top heavy, so I don't even want to mess with that. I think I am fighting the floor now, I have all the wheels going the right direction and she is still fighting.
 
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Then I got ambitious and decided to change the orientation of the suburbans, I am in the middle of it and with one person, it is really not easy. The wheel dollies work great once all the wheels are swiveled into position, but it takes a lot of effort to get the thing moving. I have been using my floor jack to take the weight off and manually change the direction of the wheels. I think one of my future projects will be wheel dollies that actually move a larger vehicle easily with one person.


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Tell me more about your suburbans....I have a 99 3/4 4x4 Diesel

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I took your advice Kev, it took a little farting around, but I got them apart and around enough to get things cleaned up a bit. Tomorrow will have to work for finishing, I ran out of daylight and needed to get the forklift out, no lights, so no fun in the dark. I had not thought of using the other suburban to pull the one on the dollies, but it work well. Also used the big drill press, that is the most use it has seen so far!

Homeschool, the two you see in the pictures are both 1999 diesels. The third one is a 1997 diesel and is now outside with a plow on it. When I was 22 I bought a brand new 1999 GMC suburban diesel and I have had a love of them ever since. Unfortunately I had to sell my original one, but I know where it is and have talked to the owner, he loves it and says I would have to wait until either he dies or it dies. Soon this thread will be updated with my restoration (poor man's version) of at least one of them.

Here are some more pictures and tomorrow afternoon I am supposed to get help for a few hours, should make the final placement much easier.





 
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Tomorrow I get to move everything again, kind of like that game called parking lot! I want to move my bench, then I will have lots of room to work on the trucks and not worry about getting to the bench.

 
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Tomorrow I get to move everything again, kind of like that game called parking lot! I want to move my bench, then I will have lots of room to work on the trucks and not worry about getting to the bench.

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Couldn't you just use the forklift and lift front end?
 
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That looks to be worth the effort, definitely gives you more elbow room for wrenching.

Remember: even if you only spend an hour or two here and there with them, it is more than you have done in the wintertime before!
I was going to blow off the gas tank, fuel lines and brake lines on my Jimmy last winter. I ended up working on it slowly starting around January 15th and was driving it again before February. Considering it is supposed to be my winter beater, I was pleased with myself for sucking it up to get it done in a rather cold garage.
 
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Hopefully tomorrow will show real progress, I do feel good about what I did, but I left things in a bit of a mess, just a different mess than what I started with.
 
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Getting an early start today, trying to be productive. :)

Need to pick up some distilled water this morning so I have some for the forklift battery. I am going to be working on restoring and modifying the charger for it. I want to put it on wheels, but I found that it should be on a 30 amp circuit and I only have two of those, so I may not be moving it around much.
 
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If I didn't hurt my back yesterday, I won't be hurting it today....... LOL.

Bill, that is 10 years longer than I have been alive!
 
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I forgot how much of a mess cleaning the battery in the forklift makes. For some reason I thought it had one drain hole, but it has many and I could not contain the water. I usually do it outside, then hose the area down really well afterwards. I also had to get the big forklift going, I guess I need to cover the steering column as the rain messed up the switch for the starter a tad. It is all working now and adding a trash bag to cover the column should be all that is needed until I get the new windows in.






Also found some casters for another project, but I can't find any info on them, not one place appears to be stamped. I am trying to find some casters rated at 2000 pounds or better and those suckers are expensive! I have several of this style in various conditions, some have pretty messed up wheels, others need some bearings, hopefully I can find out the manufacturer.







 
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The thing I was most concerned about with the forklift cleaning was that the water was not diluted enough and I was going to have acid residue on the concrete. I sprayed down some of my battery cleaner and none of it turned pink, so I guess I did a good enough job.



Now I have the job box out and some room inside. As long as my help shows up, I should be able to finish the truck moving, maybe this weekend I will actually get some work done!
 
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Tomorrow is going to be a nothing day as I have appointments in the morning and afternoon, so probably no update or progress. This weekend should be better, at least I can see my goal getting closer. I do need to fabricate a few things to make it happen, so the burbs are still patiently waiting.
 
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I have a pair of giant albion casters and two straight ones I got somewhere or other. Just went and looked... even though some still in the box no model or serial numbers either.

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I think the dimensions of the casters are going to be the only way to tell. The ones I have were used to move house sections at a prefab home builder. I bought about 30 of them for $10 each, I sold some to my Dad, and my brother. I find them every so often at a surplus store I go to, those are usually new ones, more money, but still a great price.
 
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I really need to decide what to do with some of the cabinets, I was thinking of just mounting them to the wall, but they are soooo big. I may make a framework so they can be shuffled around as needed, but I am not sure yet. I really need to work on the layout, I have been saying that I need to learn how to use sketchup for a couple of years now, maybe it is time? So how big is too big for a wall cabinet? I have six of these beige cabinets and they are about 18" deep.

 
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When did you get the ironworker?? That looks like a nice beast! Do you have it hooked up and running?

I have a Piranha P50 and it is awesome for cutting and punching. So much faster than the bandsaw and drill press.

Regarding the french cleat, yes, you do need the bevel edge board at the top to form the cleat and then one of the same thickness near the bottom to keep it all plumb.

I did mount a board on my wall that has the panel for ackromill bins...... I might as well have just screwed the board to the wall and been done, but it works and if I need to remove it, it should be easier.... The one nice thing about the french cleat is that it is easier to just set the item on the wall.....especially if it is heavy or bulky.....

You're making progress.... Overall, I thought the recent pics of the shop looked good.
 
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Would you have to put two boards up? One for the cleat and one to even out the space?
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Well, yes it's just easier than drilling bunch of holes in wall and finding studs. Depending on where your going to hang them say like a concrete wall you could just sit them on top of a ledger board and drill/ lag them into wall.
 
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Whoa! You got an ironworker for FREE? You realize what those things cost right??? :0

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