Above 1200 Sq/FT The Salvage Garage

[Strouty]

I told him it needs to be fixed and he said he would, I don’t want to piss him off too much.

Today we found out that the pallet racking will need some serious modifications to fit where I want it to go, so we decided to clean up around the shop at the Hill instead. That turned into a lot more than expected, but we got quite a bit done and it is looking much better so far. Started out with just a couple trees.....



Then we decided to drop a few more while we were there....



All this was done with my cute little Milwaukee M18 chainsaw, one and a half batteries.





Then we got out the handy dandy chipper and took care of the little stuff. I have some more that I am going to do tomorrow. I need to pull the stumps and cut about a dozen more smaller trees down and chip them up too.

 

[Orionrising]

you know any heavy truck driveshaft places up my way?

shaft failed on me now 4th load after getting the ****** back togethor

 

[Strouty]

I don’t know any up your way, down here Williams Brothers is where I would go.

 

[mybigwarwagon]

Wow that electrical box is bad.

My dad used to own a burglar alarm company. He had an employee named Joey who started out really good. Then came a job in a very large, very expensive, very old house. I don't know if Joey started doing drugs on that job or what, but he put the key pad in beside the light switches in the entry hall wrong. It was the same size as the light switch so it should have been put in even with it. Nope, he put it one inch higher, and about 6 degrees off center. It was his last day at work. About 8 years later I got to crawl all over that house to put wire connectors on every single connection in the house. We started getting false alarms constantly. Not a single connector on any of it.

 

[Strouty]

Sound alike Joey had a bad day.

I am going to look at a rusted out price of **** today, for Dad. He got on a front end loader kick a couple weeks ago, he said he wanted a CAT 938 G and it had to have a quick connect bucket. He wanted to buy the first one he saw, luckily it was in Rhode Island so he decided to wait. Then last week he tells me he wants a Volvo L70E and there is one local. He and my Cousin went to look at it, I got to see the pictures, the machine has low hours, but it was used to load salt and that is all it did. So it appears that it is rusting through the second paint job and the fenders are rotted off. The guy wants $50k and is firm on the price. It doesn’t have AC, I would expect a machine in this price range would have it. I have found a couple that aren’t as close and have between 6k and 9k hours, but they have no rust, they have AC, a couple have 4way loader buckets and forks included. I am pretty sure no matter what I say, Dad will still buy it.

 

[shortykorte]

Nothing wrong with a little patina. Some clear on that, it will be worth another $5k


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[xtremek]

The house pics are quite "interesting". And that loader looks worse than my dump truck. Difference is that I got a running, driving, working dump truck for $700. I did put $100ish into it so it would stop, but then proceeded to haul about 50 yard of crushed concrete and topsoil before the bed collapsed. We're still less than $2k. But $50k for that?

 

[Strouty]

After seeing it in person, those pictures make it look good. The ROPS is what is rotted out, so the cab needs to be replaced. Fenders need to be replaced, the “new” tires are definitely not new.

Even the upper edges of the roof were rotted through, rain gutters were all rusty too.



Rust blisters so bad, you know that one prod and you would see inside.



Bottom of the cab, can poke my fingers through.



Typical fender:



Battery box, all I could do to get it opened.



Bottom of the ROPS:



Bottom of the door:

 

[smalltown]

Ouch.

 

[mybigwarwagon]

Gee. I would be afraid that one good bump and it would disintegrate.

 

[steaks&anvils]

I am going to look at a rusted out price of **** today, for Dad. The guy wants $50k and is firm on the price. I am pretty sure no matter what I say, Dad will still buy it.

Can you take your step mom to go see it? Ask her to bring HER checkbook? Show her pics of the good ones you think are a better deal, do this before she sees the POS.

If it is for his personnel use, then she as the wife has a stake in it? In Colorado this is the rule anyway.

If it is for the business, then she has a stake in it too.

If it is the trust, then who actually holds the purse strings? Do members of the trust have no say on how the money is spent?

$50k for a POS is crazy bad.

 

[Strouty]

She has no stake in anything to do with the business until he is legally declared incompetent or kicks the bucket.

Dad and I talked, he says he won’t buy it, but he needs me to find one in the next week or two because he “needs” it. He is insane.

 

[mybigwarwagon]

I found the one he needs. The price is good, and it has hardly any rust.

 

[steaks&anvils]

She has no stake in anything to do with the business until he is legally declared incompetent or kicks the bucket.

Dad and I talked, he says he won’t buy it, but he needs me to find one in the next week or two because he “needs” it. He is insane.

I thought she worked for the company? like was VP or something?

anyway, glad he listened to you. Sorry this is the newest fire drill.

 

[Orionrising]

what does he need a loader for...

 

[Strouty]

He technically owns a gravel pit, but it is not supposed to be used anymore. He wants to pull gravel out of there and use it to build a road. At another property all in the same town. I am figuring something will happen, but he can be pretty lucky.

 

[Orionrising]

50k buys alot of load of gravel... or probably 6 months of laoder rental...

 

[xtremek]

$20 a yard?

 

[Orionrising]

around here generally alot less then that, bank run is like $8 at a commercial yard, less at alot of private pits.

 

[Strouty]

I can’t convince him of that, he has lost all rational thought process. I think when I try to reason with him, he does the opposite just to spite me.

 

[Strouty]

Got some more trees cut up and chipped, then moved things around so there is some space. Also got some of the hazardous stuff dealt with, cut the barrels open so I could get the liquids out. Turns out one barrel had just water in it, the others were either empty or had kerosine or heating oil in them, hopefully it will burn in the waste oil furnace.

 

[Strouty]

Bev has to go back over to the tower site this morning, I had swapped out the burb so I could fill the water tank.

Last week the F-550 was delayed a bit, but Saturday the mechanic has it all apart. Apparently when my favorite ex employee fixed the truck, he changed the oil cooler but not the EGR cooler, so I ordered a new one from bulletproof diesel, that means I probably won’t get the F-550 back until next week. At this point I won’t register it until September anyways, no sense in losing a month registering it at the end of August.

Also, I am going to fix the white burb with the 454, I will pull the engine and do some investigating, if it is too far gone, then I will buy a new motor. Then I will drive it for a while.

 

[Strouty]

Looks like the next two days is going to be office, office, office. Wednesday I am supposed to get Buck back, that should make the rest of the tree work a little bit easier. Bev is back at the tower site and I am headed to the Hill now.

 

[xtremek]

First, my condolences on the office work. 2 questions, what's the story on the engineless box van? And are my eyes deceiving me that there is a boom on the firetruck?

 

[XJSuperman]

Yeah, that loader is a no-go for me. Id look at a Deere, CAT, or Komatsu. They come at a cost though, but I don't think your dad really cares.

Hell, if I owned a gravel pit Id want to use it too. How do you guys not have something with a loader on it sitting around? No backoe? No loader? No tractor with loader on it?
2 excavators, 10 forklifts, and 17 knucklebooms but no loader.

Enjoy your paperwork, Im going back to mine now.

 

[Strouty]

Van has a lot of Dad's **** in it, he doesn't really know what is and isn't there, but I can't junk it without his approval. I think he bought it for the engine, then he used it for storage. I just moved it out of the way for now, probably shuffle it again before snow hits.

There has almost always been a boom on OMO, it isn't mine, it is also Dad's, he had originally told me he would let me have it in exchange for another boom, but then the ex employee (while still employed) bent one of the fancy rams on it, it needs to be repaired to use on a regular basis, so I am just going to let him keep the thing. I need a bigger boom anyways. Also it is not currently plumbed to work, we have only tested it out using auxiliary lines from another truck.

 

[Strouty]

Well, office work is going to be tougher than expected, I am trying to figure out the mess of coax so I can wire up the internet, probably going to end up having to go shopping for supplies. It looks like the office has no coax, so for the time being, I will probably do a run outside and bring the coax through the old cat door. I can see spending an entire day rewiring the house for just coax, the perfectionist in me wants to do that, but I am going to just get it done.

 

[Strouty]

I think I have it figured out, I am using a MoCA interface to allow the coax to become my internet too, it isn’t exactly cheap, but it is definitely easier than setting up new wiring. This way there can be internet throughout the house, shops, and office without having to run all kinds of Ethernet cabling. Of course temporarily it is going to look like a rat’s nest, but if I can use the system, then it is “perfect” for now.

 

[Strouty]

Got the internet working through the coax, now I need some ethernet cable to make the copier function properly.

 

[1Garageman]

Got the internet working through the coax, now I need some ethernet cable to make the copier function properly.

That's easy to get. Setting up the copier might be not so fun. Let me know if you need help with that, I do IT work for a living.

 

[Strouty]

My hope is that by using the same router and same computers that it will “remember” settings, if not the place that handles the contract will be able to remote in and help fix things. If I really get stuck, you may see a PM or three.

 

[Strouty]

The contractor is done with all the drywall, just has to finish doing mud, yet this is what the house looks like.









I clean up an area and more **** appears. He must have enough drywall inside to do an entire room. And three of every tool. I have done plenty of contracting work and we never left a place this messy except maybe during lunch.

 

[Strouty]

Had a quick storm move through the area of the Hill this afternoon, I ended up going home earlier than normal. Got a call from one of the tower customers about an outage, we usually give it a couple hours thinking it is a power outage, it probably was, but the lightning must have hit something. They have a dedicated T-1 and there modem was toast, nothing else, all on a surge is protector too. I went and checked my stuff, lost a wireless router and one of the new MoCA boxes, but everything around them was still operational and they were in two different buildings with different power feeds.

 

[macgyver37]

I was renting a room years ago in college and the landlord had new HVAC installed and they ran a duct to my room with vent. It was a basement room newly made and there was easy access to the other side of the wall to my room. The installer took his saw, cut the sheetrock for the vent and either pushed the cutout pc in or let it fall and then came in my room and put the vent in. I got home and the pc he cutout was where it fell with all the debris that goes with cutting sheetrock. It happened to be on my desk with my computer setting there covered in all that ****. I still live in the same town and even 20 years later I will never consider him for a job because he first allowed the stuff to fall on my computer and then didn't even try to clean it up. It wasn't like he didn't know because that vent Had to be installed from my side and he had to reach over my computer and the mess to put it in.
Experiences like this keep me from hiring others to do stuff for me.

 

[Strouty]

It stinks when a simple job has to turn into a mess like that. I too find that about 50% of the time I have someone else do a job for me, it turns into a fiasco that just reinforces why I feel the need to keep most projects in house. Sometimes things that are done incorrectly will cost more to fix than the original repair. I have plenty of shops that I trust, but even then I still like to verify and I think that is good practice.

 

[legenddc]

Is that regular drywall behind the tub?

 

[Strouty]

On the sides it is, he didn't want to change it over to the green board, he was originally going to use the regular drywall on the ceiling too. When I questioned this, he said "it is going to be behind the plastic shower walls". I just hope that there isn't any exposed , because the old stuff went from the shower to the ceiling and that is the only reason it survived before. You have to remember that this is Dad's friend and Dad is paying for this to be done, my input is very limited and anything I go to Dad with would be seen as an attack on his friend. Touchy situation to say the least.

 

[casmurbax]

When I get through the day, I clean up, so the next day I am not stepping over things or looking for something, one of the great lessons from my dad.

I can't stand going out in the garage after working on a car and leaving the dirty tools to be picked up and cleaned on another day or doing a bathroom over and stepping over **** from yesterday.

Dam Strouty. there are a lot of rules that you need to follow dealing with your dad, no idea how you do it.

btw don't start knocking a guy for having 3 of something... i know a guy that has thousands of security tags, a few forklifts, trailers, trucks.....air compressors....

 

[Strouty]

Having three is not the knock, having three within a few feet when you only have two guys and one small room is a bit above and beyond, even for me.

Yesterday was a wasted day, nothing got done. Today I have a million little things to do, and all of them will turn into a complicated mess.

 

[1Garageman]

Having three is not the knock, having three within a few feet when you only have two guys and one small room is a bit above and beyond, even for me.

Yesterday was a wasted day, nothing got done. Today I have a million little things to do, and all of them will turn into a Completed Success!

I fixed the end of your sentence for you