Ye Old Garage

[1/2 Cup]

Sub, your wall cladding is coming along nicely.

 

[xtremek]

Like Steve said, the wall is really starting to come together. So what's the plan for the bridge?

 

[drivesitfar]

Sub: great pics of the car and your garage history yesterday!! I'd like to see pics of your rock wall and good to see you are able to find material just on your property to build it. make sure it's safe enough so that mischeivious kids can't tip it over on themselves.

nice use of old cement and looking forward to seeing a Sub built bridge too.

your garage wall really is looking nice and another great use of free materials.

have a great day (Soda free if you can)!!

 

[sublime68charger]

got the last of the board up on this side for the garage wall done,

so Winter Project of 2017 is now done just in time for Summer. I guess I'm only about 3 months behind on things but that is how it goes some times.

Still have some trimming out work to due but the major portion is done for this wall at least.

 

[Finallygotit]

Nice job!

Do you plan on sealing the boards or leaving them raw?

 

[sublime68charger]

Like Steve said, the wall is really starting to come together. So what's the plan for the bridge?

Sub: great pics of the car and your garage history yesterday!! I'd like to see pics of your rock wall and good to see you are able to find material just on your property to build it. make sure it's safe enough so that mischeivious kids can't tip it over on themselves.

nice use of old cement and looking forward to seeing a Sub built bridge too.

your garage wall really is looking nice and another great use of free materials.

have a great day (Soda free if you can)!!

Xtremek

Bridge is going over the creek so I have access to appx 20-30 more acres of ground to ride around with on the ATV.

the Best Mud holes are over on the other side of the crick.

Have the Steel Beams for spanning the bridge and back about 10 years ago had a big flood come through and the bridge Deck floated away in the flood.

took 2 years to get bridge 70% rebuilt and then another big flood comes through and away the bridge went again.

Been busy with so many other things just haven't made getting bridge built a priority but hoping to work on it this summer.

this will be the 5th attempt and 4th location to get the bridge across the creek to provide access to the other side.

Drives will get pics of the rock wall progress for you. and hopefully the kids stay behaved on the wall but never under estimate the idea's they come up with to try. as you well know I sure!

 

[drivesitfar]

Sub: not sure this will do the job cause i don't know your soils around your creek or how permanent you'd like the bridge to be, but I'd dig at least 2 holes on each side about 3 or 4 foot deep and put some sonotubes filled with cement in them and some brackets on top to hold beams or old timbers. you could maybe drive down some 3/4 inch 10 foot rebar into the ground inside the sonotubes if the ground is really soft on top to maybe keep the sonotubes there for many years to come.

here's a small example of what i'm doing for my little address stand/sign and maybe your bridge won't have to be rebuilt every time it floods and all you'll have to do is maybe replace some gravel or dirt.

i really wish I had the property you do, but I know my bride wouldn't survive yet out in the country cause she likes a lot of the comforts of the city.

 

[sublime68charger]

Nice job!

Do you plan on sealing the boards or leaving them raw?

for now leave them raw but they might get a coat of clear Poly to keep them shinning pretty if/when I get time.

 

[sublime68charger]

Sub: not sure this will do the job cause i don't know your soils around your creek or how permanent you'd like the bridge to be, but I'd dig at least 2 holes on each side about 3 or 4 foot deep and put some sonotubes filled with cement in them and some brackets on top to hold beams or old timbers. you could maybe drive down some 3/4 inch 10 foot rebar into the ground inside the sonotubes if the ground is really soft on top to maybe keep the sonotubes there for many years to come.

here's a small example of what i'm doing for my little address stand/sign and maybe your bridge won't have to be rebuilt every time it floods and all you'll have to do is maybe replace some gravel or dirt.

i really wish I had the property you do, but I know my bride wouldn't survive yet out in the country cause she likes a lot of the comforts of the city.

Drives thanks for all the bridge input
and your bride could survive out in the country just think of Green Acres!

 

[sublime68charger]

Sub: great pics of the car and your garage history yesterday!! I'd like to see pics of your rock wall and good to see you are able to find material just on your property to build it. make sure it's safe enough so that mischeivious kids can't tip it over on themselves.

nice use of old cement and looking forward to seeing a Sub built bridge too.

your garage wall really is looking nice and another great use of free materials.

have a great day (Soda free if you can)!!

Pic of the rock wall for you to gauze upon Drives!

Ill need to get some more for you and It's a work in progress that is for sure.

this isn't the best angle but it's the only pic I have on hand at the moment.

 

[sublime68charger]

Have been busy with 3 kids in soccer and a lot of games I've had to watch and not much free time.

I did get a service station built for the Lawn mowers and ATV which will make Oil changes and lower end maintenance a lot simpler to get done.

First Pic of the rough outlay,

Pic of the approach to the ramps need to get this done up a bit better but it works for now.

then all done and ready for testing. I have this braced 6 ways from Sunday I think and it doesn't move at all. Need to get a coat of Oil on the board's to help them have long life out in the weather. since this will be the base for doing oil changes on the ATV's and mower's Ill have plenty of used oil on hand to use up on this.

 

[drivesitfar]

Sub: good to see you survived the first signs of sunshine in your part of the world and looks like your grass mowing is a full time job. nice looking rock wall too.

if you want to put BLO (boiled linseed oil) on your raw wood it gives it sort of a vintage look as it turns the wood a bit darker and maybe try it on a scrap piece first to see if you like it.

also just an FYI. dispose of rags with stain or BLO into a metal covered bin or hang to dry on a clothes line cause they can self combust and have burnt down many a member's garage or house.

have a great day and good to have you back!!

 

[sublime68charger]

couple of Pics of the service station being used,

the ATV just to test it out that it holds the weight just fine, Didn't budge a bit from what I could tell.

I added a side step short 4x4 to the long 1x9 angled from the top deck to the bottom to give me a step for getting on/off the ATV and trimed up some branches from the pine trees as well.

Then the Mower out there for a oil change before I went and got the yard mowed.

getting the mower up and on the board's was a bit more of a chore than the ATV I'll need to make the approach a bit smoother as the mower doesn't like the bumps as much but still drive out there and hop off place the oil catch pan and drop the plug and oil change simple and easy!

thanks for viewing.

 

[sublime68charger]

Sub: good to see you survived the first signs of sunshine in your part of the world and looks like your grass mowing is a full time job. nice looking rock wall too.

if you want to put BLO (boiled linseed oil) on your raw wood it gives it sort of a vintage look as it turns the wood a bit darker and maybe try it on a scrap piece first to see if you like it.

also just an FYI. dispose of rags with stain or BLO into a metal covered bin or hang to dry on a clothes line cause they can self combust and have burnt down many a member's garage or house.

have a great day and good to have you back!!

thanks for the FYI on the Rag dispose.

I have been to 2 major fires where the cause was Rags with stain self combusting and burning the place to the ground.

this one hits home as it was a great place for Friday night Fish!

I did 4 hours of Station Standby in Spring Green Fire Station while there crews battled the blaze.

Post House Fire,

http://www.wiscnews.com/reedsburgti...cle_5fb365c9-c804-5fe7-a8a7-d6c47128074a.html

Pics from the Fire,

been many years ago and I can still tell you where I was and what I was doing when the page went out for my department to respond and back fill there station while there guy's was very very busy on scene there.

 

[1/2 Cup]

Sub, great work on the service station..


That is a timely reminder about linseed oil.

 

[xtremek]

So is the 4x4 not in the pics? BTW, I love it. It looks like it was put together out of mostly scraps. Very cool use of existing materials. Ingenious.

 

[sublime68charger]

So is the 4x4 not in the pics? BTW, I love it. It looks like it was put together out of mostly scraps. Very cool use of existing materials. Ingenious.

Yep the side step 4x4 not in the pics will be posted in the next pic I get a chance to take.

 

[xtremek]

FYI, I told Fergus this earlier, so I'll share the wealth. Your two threads are my favorites.

 

[Grumblebum]

Just got caught up on your thread sub. Can't believe I was so far behind.

Looking great on your property. Love the clad garage wall.

cheers GB

 

[sreno]

couple of Pics of the service station being used,

the ATV just to test it out that it holds the weight just fine, Didn't budge a bit from what I could tell.

I added a side step short 4x4 to the long 1x9 angled from the top deck to the bottom to give me a step for getting on/off the ATV and trimed up some branches from the pine trees as well.

Then the Mower out there for a oil change before I went and got the yard mowed.

getting the mower up and on the board's was a bit more of a chore than the ATV I'll need to make the approach a bit smoother as the mower doesn't like the bumps as much but still drive out there and hop off place the oil catch pan and drop the plug and oil change simple and easy!

thanks for viewing.

Very nice. Love it!

 

[Lee Celtic]

Ok I'm caught up...

Just spent a couple of hours reading from the start and I have to say you have a great space there.. Nice to see an old building getting a new life..

Love the pallet wall but then again I'm bias (I have one too)

And finally Great parenting.. You can tell by the smiles they are having fun.. just enough thrills to make it exciting but not enough to make it too dangerous.. love it.

Watching with interest what you do next..

 

[sublime68charger]

Just got caught up on your thread sub. Can't believe I was so far behind.

Looking great on your property. Love the clad garage wall.

cheers GB

Very nice. Love it!

Grumblebum, and sreno thanks for you kind word's

 

[sublime68charger]

Ok I'm caught up...

Just spent a couple of hours reading from the start and I have to say you have a great space there.. Nice to see an old building getting a new life..

Love the pallet wall but then again I'm bias (I have one too)

And finally Great parenting.. You can tell by the smiles they are having fun.. just enough thrills to make it exciting but not enough to make it too dangerous.. love it.

Watching with interest what you do next..

I hope your hours of going through my little thread and space was well worth your time!

thanks for your comment's!!

 

[sublime68charger]

So is the 4x4 not in the pics? BTW, I love it. It looks like it was put together out of mostly scraps. Very cool use of existing materials. Ingenious.

here you go xtremek

pic with the 4x4 step in view.

the above pic is the 02 Honda Rancher 350 ES which has the electric shift and some times the electric shift is temperamental and wont shift into reverse. this last fall I bought a bypass manual shift lever and spent the better part of 40min trying to get it put on the output shifting rod. This winter it worked fine and couple day's ago the lever worked its way off the output shifting rod so I put the lever on the bench and told myself next time the Electric shift gives me problems I'll put the bypass lever back on.
well need to back the ATV out of the garage and didn't want to shift into reverse, I had to push/pull ATV out of garage and over to the work station it went and 2 min later I had the bypass lever back on and was ready to go. It was super nice to work on this at waist height level instead of kneeling on the floor trying to look at the output shaft and line up the bypass lever.

Pic is up close of the bypass shifting lever.

also the station got used for putting in the row marker for the garden.
just drive ATV back and forth and you get a nice center mark where to plant stuff.
just put the dolly wheels down and the center pin drags down below them to make a mark in the dirt. most times this is a longer process to get the long road setup on the dolly system. the work station made it super easy and quick.

 

[sublime68charger]

more service station work,

Got the other mower out and took deck off and put on the tiller for the garden work.
getting the mower deck off was a breeze, Okay not a breeze per say but it went a lot better than doing it with the mower sitting on the ground. walk around each side and drop the connecting pins and pull the deck out from the mower and done.

tiller put on the mower and put the center pulley on the tractor out on the work station instead of having to due that while laying down on the ground to get it done.

garden tilled center rows marked and planted and the wife is happy for the moment till all the weeds start coming up that is.

hard to find the center of the rows but you can tell where the ATV tires went back and forth to set the spacing of the rows. Sticks are in the rows.

 

[Locker537]

Sublime, there are a lot of cool cars on this forum, but I think your charger is my fav.

 

[sublime68charger]

Sublime, there are a lot of cool cars on this forum, but I think your charger is my fav.

thank you very much for saying so!

Page 38 Post 753 has a bunch of the charger Pics!

Took my wife on are first date in the car so it has historic meaning to her as well!

 

[xtremek]

So, as I said I really like this. Is it worth your while to make something that you can put under the deck and use it to slide the deck out from under the tractor?

 

[sublime68charger]

so Sunday was a very hot day. temp in the 90's!

set up the quick shade canopy and did some yard work putting some wishing wells over the Septic Drain field vent pipes.

center the shade up over the vent pipe. being in the shade made the work a lot better was still hot but shaded!

level up the ground a little bit put down used bird seed bag around the vent pipe 4 bricks place the well and then put in 4 ground stakes and tie up rope from well to stake's to keep it in place, cover with base with mulch and done!

2 bottles of water per well and stay in the shade as much as possible!

got both done,

moved the shade canopy over the front of car trailer and did some work on that and was inside cooling off and breeze came up and over the shade canopy when so now it got 2 bent legs but still usable. I had it weighed down with some concert bucket anchor's but not enough I guess.

 

[sublime68charger]

So, as I said I really like this. Is it worth your while to make something that you can put under the deck and use it to slide the deck out from under the tractor?

for when I took the deck off I just had a 2x4 under the deck to help slide the deck out from under the tractor. and not have the deck wheels get caught up on the stuff when trying to slide it out.

as I use this I'm sure ill tweak things as I go.

Heck there's Yee old garage scrap's all over in this workstation build,

the Long 1x9 brace boards are from the inside garage siding project that board was warped like a banana and didn't line up with any other boards so it got used as a brace on this as being a single board cut at angle the warping doesn't effect anything. The boards providing the bracing from side to side are the old side boards from the window opening's from when garage walls was first put up and had been laying under the pine trees for 4 years and now are back being used for a purpose!

Reuse and repurpose must me a motto around my place as I seem to due a lot of it.

 

[sublime68charger]

Been a few weeks since the last post,

but got the kids to work this weekend changing tires on the ATV from the winter set to the summer set.

they got the backs done and had 1 front tire on backwards and I had to have them take it off and put on the correct side so that the tread was going the correct direction.

also used the stone boat to pull the old tiller down to the garden area,

Aired up the tires filled up with gas, checked I had oil in it. Pulled the air cleaner off and splashed some gas down the carb. 1 pull and it fires right up and away I go tilling up the weeds in the garden between the planted rows!
Sorry this is the only pic I got but impressed with this old tiller. got it last summer from the curb with a free to a good home sign. Needs a Gas tank as it leaks from a couple spots. Snapper RT8!

 

[drivesitfar]

Sub: great to see the boys working on their own with Dad not too far away to check on them and correct their mistakes as needed.

looks like you've got summer so have some fun and if you want to start another P90x just let me know in the Get Healthy thread.

cheers

 

[sublime68charger]

Been a Busy summer so far and haven't got much work done on the garage but did get some much needed work done on the driveway,

Got a load of gravel delivered and spread out to help keep the driveway in good condition.
The kids named the Gravel Pile Puppy Mountain as we where dog sitting the day the gravel was delivered and had 4 dogs running around the yard!

 

[sublime68charger]

alas Puppy Mountain is no more,

so far this summer I have spent 12 nights camping in a Tent and it seems I have no ambition for much physical labor when getting home from Tent camping and the weather is Hot so I enlisted the Help of my Dad's Ford Boomer tractor and went to work with the loader moving the gravel from the pile to the driveway.

Its Nice the tractor has AC and working radio with a cup holder as well! Its great I'm just tired and don't feel like doing much but was still productive and kept cool at the same time!

put the blade on the ATV to try and smooth out the driveway and it did Okay but was still rather bumpy.

 

[xtremek]

If you ever miss working on your driveway, let me know. You can drop by and help me with mine.

 

[sublime68charger]

so after trying to blade out the driveway and make it smooth with the ATV and blade I decide to try another method.

go over to the extra pile of Wood pallet's that I have and pull out a extra long pallet hook up a chain and wa-la Home made quick drag for driveway leveling.

the Skid needed some ballast to work more effective and when you have kids you tell to hop on the skid and it'll be sledding in July!

I also loaded up the back of the ATV with some rocks for pulling weight and glad I did as the ATV dug in pretty hard trying to pull the weighted Drag up and down the driveway. But it work out pretty nice the driveway is smooth and the Wife is Happy with how it looks!

The Oldest is super excited about doing this! Or maybe the fact that he is just home from a Boy Scout camping trip and way over tired from tent sleeping the last 2 nights?

 

[sublime68charger]

Bonus the wife got the driveway smoothing project on Video and here is the link to those if you care to view,

Lower Driveway link.

upper driveway link where the new gravel was added.

thanks again for reading and or watching the video's.

 

[sublime68charger]

If you ever miss working on your driveway, let me know. You can drop by and help me with mine.

ill keep that in mind!

Depends due you have a Tractor with AC and a good radio and the cup holder? I suppose the Loader and Bucket are required as well!
All 3 of those where essential in this production to make it less like work and more like something I can due when its Hot and Humid and I need to be productive but don't feel like being productive?

I try and make things Fun as I go!

My upper driveway was kinda soft in the spring thaw the last 2 years and starting to bring up Mud and dirt so hoping this 3" of gravel will help keep that from happing for a few year's.

that is the plan or Hope only time will tell.

 

[xtremek]

Did the drag smooth it out well? I've never tried that. If the driveway gets soft, what about dropping baseball sized rocks, busted cement in it while it is soft?

 

[sublime68charger]

Did the drag smooth it out well? I've never tried that. If the driveway gets soft, what about dropping baseball sized rocks, busted cement in it while it is soft?

drag smoothed it out pretty good I'm happy with how it turned out.

having the drag long helped smooth out the waves I had going on from trying to feather spread out with the loader bucket.

I think I was just down to the dirt under the road bed so to speak.
as in a couple spots I had big rocks sticking from the subsoil. as I have lived here 7 years now and how long does a gravel drive last that gets snow plowing done every year and you loose some gravel to the ditch line as time goes on?

I thought about doing a V on the bottom on of the drag as well to pull gravel in and may due that next time I decide to drag the driveway.

for a 5 minute drag and a 20 min driveway prep and level I thought I did a good job.

I think the adding in the bigger rock's would cause me problems with trying to plow snow as they would stick up and cause more blade tripping then I already get.

unless I dug the soft spot out and down say 8" and layer the big stuff on the bottom 4" then cover with 4" of gravel would be the ideal solution I would think. soft spot was only about 3' long by 2' wide would need a backhoe bucket to due that as digging in gravel by hand is not a my fun task list at all.

thanks for your thoughts and check with me next spring and ask how the drive has held up over the winter and thaw.

I should have done some close up pics of the driveway before I started adding in more gravel.