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It all starts with a solid foundation.  Make sure you’ve got a Chevy that’s built “Like a Rock”!  Then add more quality stuff, like a Wheelhorse or ten!

 

I’m starting to think Norman will have to be the new Big Show Horse Hauler because now including the whole family, we’ll have to bring 4 cruisers just to get around... then I’ll have to save room for my haul AT the show!

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Achto
51 minutes ago, pullstart said:

Chevy that’s built “Like a Rock”!

 

Funny thing about those rocks - If I can't Dodge 'em, I can always Ram 'em.:lol:

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Pullstart

Learning to work (sort of) smarter, not harder.  Built me a tractor jig for the center post car lift...  and it’s closer to the heat source!  I have a nearly unlimited source of pallets, some up to 10’ long.  I imagine eventually all the tractors will get their own pallet, for any required storage in the back barn racking..  I’ll have close to 80’ of racking by the time I’m finished.

 

 

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cleat

Good looking setup.

Love the in-floor hoist.

 

 

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AMC RULES

:text-woo:  :wh: friends...helping :wh: friends.  :eusa-clap:

 

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Pullstart
On 11/3/2018 at 12:00 PM, cleat said:

Good looking setup.

Love the in-floor hoist.

 

 

 

It’s a huge help maintaining my fleet of vehicles and now tractors too!  I wouldn’t have tried it myself if I hadn’t seen it done before, but it’ll lift my wife’s grandfather’s crew cab long box dually Duramax without a struggle!

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19richie66

That’s what real friends do.👍 Good job guys.

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AMC RULES

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squonk
26 minutes ago, AMC RULES said:

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Typical "Apprentice"  Banging out sheet metal with a claw hammer!  :lol: :ychain::ychain:

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The Tuul Crib

Wood shop/ wheelhorse repair!!

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PeacemakerJack
2 hours ago, squonk said:

Typical "Apprentice"  Banging out sheet metal with a claw hammer!  :lol: :ychain::ychain:

The real Apprentice was the dude up on the top shelf of the storage racking taking the picture while waiting on the next section of heat duct...:ROTF:

 

I have learned a lot from Jim in this process!

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AMC RULES

:rolleyes: Mostly...

what not to do?

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Help...help...help.  :ychain:

 

 

 

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The Tuul Crib

I'm loaded with dear here. They are small but they are a  nuisance .  I can hit them behind my house with a slingshot they are so close.  :blink:

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WHX??

Rebuttal.....Mike  when you are as close to retirement as I am you ain't gonna buy a new tinning hammer to replace the one you lost at the last job either, sides when you run into as many hang nails in a sliver wizzard's shop..... you need a claw! 

Jack ... don't you dare tell them about my trademarks or tell them about me  putting fitings on a 10" duct instead of the 12"! @Achto finally shows up to supervise and I get side tractored about tractors and I lose what little concentration I have!

Who the he double hockey sticks can concentrate on the job when guys are mumbling about diesels, 26" tires and C-195's????? Oh then Ritchie calls and i gotta run the bull with him...under alot of stress here!

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Shynon
12 hours ago, PeacemakerJack said:

Another big shout out to Jim...he sacrificed yet another Saturday to come over and work on my heat system in the shed.  The furnace is up and running and about 85% of the ductwork run.  It was great to work with him again today and get another step closer to completion. 

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As I sit out in my warm office this morning working on my lesson for my teen group later this morning, I can’t help but be thankful for Jim and his hard work to make this dream a reality. When nearly five months out of your calendar year are below 45 degrees, you need heat in a building if you plan to use it for much!  :occasion-snowman:

My wife says, “Thank you Jim a million times over!”

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Nice to see him working and not on :rs:OOoh I forgot its a weekend:hide:   Sure is nice having great friends

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squonk
9 hours ago, WHX21 said:

Rebuttal.....Mike  when you are as close to retirement as I am you ain't gonna buy a new tinning hammer to replace the one you lost at the last job either, sides when you run into as many hang nails in a sliver wizzard's shop..... you need a claw! 

 

I'm close to retirement too and I buy tools left and right. Need a sideline to fill up my days and I'm going to sell them one at a time on CL. Yep, sittin on my porch waiting all day for somebody to come by and pay me for a screwdriver. It's the only way I'll have someone to talk to. :helmet:

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ohiofarmer
11 hours ago, WHX21 said:

Rebuttal.....Mike  when you are as close to retirement as I am you ain't gonna buy a new tinning hammer to replace the one you lost at the last job either, sides when you run into as many hang nails in a sliver wizzard's shop..... you need a claw! 

Jack ... don't you dare tell them about my trademarks or tell them about me  putting fitings on a 10" duct instead of the 12"! @Achto finally shows up to supervise and I get side tractored about tractors and I lose what little concentration I have!

Who the he double hockey sticks can concentrate on the job when guys are mumbling about diesels, 26" tires and C-195's????? Oh then Ritchie calls and i gotta run the bull with him...under alot of stress here!

 

Do you want a little Cheese with that Whine????:teasing-poke:    {actually you sound a lot like me]

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PeacemakerJack

My lips are 🤐Jim about the goings on in the shop! :lol: I need to have you guys over when we can “pretend” like we are working on something and instead focus on discussion about Diesel GT’s, 26-12-12’s, and Super-C’s!  Dan always brings with him a great sense of humor.  Jim was grumbling to him about the mess that my shop was when Dan says, “Would you like to try running heat in my shop?” :teasing-neener:

 

Then Jim said something that still makes me chuckle every time I think of it, “That’s so true Dan, maybe if Jack didn’t have all these Cubs cluttering up his work space we could get something done! I can’t turn around without tripping over something yellow and white!”:laughing-rolling:

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Pullstart

My father in-law’s shop is moving and getting all new racking.  I hauled out 72’ yesterday, with decking.  Now another 84’ is coming down today without decking.  Imagine all the tractor stuff I can put in there!

 

 

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Pullstart

Getting somewhere.  I posted this in my shop project page too, but for record keeping, thought it would help here.

 

 

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This is a great thread that needs to come out of page fifty of the archives and make it to the top of the heap again...tons of great stuff in here!  I’ve been working in my shed again.  Our local retailer had a sale on white pole barn steel and so I bought enough to finish about half of my 30’x12’ shop area...

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It was great to have my more than capable assistant @Coulter Caleb To help me with the install.

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We have made some good progress on it so far.

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Couldn’t have done the ceiling without his help for sure.  It looks so much brighter in there now and I’m not even finished. Wait till I get my stuff finally organized and I have my buddies over...they won’t believe it!😁😂

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Hoping to have something similar to this after the move is done. Just ordered the second 40’ container. There will 18’ between them and hopefully some kind of roof over the middle. That would give me an 18’x40’ concrete work floor with storage. 16’ garage doors between them front and rear. It would be a total of 32’x40’ “building”. 

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18 minutes ago, 19richie66 said:

Hoping to have something similar to this after the move is done. Just ordered the second 40’ container. There will 18’ between them and hopefully some kind of roof over the middle. That would give me an 18’x40’ concrete work floor with storage. 16’ garage doors between them front and rear. It would be a total of 32’x40’ “building”. 

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That is cool! What’s the code for something like that by you? Do they treat it the same as a standard stick built or like a mobile home or...? Great idea open like shown or closed like you propose...

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