Blaine, when I first glanced at your dad's pick, I thought it was my late grandpa. Very similar......he was a Texan.

Same guy...You two related?

Haven't been able to get any physical work done on the truck for a few days, but the project is moving forward.

I ordered and posted over in the Tool section, some Bosch L-Box stackable storage containers which will be fitted out with spare parts, tools, med kit, survival stuff and cinnamon disks!

Also started talking with Dan the man, the ultra good welder guy who built that cool alchy tank for me. I am going to get him to weld up the aluminum aux fuel tank for square D because he is very good at that and I can't even spell aluminiminum!

Additionally, I kicked the red dog away from chewing on the aft air bag lines and removed a cat from the snorkel. So things are looking up!

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Or just drop a 4BT in there!

I like this idea

I will get you all my wife's email address and you can convince her!


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Or get her to join herself and over time she will see the light...the light from the exhaust of a built Cummins!

I like this idea.  I may have to go to HD or Lowes or some place close to check these out and touch them.

this could be used in conjunction with this combo............http://www.globalindustrial.com/p/material-handling/hand-trucks-dollies/hand-trucks-folding/best-value-folding-hand-cart-150-lb-capacity?infoParam.campaignId=T9F&gclid=COnXnY_cuMYCFQuMaQod0PgCWg

Nater,

There is a caddy already made for these boxes. Your box actually latches onto the caddy!

good comment: that looks like a really nice piece of equipment right there.

bad comment:  It looks like pre ranger 1 or 2 needs to be reminded about leaving weapons unsecured especially in the rain....?

That plastic AK has been through holy heck! Broken stock which I reinforced with a piece of aluminum and screws, broken barrel glued back on, sights missing, batteries dead, trigger inop, and filled with dirt!

Great looking machine. That loader will be as handy as a pocket on a shirt.

Pocket on a shirt...

Gonna remember that one

Pocket on a shirt...

You may be a lot of things, including being old and somewhat disfigured (thought I was going to say slow didn't you?), but no one can accuse you of not being a good sport.....and that's a fact!! :)

Good sport, but not necessarily not very good at sports ;-))

You callin all those earlier power tool scars, the ones I taped up, disfigurements" I think of them as battle scars, Except the battle was against rust and not Al Qaeda!

All in all it seems like a well put together unit. You can see the first 13 yards of mulch is already waiting on it!

I had the R4's filled with Rim Guard (Beet Juice)

Hood opens like a car. this has a non-common rail diesel. Yup old school injection pump. 3 cyl Yanmar in there

The loader controls are integrated into the body work and fall perfectly in your hand

And a cool little tool box mounted on the back end

Yes, it's raining here...

Has a high back suspension seat with adjustable armrests

The instrument layout is simple and it comes with a tilt wheel

Not really a tractor by my reckoning, however the company calls it a compact utility tractor. Having owned several tractors in this size before, I can say they are very capable as long as you size the job appropriately.

The fuel tank is in the left fender, as is the fuel level gage

Gentlemen, meet my new John Deere 1025R tractor.

Here it is being delivered:

I like how they fit together, that is great. I have a question- do you worry about having to "unclick" all three to get to the bottom one or the middle one etc.? I like that you are integrating it into a support structure for the table but still not sure of "taking it apart" when you want to access it. Just curious, not trying to be a PITA in any way.

Could they be put on end so you could grab one and unclick it without disturbing the others? (I am not sure how the mounting mechanism works or if they could be done vertically with the mounting hardware underneath them attaching to the side/back section of the case? thereby having the handle up)

They click into the next unit at the base, flat side down. I do not know of any base unit other than a roller caddy, so I plan to fab one up once I see how it all works

I don't care about inconvenience. Security and being able to quickly locate things is what's important to me.

Very innovative.

I wanted to secure or perhaps organize stuff in the back of SquareD so I have chosen the Bosch L-Boxx stackable system to utilize

I ordered: Two of the 4.5" deep L-Boxx1
                One 6" deep L-Box 2
                Tow 10" deep, L-Boxx 3

I figure I'll make one of the 10" deep units a spare parts container. The second 10" will be a tool box. The 6" deep one will be a medical kit, a 4.5" one filled with survival stuff, spare this and that's and the final 4.5" L-Boxx 1 container for a catch all

The plan will be to build a fixture to allow the stack to clip into the floor and serve as a prop for one corner of a fold down desk/bunk. The opposite end of the bunk/desk thing will rest on the fuel tank.

I already have a selection of tools sitting here from Northern to start to fill the tool box, so we'll start to kit all of that out PDQ

Yes, you are on to something here for all the reasons you just mentioned

Your biggest weak link will be the availability of fuel.

Having said that, if you can get it to run on alcohol, then if you set up a still at your BO location you could possibly solve that problem

Who cares.  This stuff is great entertainment.

I'm with you

I voted "Who cares"

I'm not much on those wheels either, but I do like the cleaner look you have there.

Maybe you should consider selling those side steps to fund a new set of diesel spark plugs or something. Then show up down here for a visit and I'll do you up a set of respectable steps/sliders/side ramming devices w/spare tool cache and aux air tank along with a secret compartment for two extra 30 round mags!

Another item checked off the list was upgrading all of the light bulbs to LEDs. There are 26, #921 style bulbs and 4, #1156 style bulbs inside the trailer. I haven't done the outside ones yet.
This is what the 2 styles look like:



The 1156 style on the left is good for 150 lumens, the 921 style on the right is rated at 250.

Could you give us a link/source for those bulbs?

I want to do my camper as well

Only 8 votes?

Ken, Ras, you boyz are laggin'

Didn't Don already say he wanted to have a cummins mech look it over before fired it up?


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I did, and frankly I was off doing other stuff when all this "Start it up business started. Well I started to get interested in getting it done, and now I want to just shove some fuel in the tank, crank it over and see what happens next. Heck might get another engine repair out of the deal. Big bore...stroker...4-valve head...twins... maybe even weld two 6BT's together just in case I ever need 3,000 ft lbs of torque!

i agree don, i think the motor and trans maybe should be taken out and weighed and then adjust the front leaf spring count to have a better then flat leaf spring stance. maybe then revisit the shocks and perhaps a methanol injection. never be pushed when its your money on the line BIG D

I like you Darren!
Finally, some support!