That's all the materials I had so I set the pre-rangers to work with a bucket of Kihl's primer/sealer for exterior application

Then the door opening. Every joint is both glued and screwed for strength

I'm building this almost exactly according to the plans which I am finding easy to use

Here's the wall installed

I picked up two vinyl 18" X 24" single hung windows with screens

Site was a muddy mess so we went back after the Privy construction

Last time we left it like this:

Very versatile, and the metal will last forever. Can be re-purposed easily, but a portion of it can be used as housing until the future 'house' is built...

I'm assuming those are pole structures. You can pour concrete in one/some and have a nice slab, but it's not required... gravel or dirt would be a suitable floor too, if it was mainly used for tool/equipment storage, barn, etc.

Def going with at least a concrete floor if not a full basement.

Conversation is ongoing, but I am looking at all sorts of possibilities

I don't want it to stand out so a utility building or barn with a living area makes a lot of sense. But then again I am so far back in the middle of somewhere the other side of no where in a county that has fewer people than the average welfare family in Baltimore! Literally we have just over 2,000 in the whole county!

So I could get away with something more house like, but then there is the cost which I have to keep in check. I figure though all you boneheads will come ah seekin me out when the economy goes bye bye, so I need some extra room for all the new soldiers who will be arrivin'

Quote from: Flyin6 on May 19, 2015, 07:52:27 AM

"What's your favorite color?"

"What's the wing velocity of a sparrow?"

"African, or European???"

Poof!

What was that bridge over anyway...Was it the valley of doom or something like that?

I did pretty much what mike was talking about except for forcing it outwards.....I wasn't sure about how much it would need. When I was done, it was sucked in 1/4" on each side.....had I known at the time, I would've stretched it 1/2".

I had that experience after boxing the frame. Remember, the bottom of the frame pulled inward maybe 1/2" on each side.
I'll do something even if it's wrong!

I will check this out this evening.

This was my cousin Bobby FYI... NSDQ
http://nightstalker.tendenciapp.com/media/files/files/677f989a/SPC_Lund.pdf

Kyle, what happened to him?

Memories...

https://www.facebook.com/eric.lentz.37/videos/o.59056246207/831517730211804/?type=3&theater

I saw myself in a spot or two I think
Was there for some of it when it was happening
Memories...

God Bless all of them, and to those who didn't come home...Rest easy my brothers!

Proposed warp avoidance method:

What if you welded a straight (bit larger) steel beam across the inside of the bumper horns that put them in outward pressure?  Then weld up the bumper alternating sides until completion and hammering each fresh weld.  The hammering method is something I've seen my father use to successfully weld cast iron which is notorious for cracking along the weld as it cools.  Then, just take your blue light saber and remove the brace(s) and you might have a warp free bumper?

Well, Mike, you are getting ahead of me here, but today, I was planning to get some rectangle steel tubing and weld it on the underside spanning from the box center section which is mostly welded up now outward to the winds, and fix a second 1/4" plate to the back side of the main bash plate for a landing pad. It won't be able to move inward/outward, but it might still be able to twist...

"What's your favorite color?"

"What's the wing velocity of a sparrow?"

That thing is Huge!

How about some interior shots??

I went with bed liner black, depending on what bedliner.
Do not use epoxy...it gets hard and scratches easily. So far the Raptor liner is the best product I have found that one can spray. Having said that, it scratches so I almost voted to just paint the bumper and touchup as necessary because touchup on a 2-part urethane is a complicated and expensive proposition.

Anyone know anything or have experience with one of these?

It's an 80's Caterpillar 225LU. It has a cat 3304 4 cyl turbo engine which suggests it was built in Brazil and shipped up here. American built units have a V8 diesel. Both had either 125 or 135HP depending on the year.

Anyway there is a pretty one near my farm for sale asking 24K. Engine was replaced with a factory new engine just 300 hours ago. Paint is in good condition but track is worn maybe 50%-60%
I do not know if the track pins have been turned.
Comes with a 24" and a 48" bucket, a ripper, and a thumb. It would be ideal for pulling up all those pesky cedars on the road in to make room to get in/out.
Could dig the pond(s) a basement and a underground play area.

Worth it???

And that is the SOB (State of the build) on build day 257

Mission continues...

I think I'll have to mount them about 1.5" proud to the bumper face on a couple thick sections of rectangle steel tubing

The whole fairhead projection is super strong now and not so bad looking either

The deflector will push trees and Kias to either side and it serves to really strengthen up that frontal area which now approaches 1/2" think laminated steel on the bottom side

So next I wanted to address the gap beneath the roller fairhead and the brush guard uprights

It fits!

I figured out that I will need one more horizontal bar on that front brush guard to keep trees out of operational spaces

So I fashioned up this extension arm that will serve as the base for the third row of tubing

Got a little bit more done on the truck today.

Balancing act now...Have the privy build going on, farm stuff, domestic stuff, meetings and geesh....

The welder finally could weld no more! The liner just wore out and was shuttling wire and not feeding it. So off to the Miller store I went. I bought a new liner and all new pieces parts to make it like new. Then I spent some time going over it, taping this tightening that. In the end I had a nice running machine and time to get back into the game!

After reading this I am wondering if there is a sentiment of bigotry in there or just a naked ugly truth and reality about those predominantly black neighborhoods in our cities??



New York Times Stumbles onto the Truth About Baltimore

         Jared Taylor, American Renaissance, April 29, 2015
         Discovers why blacks riot.
         An article from yesterday’s New York Times about the relative calm in Baltimore stumbled by accident onto something like the real reason why blacks were rioting. Near the famous burned-out CVS–the city had begged the company to “invest” in a dodgy neighborhood–the Times reporter found someone it identified as “Robert Wilson, a college student who went to high school in Baltimore.” The article concludes with Mr. Wilson’s explanation of why blacks rioted. He said nothing about Freddie Gray or police brutality. Instead, he said this:

                 We’re just angry at the surroundings–like this is all that is given to us?–and we’re tired of this, like nobody wants to wake up and see broken-down buildings. They take away the community centers, they take away our fathers, and now we have traffic lights that don’t work, we have houses that are crumbling, falling down.

         This quote almost perfectly captures the black mentality that leads to rioting. Blacks live in neighborhoods that they, themselves, have wrecked, and then ask, “This is all that is given to us?”
        Hard-working white people built the “broken-down” buildings Mr. Wilson is complaining about. Many had parquet floors, high ceilings, and fine moldings found today only in the most expensive new construction.
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         After the riots in Baltimore in 1968, whites panicked and sold their property at desperation prices. Now, these houses are “broken down” because blacks didn’t maintain them. This pattern of white flight and “broken down” houses was repeated in Detroit, Philadelphia, Chicago, New York, Washington, St. Louis, Memphis, Atlanta, Birmingham, Jacksonville, and countless other American cities. Some of the best city housing in the world was handed over to blacks who wrecked it. Neighborhoods filled with irreplaceable architecture are now wastelands.
         Mr. Wilson complains that “we have houses that are crumbling, falling down.” The remedy for crumbling houses is for the people who live in them to fix them, but instead, Mr. Wilson asks, “Is this all that is given to us?”
        Like so many blacks, Mr. Wilson doesn’t realize how perverse it is even to think in terms of pleasant houses and neighborhoods being “given” to anyone. Does he imagine the white authorities “giving” nice neighborhoods to whites and cruelly handing out slums to blacks? They didn’t start out as slums. Whites saved and worked hard to build those neighborhoods. They maintained them, repaired them, and loved them.
         But in today’s world of welfare, food stamps, government housing, and white guilt, Mr. Wilson doesn’t know any better than to ask for handouts. Jesse Jackson is just as self-absorbed. At the funeral for Freddie Gray he wanted to know, “Why can’t the West Side get the same things downtown gets?” Jesse Jackson is asking the same question: “Is this all that is given to us?”
        And who, exactly, is not giving enough? Baltimore elected its first black mayor in 1987. Today, the mayor, the police chief, the fire chief, and half the police force are black. Two thirds of the population and most of the city council are black. But when Mr. Wilson and Jesse Jackson complain about stinginess, they are not blaming Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake; they are blaming white people.
         Mr. Wilson says Baltimore’s blacks rioted because they are “angry at the surroundings.” Blacks make their surroundings ugly and miserable, and then make them even more ugly and miserable by burning them down. And then they ask, “Is this all that is given us?”
        Mr. Wilson has more complaints: “They take away the community centers, they take away our fathers.” Mayor Rawlings-Blake cut funding for 20 of 55 city-run community centers in 2013, but private foundations and neighborhood organizations kept most of them going. Rioters burned one down on Monday.
         And fathers? In 1983, Baltimore had the highest black illegitimacy rate in the country: 76 percent, at a time when the national rate for blacks was about 55 percent. Now that the national black rate is 72 percent, what is the figure likely to be for Baltimore? Ninety percent? Ninety-five percent? Whoever “they” are didn’t have to work very hard to “take away our fathers.” Black fathers were never there to begin with.
         It’s no surprise that Mr. Wilson thinks blacks haven’t been “given” what they deserve, and that “they” took away his father. He’s a college student–probably on scholarship–and that’s what blacks are taught from grade school.
         The New York Times invariably blames “racism” and white privilege for the plight of blacks. It assumes that if only whites could curb their bigotry, blacks would bloom and flourish. It is remarkable that it concluded this article with a quotation that so brutally undercuts its own assumptions. People who think “they” have taken away their fathers, who blame others for their “broken down buildings,” who look at misery of their own making and ask “Is this all that is given to us?”–such people will not bloom and flourish no matter what white people do. Nor do they deserve to.