What are you currently working on??

[KennyP]

Lucky you!

 

[Propane1]

Thanks John.

Noel

 

[Propane1]

Yes. Lucky us Kenny.

Noel.

 

[Propane1]

A garden tractor adaptor will be made in the future to allow us to put tractors up on hoist to service them and clean the decks.

Noel

 

[KennyP]

A garden tractor adaptor will be made in the future to allow us to put tractors up on hoist to service them and clean the decks.

Noel

This I want to see!

 

[dodge trucker]

You're gonna hate being in such a narrow space with the lift, and not gonna be able to make it between the post and the Wall. Don't ask me how I know.
If you ever need to say pull an axle shaft out of a rear end you will struggle.

 

[MFDAC]

You have me jealous Noel! You do have to crawl around on the floor to position the pads, but after that, so much easier!

That's a cool shop!

DAC

 

[Propane1]

Son has to crawl around on the floor to set the pads, Doug. Not me. Hehe.

Noel

 

[Pakrat]

So. That’s the end of the hoist installation. Filled it with fluid. Bleed the air out. Adjusted cables. Adjusted one lock. Put it up and down a few times. Rechecked a few things. One cable was dragging on some metal up top. Adjusted that. Torqued all the floor bolts. Put a small car on it, and put it up and down a few times. My heavens, it’s a great thing. No more layin on the beepin floor.


Noel

Jealous!(AP)

 

[dodge trucker]

Mine is in a 30x36 garage, I have 2, 9x8 overhead doors and the lift is centered around one of them. The 30' is the width, so on the right side (looking in from the overhead door opening) I have like 3 ft something from the outside of the post to the wall and often that is too tight to maneuver on that side of whatever I have on the lift.

 

[Propane1]

So hoist done, now what ? So it was bbq fix up time. Just for fun. Daughters boyfriend was throwing out an old bbq. It was the same as the one I have on my deck. Figured have it for parts maybe. He said it still worked. The tin rock grate above the burner was rusted away. Cooking grate was good. So I fired it up and sure enough it works. So figured I’ll make a grate so I can put pots on and boil things with it while I use the other bbq to do meat cookin. A few days thinkin and collecting used metal around my place and sons place. Ya just don’t buy any thing for a fun project like this. So had all the stuff and started this morning making the grate. Made a rectangle to fit in bbq, out of angle iron. Cut up various sizes of old metal rod. Place the rod where I thought best. Welded it all together. And there you go a cooker for pots and I’m sure I can cook meat on it too.

Noel.

 

[Propane1]

Some more pictures. Notice the rods are red. No trouble cookin on that. I might even have a grill I could set in the. Hmmm, I’ll have to do some lookin.

Noel

Still have to fix igniter and make a lid handle.

 

[Propane1]

More done to the throwaway bbq. Igniter fixed and new handle.

Noel

 

[Propane1]

Dual bbqs on deck.

Noel

 

[chieffan]

Most of those igniters are a joke from day one. Never had one that worked past the first week. You made a decent working grill out of a throw away. Most of the material that gets the heat of a grill is made way to light to start with. The inverted V's that sit over the burners were the first to go. Had some made out of 1/8" several years ago and no indication of failure yet. A grill don't have to be purty to work.

 

[KennyP]

You really heat up the deck now!

 

[chieffan]

Built the garage/shop about 18 years ago. Repainted the trim around the doors about 10 years ago so it was getting time. One walk in door jamb and trim will need replacing nest spring. Painted the trim around two OH doors and two walk in plus the trim around the front house door this morning before the sun got on them. No pictures as I can't get them to uplload right after a W10 update.. Did get one but took 6 min to upload. No my internet speed either.

 

[Propane1]

Did some cookin on the new bbq. Pork chops on the old one, potatoes and carrots in the pot on the fixed up one. Worked great. Less heat in the house.

Noel

 

[Propane1]

Son put up the lights that he got for free from his work years ago today in the garage. Just like night and day now. We thought it was bright before with the new ceiling lights and walls painted white. Wow. Sure is lite up now. He has a few more for the back area, when he gets there.

Noel

Then he gets a call from a real estate person wondering if he would sell. Land beside him is for sale. Of course the Beepin developers are lookin for land. And could care less about that my son is a relative of the people who owned the land and house in 1840 or so, which he lives in. Any way, I own land there too. Which was all bought. Not givin to son and I. So he says he’s not selling. And I won’t either. But down the road these Beepin devoplers seem to get there way. After the almighty dollar. And the Chinese got

I guess I got off on a rant, I suppose. Sorry.

Noel.

Wood stove pipe has got to go. Hehe.

 

[MFDAC]

It would be sad to sell to a developer. It would all be gone for "progress". Sooner or later there will be a price that can't be refused. The shop looks great with the new lighting.

DAC