What ya working on?

[Sledgehammer]

Painting house. We have been renovating. Painted the entire house from bare drywall in 6 days. 

[searcyfarms]

Watching @Sledgehammer todds paint dry 🤣

[searcyfarms]

Well i made an annealer  - heres a video i made - im still experimenting and making changes 

 

[Gabriella Cook]

pretty cool

[yellowrosefarm]

12 hours ago, searcyfarms said:

Well i made an annealer  - heres a video i made - im still experimenting and making changes 

 

Interesting. I thought those induction heaters only worked on Ferrous metals.

[searcyfarms]

6 hours ago, yellowrosefarm said:

Interesting. I thought those induction heaters only worked on Ferrous metals.

Works great no issues 

[IHRedDrive]

Out with old kind of deal. 1942 Speedex model B garden tractor that belonged to my grandfather. My brother retired and gifted it to me. For some reason, he painted the wheels JD yellow. I put new rings and valves in the single cylinder Briggs engine. Changed all the fluids, repainted everything. Engine black, chassis IH red and the wheels Chrysler dove gray, even though they should be red. Been a fun little project and revived some family history. 

[farmallman77]

Threw another set of weights on my 48 M.   Been getting little things done on it for plowing this year.   

[Alan Dinan]

Haven’t started on it yet, but will be there tomorrow morning. Got a call from my nephew that lives at the farm, saying that the roof was gone off the shed.

The roof and front wall tin was replaced several years ago. Grandpa built the shed in 79, and an ex brother in law added the west facing lean to about 10 years ago. I think the lean to caused the damage.

[yellowrosefarm]

15 minutes ago, Alan Dinan said:

Haven’t started on it yet, but will be there tomorrow morning. Got a call from my nephew that lives at the farm, saying that the roof was gone off the shed.

The roof and front wall tin was replaced several years ago. Grandpa built the shed in 79, and an ex brother in law added the west facing lean to about 10 years ago. I think the lean to caused the damage.

That doesn't look like it's going to be quick fix.

[Wes806]

12 minutes ago, Alan Dinan said:

Haven’t started on it yet, but will be there tomorrow morning. Got a call from my nephew that lives at the farm, saying that the roof was gone off the shed.

The roof and front wall tin was replaced several years ago. Grandpa built the shed in 79, and an ex brother in law added the west facing lean to about 10 years ago. I think the lean to caused the damage.

Caught my barn roof starting to peel up some tonight.. My nephew came over and we put it back down and put a one of them car parking blocks on it along with the tractor loader over it.  We are hoping that saves it till daylight.

[MT Matt]

2 hours ago, Alan Dinan said:

Haven’t started on it yet, but will be there tomorrow morning. Got a call from my nephew that lives at the farm, saying that the roof was gone off the shed.

The roof and front wall tin was replaced several years ago. Grandpa built the shed in 79, and an ex brother in law added the west facing lean to about 10 years ago. I think the lean to caused the damage.

Damn brother, that sucks!  About looks like tornado damage. 

[Alan Dinan]

Went to the farm today and looked at the damage. Mostly purlins and the tin. One truss, top cord is broken and several chunks of the top cord is missing from the nails in the purlins hanging on.

Moved the round baler and mower into the shop to get them back under a roof.

[CRVB91]

Collected a load of 4ft timber sleepers today. 

Decided that 3 kids, a dog, a cat, a house to keep and learning to weld at college wasnt stressing me out quite enough.. so I've spent two days laying a new lawn with fresh rolls of turf (new builds in the UK are notorious for having perfect lawns for approximately 6 months before turning into mud pits - not ideal with a dog) and will likely spend the next couple building and filling a 3ft × 15ft raised flower bed, having never made one before 🫡 

will update if/when I make it through the other side!! 

[New Englander]

Well, deciding to work on. 

I've been waiting for an engine from overhaul so got to cleaning the shop. I unburried my MG and looking through some of the receipts I abandoned it around 15 years ago. Kids, job promotion, life in general, etc. Anyway, the dust and grime on it was so thick I rolled it out and washed it off. Now the question is do I sell the whole thing as a project? part it out? or......finish it.

Engine, transmission,rear end, front end, generator, starter, distributor, carburetors, brakes, radiator, water pump,  and more all new or overhauled. There's no filler in any body panel, some are new as is a lot of the wood in the tub. It's a coach built steel on wood body/tub.

There's a long story on this project. Much was done by other shops before I bought it.

I'd hate to price today the chrome work on this radiator grill and other chrome I had done years ago:

I was getting discouraged aligning the bonnet. Being coach-built they were all hand made and I'm a mechanic, not a bodyman. My FIL, an old school bodyman comes over for Sunday dinner. I'm going to get his opinion and maybe rope him in. 

 

[Board Shortener Tom]

17 minutes ago, New Englander said:

Well, deciding to work on. 

I've been waiting for an engine from overhaul so got to cleaning the shop. I unburried my MG and looking through some of the receipts I abandoned it around 15 years ago. Kids, job promotion, life in general, etc. Anyway, the dust and grime on it was so thick I rolled it out and washed it off. Now the question is do I sell the whole thing as a project? part it out? or......finish it.

Engine, transmission,rear end, front end, generator, starter, distributor, carburetors, brakes, radiator, water pump,  and more all new or overhauled. There's no filler in any body panel, some are new as is a lot of the wood in the tub. It's a coach built steel on wood body/tub.

There's a long story on this project. Much was done by other shops before I bought it.

I'd hate to price today the chrome work on this radiator grill and other chrome I had done years ago:

I was getting discouraged aligning the bonnet. Being coach-built they were all hand made and I'm a mechanic, not a bodyman. My FIL, an old school bodyman comes over for Sunday dinner. I'm going to get his opinion and maybe rope him in. 

 

Oh man! I'd finish this one and give it a drive! Not often a person gets to drive around in a groovy ride like this one.  I know I never have. 🤩

[MT Matt]

What did I get myself into???  Stupid green tractors!  I specifically looked up the part number for wheel weights for my buddy’s 435 right from their books. Found a set in Nebraska in January and drug them home. Supposed to fit 28” rims. Nope, about 1/2” too wide to drop in the rim.

Well its green so I didn’t really care and spent the better part of the day shaving the weights down with a plasma cutter.

My cutter is only rated for about 1” thickness so I did the best I could, burned up a bunch of tips and made a cut from each side.

Burned through my pants and boot tongue a couple times but got both weights trimmed up.

Curt took a big grinder to one and smoothed it back up. It dropped in deep enough and tight that unless you look close, it turned out pretty good. A few coats of paint and rolling by with your back turned, you’ll never know I worked on a green tractor all day!  😂

Back to red. 

[Sledgehammer]

Fiberglass doors and stain don't mix well. That's all. About 3 more coats and it might look like something....

[Board Shortener Tom]

6 hours ago, Sledgehammer said:

Fiberglass doors and stain don't mix well. That's all. About 3 more coats and it might look like something....

There is a special stain for those doors iirc. If you're not in a hurry you can look into faux wood graining process. They did it back a 120-160 years ago. It looks pretty awesome and I've been fooled by it before.  

[Sledgehammer]

9 hours ago, Board Shortener Tom said:

There is a special stain for those doors iirc. If you're not in a hurry you can look into faux wood graining process. They did it back a 120-160 years ago. It looks pretty awesome and I've been fooled by it before.  

You must use a gel stain. In my opinion "staining" a fiberglass door is like calling a hot glue gun and welder the same tool. Yes, they both change the outward color but don't work the same. I'm sure a gel stain on wood would work fine but on fiberglass it's a giant pain and does not work well. 

[TN Hillbilly]

24 minutes ago, Sledgehammer said:

You must use a gel stain. In my opinion "staining" a fiberglass door is like calling a hot glue gun and welder the same tool. Yes, they both change the outward color but don't work the same. I'm sure a gel stain on wood would work fine but on fiberglass it's a giant pain and does not work well. 

I'm surprised you had trouble Todd. I stained our front door (fiberglass) back when we built the house. Seems like I used Minwax gel stain, and I use different colors for the inside and the outside.  I don't remember it being particularly difficult. I think I did 2 coats, not more than 3. This was on a brand new door, which was a light tan color raw.

Appears it could use a little touch up on the exterior side. Not bad for being up for a dozen years.

[CRVB91]

Well.... I managed to cut the pieces to the size they needed to be by hand, stacked em, put some supporting stakes in behind the joints... and then realised I didn't have the correct kind of drill to screw the sleepers together or into the wall 🤦🏼‍♀️

But as usual, my favorite came and saved the day like the absolute hero he is.

It's crazy the difference cleaning the patio and this new planter has made to the garden, I cant wait to get all the plants in there now... I've filled it today in layers of cardboard, top soil and compost but then got sidetracked with some welding, cleaning the welder and painting my pallet bar - which was made during COVID lockdown. So tomorrow is looking like a trip to the garden center to choose some plants and finishing up the job😁

 

 

[acem]

1 hour ago, CRVB91 said:

Well.... I managed to cut the pieces to the size they needed to be by hand, stacked em, put some supporting stakes in behind the joints... and then realised I didn't have the correct kind of drill to screw the sleepers together or into the wall 🤦🏼‍♀️

But as usual, my favorite came and saved the day like the absolute hero he is.

It's crazy the difference cleaning the patio and this new planter has made to the garden, I cant wait to get all the plants in there now... I've filled it today in layers of cardboard, top soil and compost but then got sidetracked with some welding, cleaning the welder and painting my pallet bar - which was made during COVID lockdown. So tomorrow is looking like a trip to the garden center to choose some plants and finishing up the job😁

 

 

Just curious.

Do you have alot of barns or live in town?

Looks like alot of roofs past the nice brick fence.

[CRVB91]

1 hour ago, acem said:

Just curious.

Do you have alot of barns or live in town?

Looks like alot of roofs past the nice brick fence.

We live on the outskirts of a small rural town called Cheddar, in the UK. The roofs you can see are other houses. 

The back side of our house is houses, and the opposite side is lots of fields. We moved here nearly 2 years ago, from a small village about 10 miles away and it was probably the worst thing I ever decided to do. 

 

[Sledgehammer]

5 hours ago, TN Hillbilly said:

I'm surprised you had trouble Todd. I stained our front door (fiberglass) back when we built the house. Seems like I used Minwax gel stain, and I use different colors for the inside and the outside.  I don't remember it being particularly difficult. I think I did 2 coats, not more than 3. This was on a brand new door, which was a light tan color raw.

Appears it could use a little touch up on the exterior side. Not bad for being up for a dozen years.

This is Verathane gel stain which was the only brand that had the color wife wanted. Yours looks good. I can't get this (bare, new door also) to look the way I want hardly. Two coats today and will need 2-3 more to look like I want it to.