Last night I went to work on a garage door for a guy. It hadn’t been maintained, and had some pretty serious problems.
The coil cables that connect to the coil springs were REALLY loose. The door had come out of the track, and about half the rollers were out of the door and were laying on the floor. The door was 2/3 of the way up, and just barely hanging the few remaining rollers.
Unfortunately the HO wasn’t around and my Son had gone to a party. So I was there alone. The door was 16′ X 7′ and insulated, so it was danged heavy. I couldn’t lift the thing up and get any of the rollers back in the track.
I walked around a bit, sizing up the situation and trying to figure out how to get the job done. Then it hit me…
I had driven over in my old Chevy one ton truck, and it has a dump bed on it. So I backed the thing into the garage, with the front of the bed under the door. I slowly raised the bed while pushing the truck backwards or forwards as needed to line it up. Then I’d lift it a hair, and re-adjust again.
It took a few tries, but it worked perfectly. The bed was wide enough to support the door nicely. And it held it up so I could take as long as I needed to getting the track and rollers re-aligned.
The HO was amazed when he came home and saw it back in the tracks.
Funny how sometimes you can use stuff to make do when it doesn’t look like you’re going to be able to do something.
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The guy I work with and I poured a sidewalk and a new step up to the house. The step was just poured in a wooden box in the yard and we had to get it into position. I suggested pipe as rollers, but we didn't have any and end-over-end wasn't working too well. Then I thought of the 2x2 stakes he had for pinning forms in and we used them as rollers. Worked surprisingly well!
I got out to a job site one time and found out I had to change the hitch ball on my truck. Didn't have my wrenches with me. Ended up jamming a rock between the nut and the hitch frame and turning the ball out with a pair of Channel-locks.
I once used the truck jack, to push up sagging floor joists, while I sistered new joists to them.
what happened to all the beer in the bed of the truck?
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Funny how sometimes you can use stuff to make do when it doesn't look like you're going to be able to do something.
I've used my dump bed, power down, to lift things. Pull a gas tank out of the ground, for instance, when it was too much trouble to go hook up the trailer and haul a tractor.
Once I had a vehicle hoist, free for the removal, to get out of the ground. Internet info indicated maybe 800lbs. Turned out to be more like 3k. I'd planned to pull it up to the roof bar joists and back under it. Weeeell, after I started to bend the bar joists I figured it was better to leave the roof where it was. Ended up raising my dump bed, chaining the hoist, and then lowering the bed. Took 4 repositionings due to the low ceiling, but it finally popped out. One of those times where I really should've gone to get a tractor. Tieing off that huge cylinder to keep it from slipping back down in the hole wasn't easy. But nobody got hurt.
PAHS Designer/Builder- Bury it!
You come from farming stock, right? You're looking for a pat on the back and a tip o' the hat for making do with what you had on hand? Maybe if it gets into the FHB tips, we might be able to take you seriously,<G>.
PS. welcome to what the rest of us have to do every day LOL.
Don't worry, we can fix that later!
for a long time I have kept a hydraulic bottle jack on my truck, but nearly everyone has a jack,One time I needed to pull a garage door spring a little bit and those little "boomers with nylon straps come in real handy for pulling...
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Close to 100year old little bungalow with a low ceiling cellar. Owned myself so decisions were easy.
Had gotten tired of hauling all the dirt out as digging was done down to the base of what was left of the half walls so a floor could be poured.
Decided to sacrifice some space and save labor at the same time as strengthening that side of the old multi poured walls of the cellar.
Built a concrete block wall up to about 5 foot from the floor and filled it in with the rest of the dirt. Plan was to cap the whole thing with concrete.
A goodly amount of concrete was needed and it looked extremely laborious as could picture filling 5 gal pails with concrete and lifting up to the top of the wall. Dreadful.
Then a Red/Green idea. Boeing!
Removed the coldair return vent from the floor above and made a wooden trough that lead to the to-be concrete cap which now had an 8ft section of a roller crate mover with a 2ft x 6inch high tray atop it.
Backed the truck with the gravel up to the window and had the sand sitting inside by the vent hole which now had the concrete mixer next to it.
The whole thing reminded me of a giant Mousetrap game. Roar!
But it got done with no sweat. Well, not a whole lot anyhow.
"sobriety is the root cause of dementia.", rez,2004
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Got stuck today cleaning out a customer's rain gutter because she and her BIL had dropped a tree they felled on it and half tore it off the house. Couldn't get up on the roof without moving my ladder all the way around to the other side of the house: not worth it.
Went to the truck, got one of the two adjustable awning poles I keep in there in case I need to rig a tool shelter next to the truck on drizzly days, extended it out to 12' and used 2" pallet tape to attach my painter's 5-in-1 to the end. Stood on the ladder in one place and just shovelled soggy wet leaves out of that gutter left and right till it was light enough to lift it back up to where it belonged.
Of course when I lifted it, the other end tore loose and the whole shebang came down on my head, bounced off and fell 20' to land on my circular saw--but that's another story....Dinosaur
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when i was in about 7th grade a buddy showed me how to pick basic locks with the flat wires street cleaner brushes used to shed all over town. (his dad was a locksmith) whenever i'd forget my housekeys it was a simple matter of walking around for a few minutes to find a set of 'tools' in the gutter and i'd be in the house in no time.
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Too bad you couldnt do the same thing to lift your wifes spirit onto the same page as yers.
Go figure.
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Well, the truck is a *DUMP* truck.
That oughta lead to some interesting analogies...Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. [Phillips Brooks]
i once did a roadside replacement of the U-joints in a '73 CJ-5. didn't have a vise to press the needle bearings so i packed them with grease and put the assembly between the jack and rear bumper- put a stack of quarters (nickels?) on each bearing to push it in far enough for the retaining ring. worked like a charm.
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That reminds me of the dime/wine cork trick. If you do not have a corkscrew handy, just use place a dime on top of the wine cork and use it to push the wine cork down into the bottle. Then proceed to drink the whole bottle.
sounds safer than using a sabre to whack off the bottle neck..hate drinking glass shards.
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Years ago when I was drivin' semi's in the service, I replaced a broken alternator belt with my boot lace. When I pulled into the yard and told the mechanic what I had done, he thought I was full of $#it. Told him to pop the hood and look for himself and was speechless when he did. Then I told him that I wanted the boot lace back when he got my truck fixed. He made me two new ones out of jump cord that day. Told me they'd be strong than my old laces if that ever happened again. Still have the laces...
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StickmanWe can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark.The real tragedy of life is when adults are afraid of the light.-Plato
wish I had shoes and not sandals when in a rain storm in the DW's Saturn, the wiper motor went T.U.
Used her purse strap and my belt through the open side windows to yank the blades to an fro.
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After all these I suppose somebody has to let you in on the secret...
Use the claws on yur hammer...
Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming.... WOW!!! What a Ride!
many yrs. ago, I kept the shaft of the Estwing 28. sharpened on the inside..split a shim, knock out a notch, slice off yer fingers..etc.
It was a wild swing and stuff manuver that cut my fingers..enough of that shid...I dulled it.
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Sharpen the claws and do yur spltting..
Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming.... WOW!!! What a Ride!
My friend said in Poland there's a wine (must have the consistency of hydaulic fluid) that they open by turning the bottle upside down and pounding on it till the cork ooches out enough to grab and pull the rest of the way!
In my mispent youth, we left a store with our beer and my friend runs up to a stop sign and tries to use it to take the cap off a beer. I ask why doesn't he just wait till we get to his house, like two blocks away, and he says, "I want a beer now." So he proceeds to smash the neck of the bottle and I say, "We can strain that through a cloth back at your house...." and he says, "I told you, I want it now...." and drinks it from the shattered neck. Now, there's a beer lover!
and who said drinkin an driven ain't safe?
forget the seat belts, we need cheese cloth..lol
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Well i needed to get a load of trex to a job so i could get started and the lumbe yard said i can get it to ya the end of next week.....Now who wants to hear that.... i hopped in my 2004 F350 Powerstroke diesel with it`s 8ft bed that has no racks and traveled about 40 miles to pick up 36 Pc.s of 5/4x 6 x12 and 7 pieces of 2x6x12 all in one shot....All i got to say is there are the do`ers and the doubters and today i showed up in the do`ers colum... I arrived at the job with no problems
Edited 7/31/2004 2:02 pm ET by shavey
When I was in highschool I had a co-op job as a handiman (meaning I did every #### job that no one else would do) (Hey, I guess I haven't progressed all that far!). Guy sends me out to get carpet in a 3/4 ton Ford pickup truck. The guy sticks the roll of carpet (about 30" in diameter) onto the bed and it's sticking out about five feet. The truck normally didn't have power steering, but on the way back I could spin the wheel with two fingers! Surprised I didn't pop a wheely every time I pulled away from a light. It was also fun unloading it.
Did you back up real fast and hit the brakes hard to unload it?
I've done that for a load of plywood.
Didn't think of that back then, had to get the boss's brother out there in his three piece suit and wingtips and we wrestled it until the end was on the ground and then I punched the accelerator and drove out from under it.
Hey Ron
Was thinking of you last night while I was at a concert here in town with "the bear".
Doing a job for these people that run a not for profit theater...framing their house...They introduced me to the performer whom I've loved since in my teens.
All I could say to him was, Boy you dont sing like the Jew you are". HE laughed his #### off.
See if you can find his newest CD...."its called...
"David Bromberg Quartet.. Live , New York City, 1982"
You'll see what I mean about not sounding like a NY Jew..lol.....you'll absolutly love it and thats a guarentee from Andybuildz.
They were greatttttt last night.
By the way he stopped touring for years to build mandolins.
Be in tune,
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My carpentry contractor had a guy working for him, that was so cheap he squeaked. One weekend he left his lights on and his truck battery ran down and the truck wouldn't start. He called around for a service jump and the lowest rate he could find was $35.
Sooo, he ordered a small pizza for delivery and when the kid showed up, had him give him a jump for nothing and had a pizza to boot. All with tip and coupon for $9
Maybe too clever by 2?
I had to remove my pump out of the well, at 150', because it had been hung on the lightest-duty black pipe you can get. I was new to the area and i didn't know there were people you can hire to do such things, so i got a guy with a tractor who let me tie off the hydrant to his bucket and haul it up a few feet. I then used a cordless drill to make a hole through the pipe to insert a screwdriver sideways. This was lowered down on the casing, where we took another bite with the chain and bucket arrangement, inserted another screwdriver, and repeated as necessary for over an hour until the pump appeared.
Each time i drilled a hole, i was sprayed with a 1" x 7' column of water (see why the cordless drill?), so at the end of it, it was wet T-shirt time and i was shaking like a leaf because the pipe kept deforming and i could just imagine the whole shebang plunging to the bottom and wrapping me up in a hundred feet of wire. This pleased the farmer no end and probably contributed to his refusing payment for his services.
i alway just use a pipe wrench
Years ago I was working for an outfit as their lead man and was sent by a job to see what we'd need the next day. Someone had knocked a 4 x 4 corner post out of a carport and the whole roof was sagging. It hadn't been pinned to the concrete or set in the concrete so it simply slid out of place when their car ran into it. I had a 10' stud in the back of my truck and some rope that got me to thinking. I tilted the stud toward the interior of the carport and wedged it against the bottom edge of the header. I tied off the rope about a foot from the bottom then tied off to my truck. I slowly pulled forward lifting the roof enough to reset the 4 x 4 back in its original position. Went back to the shop and told the boss all we'd need to do was anchor the post but otherwise, it was done.
your carpet story reminded me of the time my brother and i busted out a driveway and threw all the concrete on a '65 chevy 3/4t flatbed ("the berkeley bomber") instead of making two trips to the dump. the coils of the springs were completely bottomed against each other and the steering was so light it was more like surfing than driving.
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Baleing wire, more baleing wire stories.
Granddaughter was learning to operate the new joystick controller that was recently installed on the track loader, she's in a full cage rops protection. There are a few 7 ton cottonwood logs (42 in dia, 20 ft long) that she wanted to see if she could mover around, dropped one from 1 ft onto another simlar log, bounced into the front cown of the crawler, sheared 4ea 5/8 grade 8 bolt, cracked some 3/4 inch thick cast iron, etc. - after a bunch of welding, the throttel bracket (cast) was still busted, so just tied that down with good 'ol baling wir'.
I crumbled a pack of smokes to stop a radiator leak...that count?
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With the cost of cigarettes these days, maybe it would have been cheaper to buy Stopleak! ;-)
Used to do a lot of off roading. Like 3-4 times a week. Overnighters and weekenders. 30 miles from the nearest graded gravel road.
Fried, I mean crispy crittered, a set of points, used a diaper pin to get back home.
Ripped off a brake line. Pounded the end over and filled the system with drinking water.
Hole in the radiator? Coarse ground black pepper. Works faster than anything you ever saw, only lasts about 300 miles. Always kept a bar of soap for gas tank punctures.
Both heads on a V8 broken into 3 pieces. Filled the cooling system with motor oil.
Busted piston. Backed off both valve lifters so they wouldn't open.
Busted rod. Did the valve lifter thing on the exaust side only, set the intake side real tight, pulled the bottom end of the rod, flattened the end of a nail and wedged it between the piston and the cylinder wall.
Tractor buried in mud. Anchored a chain to a stout tree, hooked it to the inside of a rear wheel and let it wrap around the axle winching the beast out.
Had a bike as a kid. Flat tire and no money, filled the tube with sand, a drop of Elmers on the hole where the stem used to be. Got real strong legs.
Needed a trannie tunnel for the TR4-A, original cardboard unit is mostly not there. Spray glue and 2 rolls of HD cooking foil, alternating layers of foil and newspaper.
Post puller. Lean another post against the one you want to pull, run a chain from the truck over the leaning post to the base of the buried one, drive away.
SamT
I don't know, but you may get the RR prize! :-)
wait a minute ..theres a PRIZE?
OK, I once made a condom from plasti-dip...longlasting, and reuseable
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Yeah, but a manly man would have made it out of the kind you melt.
resourceful, not stupid
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Oh, well then, you've already got the prize--a reusable condom! ;-)
Crack two raw eggs ,insert into leaky cooling system . Drain before cooling off . repeat when needed again.
I did the overloaded truck trick once. Many yrs ago, drove one BIL's pickup 60 miles to another BIL's place, picked up as many concrete blocks as we could load into the old F-100, and headed home. Very light steering. Had to cross the Cooper River bridge in Charleston ... more than a bit scary. If you don't know ... Charleston used to have a navy base, and the bridge was build many years ago to be high enough so the navy ships could pass under without a drawbridge ... and that's high!
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell'em "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find out how to do it. T. Roosevelt
Hell, cost of smokes around here, it woulda been cheaper for him to buy a new truck!
Dinosaur
'Y-a-tu de la justice dans ce maudit monde?
And then theres just everyday making do with what ya got.
I spent most of the day today, gutting 5 starters. Then using the parts that actually worked from all 5, to make one that runs when connected directly to the battery.
It took hours of testing parts, putting things together and finding them lacking, etc. No small amount of blood. And I only cussed twice. he he
But I got a running starter. For free.
I'll find out tomorrow if it works. The nose on the one that was on there was all busted up. The replacement only has a small opening, where mine had a larger one. If it works at all, and the smaller hole is a problem, I will just take my dremel tool to it tomorrow.
Everything else about it is exactly the same as the old broken one.
Not as exciting as a safety pin to replace the points, or soap on the gas tank, but hey, it's resourcefullness.
: )
"Criticism without instruction is little more than abuse." D.Sweet
"And then theres just everyday making do with what ya got."
To me, that's what the whole thread is about - Figuring out how to get the job done with what's available.
I probably should have called it "AMERICAN ingenuity" instead of "Redneck Resourcefulness". Glad to hear there's stil plenty of it around.Do you think that when they asked George Washington for ID that he just whipped out a quarter?
Years ago worked for a concrete co /builders supply. We'd get brick delivered (qty 30,000) in a boxcar to a public rail siding. If the wrong door was facing the siding, we'd have to use one of our boom trucks across two sets of tracks to clear an opening to get a forklift in the car. Once had two box cars together unloaded the first and scratching our heads to move the next car to the siding. Hooked up our trusty 73 F-250 released the railcar brakes and pulled #2 (still attached to #1) to the siding. Felt like we should of been in a Ford ad (and I'm a GM man)
Mike
Edited 8/3/2004 9:37 am ET by JUNKMAN001
Ever use a "car jack?" I worked a summer at a refinery and we had to move empty tank cars. There was a pole with a wedge on it called a car jack and you'd put it under a wheel and lever the wheel up a quarter inch or so and it would sort of roll off and get the car moving, then it was up to us to keep it moving by pushing. You could really feel it in the cartilidge that holds your ribs to the breast bone after you pushed a couple cars.
Ok, a fresh one right off the presses then.
Yesterday I got on a job and discovered the caulking gun was missing that ever valuable wire poker for penetrating the nose of the tube.
On the floor there was my answer. An old spring style rat trap with the wire trigger."sobriety is the root cause of dementia.", rez,2004
"Geodesics have an infinite proliferation of possible branches, at the whim of subatomic indeterminism.",Jack Williamson, The Legion of Time
and your driveway story reminded me of the time my boss and i drove 1 1/2 hours to pick up 3 pallets of bricks. his new gmc 3/4 ton, my older dodge 3/4 ton. guess who got the second pallet instead of splitting 'em up? on the way back, coming down a hill there was a set of railroad tracks at the bottom with a little rise to 'em. when i hit em, and i wasn't going too fast, the front end came off the ground. Like an airplane landing it finally came back down - touch once, touch twice and finally stuck to the ground. like you, the whole trip felt like you could turn the wheel 1/2 turn and keep going straight.
When I built my first house I didn't own a truck--or any scaffolding. Borrowed 8 sections of 5x5x10 pipe scaffolding and eight 12' planks from DW's employer who didn't need em for a month or two. Borrowed their new 1-ton 6-wheel pickup to haul them, too, and brought the stuff in without a hitch.
Two months later, I get a call--we need the scaffolding back NOW. I drive over to pick up the truck, and find out the new truck is out--so they let me take the old one: a beat-to-snot 1978 Toyota.
Had to have DW sit on the dashboard to get the front wheels to touch the ground....Dinosaur
'Y-a-tu de la justice dans ce maudit monde?
I work by myself, and sometimes I get a job that I shouldn't have. You know how it goes, you bid really high, thinking the HO will pick someone else.
So I was faced with finding a way to set the 16-foot 8X8 posts with no help.
I just made sure that the holes were ready when the lumber load was delivered. Told the kid there was a $10 tip if he delivered them into the holes.
Man! That was easy!
Unless you're the lead dog, the view just never changes.
Hey, are you trying to take credit for a procedure that Al Gore invented? ;)
Saw the post and thought it ended in "I used My HI-lift" jack. Works wonders for pulling posts out of the ground, removing stuck things, lifting stuff, and a myriad of other things, Everyone should have a "HI-lift" Watch it on the down stroke as it can take a chin out :-)
fire extinguisher for instant chilled beer .....
on the same note ... for our "cruizing days" ...
case of warm beer ... car ... ice ... and a box of cheap garbage bars ...
one by one ... open and fit the bags ... one inside the other ... half a box was ok .. a full box was water tight. Fill with beer ... then ice ... now the best part ...
stick the bag between the copilots legs ..... on the pass floor boards ...
and ... roll the bags shut ... then tuck the loose top into the glove compartment.
genius.
not sure about now ... but 20 years ago .. most any and every car seat belt clip could be used to open a beer bottle ... as could most any "edge" you could hold the top to .. and get a bite .. then slam down your other hand onto the top ... pops right off ...
keys work too ... cept ya gotta lift up and it'll hurt your thumb as ya push ....
Jeff
Jeff
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fire extinguisher for instant chilled beer
Works well if extinguisher is CO2; less well if dry chemical; least well if pressurized water (not that we haven't had to explain this to Guber a time or two after the fact . . . )Occupational hazard of my occupation not being around (sorry Bubba)
Purple K will do interesting things to a beer...
Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming.... WOW!!! What a Ride!
Could be a real PITA with a foam sprayer...now where'd that beer get too?
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Oh how the times have changed over the decades.
As for chilling beer........
My Dad used to tell me of the times when he was in the Corps of Engineers, moving throught France following D-day. They'd put some beer (in bottles) into the bottom of a 55 gallon drum of gasoline, and then insert a compressor hose.
The bubbles chilled the beer to almost icy levels.
Don't try this at home. (The cost of 55 gallons of gasoline just is not worth it.)
Unless you're the lead dog, the view just never changes.
The cost of 55 gallons of gasoline just is not worth it.
Might be easier to explain gasoline versus a discharged F.E. . . .
Not sure how I'd approach a can or bottle that had been soaking in gasoline, though . . . <g>Occupational hazard of my occupation not being around (sorry Bubba)
Brother-In-Law's father used to be a fighter pilot in WWII on some little place in the Pacific where there was no refridgeration. Soo once a month or so they would strip everything off one of the planes (including bullets) and go on a beer run to Guam or someplace that had it. Coming home he said they had to fly just off the water to evade enemy radar, but for the last half hour or so, they'd take the plane up as high as it would go to chill the cargo. Amazing what you'll do for a cold beer in the middle of the Pacific.
Boss,
"making do with what you've got"
I've used a toilet plunger to pull dents out of the truck. Get it wet, stick it to the dent, and pull hard and quick.
Bean cans and hose clamps will get you a few hundred more miles out of a rusted exhaust system. I've even used a 16d nail slipped through a hole, and bent over on the other side to hold an exhaust pipe together.
Made a couple of batches of homebrew in the shop-vac. Take the motor off, scrub out the barrel, plug the intake, make a 3/4" plywood lid with a hole drilled in it for the air lock. Staple sill seal to the plywood lid, put in the brew, set the lid on top, and put a concrete block on top. Don't need no expensive, steenking glass jug.
A farmer friend's daughter backed their pickup into their old Buick, hooked the bumper and bent it back. He got the skid loader out and rammed it into the bumper a few times to straighten it out.
There is a magazine/newspaper named "Farm Show". It's for "Made it myself ideas born in farm shops" www.FARMSHOW.com
As a result of a slight vehicular indiscretion, I had a rear bumper that stuck out several inches.
I found a tall concrete wall at a loading dock, backed up a few times, problem solved!
Jon Blakemore
Believe it or not, I subscribe to "Farm Show".
Although I'd say 3/4 of the stuff in there is just stupid. But some of the folks are really talented and creative.Growing old is mandatoryGrowing up is optional.
re: re-bending bumpers. had a buddy who spent a couple of years on the Dallas PD back in the early 80's. One day he and his partner snagged the bumper on their patrol car and ended up with a snaggle tooth. At the time, the PD was very unforgiving about damages to the patrol cars, so they decided they could and should push the bumper back into shape. They went to a warehouse district taht evening, found a suitaable loading dock, and aimed for it. Both guys were young and clueless, so they discussed how much speed would be required ... and agreed that 25-30 mph should work. He said it took them quite a while to concoct a story to explain the damages.
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell'em "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find out how to do it. T. Roosevelt
LOL! I couldn't help but picture the two knobs from the Starsky and Hutch movie that just came out.
We used an old oak tree behind the service station as a frame machine bumper straightner.
Had the fuel pump on the old pickup break off at the flange. I poked a hole into the bottom of my window washer bottle ,stuck the fuel hose in and filled it with gas . A pint and a half don't go far but it beats pushing.
I used a Duct Jack to stand several of the Structural Insulated Panels on our house. When the second floor deck was done I needed to get the jack upstairs to stand the second floor panels and I was all alone - if only I had another jack to lift this one...
Eureka!! I inverted the jack and used it to lift itself through the stair well.
Kevin Halliburton
"The Greek comic poets, also, divided their plays into parts by introducing a choral song, ... they relived the actor's speeches by such intermissions." Vitruvious, (Book V)
Here is the Redneck Engineer I hired to unload the SIPs when they arrived on site.Kevin Halliburton
"The Greek comic poets, also, divided their plays into parts by introducing a choral song, ... they relived the actor's speeches by such intermissions." Vitruvious, (Book V)
"Here is the Redneck Engineer I hired to unload the SIPs when they arrived on site."
Now THAT is waaaay cool !!!
You should have seen Art "Junkman" Brockshmidt's homemade well drill.
I spent at least an hour appreciating all the finer details of that beautiful monster, when I visited there.
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If you don't tell I won't...
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