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Due to last page loading issues with Part 1, this is Part 2 of Donewrken's homemade tractor build . . . and all around garage kibitzing thread. :D

Link to Part 1.

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Part 2 of Donewrken's homemade tractor build . . . and all around garage kibitzing thread. :D
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Thanks MOD's for taking care of business and thanks TUDOR for the addendum to the title.
We all hope this will all come together completing the build and may we all gain some knowledge and appreciation for the friendships that have developed in the process.
Thanks also to MTF for the great opportunity they've given us to share our thoughts and ideas.


I'm trusting you all that it (part one) didn't go away!:ROF

Now presenting :cool: My Latest Project - Part Two
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Thanks

Donewrken



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#10,336 ·
Merry Christmas all!
 
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#10,339 ·
It's an 11mm bit, I think 80mm cutter length; shop guy said NEVER use it hand held.
Wood is so crazy expensive now I don't have any nice material in stock anymore.
When I was doing up the house I bought a section of a tree, then cut and planed it as required. It wasn't cheap but it was 1/2 the price of buying single rough planks (as I did recently to make a set of interior doors).

Plant Wood Grass Composite material Gas
 
#10,340 ·
Wood is so crazy expensive now
It is!!!
I have always taken for granted that I'd build my own cabinets and get the "good stuff" to work with, Baltic Birch etc. Now I'm thinking the least expensive prefab's to get the final inspection.
One of the requirements for new houses to be stamped as habitable by the building department is having a "wipe able" surface in the kitchen around the sink. I might only have one cabinet for the sink and one each for the baths. I'll be there a while and think about the good stuff at a later date.

Don
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#10,342 ·
Well, I almost feel guilty. I'm sitting here with the front door open and the fan going in this warm 65° weather while watching some amazing video of the storms hitting the east coast. Then my sister called and told me thy are having 85° weather about 150 miles west of me at her house a few miles from Morro Bay. Sorry folks it looks nasty cold




Don
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#10,343 ·
We didn't get the sow that was fiercest for us. I think officially 3.5 inches. Friday the wind and blowing snow and white outs looked like the video. Friday we didn't get above zero. Yesterday we got up to about 7 for a few hours and still windy. Today we got up to 10. This week we are suppose to slowly come out of this. By Friday and Saturday near 50.
 
#10,345 ·
Very time consuming to build cabinets from raw wood, but very satisfying too.
After 10 years, everything looks the same; I chose the best planks for the external doors (3 of them).
A houseboat I did up 20 years ago with teak kitchen was sold again last year for a large sum and the pictures highlight the woodwork so I could see it's still just how I made it.

I made my own carousel for under the corner of the kitchen; ones I could buy readymade were just horrible things.
It was a bit rough to turn at first, so I took it apart, bored out the pivot collars, and pressed cage needle bearings in.
These crazy (at the time) efforts did the tick and it still rotates smooth as silk.
A few more pictures, because we love pictures!
I had the countertops cut from Indian black granite by a shop in town.


Wood Gas Composite material Machine Automotive exterior

Wood Gas Machine Metal Auto part

Wood Natural material Table Hardwood Wood stain

Wood Rectangle Door House Wood stain


Wood Tool Gas Machine Hardwood


Wheel Wood Gas Machine Tread


Brown Cabinetry Furniture Wood Countertop
 
#10,346 ·
A few more pictures, because we love pictures!
We sure do! . . . . and those are beautiful cabinets.
They are similar to the cabinets I built for my first house, I used Black walnut for the face, rails and stiles and veneer for the panels. The color was close to your pictures. It took many, many coats of Watco deep oil to seal and shine, but they came out nice. Nothing compared to your grade of lumber, I mean how often does a guy have the ability to do what you did!!!
Wow!
Brown Product Rectangle Material property Font

The color in the picture is nowhere near how they came out but that is the product.

After my last post I had a thought. . . . . . .

Brown Cabinetry Sink Property Countertop


I think Tony's post may have triggered the thought.
You can get a whole box of the plastic wood for under fifty bucks!!! Haha!!!

Don
one last time until next year
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#10,347 ·
I used clear polyurethane, starting with a few coats thinned with turpentine, then heavier coats, wet sand, then a final coat.
But on some later work, I used 2-component clear primer followed by 2-component top coat with a spray gun; that looks SO good and it was SO fast, I'm never going back to brush.
It thickens within seconds, so it doesn't run easily.
 
#10,349 ·
You can't beat the beauty of real wood.

I believe I may live! Starting to feel better. This is day 6 of this awful virus. I just ate some ham and eggs with a glass of OJ.

I may even make a grocery run later.

That snowy chaos video was amazing. Most of our snow is gone and I won't miss it!
 
#10,355 ·
I can appreciate that.
After being bed ridden for a year and a half. Wife and her friend sort of made sure I wouldn't fall over backwards as I walked up my driveway which is 40 feet up hill about 18°. It took a while but I made it. Then when I turned around to head back down, I was frozen in place as I tried to figure out how I was going to get back down this gravel covered mountainside. They wouldn't let me take a step and one of them went down and got the car while the other held on to me making sure I wouldn't go tumbling down the hill.
The things we take for granted!!!

Slow and steady, Joe!

Don
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#10,393 ·
Prior to Henry Ford's invention of the production line there was a more hands on method of mass production. . . .

Do you think they had the new guys welding the frames together where they could get a lot of practice?
Alignment hammers fine tune them as needed.

Don
Those sure were flimsy crude little vehicles. And, yes, I do think they had the newbies welding the frames. Didn't appear to be the best of welds. Interesting video and strange vice grips!

Oh, and glad the Co dos alarm worked. . . . .

Don

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Since CO is so deadly and yet odorless and invisible, it's nice to know it works Tony!

I'm feeling better and better. My wife is feeling better regarding the virus, but she came down with a UTI and is suffering with that. She can't catch a break.

It's 41° and sunny here and supposed to hit a high of 56°. Woo! hoo!
 
#10,357 ·
Wow, you guys sure have some adventures!! I'm not on MTF for a couple days, and here there are EIGHT pages in this thread to read...!!

Well, I have my own story in the meantime:

We got snow last Tuesday night. Along with the snow, we've had more severe winds than usual up here on the side of the mountain (25kt steady, gusts to 75kt+) for days, and then a couple inches of ice storm on top of that; so I hadn't slept well for several nights in a row, which made me really groggy. And cranky. And not thinking clearly. Thursday night/Friday morning at 12:30, the smoke detector in the hallway starts to scream. I'm immediately out of bed, full of adrenalin, running around and looking for smoke.

No smoke AT ALL to be found in the house. (I always use a flashlight with a narrow beam to check this, always - your unaided eyes are typically not good enough.) So with no smoke, I do the trick of waving a broom at the detector, and it shuts up. For three seconds. Then it starts screaming again. I'm thinking, we have the snow and the winds and the cold, so it's probably a voltage sag, and the detector will quit in a couple minutes. Also, it's 12° in the garage where the ladder is, and my warm pink feet are telling me, 'no way do we want to go out there', so I just say (threaded-fastener) it, and go back to bed. I gotta get some sleep!

An hour and a half of semi-sleep later, the power quits altogether. Now it's just the roar of the winds outside, and the house temperature starts to plunge. I use a CPAP, so that's dead, and it's tough to sleep without it. I check the local utility's app on the phone, and report the outage. Try to sleep.

About 7:30AM the power comes back on, and my CPAP starts up. Oh, this is wonderful. I can get some sleep!

And then the smoke detector starts to scream again.

Back out of bed, head for the garage and get the short ladder and a set of side-cutters. The smoke detector is on the same circuit as my CPAP, and getting to the extension cords requires opening the garage door. Which I'm not going to do, mostly undressed and with 12° and 30kt winds out there!

I try the ladder, and my knees start hollering at me for the stupidity. Not wanting to risk weeks of agony, I abandon the ladder against the side of the hallway and go for one of the "grabbers" in the house - one of those things with the U-shaped pincers on them that shelf-stockers use. The smoke detector continues to shriek in defiance. I get the pincers fitted to it, and -no kidding- the tone of the smoke detector goes up two octaves, like it's a living thing that I'm trying to kill. I can't get the pincers to twist it or get it off the ceiling, so I abandon that effort and its tone comes back down to where it was. I go back to the garage for my 16-oz framing hammer. The smoke detector sees me coming, and pauses briefly in its shrieking, then resumes. I start pounding on the sense port with the hammer, and suddenly the tone starts changing like the HAL computer in 2001 A Space Odyssey.

The smoke detector finally DIES a painful death; I put the hammer where I won't do something stupid like kick it, then sweep the pieces of the housing to the side of the hallway to deal with later. I have a spare smoke detector, so I pull that out, energize it, and put it on the top step of the ladder that's leaning against the hallway wall.

I got three hours of good sleep after that; and the next night I got ELEVEN hours of blessed rest!

And today, the ice is melting to the point that I'll be able to get to the car or the truck, and a new smoke detector is due in the freight in a few days.

Merry Christmas, everyone! :)
 
#10,358 ·
Merry Christmas, everyone! :)
Thank you, and to as well!! 🎄 🎅

and suddenly the tone starts changing like the HAL computer in 2001 A Space Odyssey.
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-no kidding- the tone of the smoke detector goes up two octaves, like it's a living thing that I'm trying to kill.
😝
smoke detector finally DIES a painful death
😲:ROFLMAO:

Thanks for that!!
Wow, they can be such horrible monsters when they act up!!
My last bout with one was several years ago. Naturally 2:00 in the morning.
It wound up being a deaf spider.
I disposed of it's remains respectfully, then all was well again.
Great story!!!
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Don
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#10,360 · (Edited)
smoke detector should be wired into their very own circuit ,never shared, "national wire code"
Makes sense. This house was built 32 years ago and was wired to code for then; our County inspectors were tough, and the house passed every check. I was there for almost all of them! If I ever have to change anything, I'll add this to the list...
 
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#10,365 ·
Taking a break today after spending a day working with Visio 2021. I think I might wind up with a layout of the plans that can be accessed easily and become the data base for records. I'm new to this format and have everything to learn but am making some progress. I now have several pages that were just .jpg images converted to Visio files, analog to digital I guess you could say.
Anyhow, I took time to watch a few videos and this one's full of incredible work. Two parts to it, the first is preparing to mount a crane. By my sheet of plywood calculations they pour over 750 yards of concrete for the base.



Be sure to check out part two.

Don
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#10,388 ·
Our house was a double put on a foundation also. built in 1974. It is deeded a stick built house and not a mobile.

@charles g , do you know how they handle the electrical connections between the modules and the "base" for that modular construction, as the interior walls look mostly finished as well? Same w HVAC?
Our house was a double put on a foundation also. built in 1974. They put a 100 amp breaker box in the other half of the house. Once it was put together they ran a line through the attic from the main 200 amp to the 100 amp.
The prior owner took all the electric heat out accept 2 bedrooms so i now have 6 empty 30amp slots in my breaker box. I'm not sure how that works? 350 amps in breakers and only a 200 amp service.
Things that make you go HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM..

On a side note we broke 32*s here today! Woo Hoo. But higher temps and rain are on the way.
@Donewrken kin You can have the rain we are supposed to get if you want it. Heck I told you to keep it 2 weeks ago!

OH and a safety note " don't dump hot ashes and coals from your wood stove into a galvanized tub" It sets off the CO2 monitor. 🤣 I didn't think anything about it. The stove was all but out and I wanted to get rid of all the ash. So I scooped it out into our ash tub and re-stoked the stove. 2 hrs later our alarm was going off. I though it was a bad battery but you can't replace it.:mad: I'm looking everywhere for something burning accept the wood stove. Nothing. I went back down again and scratched the ashes in the tub to find they are still alive and cooking.
I took the tub out and spread it in the yard then got the hose and watered it down as to not catch anything on fire outside. That would be a shame if it caught the trees on fire and burned down my butthead neighbor's house. 🤣 (I wouldn't wish that on anyone)

I think we need to rename this thread "what happened in my life today". LOL................. 🤣
I love the interaction of lives on this thread. It gives us all a chance to vent and share what's gonin on in our lives. I think it's awesome. What makes it even more awesome is the people that respond and interact with each other here.

That is all
Tony
 
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#10,367 ·
Seeing the front of that house reminds me of a house near where I live. It's not built the same, but the front looks similar, in that the front door is centered, and raised up like that. For more than 20 years, the owners never had stairs to the front door, so you couldn't get to it from the outside w/o a ladder, and from the inside, it would be a healthy drop if you went through it by accident. Just this year, they finally put in stairs and a railing.
 
#10,371 ·
It wasn't the only door, there was at least one other entrance along the side of the house at ground level, and perhaps another at the rear. I would hope they at least barricaded the door on the inside before the stairs were added, and I have no idea about what the building code is for that situation here, other than needing multiple exits that can be used in an emergency (which includes windows).
 
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