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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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Donewrken



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#10,377 ·
Wow Steamguy! That was quite the adventure. When our little dog was still alive, it never failed that a smoke alarm or security alarm device would say it needed new batteries. Of course, they say they need batteries by emitting a beeping sound and ALWAYS in the middle of the night. Now, I probably could have slept through those little beeps. However, my dog would be in my face. If you could read her mind, she was saying help me daddy, the evil beeps are going to kill me! I have a Simply Safe alarm system. There are probably 15 little battery operated devices all over the house, so it becomes a hunt. Advance 10 feet, pause and wait for the next beep. Then advance in that direction, pause and listen. After a painfully long time, the offending device is found and the battery ripped out of it so you can get back to bed.
Charles, those modular homes are pretty cool. My sister and B-I-L had a modular home built about 45 years ago in upstate NY where they get about 200" of snow each year. The home has been good for them except for the roof pitch. Some winters, my B-I-L has to get on the roof and shovel off the snow. Not a good thing for a man in his mid 70's.
Here lately, our posts require a weather report. We started our day at 15° and are supposed to hit a high of 46°. Heat wave! I'm sure the rest of our snow will away.
 
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Started the day around 52ish, rain forecast!! Dipping down to 48°!!!

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Burrr!!!
I saw Larry's supposed to hit 25° today!!

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Yep we are but it sure started out cold. 10⁰ when I got up this morning. Mid 40's tomorrow for a high.
 
#10,385 ·
That was an interesting video Don. Nice saw.
 
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I thought so too. That tree was huge! even with it splitting in two he wound up with some beautiful slabs.
Naturally, loved his method for maneuvering them.
I would love building one of those but wouldn't have a use for it!!
There aren't enough available to make it worth while.

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#10,387 ·
I visited a couple of local saw mills a few years ago. Bought a few Oak slabs. Enjoyed watching them work.
 
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I'm just the joker in the house.
My thoughts are "if you ain't laughing you ain't living"

, That is all, was a general statement because that post was getting long. LOL............ You knew I'd be back. 🤣 Until the good lord takes me, I will be here to torment and uplift your lives.......... 🤣 Somebody has to spread the stupidness......... Aparently I was the one that got elected......... 😁
 
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Edit, hat should have said you will never put a 350 amp load on the panel, or max out the 200 amp service. Unless your trying to re-charge the flux capacitor. . . .
Already had three edits due to putting the /end quote in the wrong place!! LOL!!!
Eye strain from all the doggone code reading. if it's not code reading it's the latest USG adaptation of "BIM" standards, it's voluntary compliance only but they want to charge you $200 to download their standards.
I'm volunteering because it's a pretty cool method of creating a database for a building project that draws in resources from everywhere that anyone can look at and input. We only go back to around 2005 whereas it's been in use across the pond for decades as a standard. It will be the future for the construction industry & architecture while CAD becomes less and less the standard. It can use multiple sources f data from programs such as Excel, MS Word and the dozens of other software programs.

I will be here to torment and uplift your lives.......... 🤣
:LOL: 😝

Somebody has to spread the stupidness......... Aparently I was the one that got elected......... 😁
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#10,398 ·
Oh yes so am I. It was a witch hunt though. You would think the wood stove would suck that CO in being only 3 feet away. I guess not.

@Joe/GA I'm so glad to hear you guys are doing better.

It's 48* here today and sunny!
 
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#10,396 ·
That's awesome. There is such a need for water and snow is a great way for that to happen. Rains often run off and end up in the oceans whereby a slow melting snow usually ends up where it is needed. We need more snows like they had in the days of the Donner Party! However, we don't need people being frozen to death.
 
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Yep. The pass is just around the corner form Lake Tahoe. We used to fly up there on ski packages and the snow would be roof top level. Then you see the markers when on the lifts and there would be 17 - 20 feet of snow. We need that to be like it used to be.
That's up where our state water project gets the runoff and fills the reservoirs that keeps us wet all year long. We haven't had them full since the year the Orville darn was ready to collapse.

Don
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#10,404 ·
A friend in HS family moved out west from Chicago where they had a moving business. Before they left they had an oak body built by I think it was Studebaker Coach Works. The sides came up about half way and then open to the top. We rode in a couple parades the city put on every year with the ladies and my daughter in old fashion dresses and hats It was a lot of fun.
We also drove down and cruised the beach which was 13 miles from home.That thing would do 45 - 50 mph! Way faster than we felt comfortable.

Don
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#10,405 ·
So, I had mentioned that I would like to have an old fashion grease pit in my new shop and a lift. I doubted that it could ever be approved by the building department. Today I did a quick search, can I have a grease pit in my county. The first suggestion was the county building codes in pdf. I down loaded it and did a quick search for grease, a hand full of hits that all applied to a grease trap that restaurants are required to have.
Back to Google, this time I searched for "can you build a garage Grease Pit" in my county. One of the results was on a garage forum where someone asked the same question that I was searching for an answer to. General consensus was you would never make it past the building inspector and your insurance company either. Someone else chimed in with do you think they would have issues with a storm shelter in your garage.
That's it!! Then I searched for storm shelters, under ground. eventually it lead me to this. Notice how the door opens.




Here are some Texas good old boy built shelters. One of them is 10 foot in diameter with a 1/2 inch thick steel exterior.



I 'll be looking into the requirements for having a storm shelter 4'x12' might be about right with a reinforced 1/4inch steel cover and concrete walls, steps and floor.

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I plan on both. Yes, but the oil change places have pipes and chains surrounding them and I'll bet massive amounts of steel behind the concrete. I wouldn't want to pay for the engineering on that. I plan on having footings and 6 inches of reinforced concrete walls supporting the edges of the slab. Also embedded angle iron along the edges.

Bought another tool today.
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Tornado shelters here in tornado alley are called hidey holes! This area was last hit by a major tornado in 1942. That one killed 29 people. Since then, there have been many small ones. We do not have a hidey hole, but sometimes wish we did. A friend, that was a survivalist had one built that was like the sliding door type except the door was a foot high by 4 foot wide and about 12 feet long. There were 18 or 19 steps down into this thing. Before they died of COVID in 2021, they both got so large they couldn't have gotten so obese that they couldn't manage those steps.
Those shelters in the video were amazing. Other friends have a house with a basement and they have a room in the corner that is steel reinforced concrete. They have a queen size bed, shelves with food, water, flashlights, etc., TV and radio. During bad weather, they just spend the night in that nice hidey hole room. That is what I would like. However, our house sits on blocks and would fly away like Dorothy's house. If God wants me, I'm ready!
 
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Tornado shelters here in tornado alley are called hidey holes!
I love that!!!
Naturally, now I will be searching YouTube for a clip of that movie.
It must date back to the 50's - late 40's of the guy singing
hidey, hidey, hidey Hi.
Hidey, hidey, hidey Ho!!!!

However, our house sits on blocks and would fly away like Dorothy's house. If God wants me, I'm ready!
Dartheeeeee!!!!!!!

Amen brother!!!
So am I!!
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Thanks, Joe.
I'm glad you are feeling better.

Don
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hidey, hidey, hidey Hi.
Hidey, hidey, hidey Ho!!!!

Now that's funny right there. I though I was the joker in the house. Are you triying yo take my position? 🤣

43*s at noon I'm lovin it.
 
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