Canopy Ford 3600 Canopy

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jml755

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Finally finished my sun canopy. Kinda copied Soundguy's bracket design. Used all "scrounged" material. Top was a piece of metal barn siding. Frame was from steel destined for the dumpster at work. Couldn't find nice pieces of wide 3/8" flat stock for the brackets so I took some curved scrap 4" wide that was torched off of some equipment we were redoing, flattened it and welded 2 pieces together for each bracket. The joint is pretty rough but, hey, the stock was FREE. I used some rubber edge trim found in the trash can
at work. Only stuff I bought was a can of primer and a can of black paint. Also used a few sticks of 6011 along with a few cutoff wheels for the angle grinder. Probably don't have more than $15 in it. Can't wait to take it out on a nice sunny day. Hopefully it'll stand up to the bouncing. That's one reason I tried to make it as light as possible but sturdy.

Wife's glad to have one less "project" taking up space in the garage. Next thing to finish is a 3 pt fence unroller. Actually, it's done, just needs tryout on the tractor and painting. The refurbed 6' box blade is taking up the most space and needs a little welding and painting. Hopefully before winter, I'll have room in the garage for ...... wait, forget about the car, I just thought of another project.
 

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Cool:thumbsup: Nicely done. I think it a great thing to re-purpose and use our resources how many different ways we can. it is a shame not to use perfectly good little pieces of this and that and make something useful in lieu of filling our landfills.

JC,:)

P.S, I had enough scape pieces of plywood all odd shapes and some EPDM to make a canopy that will last me few years. My next one will be more like yours as I have some corrugated roofing as well.
 
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That looks good, I may copy it for my kubota!
 
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yep, looks like it will work fine.

I used hd plywood for my top, just for noise control, and covered that with 3/8 rubber matting, after paintint it with deck sealer asphalt paint, to water proof it.

works good, and as jml755 said.. all made of scrap and virtually free.. that's the best part of these desigins!

not to hijack the thread, but for anyone interested, I'll repost the one I made, which was pretty much a copy of a ford factory one anyway.. thouhg made with free scraps...

soundguy
 

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Soundguy,

It looks great. I did about the same as you've done. I wished I had a bigger piece of plywood to make it about 8" longer. I might hem up a piece of sheet metal and extend it. Mine took me 45 minutes to build and all from scraps.

JC,







 
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it's that wonderfull 'free' word.. scrap that makes these projects so nice. taking leftovers and making goodies out of them!

soundguy
 
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it's that wonderfull 'free' word.. scrap that makes these projects so nice. taking leftovers and making goodies out of them!

soundguy

Yeah, one man's garbage is another man's gold. Just last week, our shop was doing some "cleaning" and I found a bunch of setup fixtures with DeStaco clamps and setup details welded to various sizes of steel plates between 1/2" and 3/4" thick that were in the dumpster. A little cutoff wheel work to remove the tacked on details and I'll have some nice heavy bases for ????? (fill-in-the-blank). One 8"x13"x1/2" plate is destined to be the base for a hitch-receiver-mounted vice that I've been wanting to build. Already scrounged the 24" piece of 2x2 tube for it and now I hope to have it done this weekend. I've got to keep my garage door closed the night before trash pickup to keep the "pickers" from having a field day.
 
 
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