Thinking outside the box

[High Compression]

Paul you are my hero. If I could just be a little mouse in the corner of your shop to watch and learn.

 

[High Compression]

Paul,

Congratulations on another fantastic build! Wow, when you get some extra time on your hands, look out! I do hope you made an extra one - that will look really nice on the front of my Grand L!

Some questions for you:
1. How did you end up connecting it to the front brush guard? I couldn't really tell by the pictures.

2. I noticed that you included a 12v adapter plug - what do you envision using this for? Or was it just a matter of 'you could'?

3. When you start a project like this, do sketch it out in detail before you start or just sort of create as you go?

Looking forward to the video - please put a link on this thread once you get it done.

Take care,

Kubota Tee I think the black cover beside the paddle latch is a key lock for the latch. Correct me if I'm wrong Paul.

 

[MikeD74T]

4shorts, Your fabrication skill are spectacular as is your ability to design for functionality. Is that your shop or an employers? Have you considered internet sales & custom fabrication? Markham Welding is (was) a great example of how word of mouth & quality products/service made a good business. I'd be a wealthy man with an employee like you. MikeD74t

 

[4shorts]

Paul you are my hero. If I could just be a little mouse in the corner of your shop to watch and learn.

Thank you very much. The last mouse that was in my shop looked like this.

Kubota Tee I think the black cover beside the paddle latch is a key lock for the latch. Correct me if I'm wrong Paul.

You are VERY correct. Good observation :thumbsup:

4shorts, Your fabrication skill are spectacular as is your ability to design for functionality. Is that your shop or an employers? Have you considered internet sales & custom fabrication? Markham Welding is (was) a great example of how word of mouth & quality products/service made a good business. I'd be a wealthy man with an employee like you. MikeD74t

Thank you Mike. I appreciate your nice comments. The shop you see is ours meaning my wife and I. We are a small mom and pop operation and just started our 16 year in business last week.

It's just me and the wife that work here. I do the easy work (the repairs, machining,welding, restoring,painting and fabrication) while the wife does the hard stuff like bill collecting and paper work.

I've thought about doing some online stuff but to be honest most folks don't want to pay for this type of stuff. I get many emails and PM's but the average folk don't want to pay much for it so I don't pursue it.

We do well here at our little modest shop. We own what we have but it takes allot of hours working to keep up with it all. I can't complain though. Raised a family here because of the shop and the two boys we have turned out great and went out in the world to help others by becoming proud members of the Canadian Armed Forces. Our 29 year old boy is in Afghanistan now. I consider them our greatest accomplishment. Here's a few pics to give you a visual of what our modest operation looks like.
Thank you again for your kind thoughts and thanks for posting. Paul


Going up our driveway:

If you look to the right you'll see the shop behind our house. Yes I'm a back yard mechanic :laughing:

This is where I keep my restored items:

This is the shop:

 

[mjncad]

Thank you very much. The last mouse that was in my shop looked like this.

The kind of mouse you'd find in my pigsty shop looks like this.

 

[4shorts]

The kind of mouse you'd find in my pigsty shop looks like this.

Holy smoke that's a hard looking critter!:shocked:The last time I got a shock like that I met the mother in law :laughing:

 

[Lloyd_E]

You have far too much time on your hands...

If you want to get busy I can send you a list... and a blank cheque....

Impressive as always!!!!

 

[4shorts]

You have far too much time on your hands...

If you want to get busy I can send you a list... and a blank cheque....

Impressive as always!!!!

:laughing: Lloyd in this case I can honestly say I had to much time on my hands. We seldom take much time off but this year we suffered through two weeks off. Just about killed me to be honest.
As for the blank Cheque. Don't leave it completely blank, Just sign it. I'll fill in the amount :thumbsup:

How is that cool Kioti of yours? Thanks. Glad you liked the build.

 

[Window Geek]

Wow, Paul. Nice work! I especially like the non-skid step tread. Very cool and really handy. I had to surf back and forth to see how the box fit in between the struts. The quarter away lights are a great idea. Pulling across traffic on a roadway needs the flashing lights up front like on your loader. Turning into traffic needs those angled lights........ And they look like they were born on the tractor. :thumbsup:

I was going to use plywood. Guess I'll have to do it out of metal now...

'Course if you think four days was a long time to fab, you aint seen nothing yet! :laughing:

 

[mjncad]

Holy smoke that's a hard looking critter!:shocked:The last time I got a shock like that I met the mother in law :laughing:

Ed "Big Daddy" Roth gave birth to the "Rat Fink" that took up residence in my pigsty. Actually I haven't seen a blasted mouse in quite some time knock on wood.

My last boss could only dream of looking as good as "Rat Fink;" but she would have to be called "Rat Finkette."