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I don't know about your tractor but some of the older tractors and equipment I've worked on over the years with horizontal filters dad a plug in the top of the filter housing, to fill the filters after installing

I can't decide if the original poster did it as a joke or not. The clevis& pin coupling style is the oldest known form of connecting attachments from the first use of domesticated animals to pull any type of wheeled equipment, in some cases still used today from the smallest lawn and garden...

As recent as a couple months ago 2 Track loaders decided that I needed them more than they needed their previous owner A 755B with some major issues # the engine and both transmissions are in a shipping container the track groups are at less than 40% and the pins have been turned already the...

I now have a 33 ft door hung on the front of the building so I can close off all but about 15 or 16 feet the door rolls all the way to the east except for the last 4 feet of the opening so I still can have a 44ft wide opening if needed Also 2 of my latest additions to my tractors and...

Thanks for the inquiry, Brandi, Over all I really can't tell a lot of difference in the condition of the floor where we treated it and tat of the dirt I have built up outside, As I was concerned it is easy to gouge the surface with sharp objects. there are areas though that until ran over by a...

Finally getting around to start plumbing an air system in the shop I will eventually be running a 1 1/4" sch 80 steel pipe system throughout with surge tanks and water traps at every drop station Currently I just have a single air compressor connected to the initial start of the system the...

Basically all I needed to do was run the hone down the bore a few times to remove any residue and or debris and possibly some surface oxidation, Who knows how long it had been since the crane had been in service even hydraulic oil will eventually dry up some and leave a hard film and if it had...

The arches are made from 2" black poly pipe

The walls are galvanized corrugated steel, the greenhouse is 32 by 16 with 10ft high walls 2 feet of that is buried in the ground with steel panels on both sides 3 layers of 15lb roofing tar paper over the part in the ground the cavities between the panels in the ground are sprayed with a wax...

I don't remember posting a thread about my greenhouse so I will start one' I started building myself a greenhouse several years ago and never got around to completing it, Now that it is basically closed in and near enough to completion I'll post a few pictures of it

Wi Dan; lately I have been concentrating on development of a special project for a friend of mine, he and I hope to go into manufacturing once all testing is complete but it is nowhere near ready for prime-time publication just yet. I can already see though if we do start up manufacturing the...

I don't what it is about me but I seem to have a weakness for poor neglected little tractors. A few weeks ago, a friend of mine asked me if I would take care of his little 2600 for a while. I know his for a while, something shows up at my place and somehow never leaves. We somehow managed to...

If it wasn't for my wife reminding me to switch to the new calendars, I wouldn't know new years from any other day

Update on the TYE no till drill. The man did finally sell it but not until after he had used it every years for 6 years kept it in his equipment barn when not in use which was regular as I understand it, cleaned and well maintained. Replaced the press wheels and coulters and hoses as needed. He...

I forgot all about adding an update to the clutch problem on the Case tractor. When I separated it everything was splined up properly but whoever had installed the clutch had put the disk in backwards and had screwed with the pressure plate adjustment bolts. I flipped the disk then adjusted...

Been thinking for a while now that I needed to do something with the Schramm. I blocked it up on blocks removed the wheels and started looking for used tires to put on them. Not having any luck finding the size I wanted without having to buy new I decided why not make some adapters and just...

these 2 green tarps were at one time the sides of a trailer the top section had torn but the sides were still in good shape they have 5/16"steel cables embedded in the edge, so I took advantage of that and clamped 1 end to the column then with a come along I was able to stretch the tarps really...

I had a 20 ft shipping container next to the outside of the west wall at the South west corner but my friend bought a house about 30 miles from me so we moved it over there. it was full of their furniture and stuff. this left the west corner wide open except for the tarp that came half way down...

I try not to have any business, I retired 10 years ago and haven't had time to my self ever since. It seems like the wife and I start every morning before the sun gets fully up and many days still at it way late in the night. We get 1 thing completed only to find the to do list just got longer...

I'm always needing to pick up and flip over a low bed heavy haul trailer to make repairs easier, or stack trailers on tope of another so 2 or 3 can be hauled. there is lots of farm equipment out here that is next to impossible to repair underneath without picking it up and placing it on stands...

Now I just need to service it pull those monstrous tires off and repair the brakes as they no longer work

When we left for work in Kuwait back in 2003 I sold my part of a property that I co owned to the co owner And leased the equipment I didn't ship to Kuwait to a guy who had been renting part of my shop from me. My then partner in the property said he would look after the equipment however time...

After 18 years I finally have my 1968 25,000lb forklift back in my possession.

I remember that episode they couple had been struggling to complete their home with in a certain time frame otherwise the property would be considered a dump ground and the fine would have been a per tire number. I think Marty Rainey said something about there being 30,000 or more tires. It was...

Oh yes nothing get past their ever vigilant watchful eyes. I spied one of them hiking his leg to a tire I had just filled. I guess he didn't like something about it so I hurried up and added 1 on top of it and filled it he sniffed at the latest tire looked at me and walked a few feet then laid...

Just ask them which is better to make a long lasting retaining wall creosote rail road ties that eventually rot away and leach creosote into the ground or old tires that will almost never rot away or leach anything into the soil and what does eventually leach into the soils is consumed by...

"It never gets cold in Texas until it does"

I guess one could either downplay the freeze or over sensationalize it for months or even years. So I will take the opportunity to write my book about it. The weatherman in Abilene said the weather event broke so many long established records it was hard to state all of them some days had the...

Let there be lights and plenty of them I figured out the perfect way to dispose of a bunch of old truck tires that have been accumulating over the years by burying them to make a retaining wall on the South end of the shop Before I got too far along though I wanted to also bury the electric...

I closed in the East side of the shop yesterday with a section of new billboard tarp. First off I needed to serve off the cut end of the tarp to strengthen and provide a means of hanging I, I started a few days ago by painting a 6 inch wide swath with a special vinyl tarp adhesive. folded that...

Well the enzyme came in and we hired a guy with a small tractor with a tiller to try and grind up the shop floor. After about 6 hours we told him to just level it out as best he could so we could apply the agent to it. It would have probably taken him another 2 days to ever get is fully...

with the floor is broken into large clods but while we wait for the enzyme to arrive the decision was made to try and complete the remaining walls then stretch tarps over the door openings before turning the clods into dust in an effort to limit the amount of fill being blown out of the building...

Over 2 years of adding the red sandy clay fill to the shop floor and it being packed down over and over had turned it almost into sand stone. But now it is time to break it up for the next step in the process of making it into a durable floor that hopefully will not sluff off dust everytime...

Having seen a lot of guys use these and even built one for a guy many years ago I got the idea to aid in leveling out the shop floor one of these just might be of use It did and it didn't mostly didn't because of the large size of the drag blade being used in the confined area of the shop floor...

This is unbelievable today was the first time I really took a look at the tractor Any wonder why the guy said somethings not right? I've seen some crazy things in my time I've witnessed guys doing some pretty dumb things Most of the shade tree guys I've known would have known better than to...

had a trailer load of things show up last night. some for the shop some for repair some just because I wanted them of course this was what one of my dogs thought about the stuff everyone should have a PTO driven 15 KW generator I guess Now I get a post hole digger LOL

I just got a Case 431 that apparently has clutch issues, which is probably why it was so cheap the guy just wanted to get rid of it. As I understand it he had new clutches installed but something is not right. I have no idea what the something is not right may mean and since it has some other...

here are a couple of restored ones neither were done to an exacting replication procedure for one thing they did the Chip Foose thing to them making them too pretty, with sanded wood stained and varnished pieces wrong colors but most of all that is wrong is the types of wood used but the green...

They weigh 500 LBS. each [On dat truck between battery and motor is a set of probably 2 pole starters linked together to adjust voltage goin to motor for speed control. Might even be setup for electric wheel braking depending on how truck was built. Very similar to DC electric crane. Big...

it has 9 5 cell batteries and runs on 4 60volt gear reduction motors

A welcomed addition for my shop the base I will mount it on weighs as much as the 400 lb. Anvil The anvil will go nicely with the forge I am building

A good friend of mine sent me this to store and eventually restore for him It is a 1916 5 ton truck made by the Commercial truck company it was used for half a century almost to haul coal in Pittsburgh PA or that is the story I have on it And this is where I will construct an enclosure...

I just about have enough fill in the shop to level out the floor now And today the wind cooperated with me allowing me to hang the 200 lb tarp salvaged from a Conestoga trailer kit to make the South West part of the wall which eventually will become a roll up window for my brick crane to...

Now that I have the box van leveled on concrete blocks I can close in the gaps where the low spot is for back fill And what better place to store a few thousand dollars worth of special extruded aluminum

Here is A Sears Suburban tractor which is probably near the same age as yours with a Kohler engine here is a picture of a Kohler engine with the belt guard similar to yours Sears may have done a lot of things but their engines were made by an engine manufacture Even the sears outboard...

DOWN; the only thing left to do after having the beam in place was to put the plan in action I rolled out a few feet at a time so I could check everything GONE the best and probably the safest way to down work the cribbing that I've found is to set up a second set of cribbing inside for the...

My blocks have their own place to be stacked out of the weather some are accumulated from house movers and are well aged some are just about to have their use by date to expire though. But anyway the box is fully up and resting on the beam now I have to get the chassis out from under there but...

Started gouging the welds off this morning and it didn't take long for me to decide the air compressor I use all the time to run a 1" impact was no where near big enough to keep up with the air flow needed for my gouge. it has been so long since I used my gasoline compressor I figured it would...

2nd set

A while back someone either on this thread or another one mentioned one of the things the liked about my progress pictures were things in the background So I thought this might be as good a time as any to bring a few of those background items to the front after all many of them are in part the...

And so the next step begins. The task is to lower the trailer about 3 feet. This will entail separating the chassis from the box. Fortunately I had this in mind when I built it making the chassis and sub frame separately. I will begin by cribbing up at the rear all the way to the sub frame...

This is about as close as it gets to parking my storage trailer exactly where I wanted it. Next I will knock the axles and stuff out from under it and lower it to the ground I might not have been able to get it this close if there had been someone trying to guide me

Gone but not forgotten the bus scaffold served me well but is no longer convenient to use I will build a much smaller scaffold on a smaller truck chassis later if I decide I need one. the 3/4" treated plywood is going to be repurposed as the floor of the landings in the stairway Some of the...

For the past couple 3 weeks I have had a helper to wrestle these taller panels but he had to leave and go back to CT. to check on things so I enlisted 2 of my arch enemies to help with installing the last few tall sheets around the stairwell. the problem was all they wanted to do was lean...

The east wall is finished for now or at least until I get more flashing and locate one of my HHG trailers to be incorporated into it Started to close in the west wall in front of the bus and the stairway then ran out of screws around noon today.

finished the end cap on the west side today now only about 20 to 25 feet of wall to put up on the west and the 48ft wide curtain roll up door

Had a really good day yesterday and today the roof is joined with the Affiliated machine shop van. I had another 8ft by 25 ft gate that was begging to be used on the shop and the very last remnants of any standing seam panels that I had left were welded together and used as a gutter. Now I...

someone borrowed my neighbor's hay dolly and brought it back without the hook So she dropped it off the other day I rolled a pair of tubes to match the diameter of the bales then used rr spikes for the points

Its been a couple months now since I remembered to post here so some update should be in order. I have been working on getting the North wall closed in and insulated as I went so now have it closed to the bus and to the 8 ft high level the rest of the way to the stairway which will also...

Finished up the roof around 8:30 yesterday morning Even had maybe enough left over standing seam material to have covered an additional 6 to 8 feet much better than running out of materials like running out of screws as this particular standing seam is no longer made exactly in the same...

From the pre dawn light till 1PM have all but maybe 8 sheets on now ran out of screws again Knew that would going to happen again because when we went to town the hardware store was closed so borrowed all the screws an friend had didn't go back to town yesterday so will go later this afternoon...

Well pretty much at the halfway point on the lean to roof now. Would have been finished by now if was using straight new metal. But my standing seem sheets have been used at least twice before and have been transported lots of the sheets have damaged edges which has to be hammered back in shape...

Yesterday Jane and I managed to get the last of the poles in the ground even with all of the safety inspectors and the building inspectors all having to put their 2 cents worth in First off it was the job site superintendent sending the building inspector into one of the holes as it was being...

No I had built the power unit for other applications and I used a spool valve set up with 3 spool valves. Rather than strip the power unit and change out the manual spool valves for solenoid operated valves I just capped off the 2 extra sets of outputs the pump and motor is a combination of...

I can roll 53 inches wide down as small as 5 inches in diameter up to 3/16" thick of mild steel but I need to add more reduction gearing to the hydraulic motor because without over pressuring the adjustment on the relief valve to 4500 PSI the motor stalls out on the thicker material at full...

Thanks guys How about as couple of transmission jacks one is Identical and possibly may even be the one my dad bought new in 1965 that I changed my first transmission with in 68. I never knew what happened to all of his tools as I left home in 70 then joined the Army in 71 I found the Blackhawk...

I own 5 lathes that one obviously is the largest its brand name is American made by the American tool works made sometime during the 1940's A LeBlond 26x48 circa 1953, a LeBlond 19x60 circa 1952 a LeBlond 16inch x40 trainer made in 1917 and a Sheldon 13x36 dated 1956 Then there is my...

I have a product that works 100 times better than LPS3 What I use to remove rust is KBS rust blast. I spray in on to wet the surface then reapply as many times as needed keeping the surface moist for large flat surfaces that only have a coating of surface rust and not deeply pitted I will...

The old shear is actually more of a restoration project than something I could use right now. And I have a number of those on the table as it is . The last time I saw it was back in 2018 when I bought it. The first time I saw it it had ben pushed back in the weeds and left to rust away the...

Oh I have forks I made the carriage for the forks several years ago

This morning my wife thought I had finally stripped the cogs off of the last remaining brain cell in my head when I told her I was going to arrange a few things which would eventually lead to adding another bay on the shop should ZI ever require it. She said Frank you have already gone from...

The more fill I excavate and spread the more I am glad not to be doing this with shovels and wheel barrows. After having to replace a couple of damaged grease zerks topping off the fluids I sat about the now daily task of relocating part of the Earths crust. First off I had to build my daily...

Started out this morning have to clear off an area of 20x30 by 4 feet deep to expose more good fill material before I could start excavating it after spending all that time I only excavated enough for about 20 loader buckets full the shop floor this morning This afternoon I think I am going...

As long as the shop is nothing more than a roof over head there is not a lot of need for lighting during the day even once the walls and doors are in place if I were to install some sky light panels most of the time artificial lighting would not be required for most things. except on cloudy and...

Well not getting a lot done to the shop Finished the transmission on the dodge rebuilt the mower deck on the wife's lawn tractor. Had some small jobs come in shorted out the PCB on my mig welder had to repair that all much fun the Bobcat showed up it is an 863, the steering control was so bad...

The old 8n rim was so far gone I decided to replace it rather than try and retain the original. Since my tractor is not something owned for the purpose of being used in shows and I need function over form. I ordered a pair of new more or less universal rims to mount on the center disks.

Not yet. I've managed to enlarge the pit quite a bit more. maybe another 50 yards or so and have shifted that up to the shop. Have had some machine shop work that needed doing and since this spring has turned dry I've been out in the woods trying to make sure some under brush is mowed and...

When it comes time to change the tires on your tractor you generally have a few options Option A, Call the tire service company and have them come out and do it for you. depending on the size of your tractor this may be the best option Option B remove the tire and rim and haul it to the tire...

Recently an older 1991 F250 extended cab diesel pickup was added to my cadre of vehicles First off it is an old beater of a truck but runs great perfect for use around the farm or going to town and back for supplies but it needed protection for the rear window so I cut the headache rack window...

OK did a purge and going to post 1 more picture these have nothing to do with the shop Just test pics. That did the trick this is a headache rack I recently built for a newly acquired old 91 F250 diesel to be the little sister to my 93 F350 diesel

Life around here gets busy this time of the year working on equipment for neighbors and routine chores that get put off but I have managed to pad up about 100 cubic yards of select fill clay for the machine shop trailer which will be most of the South wall of the shop and the reason for the lean...

But this was my favorite welding machine rebuild it had many missing parts all of the missing sheet metal I had to custom fabricate by buying and making special tools to replicate the missing side covers

I know a lot of people who get very involved when it comes to rebuilding things like cars trucks lathes mills and large ag equipment and even the smaller lawn tractor varieties, every nut bolt plaques and the most innocuous parts have to be perfect replacements of the factory originals or at...

Yesterday I was given an old 110 series JD the number is T0647 167695M this says it was made in 1970 no hood or engine and the frame has been cobbled up some Not sure exactly what my plans are for it just now I know new they had a n 8 hp engine on them but the transaxle looks like it could...

Well the winds and other projects finally cooperated long enough to allow me to complete the roof now it is time to either start building the 33 ft lean to addition or to start working on the North wall On one hand I want to build the extension as soon as possible to have the additional 2000...

Yes the brick crane has a 28 foot long boom which can lift a 5000 lb. bundle of bricks at the tip end and 10,000 lbs about half way out from the base with the boom in the horizontal position there is a hydraulic cylinder inside of the boom that moves the hoist trolley from end to end of the boom...

Wednesday I was hopping to complete the roof but didn't get it done I'm out of the long 36 foot long sheets so am having to use shorter ones but I mangaged to get all the way except for the last 15 feet covered with the exception of 3 pieces around 10 to 15 feet long It had been threatening to...

Its built pole barn style each column are in the ground between 6 and 8 feet with semi truck rims welded to the bottoms of them vibrated into the ground with my plate packer then back filled with some Portland mixed in with the back fill packed in 6 inch layers one of my puppies had to check...

From now on it will be piece meal for the roof the longest sheets I have left are under 25 feet long This would be just about right as the old building I tore down was 68 feet by 120 feet a large part of the roof had caved in due to Ice and snow there was only about 100 feet of one side that the...

The morning went well I now have 9 sheets up and have completely used up 1ne pile of sheet metal now I have to dig a lot of shorter sheets off of another stack before I can lift anymore to the roof

Fill in and packed then packed some more then more fill and packed again and again until I had the hole filled right up to where the last subterranean brace was to be welded in now all bracing is in I finished filling the hole but haven't packet it down yet as my plate packer began acting up...

Well the column is all plumbed to vertical in all directions welded in at the top and welded in at the bottom. I hit pretty close to my length measurement I was hoping to have it around 1/2inch too long then use a 8 tone hydraulic toe jack to lift the truss above to add preloading but it was...

I had just a tad more welding to the top of the column this morning then I did this. I swear I could lift the limit of the hoist on this rig with the gin pole laying flat .It has proven to be one of my most valuable builds in a long time

We woke up to frozen water at the hose bib on the pump house but the water to the house was still flowing although slowly. I didn't think it had gotten all that cold last night just in the low to mid 20s but it must have been there for most of the night. However that still didn't explain the tap...

Had a little snow interrupt progress, well to be exact nearly 14 inches of the stuff Most of the snow was gone in 3 days and on the 4th all of it was gone in the 76° temp. we had that day. had 2 clear days to get some work done then on Monday back down in the low 30s and rain most of the day...

Now that all of the purlin are in place and the bus scaffold is relocated It is time for something else I'm preparing the base for the beam column that will be in the east wall. Later on more steel will be added to the column to make it the head piece for a rotisserie , which will also double...

only 3 more purlin to weld in place then I will be excavating holes for some columns in the end walls

Have a couple good days in on the building of course there are always a dozen other chores to do everyday to limit ones work on a project such as this. but yesterday and the day before I managed to move lift stage move lift weld and move the bus scaffold again today turned out to be...

Getting closer to being ready to start on the South slope Today I moved all of the no longer needed scaffold frames loaded the tires onto the trailer bed, moved the big A frame and moved the trailer bed plus so much other stuff it would be hard to list everything But this is what it looks like...

Only had 8 more sheets to put down to finish the north side of the roof here is what it looks like now Now I have a lot of stuff to move before I can get started installing the purlin on the south slope. A little closer look , what this is, is a kaylin Siebert 50 by 102 with 3 sliding axles...

Coming along slowly on the 11th of Jan. I managed to get the first sheet of metal up on the roof then got the second one up on the 14th Getting the first one laid meant having to work from scaffold on both ends the second was a little better because by then there was a way to walk up and...

I built a gin pole rig with a hoist and snatch blocks to fly the purlin the pole mount is welded to the back of the fork carriage and not in the way of using my forks the hoist pins on and can be removed when no longer needed the pole is 4 1/2" pipe with a 1/2" wall thickness 26 feet long the...

I started construction on my shop now almost exactly a year ago, working on it when time allotted first I planted 10 steel trees as my neighbor calls them because I gave them roots and planted them as much as 8 feet in the ground to get down to a hard sub layer of blue or whiteish yellow clay...

Wow I can hardly believe it has been 3 years since I've posted anything about my 755 backhoe. over the years I made a 12" narrow trench bucket for it. to dig a trench for a water line and the perimeter of my green house Also around here I need a forklift more than a loader I could have just...

Actually it is turning out to be a pretty good 50 ft tractor. I basically wanted to get any evidence that someone had defiled the old gal with blue paint. Even though it most likely had been done at a dealership because I doubt seriously if anyone but a dealership would have sand blasted the red...

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A few months ago I finally got myself a little 8n side distributor tractor with a brush hog the only problem was it hadn't ran in years and was painted blue, even though most of it had already pealed off i twas still there. I'm no purest except when it suits me but BLUE just doesn't work for me...

The same guy that I got my Ford 755 backhoe from gave me a Schramm 300 pneumatic tractor it has a 4/71 Detroit engine with a 300 CFM compressor coupled to the engine. the tractor is propelled by a pump mounted on the front end of the Detroit. I remember about 30 years ago it had a backhoe boom...

After I got it running a little better I made a quick disconnect for the hoe bucket

A few months ago I came into possession of a 1981 Ford 755 Backhoe, It hadn't been started in several years so the first thing to do was try and get it running enough to load it on the trailer. After checking all of the fluid levels and putting a couple batteries on it along with 2 sets of...

One other old machine that I need to rebuild

here is a drawing of a frame that is designed to be full self contained unit it can be modified for several different machines

I'd sure like to get my hands on one of those short hat machines or one with the 4 cyl Wisconsin I own one like this but need to get an engine for it or rebuild the one it has this is like my first machine I also own a 1972 Miller big 40 and a 1958 Hobart 300 that one day I want to do the...

this is another this time a Bobact

Here is what it looked like when I finished after final sanding and painting The bad thing was the little wildcat only had 24 hrs on the clock when the truck it was mounted on was rolled over in the end I did replace a few parts like the plastic Bezel on the control end most of the plastic...

Here is one of the toy machines I did for him. Actually it was the first machine I worked on for him OK TOY is not fair but to me if it is not big enough to burn a 7/32" 7024 laid into a 2" plate with a full pin "V" grove it is strictly a hobby machine pretty bad shape every single piece...

Clamped in my unfinished folding break First fold complete Formed primed & painted it has a couple of wrong lables and they are not in the correct place for this serial number but all in all it looks just fine according to my customer in fact he often accuses me of replacing his...

Not all that old but the serial number on it means it is near 30 years. One of my customers has me refurbish a few welder generators from time to time. Most have been smaller machines like the Miller Wildcat a couple of Miller Bobcats and a legend or 2 The last time I visited his place of...

A few more Proud and happy customer headed home

I thought it was time to update this thread As it turned out the 14' TYE no-till drill proved to be a most interesting rebuild. from the missing parts the bent shafts, rusted bearings broken springs, and the rusted out boxes. All in all, not one single damaged, missing or failed part would have...

Well one thing is for sure even an ell-cheapo sand blaster does a good job on this machine because the factory didn't remove the mill scale or prime it before painting.

A little update on the TYE no till drill Now that I have it broken down the process of removing the old paint is at hand. I was hoping to only sand or use a wire brush on a grinder to remove only the dead surface of the paint , but after starting this I am quickly trying to talk myself...

I'm refurbishing a TYE 14 ft drill and am having trouble locating the plastic fertilizer registers or what ever you want to call them. I know AGCO bought out tye years ago and still manufactures some of the line under another name the drill I have has the seeder the fertilizer box and a...

I have searching through my old archives to see if I could come up with a light duty unit that I had designed. the problem here is since everything I have built is used in the industrial sector with the structure having a minimum FOS (factor of safety) of 5 to one and suspension cables @ 8 to...

Here is something for those who have an extreme sloped lot. Back when I was building boat houses and marinas this was a solution for one customer to get from their home down to their dock.

12 to 15 years ago I made a small wheel chair lift for a VFW Hall their hall had 2 steps up to the bar area and several members in wheel chairs no room to install ramp with the proper slope but an extra wide stair The lift is fairly simple to construct just a small hyd. cylinder and a very...

Here is a photo of one of my lifts being tested it is an 8 ton lift with 20 ft of rise note we have more than 20 tons loaded on the platform This is metric tons by the way Some of my lifts are very special purpose This one has dock levelers on both ends and is over 40 feet long but some...

A rendition of YE old Chicken chopper Since I mentioned this thing I thought I would draw one up Lift the blade until the trigger sets Place chicken on chopping block close head restraint Grip the handles of the blade lock and the trigger and squeeze Blade lock will open first...

This is a small tractor that I built when I was 14 I had been working at the blacksmith shop for about 4 years and decided I needed a small tractor around the farm The tractor has an old lambretta scooter engine I had cut off the right angle drive for the rear wheel at the back of the...

I know my BIO says Ftw ,TX but actually for the past 10 years I've been working in a little sand flat called Kuwait The wife &I came over here in 2002 to help set up a manufacturing factory was planing on 3 years possibly 5 but somehow it stretched into 10 years. From the very start I have been...