Canopy

[Harv]

Bird -

That's a terrific set of pictures! You're getting great detail and image quality. /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

The new camera might be doing you more good than you know. From your past self-depricating verbal descriptions, I had you pegged as a much older, and shall I say, "heftier" fellow. The camera doesn't lie -- you're much studlier than that! /w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif

That first picture with you in the seat shows off your 'Bota enhancements very well. You've created a great little mobile work environment for yourself. You've got your own shaded command center, complete with mirror, tiltmeters, worklights and you just gotta love them extra hydraulics! /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

We're also getting a nice tour of your shop, which in itself looks like a veritable fun house to me. Nice accumulation of tools to keep your projects going. And is that a bench-top sandblaster I see back there? I miss my old blaster, which I had built myself. Next time I would probably buy off the shelf if I could find the right size. Who makes that unit? (And if that is not a sandblaster, you can just ignore the question. /w3tcompact/icons/crazy.gif)

Like I said before, I'm really happy you got the camera. /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

 

[Bird]

Darn, Bob, I thought I was smiling./w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif And if I remember right, I wrote my last speeding ticket about 28 years ago./w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

And I really don't use the rear view mirror a lot, occasionally glance at it when using the brush hog, but the reason I put it on there is because I occasionally get out on the county and farm to market roads around here, and then I watch it real carefully; don't want to be surprised by one coming from behind and got tired of looking over my shoulder.

Bird

 

[Bird]

Yep, Harv, I do have a fortune invested in tools - reason I stay broke, I guess. And the Cyclone Blaster, model TF5000, is made by Cyclone Blasting Systems, P. O. Box 815, Dowagiac, MI 49047, phone 800-847-5973. This particular one says "not designed to work with harsh abrasives such as aluminum oxide, blasting garnet or sand." I'm using glass beads and the manual says to "only use glass bead or plastic granule abrasives." But it does a great job, just like a sand blaster, at removing rust from odd shaped stuff I can't clean up on the wire wheel on the bench grinder. It has a light in it, and I keep my shop vac hooked to it to pull out the dust as I work.

Bird

 

[cowboydoc]

If you get a chance radman get some pics of that and post them. I would really like to see how you did yours so I don't have to think too much on my own. /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

 

[Bird]

Mark, I agree that thread on Hydraulic Tip 'N Tilt in the Kubota Owning forum got too long (almost as bad as The Chalkley Cup)./w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif/w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif But I have already posted pictures of it there, as well as a list of the parts and cost.

Bird

 

[cowboydoc]

Bird,
That's a great looking setup. I too like your shop. Did you build your shop? I noticed you framed in your walls instead of nailing to the outside of the posts. Does make for a handy place to put things. I would like at least a canopy like that on mine but I just didn't put one on because in the winter my shop isn't heated and my garage is and cool in the summer. I can't get the tractor in the garage with a top on.

 

[Thomas]

Bird,
Nice looking shop you got there.
Man ole man one could have fun making the sparks fly as they built things.

Ahh didn't see the rifg w/ the cool ones. /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

Okay...how does your wife keep your cover alls so clean.

By the looks of your Kubota and all the attachments your ready for 2001....yikes.

Thomas..NH /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

 

[Bird]

<font color=blue>Did you build your shop</font color=blue>

Nope, Richard. I bought the place 6 years ago and that shop building was one of the main reasons I bought it. 40' x 60' and a neighbor told me he saw the invoice when it was built a few years before at a cost of $12,000. It isn't heated or cooled, except by a couple of very small propane heaters in the winter and three 20" fans in the summer. I noticed some differences, but also some similarities to Pat's (techno-mom) shop building. Hers is considerably nicer than mine.

And Thomas, if I'd turned the camera a little to the right, farther down the wall, in the picture of me on the tractor, you'd have seen the refrigerator with the beer, cokes, 7-Ups, and PowerAde./w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

Bird

 

[redhawk]

bird,
nice house, nice shop, nice kubota. SMILE when you take those pics /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif
redhawk

 

[Harv]

Bird -

Your blaster has its own web page. I looked over their selection and price list, and I'm back to thinking about building my own again. /w3tcompact/icons/tongue.gif

Not real high on my wish list right now, but the next time the need arises...

 

[Bird]

redhawk, the picture you saw was my second attempt (I told you I was learning). On the first attempt, the flash didn't. My first thought was that I'd gotten another defective camera, then I realized it was the operator that was defective and remembered what I'd done wrong./w3tcompact/icons/frown.gif Maybe that's the reason I wasn't smiling very big./w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif Hey, that's as good an excuse as any, ain't it?/w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif

Bird

 

[Bird]

Ouch, Harv, I didn't know they had a web site. Mine didn't cost anything./w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif A couple of years ago, Matco had a sale on them and my brother put one on his truck for two weeks - wouldn't let anyone have it; just took orders, and I think sold 10 of them, then gave me the one on the truck.

Bird

 

[Harv]

Wow, Bird!

I wish I had a sibling like that.

If my sister were to give me something off the back of her truck, I'd be looking over my shoulder for the red flashing light, but that's another story... /w3tcompact/icons/crazy.gif

 

[Bird]

Yeah, Harv, it is kinda handy to have a brother who's a tool distributor. Of course, I repair/rebuild mechanics' air tools for him, I work cheap, we give the customers the same warranty they'd get from a factory authorized service center, I get the tools back to them a lot faster than the service centers do, he knew I could use that Cyclone Blaster in that job, and he likes to keep his customers happy.

Bird

 

[Kevin_mc]

Bird, Good photos with new camera. Really liked all the different views of the inside of the shop. Now that you have the camera maybe you can post some photos of the early garden when it gets going and give the rest of us the inspiration to get some seeds and plants in the ground up North.

Kevin Mc

 

[LarryT]

Radman, that sounds exactly like what I was thinking! I'd sure like to see some pics. I think you'll enjoy using it.

Larry...

 

[LarryT]

Bird, I don't know what the best part of that picture is; the canopy, the shop, the canopy accessories, the T&T hydraulics, the photography, or the sexy model! Must be the latter! Good job Bird. Now I'm really fired up to do a canopy (and maybe go to a beauty shop.....naw, as they say, you can't make chicken salad out of chicken poop, too late for me). Thanks for the pic!

Larry...

 

[MarkV]

Bird,

Well done! I would say you are getting the hang of that camera. Seeing a bit of your shop, tractor and self makes all the great information you have shared even clearer. Kind of makes me feel I stopped by a friends shop and talked tractors while we worked on a little project.

MarkV

 

[WVBill]

Great Pictures, Bird!

Nice work on the canopy, hydraulics and all the other enhancements. Very neat workmanship!

I'm about to start "fitting out" the shop section of my pole barn now that I've got it all insulated and the interior walls up. So the pictures of your shop area will be some good food for thought. I've used the peg-board-and-hooks in the past but always had trouble keeping the hooks in. Can you give some details (maybe a picture) of the construction of your workbench. It looks about the size that I'm going to need to build.

A digital camera is rising quickly on my list of "wants".

WVBill

 

[redhawk]

bird,
now that you have the camera, it would be nice if you posted some outside pics of your place. of course you'll be smiling in all of them i'm sure./w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

redhawk