Let's see your junk pile

[s1120]

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oh ya, theres a lot of steel in that tranny. Mine works good though

 

[karmakanic]

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wroughtn harv says:
<font color=blue>I snuck in to grab the tractor tonight. So it won't be until Saturday at the earliest that I'll be able to get some pictures for you.</font color=blue>

Harv, when I started this thread I was hoping you'd be able to post a few pics of your stuff. Nothing like learning from a master.

Hydraman says:
<font color=blue>I like your 'projects in progress' analogy; but don't we also have to sort them by age?!?! </font color=blue>

I love that word "progress". It sounds impressive, but it's exact exact meaning is so vague. Gives me a lot of wiggle room. I've been making "progress" on some of those projects for 10 years now./w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

wallysue says:
<font color=blue> Some stainless chain maybe for a yard art project. Any one have yard art to show?
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That chain looks interesting. Maybe we could do a little trading. Need a welder? /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif And I second the motion for some yard art. I'd sure like to see some if anyone's got some to show.

s1120 says:
<font color=blue>This is my "good" junk in my shed. About 90% of my Mustang is in there</font color=blue>

Looks like we have here a real master of that term "projects in progress" I tip my hat. /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

Thanks guys,
Dave

 

[wroughtn_harv]

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Afternoon Dave,

It started off as one of those if'n you know what I mean. Yesterday at the high school something didn't look right. A little checking over my stuff and then I figured out what was missing. My water barrels. Yup, three big old plastic fifty five gallon water barrels labeled to heck and back with "Harvey Lacey" were gone.

I went looking. Needless to say I was in a worse mood than a some women around the wrong time of the month. I wasn't a happy camper. We found out who took them. He'd gotten fired Wednesday and had a fondness for barrels that had got him in trouble with the powers that be earlier on the job.

All I asked for was his address. I guess something about the way I asked for it made some folks nervous. When I came back later for it they let me know my barrels would be back on the job pronto if not sooner.

Then this morning we start up the tractor and the fuel light and alarm went off. It had three quarters of a tank last night. This morning it was about as dry as a sucker can get one I guess.

I've decided I'm gonna start using off road diesel in it. I figure someone who steals fuel also will do other stupid things like speed and be snotty with a cop. If they get pulled over and have their tank tested for off road diesel it's a ten dollar a gallon of tank capacity fine. It would serve them right. I just hope they have a couple of hundred gallons of tank for the wreck running around with my fuel in it.

I feel better now. There for awhile being hit twice in the same week by stupid thieves had my knickers in a knot tighter than an alcoholic's adams apple at a cocktail party.

This first picture is of the junk pile. Nothing bothers me much like seeing recyclables in the trash. So my buds and others dump thier metals here. Appliances or just tin it all goes in this pile. A bud comes by occasionally and hauls it off. He makes a buck and I feel better knowing it's going to a better place.

 

[wroughtn_harv]

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This is the cedar pile. We've got everything from clear one by six by eight foot pickets to eight by eight by ten foot posts.

All good stuff just sitting there waiting for my dream to come along so they can be a star.

 

[wroughtn_harv]

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This is one of the steel racks. Every couple of years or so a bug will bite me in the butt. I'll sort and stack for a day or so. This rack will fill up and look decent, prom night kinda looking I guess.

But most of the time I pull stuff out and use a bit of it and then put it in a stack to be sorted when one of them bugs decide to do their thing.

Note the head board and foot board oldest son started and never finished. It's an original and really nice. He just hasn't had the mood to finish it yet. I understand about moving with the moods. So when someone asks how much it costs and if I'd finish it out I just explain that it ain't mine and it isn't for sale.

 

[wroughtn_harv]

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This is the other side of that steel rack.

If you look to the left you will see some pieces hanging. They're what I use to space horizontal rods when doing a rod and pipe fence. There's enough for three panels. So I cut and fit three panels, weld them up, and then cut and fit three more. Threes can be fun. Especially if you're the one in control.

You will also see a board hanging there. That's a wire fence stretcher, horse wire, V Mesh, etc.

If you look down in the short pile you will find more neat things than you can find in the back lot at Disney land. If you can't. Well you probably wouldn't like Disney land's back lot either. We'll let you be. Sleeping dogs and all that you understand.

 

[wroughtn_harv]

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This is a portion of that granite counter top material I was talking about. And yes, those are goats in the background.

That wood?

That's a story. I was at Merchant's Metals, fence supplier. I noticed they had this twenty four foot bed'd International piled tree top high with discolored cedar fence parts. I asked about it. Never hurts to ask unless it's a question that shouldn't have been asked in the first place.

They explained it was going to the recyclers to be made into mulch and it was going to cost them eighty bucks. I offered to unload it for free at my place.

We did.

I've fenced my niece's place with some of it. Made all kinds of projects and honey do's with it too. Gave a bunch to buds and friends. And I still have enough to drive neatnicks crazy, unless of course they need some.

 

[wroughtn_harv]

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Here's some more of the granite. Notice the trailer axles in the foreground. Military surplus, tork flex for Hummers, nice stuff, seven thousand pound capacity, just waiting for the right project to come knocking at the door.

 

[wroughtn_harv]

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Here's another pile of metal. Note in the foreground that winch with the neat gear reduction box and the biggest level wind assembly I've ever known.

That thing with the ears stick out front is my thingy dingy I put on the truck or trailer when building pipe and cable fence. It holds the reel real nice like, finer'n frog hair split three ways it is.

In that pile of junk is the purlins and braces for a sixty by sixty clear span building. Might make it one day. Of course the rust gawd would probably get mad and attack the tractor out of just meaness. So you might look at this stuff out in the weather as sacrificial lamb kind of thingy to the rust gawd.

 

[wroughtn_harv]

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Here you can see more of the framework of the building I'm gonna do someday when I get the round tuits lined up in a row like.

How you like the chicken house in the background. Some old telephone poles and some of them freeby cedar pickets and a little sun shade removed from a rich man's tennis court and the chickens have a house like no other.

I'd like to make a little observation about junk.

I see people who have and appreciate junk as folks who don't have their pants on so tight they're choking from the ears down.

Think about it for a minute. Having and appreciating junk expresses confidence in oneself. The kind of confidence that one has when one doesn't need to have a controlled environment.

It's also a statement about how one views the natural order of things. Someone who can't bide the thought of being around what isn't perfect and shiny is missing some of the best things about living.

You take a cedar board. When you get it all fresh from the store it smells good and looks warm like. But you don't know what it's really going to do as it weathers and it hasn't showed you it's true colors.

That same board aged in the weather develops character and style all it's own. It's till warm. But it now has a strength and beauty that only comes from exposure to hardship. It's no longer just a board but a work of art that's all it's own and truly unique.

The same with steel or rock.

For me having these fine friends around helps me understand that getting older is really getting better. And that aging is just part of being born, a better part sometimes.

Having these friends around to share my life also helps me have tolerance for others and their space in time.

So I'm a junker. Not just because I can, heck two acres I've rented for almost eleven years now says I can do what I want. But also because I think it's a healthy thing to do. And there's a beauty in it for the soul.