karmakanic
Silver Member
- Joined
- Jun 25, 2002
- Messages
- 232
- Location
- NE Texas
- Tractor
- Kubota L35 TLB, John Deere 550 dozer, Cat D-2 dozer, Allis Chalmers HD-11 dozer
Let\'s see your junk pile
Ok, fess up. I know most of you have one. It's one of the perks of country living. Somewhere on your property is a pile of "stuff". Stuff that is not trash, it's too good for that. But it's not good enough to to be kept inside the shop/barn taking up valuable space. It's your junk pile. It's composed of stuff that you just know you're going to have a burning need of sometime distant, but has absolutely no redeeming value at this time. The composition of the pile only makes sense to you, and the value that lies there is not appreciated by anyone other then you. Except maybe, a bunch of other tractor fanatics. So, lets see yours, here's mine.
Leading off the menagerie to the lower left is the body of a 6' brush hog, stripped of it's drive inards. The circular scar around the outer edge of the deck shows the reason it came to rest in the junk pile. I loaned it out and as a wise old man once told me: "Dave, never loan out your women or your tools, they'll come back used and abused" The gear box shaft is bent useless, and costs more then a replacement mower, but hey, all that flat metal and heavy straps, they'll come in handy someday soon.
Then, to the right, in blue and black, is the worst purchase of a piece of machinery I ever made in my life. An Airco 300 amp trailer mounted welder. The only positive thing I can say about it is it lasted just barely long enough to get the shop frame welded up, before letting all it's smoke out. This was after I lavished hours replacing governors, and voltage regulators, and cleaning contacts, and replacing voltage regulators again, and rebuilding carbs, and, and,,,well you get the picture. But there's a good industrial 4 cyl. engine in there that I just might need to run a humongous pump or something, you never know. And that trailer surely will be needed to haul something, I just haven't figured out what yet.
Then there's the usual suspects. The old riding mower that's still got a good deck. The deck is gonna go on the pond bank mower I haven't built yet. The window a/c unit that works fine, but there's no window big enough for it in the cabin. The alum. wheels against the shop wall that are going to be works of art after I get the foundry up to speed. The various pieces of 2x lumber that are just waiting for a project needing their particular size. The telephone poles that are a future bridge, the rusty water trough that the wife thinks would be just perfect to grow bamboo in, if she can ever convince me to let some bamboo on the property.
All of this, btw, is kept out of sight of less hardy souls, whose sensibilities would be offended by the thought of keeping broken stuff around. But, I show it to you guys, cause I know you'd understand.
Now, lets see yours. And don't tell me you don't have one.
Dave
Ok, fess up. I know most of you have one. It's one of the perks of country living. Somewhere on your property is a pile of "stuff". Stuff that is not trash, it's too good for that. But it's not good enough to to be kept inside the shop/barn taking up valuable space. It's your junk pile. It's composed of stuff that you just know you're going to have a burning need of sometime distant, but has absolutely no redeeming value at this time. The composition of the pile only makes sense to you, and the value that lies there is not appreciated by anyone other then you. Except maybe, a bunch of other tractor fanatics. So, lets see yours, here's mine.
Leading off the menagerie to the lower left is the body of a 6' brush hog, stripped of it's drive inards. The circular scar around the outer edge of the deck shows the reason it came to rest in the junk pile. I loaned it out and as a wise old man once told me: "Dave, never loan out your women or your tools, they'll come back used and abused" The gear box shaft is bent useless, and costs more then a replacement mower, but hey, all that flat metal and heavy straps, they'll come in handy someday soon.
Then, to the right, in blue and black, is the worst purchase of a piece of machinery I ever made in my life. An Airco 300 amp trailer mounted welder. The only positive thing I can say about it is it lasted just barely long enough to get the shop frame welded up, before letting all it's smoke out. This was after I lavished hours replacing governors, and voltage regulators, and cleaning contacts, and replacing voltage regulators again, and rebuilding carbs, and, and,,,well you get the picture. But there's a good industrial 4 cyl. engine in there that I just might need to run a humongous pump or something, you never know. And that trailer surely will be needed to haul something, I just haven't figured out what yet.
Then there's the usual suspects. The old riding mower that's still got a good deck. The deck is gonna go on the pond bank mower I haven't built yet. The window a/c unit that works fine, but there's no window big enough for it in the cabin. The alum. wheels against the shop wall that are going to be works of art after I get the foundry up to speed. The various pieces of 2x lumber that are just waiting for a project needing their particular size. The telephone poles that are a future bridge, the rusty water trough that the wife thinks would be just perfect to grow bamboo in, if she can ever convince me to let some bamboo on the property.
All of this, btw, is kept out of sight of less hardy souls, whose sensibilities would be offended by the thought of keeping broken stuff around. But, I show it to you guys, cause I know you'd understand.
Now, lets see yours. And don't tell me you don't have one.
Dave
