Where to mount a vise?

[Bird]

Harv, if I remember right, that's the same bed my dad's truck had; short bed with compartments all the way down both sides, and when you opened the front compartments, a while lot of little drawers with dividers in them. I sure had a time sandblasting all those drawers with a little one quart sandblaster and then painting them with aerosol cans of paint before they could rust again. /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif I was intending to paint the entire exterior of the truck myself, but had a friend and neighbor who owned a body shop and told me to just bring the truck and my paint down there when they closed one Saturday evening and he painted it a lot better and a lot faster than I could have. /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif

For a fellow who fished off the piers and jetties 5 or 6 days a week, I can't imagine a better fishing wagon, and after using it several years, he still sold it for more than we had in it.

 

[ns_in_tex]

Hi Harv,

Glad you beat the rain. I was doing similar, probably same day.

Yes, I do get the warm fuzzies when I figure out something I think is good. I still wonder why it takes me so long to come up with some ideas such as the fel bucket quick connect pin holders, while changing implements.

The quick connect is great, had one for over 2 years now. Changing implements takes about the same time & effort as going through a gate, so I think I may be changing implements nearly as often as I go through a gate. It finally dawned on me, I didn't have to hold 2 pins & linch pins in my hands, open the cab door & lay them on the floorboard, then reverse procedure when hooked up to the next implement.

It only took me 2 years to figure out and 15 minutes to fix. /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif

Now I can stand nearly in one spot to store or install the pin.

Will save a lot of steps over the life of the tractor. Cost 4" of 1-1/4" pipe & one welding rod.

 

[wroughtn_harv]

Bird, in that trickall truck you didn't have a grappling hook btw?

When we used to pier fish off the southern California coast we'd take along a home made grappling set up. It consisted of a piece of one inch square bar stock a foot or so long. Attached to this bar by swivels was five of the largest treble hooks we could buy. We had about seventy feet or so of quarter inch propylene rope for a line.

We'd toss that off the pier and then drag it back and up. We came up with some pretty interesting stuff. Of course what we were fishing for was fishing stuff. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[wroughtn_harv]

That's trick Neal. That's like my always using pins instead of bolts on dirt bike trailers I'd make back in the old days. A pin you could cable or chain to the trailer but a bolt was nothing but a thing to get lost. Invariably we'd come in with someone hurt or running late and lose a bolt or nut. Pins with attaching cables became status quo real quickly.

Like I said in an earlier post, we could have sum fun. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[Bird]

No grappling hook, Harv, but we did have a loonnnggg handled dip net. /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif I'm not sure whether it was tent poles or TV antenna poles bolted together; didn't take but a few minutes to put it together or take it apart. /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif