Took the first step towards building my shop

[Frank S]

"Temporary" here doesn't mean less important, as Frank S proves daily, and fact we get treated to each next post. It's what makes progress occur, dependability.
So in applause of tenacious welds; whatever their purpose.
It's bad economy spending rod or wire on poor welds, which are rotten insurance.
1'll bet he'd agree this preserves materials for re-use too, lacking groves of I beam trees. IYKWIM

And so far there is no indication of an iron ore deposit on my property so setting up a foundry and making my own beams is probably not feasible

[Toolmaker51]

And so far there is no indication of an iron ore deposit on my property so setting up a foundry and making my own beams is probably not feasible

That's what we used to call a "Be the first on your block, to be last on your block" situation.

[Frank S]

Looks like the perfect place to store a few thousand dollars worth of extruded aluminum

[Frank S]

Ok this is part of what the pad was for


just a little heavy that tire has 60PSI in it

backing in place using the power of the hydraulics and the winch on the trailer to position the container where I needed it



this will be parked between the containers after I roof over them and close in the ends

[metric_taper]

this will be parked between the containers after I roof over them and close in the ends

Where have you been hiding that, or is this a new acquisition.
Looks like those are batteries between the wheels of this very old truck.
Just what the heck is that?
Frame and drive line are primed. Looks like wood wheels need this treatment next. No air, so I'm guessing ~1915.

[Frank S]

No just the opposite since I retired in 2013 I wondered how I ever had time for a job

[metric_taper]

No just the opposite since I retired in 2013 I wondered how I ever had time for a job

Your posts always seem to be a guy working on a commercial shop for hire (trailer, diesel repair). That's why I assumed you were retired from working for others with a paycheck, but still a hire-able "prostitute".

I'm a year younger then you, and in big need of another shop building as 2600 sq. ft. is too cluttered to have all the machinery accessable. And I have two trucks to get under cover, a 1.5ton 56 Chevy model 4100, and a 3/4ton 57 Chevy model 3600. Both have horrible body cancer from the salt infected by previous owners. On that subject, is there some off the shelf chemicals that will neutralize the salt that has berried into the steel, that keeps doing what it does of iron to iron oxide? I've seen products from Eastwood, but do they work, or just a sealant, and would like to not pay them for something if common.

How did the antique airbrake tanks turn out? I'm amazed you made your own heavy duty sheet rolling machine, for this.

[Frank S]

Your posts always seem to be a guy working on a commercial shop for hire (trailer, diesel repair). That's why I assumed you were retired from working for others with a paycheck, but still a hire-able "prostitute".

I'm a year younger then you, and in big need of another shop building as 2600 sq. ft. is too cluttered to have all the machinery accessable. And I have two trucks to get under cover, a 1.5ton 56 Chevy model 4100, and a 3/4ton 57 Chevy model 3600. Both have horrible body cancer from the salt infected by previous owners. On that subject, is there some off the shelf chemicals that will neutralize the salt that has berried into the steel, that keeps doing what it does of iron to iron oxide? I've seen products from Eastwood, but do they work, or just a sealant, and would like to not pay them for something if common.

How did the antique airbrake tanks turn out? I'm amazed you made your own heavy duty sheet rolling machine, for this.

metric_taper very few years out of my over 55 years+ of working have I ever been a wage slave I have almost always either been on my own doing it my way or the highway type of an attitude or I had thrown in with companies for a % of the companies sometimes taking a set yearly salary or merely living off of an expense account hedging on a settlement of the profits this sometimes worked in my favor and other times costing me my entire life's savings. But that is the chance you take.
My last venture of the 10 years prior to my deciding to pull the plug should have had me sett for life when things turned south I decided rather than make a bunch of attorneys rich I'd be better off to chock it up to yet another lesson learned walk away with what I had left and forget about what should have been

[Frank S]

How did the antique airbrake tanks turn out? I'm amazed you made your own heavy duty sheet rolling machine, for this.

They turned out great the guy was happy with them mostly because they were all the correct sizes to fit the mountings and all of the fittings aligned up where they were supposed to be

[Frank S]

The shop has never been this empty even before it was built