What did you do today not on your truck...

[Lost in the 60's]

Originally Posted by special-K

Very much!! I had inquired with a business that sells reclaimed lumber like this, doors, hardware, architectural features, etc. and he gets $28 a lineal foot. So, those beams would have been $400@ x 7 = $2,800. And oak not chestnut. I'm glad I came across that deal.

I was wondering what happened to that job, since you posted last year. I hadn't seen anything about it.
I don't imagine I need to say this, but be damned careful and have the upper level braced twice as good as you think it needs. Be terrible if it came down on you.

[Lost in the 60's]

I have a '67 Camaro too, that I have been restoring for a "while" now. I replaced the entire trunk floor a couple years ago and now that I am close to finishing the exterior repairs and getting ready for paint, I need to finish up the under side. I was laying on a creeper under it last weekend, trying to clean and grind welds and I was wet and dirty enough to give in and dig out the rotisserie to spin it on it's side for this work. I removed the entire drive train intact on the subframe. I had rebuilt/restored all of that several years ago and it needs nothing but a good clean from all the bodywork that has taken place. Was trying to avoid getting in this deep, but I guess I'm "all in" now...

[72c20customcamper]

Catching up on my reading I’m way behind

[CG]

I went to the gym this morning and walked on the treadmill for an hour, then I stopped at the store and got a couple doughnuts and a qt of milk. Polished it off before I got back to the house.

[dave6672]

My kind of workout right there!

[mr.mud1]

Originally Posted by Lost in the 60's

Hopefully you made a removable panel to access the in tank fuel pump ? PITA to drop the tank when it fails...

Thanks,I did make the next section and included provision for a removable panel to get at the fuel pump,if need be..maybe pictures tomorrow when I have the floor tacked in and the panel bolted in place.

[special-K]

Originally Posted by Lost in the 60's

I was wondering what happened to that job, since you posted last year. I hadn't seen anything about it.
I don't imagine I need to say this, but be damned careful and have the upper level braced twice as good as you think it needs. Be terrible if it came down on you.

With the building being log it makes it self-supporting for the spans we will be removing. On the gable end (non bearing) I'll be removing from the door to the corner. At the door is the center beam for the floor. So I'll get a post under that, one on the inside corner under the floor framing, and on the back at the window also under the floor band board. It's fairly simple compared to studded walls.

I propped my post & beam barn up on temporary posts & beams inside, cut the posts of the barn off, poured stem walls 32'' offset from where the barn stood, and moved it over onto the new stem wall. That had a second floor with oak flooring. That took some forethought and planning, but it went very smoothly, without a hitch. I like a challenge

[Willowrun]

Originally Posted by special-K

With the building being log it makes it self-supporting for the spans we will be removing. On the gable end (non bearing) I'll be removing from the door to the corner. At the door is the center beam for the floor. So I'll get a post under that, one on the inside corner under the floor framing, and on the back at the window also under the floor band board. It's fairly simple compared to studded walls.

I propped my post & beam barn up on temporary posts & beams inside, cut the posts of the barn off, poured stem walls 32'' offset from where the barn stood, and moved it over onto the new stem wall. That had a second floor with oak flooring. That took some forethought and planning, but it went very smoothly, without a hitch. I like a challenge

Always enjoy the projects you tackle. Coming from a manufacturing background it's interesting to hear about carpentry/building type stuff since I've never done it other than small odd jobs around the house and the occasional help build a pole barn/roof a house type projects. The barn repair is very cool. Don't see barns like that in MI.

[tutone]

Originally Posted by Willowrun

Always enjoy the projects you tackle. Coming from a manufacturing background it's interesting to hear about carpentry/building type stuff since I've never done it other than small odd jobs around the house and the occasional help build a pole barn/roof a house type projects. The barn repair is very cool. Don't see barns like that in MI.

I agree too. Tim is tackling a tough project. In west ky, there is a county named Callaway. There are several log barns scattered around. They range in various states of disrepair. They were at one time ,documented by a book or something. In our county, Graves, there was a barn builder in the first half if the 1900s that built round roof barns. Some are in use today.

[Palf70Step]

Spent a couple days with the boss doing some hiking ar Petit Jean park in Arkansas. Enjoy yhe quietness and for me the.hills like i grew up with in eastern pa. Not the flatness of the gulf coast. Used the Tacoma to see how it goes for long distance rides. Its ok. But like bigger trucks better. Need that V8 power baby!

[Boog]

Well welcome to Arkansas Bill. Petit Jean State Park is beautiful isn't it?

[LS short box]

Last night I took the snow plow off the Wrangler and put the regular bumper back.
Midwest folks don't swear at me if I jinxed it and we get another dump of snow.

[mr.mud1]

a little more progress on my 39 Chrysler floor project.one more panel to make and probably the tailpan below the trunk lid as i doubt it's in good enough shape at the bottom,to weld the new floor to.

[Steeveedee]

You do fantastic metal work!

[Palf70Step]

Originally Posted by Boog

Well welcome to Arkansas Bill. Petit Jean State Park is beautiful isn't it?

Absolutely. We cMe last year and wife didn't get to do all shecwNted. So we came again this year. We really love the place.

[mr.mud1]

Originally Posted by Steeveedee

You do fantastic metal work!

thank you sir.

[LT7A]

Originally Posted by mr.mud1

thank you sir.

Looks really good Greg. Might have to clear coat it and drive it for awhile that way - too pretty to cover up.

Hey, isn't it past bed time over there in Nova Scotia?

[mr.mud1]

Originally Posted by LT7A

Looks really good Greg. Might have to clear coat it and drive it for awhile that way - too pretty to cover up.

Hey, isn't it past bed time over there in Nova Scotia?

thanks you sir,appreciate that but i doubt i'll drive it like that but you might be onto something?a new look?and you're right,it should've been past bedtime but i was in no hurry to get there,nobody here but me and the cat,the Boss is in Halifax staying overnight visiting her new Grand Daughter.i have the rule of the roost and i'm taking advantage.ha ha.take care.holler anytime.

[special-K]

Originally Posted by Willowrun

Always enjoy the projects you tackle...

Originally Posted by tutone

I agree too...

Thanks for the vote. Anyone can do this stuff once you grasp the principles involved. Some day I'll tell about the bank barn with a blown-out foundation I propped up and laid a new foundation up under. Jacking that huge monster of unknown weight had me very nervous. Just went real slow and checked everything repeatedly as I went. I employed safeguards, but still had my nerves tingling and my gut wrenching.

Originally Posted by Palf70Step

Spent a couple days with the boss doing some hiking ar Petit Jean park in Arkansas...

i'm jealous. I can see why you went back. Never been to the park but I rode backroads through some country that made me fall in love with that I'll never forget

Originally Posted by mr.mud1

a little more progress on my 39 Chrysler floor project.one more panel to make and probably the tailpan below the trunk lid as i doubt it's in good enough shape at the bottom,to weld the new floor to.

You make me proud just to know someone with such skills. It's great to know where I can have my floor made when I get a street road project going

[mr.mud1]

Originally Posted by special-K

Thanks for the vote. Anyone can do this stuff once you grasp the principles involved. Some day I'll tell about the bank barn with a blown-out foundation I propped up and laid a new foundation up under. Jacking that huge monster of unknown weight had me very nervous. Just went real slow and checked everything repeatedly as I went. I employed safeguards, but still had my nerves tingling and my gut wrenching.

i'm jealous. I can see why you went back. Never been to the park but I rode backroads through some country that made me fall in love with that I'll never forget

You make me proud just to know someone with such skills. It's great to know where I can have my floor made when I get a street road project going

yes sir,get one up here and we'll build a floor.

[LS short box]

Yesterday I got the 2020 Mustang GT vert out of our cold storage building to start the spring clean up. Not really much to do other than check the oil and go over it with a spray quick detailer.
Looks like Wednesday is the first cruise day top down cruise day temp wise.

[72c20customcamper]

Took mom to dinner celebrated her 90th

[LockDoc]

Originally Posted by 72c20customcamper

Took mom to dinner celebrated her 90th

Tell her I said Happy Birthday! That is a milestone for sure.
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[special-K]

Originally Posted by 72c20customcamper

Took mom to dinner celebrated her 90th

Originally Posted by LockDoc

Tell her I said Happy Birthday! That is a milestone for sure.
.

Happy Birthday to your mom. That's great to hear

[Micmac]

Watching Red Sox Celebration of the 2004 "Reverse The Curse" year which ended a 86 year drought in Championships. All the guys are there. I watched em win with my Dad, he died a month later. This century has been kinder to the Red Sox.