1965/73 Cheap Build Up

[Strodder]

Originally Posted by Alan's Classic

Your just too fast, I can't keep up.

FAST??? I'm very slow now compared to when I was on commission. No incentive to haul butt any more.

[Alan's Classic]

[daverod]

By the hour is easier on your body for sure. You never wanted to be rich anyways. Enjoy the day without any money.

[Strodder]

I would never work for hourly. I made a lot of money being on commission. And after having my own business', I'll NEVER work for another person. (Except for the old lady)

[McMurphy]

Originally Posted by Strodder

I would never work for hourly. I made a lot of money being on commission. And after having my own business', I'll NEVER work for another person. (Except for the old lady)

I am with you there!
Once upon a time there was a homegrown movie made in Spokane called "Only a Buck" in this movie the hero interviews a hobo and asks him why he lives that way, his reply:

"The only real life I have is the life of my brain. It makes no sense to turn that brain over to someone for eight hours a day for their personal profit on the assumption that I will get my brain back in an unmolested manner. I can choose to labor for someone else's profit, or I can labor for my own profit. I didnt need to go to six years of college to figure out that equation."

As soon as I wrap up my last 18 months of my Military career, I plan on fully engaging this philosophy (as you have) and living it to the hilt.
My plan is not to make more money when I retire, but to need less.


Tail lights look awesome too by the way.
I also have caddy lamps I am going to install, but mine are off a 68 Deville....

[Strodder]

Originally Posted by McMurphy

I am with you there!
Once upon a time there was a homegrown movie made in Spokane called "Only a Buck" in this movie the hero interviews a hobo and asks him why he lives that way, his reply:



As soon as I wrap up my last 18 months of my Military career, I plan on fully engaging this philosophy (as you have) and living it to the hilt.
My plan is not to make more money when I retire, but to need less.


Tail lights look awesome too by the way.
I also have caddy lamps I am going to install, but mine are off a 68 Deville....

Yup, But it's hard to need less when you have been used to living high on the hog. Workin on paying off everything but the house. We only have a $500 a month mortgage, and that's a good write off. Then I can work on my truck full time.

[66-PMD-GMC]

Originally Posted by strodder

yup, but it's hard to need less when you have been used to living high on the hog. Workin on paying off everything but the house. We only have a $500 a month mortgage, and that's a good write off. Then i can work on my truck full time.

amen !!!!!!

[daverod]

I thought you said you work by the hour now? Not even for "One million dollars an hour"? "You don't miss what you don't have." my motto.

[watahyahknow]

seen a small show about people living in realy small homes build on trailers , usually there seasonworkers that park their home near to the job and live there as long as needed

you be amazed how little money you need if you dont have to pay rent/morgage or electrics it would safe me 2/3th of my income
http://tinyhouseblog.com/tag/living-in-a-tiny-house/

[daverod]

Just another reason to buy a car hauler. Congrats on the job.

[McMurphy]

I remember sitting around the picnic table doing some squad level training one day, and our conversation must have drifted from the training. At some point I must have said the word "need" too many times, or put it in a context that my Squad Leader keyed in on, because next thing I knew, he had come around behind me, and clamped his hand across my nose and mouth so I could not breathe.

Then he asked me, "What do you need now?"

It really drove home to me the meaning.
heh, just one of those life lessons you never forget I guess.

I totally hear you Dennis.... it isnt that I dont want to work, or draw some additional income on top of my retirement pay.... I just dont want to ever ask someone else for a job, or make them money ever again.

[Strodder]

I could just let them repo everything but the house. I'd be sitting really good then, but crappy with credit.

[daverod]

500 and then one million in property taxes.

[daverod]

You got nothing but time anyways. It's going to look good.

[Strodder]

Change of plans. I wasn't happy how they looked. Looked like they were in too far on top, and didn't fit the lines of the truck bed. Sooooo I turned them upside down, and it looks like it will work out okay that way. Pictures soon.

[Strodder]

Just a quick look. It will be mounted higher. I already cut it all out and will have to start all over.

[daverod]

Much better. Why did'nt you do that the first time?

[Strodder]

Because I like to do things the hard way.

[likaroc13]

@ Dave....looking good Dennis, & I agree that they look better flipped upside down

[198plus]

Much better, lookin good.

[Strodder]

Been working on it a lot last week, and this weekend.









This latch was a good idea from the last guy, but it's not adjustable, and just looked UGLY.



Now I used the same principle but with some nicer belt latch and are now adjustable.

[Strodder]

One thing leads to another. Once I leveled out the end of the bed and shaved the bed holes, the tail gate looked like crap and didn't lined up with the rest of the bed. It also didn't match the curved shape I made to box in the rail ends. So I cut and bent a cover that made everything work together, and will be a tighter fit. This is not the finished product, and I ran out of welding gas and couldn't finish it welding it.

[daverod]

Nice fix for a warped tailgate. I tried to bend mine back. Still looked kinda bent. I saw the first latch I thought you had been hitting the captian and coke.

[Strodder]

Originally Posted by daverod

Nice fix for a warped tailgate. I tried to bend mine back. Still looked kinda bent. I saw the first latch I thought you had been hitting the captian and coke.

One thing leads to another. I had to fix the tail gate. Next some kind of roll pan, and a rum & coke.
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[Strodder]

I figured out what to do with the bolt that holds the hinge barrel for the tail gate. With the tail light installed there was no way to unbolt the tail gate to remove it. So I made it like the new trucks where it slips out of a slot.
I made flat spots on the pivot and slotted the tail gate to fit over it. Now it comes off like the new trucks.

I still have to finish welding and clean up all this.