What did you accomplish today?

WeedFreak78

WeedFreak78

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I worked on stripping down the last of my old 79 Ford plow truck. First I had to move a few hundred pounds of steel pipe, bar stock, offroad bumpers and a pintle hitch plate I was storing on it, that was fun. Then I pulled anything I could use as a spare for my other truck I'm building: last of the wiring harness, steering box and pump, manual shift steering column and clutch assy. so I can swap out to a manual trans, t case mount, driveshafts, a few odd brackets, and I cut out the firewall /cowl for patches I need. Then I drug the rolling chassis over to the garage where I'm gonna pull the drive train and then cut up the frame. I've had this truck for 20+ years, kinda sad to see it finally go, but the few sections of frame that are still left are paper thin Swiss cheese, the rest of it is various pieces of angle iron and plate steel poorly welded together. It's pretty amazing, actually, that the leaf springs haven't ripped off the frame, I can't find any signs of bolts or rivets holding any of the mounts on anymore, just heavy, flaking rust everywhere

I decided I need to spend a few days emptying and moving the industrial shelving I have. Right now it's behind my old garage in dirt, not really accessible, or set up, for storing heavy things like it's meant for. I've been putting moving it off for close to a decade now, mainly because I don't want to have to move the shit that's already on it, but with the amount of engines, transmissions, transfer cases, axles and various other parts I now have, I need to get it where I can roll a hoist or lift table to it so I can store this stuff better. That means I need to dig and pour footings so I can bolt it down correctly. Just leaning it against a building like it is now probably isn't a great idea.
 
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