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I have some of the struck plans if you want them send me an email. Pm sent can't find your email.
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Originally Posted By: mdlawnguywell my buddy didnt pick up the steel.. so i had to take it to the local guy.. had 1200 lbs of steel.. only got 100.00 spent about $10 in fuel.. and another 45 in labor loading You got $160 per ton, that's about what
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Well, here's how my trips[s] went down - First one, I had 2 refridgerators, 2 ranges & 3 air conditioners. 780 lbs, for which I got .07/lb or 54.60. 2 car batteries too, 3.50 ea. That was good money, as the town here wants 15.00 PER item with f
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well my buddy didnt pick up the steel.. so i had to take it to the local guy.. had 1200 lbs of steel.. only got 100.00 spent about $10 in fuel.. and another 45 in labor loading
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There's a nice one for sale around here for $1000 They usually run between $1500 and $4500, keep in mind that they are older pups since the company went under.
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i had looked at one of those when i was shopping for a trailer, the price they wanted chased me off lol..... interesting camper though
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machinemaker, that sounds much like the one I use in Columbus Indiana, except they still pay with cash or check if too big.
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Here's a better picture of an Apache during setup. It shows how the sides go up.
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I use one of the larger scrap yards in Denver. They will take anything from any one. I too have seen the homeless guys on bicyles and guys pushing shopping carts. They have a seperate drive through building for everything that is not ferris and they
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Backhoe Projects
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More progress on the winch. I milled the straight sections of the plate to clean them up a bit and cut the hole (with hole saw) for the DOM tubing for where the hydraulic cylinder attaches. Then it put some parts together to see how everything fit.I
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Yeah I planned on building it so as most of the wieght is in the center. I'm going to make the frame and track frames out of channel iron, with two pieces of square tubing, about 4" long, in the middle, connecting them at a 45 degree angle.
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Got to thinking about my last post, it would only work with solid carbide bits. The ones that have the carbide ends silver soldered to the shank would probably come "unglued" if they got too hot. Maybe you could run the plate in a pan of wa
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That's one of the reasons I'm keeping the tent bunks, plenty of air flow. Oh, and we'll have AC. The Rockwood walls have lots of little windows, maybe too many. The walls are heavy. The long one is beyond my 50 pound weight limit. (Lifting wise.
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Tractors & Equipment Projects
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Well this is the Ford LGT-165 I have been working on for the last couple of years. The Kohler 16hp thumper is overdue for a rebuild but as long as I dont get more than 3/4 of a scrape blade of dirt it keeps running. Course the scrape blade I have is
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e718 k and t what you will have to get me a little closer. terry let them snoop that what I do you never know what ideals you find.
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Stan, my family had one of those hard-wall Apaches sometime in the late 70s-early 80's, and the one you're showing would have been a dream compared to the one we had, the windows were itty bitty things maybe 2x3' and had no hope of giving enough airf
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A hard-walled pup usually just has hard sidewalls and tent ends. The unit shown below is an old model made by Apache, it has hard bunk walls as well: These are highly sought after and don't stay on the market very long. They set up much like a s
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Chris: The only thing that saved my back was my then teenage sons. One likes to dig, the other likes to drive. It would have been a real pain in the.....body.....to have weeged myself in and out from under the house when the trailer was full. We even
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Tom, you ever get the feeling a whole bunch of people are snooping around in your shop? T
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Is that a K and T in the background in the picture?
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Is that all? Shoot, let me do the math here... Uh, looks like I'll have to get by with my HF drill press and horribly loose X-Y vise. Sorry. Doc
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Here are the cut out plates to build the aluminum box for the little trailer. Welding them together is fairly high on my to do list but I need to get some 6" x 1/4" Flat for the fenders first and I'm waiting until I have more metal to order
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doc it shouldn't cost more then 3 times what the mill is worth to ship it.
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what does a hard walled pup look like and how does it travel?
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If you go to http://www.popupportal.com/index.php you'll see some of my posts. Three projects 1) 1991 Rockwood 2360 - this will be the family pup, I picked it up for $105 with damaged canvas and a few other issues. This is the "Frankenpup&q
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