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Photos.. More floor grid framing and transmission tunnel area
 

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Photos.. I utilized the blue steel from the bottom of the water tank for my attatchment points of the cab corners
 

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Glad you can do it up there.

Your dumps must be different than down here.Ours are fenced and have county people on site watching when it is open.If they saw you getting anything to carry home here ,it would be big fine or worse.One of my neighbors took his grandkids bike out of his truck to get to trash.They saw him putting it back and busted him for getting his own bike.:mad:
Welcome to life in the South:eek:
 
Your dumps must be different than down here.Ours are fenced and have county people on site watching when it is open.If they saw you getting anything to carry home here ,it would be big fine or worse.One of my neighbors took his grandkids bike out of his truck to get to trash.They saw him putting it back and busted him for getting his own bike.:mad:
Welcome to life in the South:eek:
absolutely stupid everything should be recycled to as many people as needed. Thats whats wrong with this country to many idiots trying to run your lives and daily routine. Busy bodys who don't know where their kids are at any point in the day.
 
photos more recycling of metal for the Rod, notice my foot is acting as a metal bender , hehehe
 

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Photos.. These are the 4 post for the start of the roof
 

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Photos.. More on the roof posts
 

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Photos.. Still working on the roof supports and windshield area
 

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Photos..More roof work operations
 

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Photos More roof work
 

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photos.. More roof operations
 

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Photos.. Some where in these later photos you will see a change in the roof height. I came in the shop on the next day and I hated the stage coach look of my car. It was too tall and boxy looking. So I cut 7 inches off each corner and scabed them back on. I lost head room but I changed the roof top to a curved center and sloping sides around the edge of the roof. I gained back my head room with out haveing the stage coach look.
 
Photos.. Some more roof workings
 

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Photos.. Roof stuff yet
 

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photos.. Almost done with this roof stuff I think?
 

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Photos..This is the end of all this roof stuff. Now we have to work on the very top of the roof to get a nicer look other than flat. Next time..
 

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Photos This is where I angled the roof lines so it would not be flat and to get more head room
 
photos This is where I started the roof angles and raising the center of the roof for more head room and to stop that flat roof I would have otherwise had. I can live with this although its going to be more work for installing sheet metal. A flat roof one piece of flat sheet metal. here I will have to piece all the small sections. But I have the time.
 

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Photos.. Frame work for the top of the roof
 

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