Torch
Extremely dangerous with a torch!!!
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Yup, Hi
Imma gonna write Y'all a book here
I'm living in Omaha
Grew up here right in the middle of it all.
Texas in summer
Canada in winter
If you don't like the weather wait a week.
I started out working in body shops and restaurants then I was a carpenter for 10 years.
2 years in construction I was a contractor general on small jobs and sub on larger jobs.
Packinghouse workers started getting into the construction work.
The local contractors who play under the table took them under their wing and ran the pay down to 3rd world wages...
My ol lady left me and I took to trucking.
I ran over the road for 4 years and bought a house
I fell for a nice redhead in Desmoines but before it turned into something epic I got sent on other routes and didn't get through there much and she got back together with her ex.
She was cool I still dig her, her nickname is Beep.
A woman will make or break a man there is no in-between
I've found you could love just about anyone
There's no such thing as a good or bad person...in the fact that anyone is capable of absolutely anything.
At 6 years of trucking I bought a truck. A used 96 mack with 440k miles on it. Over the next 4 years I ran it up to 950k miles.
After $5/gallon fuel I ended up with a wore out truck and no where ethical to lease it on at.
I was also about half crippled from being on the road 130k miles a year.
I went looking for a job...everyone was looking for a job.
All the jobs available were for less than $10/hour to replace better paid workers already employed at higher wages.
That was October 2008
I had 17 projects and parts cars
I sold off all but:
* A 1986 c20 that was converted to a 1-ton dually. It came out of El Cajon Ca so it's pretty solid.
I blew up the 6.2
I was looking for another 6.2 for it but I'm sticking a 350 in it for now out of that truck I junked.
It's a 4 bolt main steel crank gm truck crate engine, it shouldn't mind 4:11 gears.
* There's my Ford 4x4...
77 f150
460 10.75:1 compression KB flattops
Motorcraft spreadbore
factory exhaust manifolds but 2.5" off them to a flowmaster 2-into-1 collector, big single muffler and 3" tailpipe. it sounds like a cross between a lumber truck and a mustang. If you calculate the volume of a single 3" pipe it's close to 2" or 2.25" duals.
the 77 got wrecked and I put all my goodies into a 76 f260 2 wheel drive truck. it now had the 77f150 4x4 running gear under it and the 460.
I sent the full time transfer case down the road and installed a part time gear drive case.
I have since purchased a 4 speed setup for the 460 but don't have it in yet.
I junked out a 67-72 f100 4x4 chassis. I'm swapping the 3:73 gears in my 76 for the 3:50 gears in the 67-72.
* That chassis and a van I cut up is what got me thinking ratrods.
I've always had a beater but I never had a ratrod.
I had cut up this 77 ford van and had it sliced up to make something similar to a diamond T cab from it. I gave up on it because I just found a 1950 ford f6 cab and I'll be using it instead.
I'm thinking of running the rear frame under the axle and running pancake airbags so I will have a real usable bed
I'm thinking suicide front axle 50 cab and hood (no sides) i'm undecided on the bed like a hauling ratrod truck or no bed just a bobber
It's getting 66 chevy truck trailing arms in the rear.
engines of choice are- 454 chevy, 460 ford, 390 ford, 389 dual quad 389 pontiac, smallblock chevy??? or find me a ford 240 straight six, they have a bore and stroke similar to a 327 chevy and really wind out.
* I have a 63 buick skylark special. it has the 200hp 4 barrel aluminum 215.
My plans for it are a straight axle front and a 9"ford from a 69 cougar in the rear and a 69 430 buick big block and th400.
I don't really want to call it a gasser because I don't like the nose in the air look.
I'm not out to offend or judge anyone's ride if they are into gassers
But I do want the thing to sit up just high enough for the tires to clear the wheel wells... About 6-8" over stock with the nose raked down about 2-3 degrees about like an empty f150 sits if that tells you what I like
* I have a 68 chevyII nova hidden in the garage behind parts. I cut it up 5 years ago and haven't patched it back up yet. it's waiting on the right tools to come along. I just swapped an old ac/dc stick welder for a small journal 66 327 with steel crank and double hump power pack heads to build for the nova.
I have a nice 200r4 and 3:42 10 bolt posi for it.
It's gonna be a sleeper. it's staying light turquoise metallic and bench seat shift on the column.
*right now I'm driving my 71 firebird project.
It has a truck 454 in it with the t-10 and disc brake rear from an 81 transam.
It is originally a manual brake 2barrel 400 automatic car with no options.
I kept the manual brake cylinder and used a new disc-disc proportioning valve.
IT STOPS AWESOME! and I don't have to worry about vacuum I just mash the whoa pedal and it's consistent.
It only cost me about $400 to rebuild the 4 wheel disc all new.
4 new rotors and reman calipers and master...new e-brake cables, caliper ebrake arms from scarebird and juiced it up with silicon fluid to keep it from getting rusty in the calipers. those expensive rear calipers cost just $8 to re-kit if they don't get pitted inside.
I'm hustling up trying to get cleaned up before the snow wars and get the dually running. I'm afraid I might get the firebird stuck in a flat parking lot or total it on the ice...Kinda like grouse and duck...it's a greasy bird.
that's all my junk
Personally I'm between gigs.
I'm doing a little remodel work for a guy,
I drove again this summer and I just recently finished remodeling a 4800 sf commercial retail space and looking for more work.
I'm in the carpenter's union and do contracting on the side and a little welding and fab.
I have my own mandrel tubing bender, stick welder, and torches but I lost my mig to pawn last winter.
Keeping the house up and completing a job is primary
tools comes next.
toys last
I'm thinking about getting occupational injury and liability and offering myself as a contractor for short or long term too not just an employee. That might have more opportunity.
maybe even get a trailer and do some car hauling after I get the diesel rebuilt.
I'd like to put a 7.3 powerstroke or a dodge six diesel from a schoolbus in the 85 f600 and build a 2 car trailer for it.
Since I've gotten off the road my knees and muscles have rebuilt themselves, I'm getting back into shape pretty well. working on cars and doing construction will whip you to it. beautiful pain, makes it feel so good to lay down at night and sleep
I'm working on a few ideas for some books
I'd like to run for office
I don't fit in the boxes provided. In some way's I'm a throwback to the past. I guess that's what comes of respecting your parents and grandparents.
We have more in common socially with a poor family from Siberia, China, or Poland than with any family you'd normally see on the Television out of Hollywood
I'd like to get an internet business going and I have some ideas for a next generation wireless internet totally uncontrollable and free to access. a default internet as the original internet becomes politically and economically subjugated and censored.
a free network for free people. free as in beer... free as in speech.
not to replace the internet it wouldn't be as secure but to augment the internet for the people who cannot afford access and who don't want to be marketed, tracked or transact commerce with it...
it would be more like a Wiki-net than an internet protocol.
I'm into hotrodding anything... with or without wheels
Imma gonna write Y'all a book here
I'm living in Omaha
Grew up here right in the middle of it all.
Texas in summer
Canada in winter
If you don't like the weather wait a week.
I started out working in body shops and restaurants then I was a carpenter for 10 years.
2 years in construction I was a contractor general on small jobs and sub on larger jobs.
Packinghouse workers started getting into the construction work.
The local contractors who play under the table took them under their wing and ran the pay down to 3rd world wages...
My ol lady left me and I took to trucking.
I ran over the road for 4 years and bought a house
I fell for a nice redhead in Desmoines but before it turned into something epic I got sent on other routes and didn't get through there much and she got back together with her ex.
She was cool I still dig her, her nickname is Beep.
A woman will make or break a man there is no in-between
I've found you could love just about anyone
There's no such thing as a good or bad person...in the fact that anyone is capable of absolutely anything.
At 6 years of trucking I bought a truck. A used 96 mack with 440k miles on it. Over the next 4 years I ran it up to 950k miles.
After $5/gallon fuel I ended up with a wore out truck and no where ethical to lease it on at.
I was also about half crippled from being on the road 130k miles a year.
I went looking for a job...everyone was looking for a job.
All the jobs available were for less than $10/hour to replace better paid workers already employed at higher wages.
That was October 2008
I had 17 projects and parts cars
I sold off all but:
* A 1986 c20 that was converted to a 1-ton dually. It came out of El Cajon Ca so it's pretty solid.
I blew up the 6.2
I was looking for another 6.2 for it but I'm sticking a 350 in it for now out of that truck I junked.
It's a 4 bolt main steel crank gm truck crate engine, it shouldn't mind 4:11 gears.
* There's my Ford 4x4...
77 f150
460 10.75:1 compression KB flattops
Motorcraft spreadbore
factory exhaust manifolds but 2.5" off them to a flowmaster 2-into-1 collector, big single muffler and 3" tailpipe. it sounds like a cross between a lumber truck and a mustang. If you calculate the volume of a single 3" pipe it's close to 2" or 2.25" duals.
the 77 got wrecked and I put all my goodies into a 76 f260 2 wheel drive truck. it now had the 77f150 4x4 running gear under it and the 460.
I sent the full time transfer case down the road and installed a part time gear drive case.
I have since purchased a 4 speed setup for the 460 but don't have it in yet.
I junked out a 67-72 f100 4x4 chassis. I'm swapping the 3:73 gears in my 76 for the 3:50 gears in the 67-72.
* That chassis and a van I cut up is what got me thinking ratrods.
I've always had a beater but I never had a ratrod.
I had cut up this 77 ford van and had it sliced up to make something similar to a diamond T cab from it. I gave up on it because I just found a 1950 ford f6 cab and I'll be using it instead.
I'm thinking of running the rear frame under the axle and running pancake airbags so I will have a real usable bed
I'm thinking suicide front axle 50 cab and hood (no sides) i'm undecided on the bed like a hauling ratrod truck or no bed just a bobber
It's getting 66 chevy truck trailing arms in the rear.
engines of choice are- 454 chevy, 460 ford, 390 ford, 389 dual quad 389 pontiac, smallblock chevy??? or find me a ford 240 straight six, they have a bore and stroke similar to a 327 chevy and really wind out.
* I have a 63 buick skylark special. it has the 200hp 4 barrel aluminum 215.
My plans for it are a straight axle front and a 9"ford from a 69 cougar in the rear and a 69 430 buick big block and th400.
I don't really want to call it a gasser because I don't like the nose in the air look.
I'm not out to offend or judge anyone's ride if they are into gassers
But I do want the thing to sit up just high enough for the tires to clear the wheel wells... About 6-8" over stock with the nose raked down about 2-3 degrees about like an empty f150 sits if that tells you what I like
* I have a 68 chevyII nova hidden in the garage behind parts. I cut it up 5 years ago and haven't patched it back up yet. it's waiting on the right tools to come along. I just swapped an old ac/dc stick welder for a small journal 66 327 with steel crank and double hump power pack heads to build for the nova.
I have a nice 200r4 and 3:42 10 bolt posi for it.
It's gonna be a sleeper. it's staying light turquoise metallic and bench seat shift on the column.
*right now I'm driving my 71 firebird project.
It has a truck 454 in it with the t-10 and disc brake rear from an 81 transam.
It is originally a manual brake 2barrel 400 automatic car with no options.
I kept the manual brake cylinder and used a new disc-disc proportioning valve.
IT STOPS AWESOME! and I don't have to worry about vacuum I just mash the whoa pedal and it's consistent.
It only cost me about $400 to rebuild the 4 wheel disc all new.
4 new rotors and reman calipers and master...new e-brake cables, caliper ebrake arms from scarebird and juiced it up with silicon fluid to keep it from getting rusty in the calipers. those expensive rear calipers cost just $8 to re-kit if they don't get pitted inside.
I'm hustling up trying to get cleaned up before the snow wars and get the dually running. I'm afraid I might get the firebird stuck in a flat parking lot or total it on the ice...Kinda like grouse and duck...it's a greasy bird.
that's all my junk
Personally I'm between gigs.
I'm doing a little remodel work for a guy,
I drove again this summer and I just recently finished remodeling a 4800 sf commercial retail space and looking for more work.
I'm in the carpenter's union and do contracting on the side and a little welding and fab.
I have my own mandrel tubing bender, stick welder, and torches but I lost my mig to pawn last winter.
Keeping the house up and completing a job is primary
tools comes next.
toys last
I'm thinking about getting occupational injury and liability and offering myself as a contractor for short or long term too not just an employee. That might have more opportunity.
maybe even get a trailer and do some car hauling after I get the diesel rebuilt.
I'd like to put a 7.3 powerstroke or a dodge six diesel from a schoolbus in the 85 f600 and build a 2 car trailer for it.
Since I've gotten off the road my knees and muscles have rebuilt themselves, I'm getting back into shape pretty well. working on cars and doing construction will whip you to it. beautiful pain, makes it feel so good to lay down at night and sleep
I'm working on a few ideas for some books
I'd like to run for office
I don't fit in the boxes provided. In some way's I'm a throwback to the past. I guess that's what comes of respecting your parents and grandparents.
We have more in common socially with a poor family from Siberia, China, or Poland than with any family you'd normally see on the Television out of Hollywood
I'd like to get an internet business going and I have some ideas for a next generation wireless internet totally uncontrollable and free to access. a default internet as the original internet becomes politically and economically subjugated and censored.
a free network for free people. free as in beer... free as in speech.
not to replace the internet it wouldn't be as secure but to augment the internet for the people who cannot afford access and who don't want to be marketed, tracked or transact commerce with it...
it would be more like a Wiki-net than an internet protocol.
I'm into hotrodding anything... with or without wheels
