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Fishmouth Fabworks shop thread

FISHMOUTH FAB

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Fishmouth,

The way you describe how they use this grapple is very informative. My mind always operates equipment from a finesse point of view not a hit it harder point of view. This obviously is because I'm the guy that gets to repair stuff. I will admit I was young and dumb once too but I learned early on to use tools for and how they are designed or there are consequences. I have spent just enough time in the operator seat of all types of equipment to understand ramming and jamming really wears out the operator too, these must be young operators? Again nice work.....TIO

young guys, some tweaker white and mexican guys.

Any updated goodies on your '92 Ford?

Haven't had any time to mess with it.

I hate the "budget" customers, have one that calls all the time & it's just a hard place to make money. Don't sell yourself short, quality work is hard to come by, shouldn't have to give it away.

They are in every industry. Especially the race car world.
 

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Cab guard on a brand new 245 Link-belt. Front and over the top. Angled slats in the front roof section for viewing out the sun roof
 

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FISHMOUTH FAB

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Low boy conversion on a brand new KW T800. They brought me a Murray kit. It was a ok kit, but I didn't think the pieces fit all that great. Had to massage them a little
 

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FISHMOUTH FAB

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200' of 6" x 6" x .250"wall box tube for bumper rails on a above ground scale I finished on Tuesday. Each rail is 70' long. The legs were 38" tall and 20" bottom leg.That was a lot of welding.
 

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FISHMOUTH FAB

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And just because, here's a couple of the current race car I am working on.
 

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AND managed too get some R&R in for the first time in a very long time. Fordyce Creek Trail in the Sierra Nevada's
 

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Can you say the name of the customers with the new truck and the scale?

Also I heard they were fixing the road in to Fordyce. I have to work on Signal Peak sometimes and wondere if the road up to the turnoff was any better. Used to take 1 hour to go the 7 miles from I-80 to the peak.
 

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Can you say the name of the customers with the new truck and the scale?

Also I heard they were fixing the road in to Fordyce. I have to work on Signal Peak sometimes and wondere if the road up to the turnoff was any better. Used to take 1 hour to go the 7 miles from I-80 to the peak.

I cannot, sorry.

They are fixing the road. I heard Cisco was gonna be closed for a little while and you had to access through Eagle lakes.
 

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excuse me for my ignorance but, what is a "Murray kit" ,that was in your previous post and, could you please elaborate further on the installation. I think I know what it's supposed to do, and am curious about it. I've never seen that set up before.
Thank you!
 

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That's the slickest thing I have seen for a long time! I can't believe I haven't seen that set up before now....
 

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That part looks slick but the whole process is pretty time consuming

Drive out from under trailer
Unpin neck and hoses and connector
Back under neck (loose at this point)
Drive away with neck
Load or unload machine
Back up with neck
Hook up neck and hoses and connector
Drive out from under
Hook links up
Ram truck back under neck and connect

This way you need no wet kit or small engine to give out on you at the worst moment and saves weight I guess. It is most common out here in the west.
 

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Hey Fishmouth,I was looking through my subscriptions on PBB and realized you were the one building the mid-engine yota on rockwells. Still one of my favorite threads in the toyota section.
 
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