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Full Circle- Back to where I started (almost)
- Thread starter Crummy
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DMiller
Senior Member
As well ALL stored away for that rainy day!!
Junkyard
Senior Member
Containers are by far the best way to go. Before the people started buying and selling them all over hell I used to pick up at terminals through a friend and bring them home as backhauls. Mark them up a bit over my cost and make a few bucks.
Since I'm looking at getting some property and moving to snow country I figured I'd better get on the ball and get my little excavator & loader in the shop this fall/winter and do all the things I've been saying I need to get done. First is the radiator on the old itty-bitty hoe (KH-41)- $719+ shipping for Kubota is not going to happen did a little checking on repair & not much better. Hit eBay and found an aftermarket for a Honda car that is exactly the same dimensions (14"x18") and layout for.....$43. We will see how it goes, going to need a little fab work to make it mount but I figure I could get another 19 for spares for the price of the OEM. A few this-n-that's and then the little loader (TCM 808) comes in and find out why it doesn't want to start easy, I'm guessing low compression so I'll probably re-power it. I also want to fab a QC for it as it has the bucket it came with, forks & grapple rake I built, and probably be looking at some kind of a snow pusher.
One HUGE bummer about looking at moving- I'm really going to miss this shop. It took me 18 years to get it just right and the odds are zero I can replace it.
One HUGE bummer about looking at moving- I'm really going to miss this shop. It took me 18 years to get it just right and the odds are zero I can replace it.
John Shipp
Senior Member
When you fit into the community where you're headed, perhaps a shop very similar may materialise at some point?
petepilot
Senior Member
obviosly you live in wa. what ultra liberal county are you in
I hope one materializes because I just don't have another big project in me to have to build one. No hair left to pull out, either.
Pierce just across the bridge on the peninsula.
petepilot
Senior Member
ooooh yea i`m familiar with p cty
Labparamour
Senior Member
Your truck is coming along nicely!
I here you about moving. I have 5 acres in E. King county. Work takes me into Seattle. I'm usually in town at 3am on through the day- crazy the tents/trash and transients. I also get over to eastern Wa- what a difference! Except, still have the yahoos on the coast calling the shots.
A friend moved from here to Idaho- between Athol and Rathdrum (about 20 minutes north of CdA. Found 5 acres. I've been over there a couple times.
It gets me thinking of moving.
Wish you well with the hunt.
Darryl
I here you about moving. I have 5 acres in E. King county. Work takes me into Seattle. I'm usually in town at 3am on through the day- crazy the tents/trash and transients. I also get over to eastern Wa- what a difference! Except, still have the yahoos on the coast calling the shots.
A friend moved from here to Idaho- between Athol and Rathdrum (about 20 minutes north of CdA. Found 5 acres. I've been over there a couple times.
It gets me thinking of moving.
Wish you well with the hunt.
Darryl
kenh
Senior Member
We anre getting quite a few new people, fleeing Liberalism!
Life is good in the Bonners Ferry area, work not so.
I came up 11 years ago, fled the PRK (Peoples republik of Kali)
Life is good in the Bonners Ferry area, work not so.
I came up 11 years ago, fled the PRK (Peoples republik of Kali)
DMiller
Senior Member
So long as cools nothing wrong with a little Fabri-cobble work.
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Well that Fabri-cobble looks better than many OEM designs!
So, what happens when you put a radiator in that holds pressure-
A: No problems
B: The one hose you didn't replace that requires taking the whole thing apart to get to starts leaking
Sooo glad I'm like every other customer and didn't take my advice and replace everything while I was in there already.
I'm going to charge myself double on labor for for being such a cheap a$$
A: No problems
B: The one hose you didn't replace that requires taking the whole thing apart to get to starts leaking
Sooo glad I'm like every other customer and didn't take my advice and replace everything while I was in there already.
I'm going to charge myself double on labor for for being such a cheap a$$
Birken Vogt
Charter Member
Is this for the 7.3?
Like I say, there has got to be a better way than that thing they supply.
No, not the 7.3- it's still running/starting like a top thankfully.
Crummy
You definitely want to be 30 miles or more north or south of CDA. CDA is turning into California in my opinion, to many Cali moved here n too many sports and movie people around the lake.
The traffic in the summer makes you want to move to Seattle - lol - not really, but it’s getting bad.
Another area to consider is the silver valley.
Work might be tough there though.
Lived in this area all my life. Still better than most places I have traveled to though.
You definitely want to be 30 miles or more north or south of CDA. CDA is turning into California in my opinion, to many Cali moved here n too many sports and movie people around the lake.
The traffic in the summer makes you want to move to Seattle - lol - not really, but it’s getting bad.
Another area to consider is the silver valley.
Work might be tough there though.
Lived in this area all my life. Still better than most places I have traveled to though.