Random stuff you made.

[plym49.2]

Nothing so dramatic if that was mine- I'd just tip it over every single time I was near it! Needs a junk wheel base.

Not gonna happen. That center post is 1/4" thick square tube. It's not goin' nowhere.

 

[clodhopper]

I would end up bumping into it starting a wobble, only to have it fall and chop off my toes as I try to scramble away in panic.

 

[pennsylvaniaboy]

I’ll play this game. I’m a wood shop teacher by trade. So I try to do projects that stretch myself. Here are some projects

 

[pennsylvaniaboy]

Some more

 

[aczlan]

I’ll play this game. I’m a wood shop teacher by trade. So I try to do projects that stretch myself. Here are some projects

Going to have to steal that one, need to put some closely spaced hooks to hang cow supplies in a cabinet in the barn, that should be perfect as I have a rake that is missing a handle in my scrap pile.

Aaron Z

 

[IowaOffRoad]

Built the bottom one for the FIL to replace the top one as the plastic store-bought one won’t fit over the handle of some of his ratchet straps. He hauls trailers for a living and if you don’t get them T I G H T the trailers slide around and they can’t use chains.

 

[Penetrode Offroad]

Glued this together for my now fiance. Cool thing is the arms rotate.

 

[desertPOS]

'Manifold' burrito cook tube - for lack of a better name - accessible from in the cab, just under your right knee if sitting in the drivers seat. 7x4" roughly - will get a hinged door with a latch later... Now I just need to figure out what send unit to put in the back so I can have a gauge on the dash show the burrito box temperature

 

[CarterKraft]

rod bolt stretch gauge

 

[Poke]

Bored yesterday and wanted to weld so I built a new swinging handgun target out of random barn stuff.

Old wall mount hay feeder,

 

[Dan]

Made this at my last job. It’s just a toolbox drawer with casters bolted on the bottom. I made it to hold a pto so I could just roll it under the truck instead of wrestling it under.

 

[SteveJenkins]

 

[Pony_Driver]

Looks good, but what if you have to get under that eave?

 

[SteveJenkins]

Looks good, but what if you have to get under that eave?

I can get in there.

 

[[486]]

your eaves are ice dams incarnate
they hurt my sensibilities

 

[Lee]

Turd polished the "free" zero turn Husqvarna. I'll say that the homeowner garbage at Lowe's and the like, is indeed garbage. I've got $500-ish in my free mower at this point, couldn't have bought one for that, and that includes some seasonal maintenance/wear items that a brand new one would have needed too, but this thing is anything but robust.

Ripped one of the rear deck mounts off the stamped deck at the weld, only welded on one side mind you, sometime early last spring. Wound up just mowing stripes in my yard with an uneven deck all last summer. I really didn't want to deal with disassembly and cleaning.

I removed the deck and pressure washed the hell out of it.

Got stuff more or less where it's supposed to be with the 4lb persuader and half ass prepped for welding.

Added some triangulation to my boogers. Even plated the deck instead of welding the brace straight to it, all professional like.

I covered all the through cracks with boogers on the underside of the deck too.

Damn fence posts keep jumping out in front of the mower deck, can't imagine that has anything to do with the deck mount ripping off. I had to re attach the front left wheel, patched up some cracks, and added some reinforcement.

Rust-Oleum makes a Husqvarna orange enamel that just almost matches 10 year old sun bleached factory orange. I did attempt to use a wire brush, mineral spirits, and primed with some Rust-Oleum dirty metal primer before fogging everything orange.

 

[Lee]

While I had the turd polisher running full tilt, I went to town on the underside of the deck with the grinder and a wire cup brush.

I was surprised how much orange paint was still on it.

A bunch of mineral spirits and more wire brushing, and some more mineral spirits, then I hit it with some Rust-Oleum Rust Reformer.

I really didn't want to get the HVLP out or mix anything up, so I tried one of those 2K epoxy primers in a can. Novel idea, but shit execution. Way too expensive, for too little product, and poor coverage. Now I know.

I had two cans of Husqvarna orange enamel, so I went to fogging it all. I even sharpened and balance-ished the blades at some point.

Had it looking good as new from 25' away. So I covered it all in EZ Slide graphite spray paint, in hopes that grass won't build up so bad on the underside of the deck. It's got a picture of a riding mower on the label, it's got to work right? I used an entire 12oz can, if this actually works, I'll brush or roll it on next time. That nozzle clogged so often I spent more time cleaning it off and cussing than actually spraying. It had pretty inconsistent coverage thanks to the constant clogging too.

There, now I've got one fully polished turd ready for another 10 years of mediocrity. Better than a push mower.

 

[Pocahontas]

You realize that the underside of a deck if the perfect place to use up all the half used cans of spray paint you have, power wash and touch up once a year.

 

[Muckin_Slusher]

Making a tiny trolley to put my stick welder on a shelf. Never had time to finish it today because a friend had three rafters break in his house due to snow load. This is as far as I got.

It'll get lifted up to the trolley with skid steer, then slid over to the wall and lowered onto the angle iron shelf. Couldn't find a turnbuckle I'd trust with 400 lbs so cobbled something together.

I'm going to need to take it down in the future so the trolley will get occasional use.

One end of the unistrut got welded closed and the other end gets the bolt and spring nut to hold it from spreading. Also put little gussets on all the attachment points to hold the strut from spreading. Probably overkill, but don't really want the welder to fall on the lathe...

 

[Pook]

Need better pics without the dirt piled on it.

So I can copy it.

Google DIY landplanes, lots of places/people make them for behind tractors and stuff

 

[aczlan]

Lee I was also having fun with a Husqvarna mower deck last night.
Knew of hole in the top of the deck, so I cleaned off the deck with a angle grinder with a cup wheel and a needle scaler, found the right front corner looks like Swiss cheese and there's three or four spots where the top looks similar:

Digging around to see if I can find somebody who has a deck shell for sale, there is one guy who has one for 80, but he's an hour and a half away.
Would probably still be faster than piecing it back together.

Aaron Z

 

[aczlan]

Lee I was also having fun with a Husqvarna more deck last night.
Knew of hole in the top of the deck, so I cleaned off the deck with a angle grinder with a cup wheel and a needle scaler, found the right front corner looks like Swiss cheese and there's three or four spots where the top looks similar:

Digging around to see if I can find somebody who has a deck shell for sale, there is one guy who has one for 80, but he's an hour and a half away.
Would probably still be faster than piecing it back together.

Aaron Z

 

[Lee]

aczlan I patched up a Huskee push mower that was maybe a little worse than that. I chased burn through holes with the MIG for a long time. That mower deck was on its second motor, so it had to have been over 20 years old.

I didn't do much to neutralize the rust, or grind/smooth down the underside. I got another 4 years out of it before the rest of the deck I hadn't patched up was rusted through too. That Husqvarna zero turn mower I've been fiddling with recently is what replaced the old Huskee push mower.

It's probably a little hack, but I've thought about neutralizing the rust, phosphoric acid, or whatever your favorite flavor is. Hit it with a good adhesion promoter primer, then smear a 1/16" of JB Weld or equivalent metal fill epoxy over it. Mix some chopped strand fiber in it, and you'd have a pretty stout "composite" mower deck. Basically an F1 or Aerospace tech, redneck mower deck.

I used this filler when I patched up the inner fender on the W250. While using it, I thought to myself, "this is basically, JB Weld in bulk," and thought of all kinds of stupid uses for it, including mower deck patching/reinforcement.

Probably a harebrained idea, and probably not worth the expense or effort, if you value your time.

 

[aczlan]

Lee if I can find one for $100ish, I would rather go that route.
Found one for $80, but it doesn't look much better and the seller isn't interested in taking another picture

Aaron Z

 

[Penetrode Offroad]

GF wanted to learn some welding so we set out to make a couple easy animals and rose(bought the plan) to introduce her to it.

 

[surpip]

Oddly enough, too many triangulations, going to have to move to 2 wheels up front. It’s just too wobbly.
There’s a vernal pond behind the house that stays full enough to use this about 4-5 months.

 

[87manche]

The fuck it 5000 engine support.
My existence is gm fwd shitbox hell right now.

 

[M92PV4U]

The fuck it 5000 engine support.
My existence is gm fwd shitbox hell right now.

My dad's Porsche had the same one, but used bailing wire instead of a strap.

 

[ExWrench]

The fuck it 5000 engine support.
My existence is gm fwd shitbox hell right now.

Years ago, a buddy & I pulled the engine out of his Samurai using a come-along hanging off a chain bolted together around a railroad tie laid across the open doors of the conex box that's his shop - worked fine, just looked hillbilly as fawk

 

[87manche]

That was a rotten fence post that for some reason had been out up in the garage before we bought the house. Only the part in the ground was rotten. So into service he goes.
I'm 4 bolts away from dropping the subframe tomorrow. But I'm cooked today.