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[Penetrode Offroad]

. I've also had some stuff abandoned like a.... '69 firebird

What happened in this situation? You get a free car?

 

[Muckin_Slusher]

What happened in this situation? You get a free car?

Not sure yet. He's been out of prison for over a year, but hasn't contacted me yet...

 

[Muckin_Slusher]

Trimmed out the hole (kickplates) and added some railings. End railing is removable, and tethered with chain. Just lift and slip out of the loop and it drops away, but can't be dropped because tether...


U-haul ramps are ****ing amazing, but hard to get.

 

[Muckin_Slusher]

Hung up the chinese hoist. Bought the right stuff for unistrut track.

Cut the blocking to sandwich the i-joist web, spaced it off the bottom flange 1/8 inch as required.

What a bunch of fiddly-****ing **** to **** with on top of a ladder. My back feels it!

 

[Muckin_Slusher]

Bent up a piece of steel into a wide flat hook.

Works great, much easier than poking the boats through a hole in the wall.

BTW a 12 foot plastic kayak weighs 50lbs. Deep/wide fiberglass snowmobile sleigh weighs 95 lbs.

 

[GLTHFJ60]

I look forward to the day when I'm so old that I feel the need to weigh a kayak.

 

[Muckin_Slusher]

Bought a hydraulic press. Worked on it with the boy today. Stripped it down and welded on some scrap chunks of angle to widen the stance because it's getting 6 inch casters.

Also bought a transformer stick welder. Hadn't used it yet, decided this would be a good thing for the boy to practice stick welding.

Stuck it mostly outside and got it hanging level with the forklift.

 

[Muckin_Slusher]

Got it to this point today.

The bottom is gonna get solid shelf to hold all the accessory junk. It's already heavy as is. Glad we used the 6 inch poly/steel casters.

 

[Muckin_Slusher]

Looking around for cylinders.

Obviously choices are small and expensive and short 10,000 psi or big and cheap and long 3,000 psi.
The small 10,000 psi ones would fit between the upper channels, the bigger 3,000 psi ones would need a tie rod cage to mount.

Found these (how stupid would these be?) :




Have to pick between single or double acting. Double would probably be better since it'll reduce the reservoir size (but the stroke length is getting really silly). Have to get a double valve though.

Would have to mount them above the upper channel. Height is no problem, but would have to make a tie-rod cage to mount them.

 

[[486]]

Have to get a double valve though.

nah, you can hook up the other cylinder port to shop air for retracting the ram, seen it a few times

 

[Muckin_Slusher]

nah, you can hook up the other cylinder port to shop air for retracting the ram, seen it a few times

Neat.

Wonder if you could just leave a pressurized tank connected all the time. Air spring.

Also, I remember you saying the upside down bottle jacks have a hard time because sucking oil up the straw. I saw a video someone just connected a hose to the bottle jack reservoir, and added a remote reservoir higher than the jack and filled. No straw needed, and jack is always fully flooded.

Thoughts?

Can't find that video now though.

 

[arse_sidewards]

Neat.

Wonder if you could just leave a pressurized tank connected all the time. Air spring.

I'd be concerned that it'd creep a little past the packing and introduce air to your hydraulic system.

 

[[486]]

Neat.

Wonder if you could just leave a pressurized tank connected all the time. Air spring.

Also, I remember you saying the upside down bottle jacks have a hard time because sucking oil up the straw. I saw a video someone just connected a hose to the bottle jack reservoir, and added a remote reservoir higher than the jack and filled. No straw needed, and jack is always fully flooded.

Thoughts?

Can't find that video now though.

well, the little pump element thing is sucking from the very bottom, so flipping it over makes it suck from the very top
you'd need to keep all the air out

maybe if you drilled your reservoir fitting into the bottom of the base casting so it'll burble any air upwards

 

[Muckin_Slusher]

well, the little pump element thing is sucking from the very bottom, so flipping it over makes it suck from the very top
you'd need to keep all the air out

maybe if you drilled your reservoir fitting into the bottom of the base casting so it'll burble any air upwards

Found the video.

It does seem a pain in the ass, not worth the effort vs a regular cylinder.

 

[Muckin_Slusher]

I can pick this up kinda locally. Says it's in good condition with little use. I'll have my coworker at least check the chrome before handing over cash.

It's $100cdn.

4 inch bore at 3000 PSI equals about 18 tons I think.

I like that it's Parker, and I'd like to think it's USA made. Last I checked Enerpac **** is made in china and is still $5000 for a cylinder!

This thing is 5 inches across the square, my press is 5.25 inches between channels.

Any thoughts on the most elegant way to mount this?
I'd like to mount it by the rod end, and would prefer not to build a big threaded rod cage for it.
The trolley is basically a brick of steel that looks like this (and the bolt patterns don't match):

 

[Muckin_Slusher]

Finished up welding the base. Put five 1x1 tubing sideways, then put some 1/4x2 flatbar to support the shelf.

Painted with some really thick rustoleum and chopped up some leftover countertop and pounded it in.

 

[Muckin_Slusher]

Loaded up with all the heavy press stuff. I wanted to put it on 8 inch cast iron wheels, but they didn't come in in time, so permanently bolted on the poly/steel wheels. Rolls easy, even rolled it through the gravel/mud to get from one shop to the other (before I added all the heavy crap).

 

[Muckin_Slusher]

Stupid motorcycles.

 

[Muckin_Slusher]

Figured out easy way to lift the sleds while on the dollies. Requires a strap on the front bumper.

Not sure I'll ever do this with a widetrack, at least not without fork extensions.

 

[Muckin_Slusher]

Picked up Wendy's mobility scooter.

Wendy's an old woman who can't breathe and has nobody. She's deathly concerned about everything. This is the third or fourth year I store this POS. Usually I just drive it to the warehouse as it's only 2 blocks.

First time I stored it (and before I'd ever met her) she called because the battery died and stranded her somewhere. I knew where it was so I head there with the atv and trailer with ramp. Figure I'd just shove it onto the trailer. Nope. Doors closed and locked and park brake applied.

Wifey was trying to get ahold of her to pick up the keys. Wendy was so distraught she gave different incorrect addresses three times.

**** it. I went back and got the skid steer and just forked this thing back to the warehouse and picked up the keys the following day.

Old woman "needed to see where her baby would get stored" so we picked her up in the minivan and hauled her to the warehouse. There, see?

I keep expecting her not to survive the winter....

Fast forward to this year.

She kept driving the thing until there's snow everywhere and the battery is frozen. Called me, yeah no problem I'll come pick it up.

Show up with the drill winch and a little trailer and get to loading it up.

She's hanging out the door asking if I'm tilting her car too far and if I'm sure I know what I'm doing.

Get the thing loaded up and calm her down.

She's asking me if her batteries will be alright. I don't ****in' know. They'll either be alright or they're ****ed. Nothing you can do about it now, just concentrate on surviving the winter!

I'm all loaded and ready to roll, she wants me to call her when I get to the warehouse so she knows I "made it there"

JFC. It's two blocks away. I'll ****in' make it.

I tell her I can't call her because I don't have a mobile phone (which is true).

Sheesh.

 

[[486]]

surprised you store it with batteries in it, frozen and dead or not

 

[Muckin_Slusher]

surprised you store it with batteries in it, frozen and dead or not

Yeah. I hate batteries.

I disconnect all batteries in the things I store to mitigate fire hazard, and it still bothers me...

 

[Muckin_Slusher]

Just about full.

Little love tap to scooch things over.

And this bay (22x55 feet) has:

clark forklift
walk behind stacker
motorcycle
three golf carts
5 biggish boats
Nissan 300ZX
Buick Grand National
Saturn Sky
Mini Cooper

 

[[486]]

more mezzanine would increase your profits

 

[arse_sidewards]

more mezzanine would increase your profits

I was thinking a bunch of 4-post lifts in front of the mezanine.

 

[[486]]

I was thinking a bunch of 4-post lifts in front of the mezanine.

a single drive-on in front of it
set up so it can be driven off of

oh wait that's what he's already got with that pallet jack contraption

 

[Muckin_Slusher]

a single drive-on in front of it
set up so it can be driven off of

oh wait that's what he's already got with that pallet jack contraption

I've had a look around, and I guess I never took pics of the car and boats I've winched up the second floor ramp. It's a huge pain in the ass, need to lower the 16 foot ramp onto car ramps to lessen the approach angle, then drive the car onto the ramp, stop engine and leave a driver inside to apply brakes if needed. Then winch the car to the top of the ramp (winching on the roof I-beams).

Once the front tires get on the second floor I lift the ramp back up level with forklift and drive off onto the second floor.

Not worth my time, especially the part about needing a second person to be the brake man.

 

[Muckin_Slusher]

Chopped off the hilarious 2" casters on this work bench and welded on some plates that a friend cut on his table.

I wanted to try the Princess Auto 8" cast iron wheels.
Rolls easy, and the bench is pretty heavy.

 

[Muckin_Slusher]

a single drive-on in front of it
set up so it can be driven off of

oh wait that's what he's already got with that pallet jack contraption

I've had a look around, and I guess I never took pics of the car and boats I've winched up the second floor ramp. It's a huge pain in the ass, need to lower the 16 foot ramp onto car ramps to lessen the approach angle, then drive the car onto the ramp, stop engine and leave a driver inside to apply brakes if needed. Then winch the car to the top of the ramp (winching on the roof I-beams).

Once the front tires get on the second floor I lift the ramp back up level with forklift and drive off onto the second floor.

Not worth my time, especially the part about needing a second person to be the brake man.

Found a pic.

 

[Muckin_Slusher]

I've had this Moody dolly since I bought this place. Someone pounded a trailer ball onto the stem and it's been great for moving trailers around inside and sometimes outside the warehouse.

I took the ball off and die grinded the hole a bit more so it would fit all the way down the stem (sit lower) and tacked it in place.

I can't find any pics online, but this dolly was originally part of a wheeled pallet system that had two straight wheels at one end, and two legs at the other. You could move stuff around by picking up the leg end with this dolly.

Made a little thing and now I can use it with the workbench.

It's soooooooo much easier to move around like this.

You can save two caster wheels, and the bench is solid/won't move when you pop the dolly out.

The swivel casters are off the ground about 1/2 inch in this pic.

Casters back on the ground.