Old Project Page
This is a practice track that started out as a large hill. We acquired
an old 66 end loader with a blown motor to start the project. First was
to rebuild the loader which a valve dropped and shattered the piston, bent
the rod and punctured a hole in the cylinder. Well that's a story onto
intself. Anyway I lived out here for sumer to build this track to practice
on and after we got it done we, they had to sell it and move to Colorado.
We moved alot of dirt and rock that summer, it was kinda fun to do something
different.
This I built for
a neighbor who was building a new deck and sunroom on the back of his house.
I never attempted something like this before but always wanted to build
a spiral staircase. He was my guinee pig, and paid for my learning experience.
I left him cut and install the stair treads which are made of cedar and
fit in a steel frame for each step. The hardest part was bending the 1
1/2" steel tubing for the railing. I did this using a hand operated (all
the muscle and weight I could muster) conduit bender I bowered from an
electrican friend. The family loved it when I got it installed.
I made this for
a veteran friend that passed while I was helping him shovel out his brothers
car. (Miss ya Art!)
This
picture will link you to some of my old past bike projects, icluding a
couple racers. This old caddy was a project in itself. I use to ride with
a bunch of friends that hung around a body shop. Somehow this project got
started and took on a life of it's own. It was kinda exciting just loading
the bikes. We had a ramp that went from the ground to the trunk and one
from the trunk to the roof. We just rode them up the ramp. I still have
the ramps and use them for loading my truck. We had to put heavy duty springs
(out of the front of a 3/4 ton ford truck) in the rear. We had a guy in
our group that laid carpet, so he did the roof in black Astroturf. It was
a great car to start with (67 Fleatwood) and had a great body that we just
sanded the heck out of and repainted.
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