I was looking at the Duster build earlier, looks like it is coming along well. You do some good metal work.
Stop in for a cup of coffee
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Morning all.
Morning, How you doing today?
zkx14
Duster De-ruster
Red Lion
That's not to bad from here, I am on a red lion beer kick right now, I really like it and for 10 a case how can you beat it.
Great. Looking into mounting a drive motor for my rolling steel overhead door today. A door guy got me a great deal on one with the switches and limiters and all. When I built the shop, I made provisions for 110 power near where I thought I would eventually mount the motors. Just a matter of mounting up the motor properly in line with the hand gear drive. Then Wire it.
Sounds like a good plan. How were you opening it with the winch type chain thingy? No idea what it is called.
mounting up the motor properly in line with the hand gear drive. Then Wire it.
I need to wake up a bit more!
mounting up the motor properly in line with the hand gear drive. Then Wire it.
I need to wake up a bit more!
Yeah, Both of my doors are rolling steel doors made by Overhead Door Co. They operate manually with a hand chain and gear reduction. One door is 12X12 and the other is 16X9. When I built the shop I bought them directly from Overhead and installed them myself. I wanted to power them both then. But they wanted $600 per door for all the gear to do it. So I thought I could stand to pull on the chains for a few years. I now realize that the 12X12 door to the lift bay gets used way more, so I'm powering that door for now.
That stuff gets expensive quick. I broke a cable on my 12x16 insulated garage door not to long ago by being a dumb F... I had the door not fully open and hit it with the ROP bar on the tractor racing in from a thunder storm, forgot the bar was up.. The thing is around 300lbs and when I got the bottom of the door straightened out the door fell down the track and busted a cable. I tried to fix it myself but could not. Had a garage door company come out to change the cable all said and done 300$
Mornin Gents!
I have some garage door panels if anyone needs any 16' I believe
Thanks, I took the tractor that was inside when the door fell and pushed it back into shape then put some angle iron across the bottom, just a small crease on the outside. If I hit it again I will probably take the whole track off it is so strong. I got to used to having the ROP bar down and one day last fall got lucky it was up when a part of the driveway let loose and it rolled into a culvert. One more life gone! I got really lucky. Since then I keep it up at all times.
I got the wheel covers yesterday! They are in really good shape. I think todays project is to paint one and see how it looks!
I usually have mine down because of low trees. But I mow half of my yard balanced on two wheels!
I did that here also but I was using it as a rack with the bucket to move some pipes. Tell you what if we were not doing that I would be dead now. it flipped 180 and I just missed a fence post but the rop bar hit and bent it out of the way. Ever try to get a tractor flipped on its wheels? Took a while and a few trucks. The weight in the tires is really heavy. What was really crazy not a scratch on it, I just had to pull the injectors out to get the oil out of the cylinders.
Never thought of hauling pipe that way! Do you use your seatbelt. My buddy laiod his back hoe on it's side in my yard one time.
Oh that thing, That held me in upside down! Funny I almost never use it but for some reason it was on that day.
Usually I use it to strap a cooler or toolbox behind the seat. I guess someone was praying for my heathen soul that day.
Thats funny. I have a neighbor who is a local attorney. He has a trailer he pulls behind his mower. It is a cooler on wheels and he mows everynight and all free time. He has probably 15 acres of yard. But thats what he does
Man it's 6:46 I don't want to get ready for work today....I don't wanna go!
I just noticed it snowed here, My plans just changed to taxi driver for doctors appointments so my wife does not have to use the firechicken on the ice/snow. I really hate that car....
zkx14
Duster De-ruster
Where is that from? Don't think its this Red Lion. I do see there is a new brew pub in town I need to check out.
You and that bird. It is a slow death....for you! You better kill it before it kills you!
The other day we or she had the unfortunate experience of running out of gas at the bottom of a horse shoe turn hill. The gauge is intermittent. I had no gas here and with the snow there was no way to push it to the side. Picked her up, got the gas and went back. Unfortunately the car was still there and not rear-ended! I hate that car...
See you guys later!
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