Carts and Waggons Galore!

I will be the first to admit that I have a major problem.  Not only do I love collecting old tractors and engines but I have this strange thing for carts and trailers.  I feel like I can never have enough carts and if I do that just means that I need another engine to put on the spare cart, then I need another spare cart.  It just happens to be a viscous cycle. First off tonight is the wagon I bought to build my Ice cream maker on,

  And then there is the Homemade cart that I finally after five years finished building.  I carefully got the Galloway set onto it even though it may not be its home for very long. 

And thirdly, just recently Grampa gave me an awesome cart that he has had for a good many years in the garage.  When he got it there was no wood and he built it up.

The Galloway will probably end up on this cart in the near future to make room for yet another project!!  In other news I have this weekend off and have had the Oliver carburetor soaking for a full week and plan on trying to run it this weekend as well as catch up on other projects.  So until next time stay tuned and check back often. 

The Little Focus That Could

So going back two weeks now we had an extremely icy Thursday morning. The roads were horrible and the town of Jay did not get out sanding until slightly late in the morning.  That just happened to be one of the mornings that Allyssia goes in early and leaves the house at 7:15.  On the way in after watching a bucket truck not make a hill Allyssia decided she was best to turn back and go home but after the sand truck went by.  Being smart and safety conscious she backed into a driveway to be off the road and out of the way for other drivers.  While in the driveway another driver lost control and jumped a snowbank and smacked right into the front of Allyssia's car.  Most importantly everybody was safe and unharmed but unfortunately the crash rendered Allyssia's car undrivable.

After a week and a half sitting at Allie Bond's Auto Body shop the insurance checked it out and deemed it totaled.  We talked about it long and hard, and decided since this Focus has done so well for us, we may get another one - so we decided to buy it back from the insurance company for parts and hauled it home.   For now though we are extremely luck to have the mini van and the new truck so that we have transportation.  Until next time stay tuned.

A Project for Allyssia

If you know me just by my blog you might think that all I do is just tractor related.  Now you would not be wrong to think that because a lot of what I post is tractor related,  but sometimes I pull out my creative side and build things for Allyssia.  Now this project I can't claim that I came up with the idea but I did execute it well.  The general idea of this project is to have a clean white table for Allyssia to take flat lay pictures on for her LuLaRoe business. Simply enough it started with a 36"x36" art canvas and a piano hinge. 

Hidden behind the canvas is a strip of plywood mounted to the studs so that I would have a good solid place to mount the hinge to.  Much to Allyssia's dislike I used every single screw that came with the hinge, but it wont ever come apart.  Now I would also love to say that I planned for it to be just perfectly hung where it just barely clears the baseboard but that was just luck!

After Allyssia decided the angle I cut two 1"x1" legs and drilled holes through the legs and the canvas frame.  To make it easy to fold up I countersunk the inside hole and used some carriage bolts and wing nuts on the outside.  This setup is so much easier for Allyssia to use and quicker too!!  Maybe she will pipe up on Facebook to let you know how well it has worked out for her!
Until next time stay tuned and check back often.