Canopy

[Harv]

Bird -

That's a terrific set of pictures! You're getting great detail and image quality. /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

The new camera might be doing you more good than you know. From your past self-depricating verbal descriptions, I had you pegged as a much older, and shall I say, "heftier" fellow. The camera doesn't lie -- you're much studlier than that! /w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif

That first picture with you in the seat shows off your 'Bota enhancements very well. You've created a great little mobile work environment for yourself. You've got your own shaded command center, complete with mirror, tiltmeters, worklights and you just gotta love them extra hydraulics! /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

We're also getting a nice tour of your shop, which in itself looks like a veritable fun house to me. Nice accumulation of tools to keep your projects going. And is that a bench-top sandblaster I see back there? I miss my old blaster, which I had built myself. Next time I would probably buy off the shelf if I could find the right size. Who makes that unit? (And if that is not a sandblaster, you can just ignore the question. /w3tcompact/icons/crazy.gif)

Like I said before, I'm really happy you got the camera. /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

 

[Bird]

Darn, Bob, I thought I was smiling./w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif And if I remember right, I wrote my last speeding ticket about 28 years ago./w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

And I really don't use the rear view mirror a lot, occasionally glance at it when using the brush hog, but the reason I put it on there is because I occasionally get out on the county and farm to market roads around here, and then I watch it real carefully; don't want to be surprised by one coming from behind and got tired of looking over my shoulder.

Bird

 

[Bird]

Yep, Harv, I do have a fortune invested in tools - reason I stay broke, I guess. And the Cyclone Blaster, model TF5000, is made by Cyclone Blasting Systems, P. O. Box 815, Dowagiac, MI 49047, phone 800-847-5973. This particular one says "not designed to work with harsh abrasives such as aluminum oxide, blasting garnet or sand." I'm using glass beads and the manual says to "only use glass bead or plastic granule abrasives." But it does a great job, just like a sand blaster, at removing rust from odd shaped stuff I can't clean up on the wire wheel on the bench grinder. It has a light in it, and I keep my shop vac hooked to it to pull out the dust as I work.

Bird

 

[cowboydoc]

If you get a chance radman get some pics of that and post them. I would really like to see how you did yours so I don't have to think too much on my own. /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

 

[Bird]

Mark, I agree that thread on Hydraulic Tip 'N Tilt in the Kubota Owning forum got too long (almost as bad as The Chalkley Cup)./w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif/w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif But I have already posted pictures of it there, as well as a list of the parts and cost.

Bird

 

[cowboydoc]

Bird,
That's a great looking setup. I too like your shop. Did you build your shop? I noticed you framed in your walls instead of nailing to the outside of the posts. Does make for a handy place to put things. I would like at least a canopy like that on mine but I just didn't put one on because in the winter my shop isn't heated and my garage is and cool in the summer. I can't get the tractor in the garage with a top on.

 

[Thomas]

Bird,
Nice looking shop you got there.
Man ole man one could have fun making the sparks fly as they built things.

Ahh didn't see the rifg w/ the cool ones. /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

Okay...how does your wife keep your cover alls so clean.

By the looks of your Kubota and all the attachments your ready for 2001....yikes.

Thomas..NH /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

 

[Bird]

<font color=blue>Did you build your shop</font color=blue>

Nope, Richard. I bought the place 6 years ago and that shop building was one of the main reasons I bought it. 40' x 60' and a neighbor told me he saw the invoice when it was built a few years before at a cost of $12,000. It isn't heated or cooled, except by a couple of very small propane heaters in the winter and three 20" fans in the summer. I noticed some differences, but also some similarities to Pat's (techno-mom) shop building. Hers is considerably nicer than mine.

And Thomas, if I'd turned the camera a little to the right, farther down the wall, in the picture of me on the tractor, you'd have seen the refrigerator with the beer, cokes, 7-Ups, and PowerAde./w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

Bird

 

[redhawk]

bird,
nice house, nice shop, nice kubota. SMILE when you take those pics /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif
redhawk

 

[Harv]

Bird -

Your blaster has its own web page. I looked over their selection and price list, and I'm back to thinking about building my own again. /w3tcompact/icons/tongue.gif

Not real high on my wish list right now, but the next time the need arises...