New garage time!

[fatjay]

Hello new here
Did you build the cart cab enclosure or is it a factory produced product

Mine is a 1998 48v. They do make and sell rear bed kits for carts, or i wouldn't imagine it would be very expensive.

My kit i think was factory, or maybe after market. It's injection molded plastic, I did not make it. It's a perfect fit though.

There's about a 6" lift as well. I bought the cart about 6mo ago for around $2000 with messed up electrics. I completely rewired it from scratch, and put a new LFP battery in, which cost me about $1000. Upgraded LED headlights, light bar, tail lights, 4way flashers, rear view camera.

You can see the logo on the side, it was a carry-all from the factory. Since carryalls are beefed up, if you want a work cart, you might be better off selling your factory cart and buying a carryall, rather than trying to convert it.

 

[fatjay]

Racoons trying to get my chickens...

 

[EddieWalker]

When I butcher roosters, I just remove the breast meat. It usually takes a minute or two. Just peal back the skin, cut out the meat and toss the rest of it. We don't eat their meat; we put it in the crock pot with other ingredients for dog food.

To kill them, I shoot them with my .22 Usually we hatch dozens at a time and the bad roosters turn into the devil all around the same time. My wife says it's time to shoot roosters, so we go out there and she tells me who has to go, and I put a bullet in it. One day we got 17. Usually, it's about a dozen.

All our chickens are free range, so the .22 works the best for me when doing this.

 

[Red Pepper]

I appreciate the reply and good idea to keep an eye on the market for the correct application vs re-inventing the wheels

 

[fatjay]

If you want to really carry stuff, you might look for a carryall II or III. The difference is the length of the wheel base. The carryall I is basically the same as a club car front to back, which gives it a limited bed size and weight, or your front wheels are going to be coming up. For me, I needed mobility and a very tight turning radius.

Mucking the coops has been much easier. I use a snow shovel, toss it into the back, and then drive to the compost and dump. Before I would use the kubota and bucket, but it wasn't very big and the kubota isn't very agile. Being electric i can just hop in and go. And I can carry a decent load.

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

possum got our last 2 chickens. Wifey doesn't want more.

We still have the Peahen. She sleeps on top of a tall metal awning car port.

 

[EddieWalker]

I never heard of possums killing chickens. I didn't even know they could kill a chicken!!!!

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

Yep, if they are hungry enough. This one climbed up a 6' chain link pen and squeezed thru a 3" gap.

 

[fatjay]

Another try at video and editing. Had to do some ferguson work.

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

Enjoyed it. Nice that you added all the precursory weed eating and such just to show that there's more to it than just taking the wheel off.

 

[fatjay]

Thanks. The wheel is rotted, apparently someone tubed it already. Steiner has new ones for $100.

Hay rides for the kids today, rain held out long enough for me to take them around for a couple hours AND long enough for me to get the hay indoors so I could save and reuse it.

 

[fatjay]

Removing a tire suuuuuuuuuuucks without a machine. Breaking the back bead was also not fun. Then it was rusty inside and out so I cleaned up with a high speed grinder. Then I found a steel sheet and started cutting strips on the bandsaw.

Tomorrow I'm going to shape and weld them in place over the hole.

 

[fatjay]

 

[EddieWalker]

I wouldn't have thought to weld in a patch on a rim, but why not? it's not high speed and all it needs to do is hold a tube.

 

[airbiscuit]

 

[fatjay]

I wouldn't have thought to weld in a patch on a rim, but why not? it's not high speed and all it needs to do is hold a tube.

That was my thought. The rest of the rim metal was good. I think water just got in through the valve stem hole and rotted it away.

I cut some strips of steel that I can form to the tire and weld it up.

This is hte unedited verison. The metal bandsaw comes to the rescue again. Although the porta-band makes an appearance. That saw blade is missing teeth, i need to replace it.

 

[EddieWalker]

Why not put the valve stem in another location?

 

[fatjay]

I could do that too. I'm going to inflate the tube to see what angle it wants to be at.

 

[airbiscuit]

Can't wait until you finish organizing your new garage

 

[fatjay]

Can't wait until you finish organizing your new garage

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Ha, the owner of that garage obviously does not USE his garage. My garage is WELL USED and on a constant rotation of things. I got a surprise 12 bales of hay in the garage, too. Plus kids furniture my wife bought, plus extra solar panels. And my daughters mini that broke down and she bought another car, so now it's MY problem. Stuff, stuff, stuff. It never goes away.