Nice one privateer.

 

Hey all just sitting here in Wetaskiwin working this week and on call for the weekend Then back to Gull Lake Sask. to work for quite some time

 

Hello men.
Its the last day of May.

 

Got the hard and expensive half of my gantry crane system built. By the time I'm done it'll cost about $200, 10' high x 10' wide and the tracks will be 230" long plus it will be motorised. Sure gonna miss lifting cabs, boxes and motors with jacks and lumber.

 

That sounds really nice.
Any guess what its lift capacity will be?

 

I've got 2 2ton chain hoists and I should have no problems using them. It's got a 5" x3/8 I beam and the uprights are 2 x 4 x 1/4" C channel bolted back to back and welded on the edges, 2 x 3 x 3/16" c channel bracing and 3/16" plate steel backing plates. All the steel came from parts trucks that I've bought so it's all basically free, just had to buy the hoists, cradles, welding wire and hardware. Such a deal! LOL

 

Wow.
That is awesome!

 

Whats awesome is that I picked up a gallon of cutting fluid so now I can dig out my bandsaw and drill press and use them for cutting and drilling instead of using a grinder andcheap hand drill. Went to a few auctions a year or so ago and picked up a change over in tools and now I finally get to use them. Some are new and some I knew the company that went under. Glad it only took a week to dig the trenching and building everything to site specs, may be cheap but it's been a snit load of labor, felt good to get out and spend $, damn bag was heavy.

Had a silent chuckle on the bus, the weekend driver was a spinster who was a bus driver **** as in sienfeld. She had a thing for single mothers and a pair of highschool jocks. It was funny because they were able to blow her off and walk away shaking their heads. My transfer was 15 minutes pass due and she slid me by no problem.LOL

 

Was crazy warm today, which I hadn't seen coming. Spent most of the day in my backyard with the kiddies splashing around. I am getting better at making margaritas. May take more practice, maybe next weekend . . .

 

Got out and did some riding today. Still shopping for a bike so I've been using my mom's and she's been riding on the back of my dad's. He doesn't like that though cause her boot was touching the exhaust on his bike haha. Now he's got some melted rubber to take care of. Hoping to find myself a bike soon.

 

Walked out of TD and heard about the babe festival downtown and realized I was going to miss it, damn that place is usually pretty hot. Had to go to princess auto, to bad that festival ends at 6. Sure was toasty and dry in the northeast.