Hey ya'll..just thought I would say hi and stuff... I live in Columbus and just recently bought myself a 2000 superduty crew cab with the gasser 5.4.. Looks like the best forum Ive found.. I signed up for another area forum but it looks like if you dont have a jeep, not too many people care to talk to ya... But anyways..here are a few pics of my rig.
http://www.jimfast.net/superduty1.jpg
http://www.jimfast.net/superduty2.jpg

JiM

 

Hi jim,
thank you for stopping by. and welcome to the Ohio chapter. Hopefully you will join us for an upcoming meeting. O.C. is just starting to pull together, and please feel free to throw in your 2 cents on any ideas you have. alot of good people here. Bruin is our moderator, great guy. take the time and read some of the current threads and feel free to comment.

please take the time to register as a ohio chapter member. go to user cp.
then you'll see control panel, page down and you'll see chapter memberships. click on that and your in buisness.

Ray

 

Welcome Jim. Glad you found us.


Larry

 

Welcome aboard Jim, glad you're apart of the best Ford trucks forum on the internet. Where are you located at? Sweet truck by the way.

 

Thanks for the welcome guys.. I think I'm registered for the OC, actully the first thing I did..Anyhow, I'm located in Columbus. Grove City at the moment..Hopefully soon to be living in Whitehall which is on the east side of Columbus. Workin on getting my first house.. Also, if you guys need anything or help let me know.. I have just about everything but a garage.Welder, torches, tubing bender, and more various metal working tools.

JiM

 

Ahh wish you lived closer to me, we need torches alot.

 

Torches do come in mighty handy.. Im thinking about building something that can be loaded into the bed of my truck with a forklift..somethin that will hold all my big tools..welder,torches,generator, etc.. all in one self contained skid I guess..gives me a good reason to get to know my tubing bender a little better too. I havent played with it much. Maybe see about making a fancy headache bar as well.. Anyone have any ideas on this?

JiM

 

hey Jim, i just got back from runnig around the capital today, i'm starting to be able to find my way around without taking a site seeing tour

 

Columbus can't be too much more confusing than Dayton..I spent alot of time out there latley. Our company just opened an office there and they have been keeping me busy..You may have seen us out there a month or two ago. We were doing the drilling along I-75 near downtown Dayton. That is one scary stretch of Highway where 75 and 4 split and the northbound curve.. I was a nervous wreck on that job.

JiM

 

yep its called malfunction junction , , what type of drilling was it?

 

It's geotechnical.soil sampling for the re-design and widening of that area..they plan to straighten the curve and add a long retaining wall on each side of the highway I beleive..that was only the first phase of our drilling..We should be back out there before too long. We do alot of engineering work for ODOT and lots more for construction and the housing industry. Pretty interesting work, hard anyways. makes it nice having almost the entire line of superduty trucks for support vehicles. everything from the F250 up to the 650, minus the 550.Dont have one of them yet.

JiM

 

i,m a rep in the tool rental side of the construction and deal with ODOT sometimes, especially the bridge deck guy's and other's. mostly its the rental house's here in Ohio and KY.

RAY

 

Oh cool, we rent tools on occasion, mostly traffic control stuff, arrowboards and signs. We do alot of bridge decks as well.

JiM

 

from aa saftey? i sell the Allmand brand. we need to meet some time and talk shop, maybe you'll be at one of O.C.'s meeting's? id like to learn more about soil sampling.

 

First off welcome to the O.C.
Shouldn't I be wealthy if I live in the O.C.?
Now to my real comments

Have you thought about making a slide in tool box? Kind of like a slide in truck camper. Put all your tools in this box, jack it up, back you truck under it and lower the jacks. No need for a fork lift. I've been toying with this idea for about a year now. I use my 96 F350 crew cab for hauling my cars around with. When I actually get a garage I will be making a Rally Car. In Performance Rally, trailers are a pain in the rearend to take to service areas, so alot of Pro Rally racers use vans or cube vans to haul there tools, spares and tow the car. I'm not that wealthy and I don't want to buy a vehicle for one purpose only, yet. Do you get what I'm saying?

Eric