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Re: equip. you've fabricated from scratch
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Posted by Dan on March 25, 2004 at 07:16:26 from (142.165.92.57):
In Reply to: equip. you've fabricated from scratch posted by daveVT on March 24, 2004 at 16:59:59:
Everyone is showing a nice bunch of stuff they made but all I am seeing is the stuff that turned out GREAT. What about the stuff that ain't so great. I built a small wagon to move a 10,000 watt generator from heated storage to the transformer hookup in the cold winter months. No point having a generator if it wont start at -40, right. Bought some wheels amd gathered up some scrap iron and away I went. Who knew building a wagon would be so hard. When I was done I had something that looked like it had been built by someone who had never even seen a wagon before! It held together just long enough to get the generator from the shop to the kennel where it was being stored. By then the frame had bent, the axles had bent, the handle had bent and it took two of us to pull the thing. My wife looked at me and said " That worked great, Honey". I just laughed and picked up my Princess Auto catalog to look at REAL wagons.
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