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1988 Convertible for sunny day drives
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<blockquote data-quote="Tourmax" data-source="post: 175296" data-attributes="member: 5304"><p>Oh, I’ve always been a DIY guy. With everything from cars and trucks to building houses and landscaping.</p><p></p><p>For example, here’s the latest landscaping project at the front of the house (house is about 1.5 years old now):</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]30984[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]30986[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]30985[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]30989[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>Designed it, picked out all the plantings and fixtures and then built it all by myself. Wife has no head or eye for landscaping and she’s a skinny little 120 lb blonde girl, so it was all on me or nothing.</p><p></p><p>And, because I’m so busted up after 29 years of flying SAR, there was no way I was going to be able to do it by hand power and wheelbarrow. Once upon a time, I would have been able to “grunt work” it all out with just a shovel and wheelbarrow, but not anymore. Too old, too broken. So I built this:</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]30987[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>Out of this:</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]30988[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>Picked the tractor up for a hundred bucks. It didn’t run and needed lots of work, but it was a garden tractor as opposed to a ride on lawn mower, so I had some decent base material to build on (bigger tires and rims, thicker frame, ground engaging transmission, B&S 20 hp opposed twin, etc). I dropped a couple hundred on some used bits (like an atv plow blade), some new steel stock, sprinkled well with a mig welder “pixie dust”, some electrical work and a splash of paint and I had a small tractor that could landscape, dig and move rock/dirt/things around that I couldn’t bulge by hand. All in; I’ve got somewhere around 600-700 bucks invested in it. Waaaay less than it would have cost for a SCUT with a front loader (at least 30-40 grand). I did the entire lot, front and back with it. Its a wonderful thing when you can build things yourself.</p><p></p><p>Or, maybe I’m just too cheap to pay someone else to do something I could do myself!</p><p></p><p><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tourmax, post: 175296, member: 5304"] Oh, I’ve always been a DIY guy. With everything from cars and trucks to building houses and landscaping. For example, here’s the latest landscaping project at the front of the house (house is about 1.5 years old now): [ATTACH type="full" alt="9353C8B6-27CC-45E5-87A2-7C9CA6367E81.jpeg"]30984[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full" alt="BC208BEE-4663-44E5-863E-E73FD40DFC5F.jpeg"]30986[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full" alt="276F8ABE-588C-491F-8AD8-A1F6D6A186C5.jpeg"]30985[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full" alt="DF4DF059-06C5-4F68-A0DF-1680BF28F81C.jpeg"]30989[/ATTACH] Designed it, picked out all the plantings and fixtures and then built it all by myself. Wife has no head or eye for landscaping and she’s a skinny little 120 lb blonde girl, so it was all on me or nothing. And, because I’m so busted up after 29 years of flying SAR, there was no way I was going to be able to do it by hand power and wheelbarrow. Once upon a time, I would have been able to “grunt work” it all out with just a shovel and wheelbarrow, but not anymore. Too old, too broken. So I built this: [ATTACH type="full" alt="EE0B75F5-6751-4BFF-AC62-C67F3F0D695B.jpeg"]30987[/ATTACH] Out of this: [ATTACH type="full" alt="6168628D-BFC4-4DE0-BA7C-CC5EE49C30BB.jpeg"]30988[/ATTACH] Picked the tractor up for a hundred bucks. It didn’t run and needed lots of work, but it was a garden tractor as opposed to a ride on lawn mower, so I had some decent base material to build on (bigger tires and rims, thicker frame, ground engaging transmission, B&S 20 hp opposed twin, etc). I dropped a couple hundred on some used bits (like an atv plow blade), some new steel stock, sprinkled well with a mig welder “pixie dust”, some electrical work and a splash of paint and I had a small tractor that could landscape, dig and move rock/dirt/things around that I couldn’t bulge by hand. All in; I’ve got somewhere around 600-700 bucks invested in it. Waaaay less than it would have cost for a SCUT with a front loader (at least 30-40 grand). I did the entire lot, front and back with it. Its a wonderful thing when you can build things yourself. Or, maybe I’m just too cheap to pay someone else to do something I could do myself! ;) [/QUOTE]
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