Day 3 - It's Friday! I started very early this morning; loaded the backhoe up and took it over saying to myself I was finally going to move some things out of my way - some big things. I realize very quickly once I'm there and unloaded there isn't a snow ball's chance in heck of getting to the doorway for all the crap, much less into the door enough to grab what I needed.
I decided to call Gene, he's owned a NAPA dealer here for all my life. I told him I had a Ford 3000 tractor what year and that it hadn't run in way to many years to matter exactly how many......and that I needed him to hook me up with all things fluids, filters, fuel, spark, and air. While I was waiting on parts I took the time to grab the carb, points, and condensor off the cub (see pictures link). About 45 minutes later I had everything I needed to goto work on the 3000.....so I did. A couple hours later I have that guy going and went out and grabbed a boom I'd seen laying in the dirt.
Tractor under butt I was able to finally move some things out of my way. Talk about a man with a smile on his face.....then I got so disgusted trying to get in/out with the tractor (batteries everywhere) that I took the midday and loaded batteries up on the trailer while I had it there. I loaded 3 pallets of batteries totaling 221 and drove them to the scrap yard - landing a whopping .........well good deal of spending money for the shop later.
I made some progress inside as you'll see if you look through the album, but not as much as I'd liked given the derailment of moving heavy things. Good news is, I now have my grandpa's tractor over there I can use versus spending another 45 minutes loading and binding the backhoe or tractor every day....not to mention I try to avoid pulling 17k pounds down the road with my pickup (though it's rated).
I finally got past the bathroom door blockage and found (among some nasty things) this lovely borax soap dispenser mounted by the sink. A keeper for certain.
My treasure find of the day was a magnetic sign that would have been placed on the side of the company truck. I actually found two both being new but having a toll taken just by nature of being in the shop. A very nice find nonetheless, and a good reminder to me that I should not wholesale throw everything out the door because it has no function. I started walking around picking up "old things" for display sake; 7UP coke DP bottles, NOS krylon spray, case of nos oil, metal gas and water cans, old spark plugs in new box, and such. I'd really like to put the shop back to it's day, and have it feel that way when you're working inside.
A link below to the pictures I was able to take today. Not a lot of pictures because no joke my camera battery said "exhausted" and shutdown, and I said out loud to myself "ME TOO", and shut down.
Pictures :
http://www.photobucket.com/oilyshopday3Just remember the long standing advice on how to eat an elephant. 'One bite at a time'.
That's what I keep telling myself, John.....but problem is I'm already same shape as my camera battery: "Exhausted".
Oh. WINCH trucks. I was trying to imagine what a WENCH truck might be.
lol - I'm from south arkansas - you're lucky I didn't spell it wanch...you know, like she's being an ole wanch.
What an unbelieveable wealth of tools and stuff.
YES - I hope this group is up to the challenge because I'm going to need a lot of help in the coming times. I knew the tool stock was that was "in the day", but had no idea it had not already been looted. The good news of the shop being a complete wreck was that nobody could find the tools to loot them :)
