My Sediments Exactly!

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The Next Project Plan?

Recently I was asked to provide an updated drawing incorporating some modifications to my second proto type 1 ton cart.

At an operator's request we are opening the right side of the cart for ease in stacking the boards which will lay flat.

I am going to stretch this cart 2 inches longer than the origional, this will allow the operator to slide the "air board" into place easily from a position diagonal to the end of the cart. Note the forward end from the handle is shorter?

The swivel casters are also located on the handle end of the cart like the origional. The new HD casters are rated for 500 lbs each, thus with 4 of them the cart is caster rated to handle up to if not more than 1 ton.

The tubing has been upgraded from 14 gauge to 11 gauge because the price was a deal or a value passed on to my customer. Basicly 10 ft less tubing is required so I could get heavier steel for the same price. You just never know if someone would set a roll or something that it was not designed for on it hey? Why take a chance?

I also broke down my pieces required primarily for my convienience. It tells me the total number of inches of tubing required, as well as the length and number of pieces I will need. By dividing by 12" I have the number of feet needed to purchase when I build the next one.
My point is since I don't have a drafting department yet, I need to show my customer that I understand his or her needs. It is another aspect of going from hobibyist to professional that may have to deal with at some point in time.
It may very well be that it is easier to just sit down and draw out your plans the old fashioned way. Then scan it and send it as a jpg. attachment like it did in this case.This drawing may not be perfectly to scale but the approximates work to convey the image. the numbers reflect the actual measurements, that's what is truely important.
Of coarse you will want to include any details your customer needs for your project, but in my case I took care of the details for the customer in the price quote as it is a custom build piece. That AB301t thing? that's just my way of recognizing the project in my office program as the projects keep on comming. Scans, quotes, and invoices for this 2nd of 6 will be found with that identification, or product ID.

Hey for your convienience I put that Amazon link at the top for my vendor's distributor, as an Amazon affiliate I could get paid? hmm... we'll see.

Oh, the plans? sure you can use 'em, Just click on the picture to enlarge it and save it.With a bit of modification you could make your own and sell them to any one who puts palletized salt, fertilizer, mulch, dog, bird, or cat food out in front of the ol' gas station each and every day, hmm....
Next time I'll include some more pictures of this project.

After the snow is gone

I must admit I blew a gasket on this!

Wisconsin property taxes are on the rise and services like snowplows destroy the brand new layer of gravel edgeing they just put down last year! What's wrong with this picture?


Yup Dodge Copunty spent a pretty penny to lay down about 8 inches of fresh gravel last year because the road is some what narrow and the county used it as a detour during the Hwy 60 bridge construction just out of Hustisford.


Now its gone! hmm... I saw this coming last year already and now I am faced with my day of reconing. I remember the 3 foot long strips of sod layin on top of the drifts over the winter.


I knew then that this summer I can look forward to a bouncy ride on the ol' mower. What I did not see then was that fresh gravel. Guess where it went.



Yup, right where I asked for it last year! When I told the town board member as we looked at it, when it was fresh, I can't run 8" of gravel through my lawn mower! When I asked to use some of the edge for the area by the mail box he said no.

I couldn't mow gravel then and I will be dambed if I will now! I figure if YOU throw it in my yard its mine.

I could thank you for topping off the potholes in my driveway, but then you were not out there picking it out of my Lawn assholes!

I'm gettin too old for this kind sh**! Unintended consequences? 2 blisters, a bit of chest pain and cramps, I figure I got 35 wheel barrels of winnowed gravel thanks to your waste Dodge County!

Yes I do vote in the primaries!

Drink Not of This Cup

A little somethin' from Obama Care?

Are you sufferin' from those ol' head spinnin' migrains?

Are you feelin' sick and tired from seein' too much news on the evening local TV at 10:00 o'clock?

What do you do? Change the channel only to find this one blames that one?

Yup, evidently some folks got poisoned on the campaign trail back in '08. Rumor has it the party untencils and Koolaid containters were all sterilized with good ol' Hydrogen Barackside reports an unidentified unemployeed campaign groopie. "Why would we want to let germs get into Koolaid?"

Unintended consequences? Hmmm.... Now it makes sence!

WHEN YOU'RE OLD AND DON'T MOVE FAST ANYMORE.

George Phillips, an elderly man, from Meridian, Mississippi, was going up to bed, when his wife told him that he'd left the light on in the garden shed, which she could see from the bedroom window. George opened the back door to go turn off the light, but saw that there were people in the shed stealing things.
He phoned the police, who asked: "Is someone in your house?"
He said: "No! But some people are breaking into my garden shed and stealing from me".
Then the police dispatcher said: "All patrols are busy. You should lock your doors and an officer will be along when one is available."
George said: "Okay."
He hung up the phone and counted to 30. Then he phoned the police again and said:
"Hello, I just called you a few seconds ago because there were people stealing things from my shed. Well, you don't have to worry about them now because I just shot and killed them both, the dogs are eating them right now." ... and he hung up.
Within five minutes, six Police Cars, a SWAT Team, a Helicopter, two Fire Trucks, a Paramedic, and an Ambulance showed up at the Phillips' residence, and caught the burglars red-handed.
One of the Policemen said to George, "I thought you said that you'd shot them!"
George said, "I thought you said there was nobody available!"
(True Story) I LOVE IT!
Don't mess with old people.