Let me throw a disclaimer in there.. Try it on a really nasty fuel tank or something first.. I dont wanna get any of you guys in trouble on a nice item. I have used it many times on car engines and its great but never on large flat sheet surfaces. I think an even application will be the most important part so as not to leave splotches and stains.
Home built headache racks
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My boy and i made some progress on operation cold lunch.
Teaser shot of my hideaway framerail cubby project.
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I am really happy with the stabilizer brace dunnage racks i built. They hold 14 sticks max, which is covers 7 racks for a full load of cable spools
Low rates and slim pickin have forced me to take on more gear in order to have profitable options and its eaten up deck space. Lack of 8ft tarps has bit me over and over so i finally put em on. Ive got 4s, 8s, padding, edge protection. All the coil rack junk, im up to 11 binders and chains which got me outta 2 jams this month. Cant do without the brick screens, the pipe stakes help now and then. Lots of little wood blocks for shoring up thin slabs. But when the only profitable load you can book needs 49ft deck space where do you put it all!?
So far i have not had weight be an issue, and the gear lets me go on a lot more adventures. My strap-only coworkers are stuck with the same old sticks n bricks year after year. I dread that. Whats for dinner tonight.. Bread? Or water?
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I’ve been hauling logs every winter as the logging guys needed extra trucks and trailers to get the logs out before the frost disappears.
I told my boss I should make a headache rack and fuel tank protectors.
He said they add weight and doesn’t feel it’s necessary.
Well, a log fell on the tank last winter.....
My boss said: F*%£ we may as well stop hauling logs.
In my view, I love the job, yes, crap happens, logs are slippery in the winter.
The job pays good and gives me work for almost a whole month when everything else is slow.
If only I have a aluminum welder, I could build them myself.
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So weve got the lunch counter...
...coat rack...
..kitchen sink, emergency eyewash, bidet
And "undocumented worker" quarters
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