Tips and Tricks of flatbedding

Now what am I going to do with these?

I could not find what I wanted. Some of you old timers will remember the old pipe hangers that screwed into the old malleable washers while others will just shrug. They don't make them anymore so until I can get to a welder this will have to work. Boss had one cheap 3" beacon on driver's mirror. Told me no one ever said anything to him but Wyoming states that to run at night with loads up to ten feet wide you need two 4" beacons. He could not fathom that and why he had never been bothered. So I took things into my own hands. I figure he can either pay me for them or I can just take them with me.

I know some of you will complain about me paying for them but it is my money and my piece of mind. Same reason I carry all my own oversized stuff, truck may have what is required but not what I want.

 

Oh and nobody seems to carry mirror mount brackets in stock and I wanted it done this weekend. Wired one up for a double flash and the other for a quad flash.

 

They're just sitting in a bin at the last 3 tarp shops I've been to.

 

What's a tarp shop?

 

Ask the CB shop. They'll know.

 

Nice work.

 

Thanks. Not quite what I wanted but they work. You well know that growing up on a farm you learn to make do without buying a lot of stuff. I swear that my grandfather never bought a new nail unless it was a roofing nail.

 

I was just talking about my grandfather fixing things the other day. He had a repair shop and built and welded things for neighbors and himself. I never recall seeing a new piece of steel at his farm growing up. He would go to the scrap iron pile and find something close and make it work.

 

These things just did not look right to me. Seemed that they would work their way loose and fall off. Well I was right. Two moved in, one did not move and five of them moved out against the tape. Put that there to keep the nuts from walking off, that is the tip.

 

I hate it when my nuts walk off.