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Well, at least I think so. I was going through a box of pictures of stuff from days past the other day.  Some of you might enjoy looking at what I did back then.Nothing special but you might find a sense of what welding can do for you.Mostly you learn.Here's one of a pair of antique carousel horses stands I made.  Brass sixteen gauge tubing, lesson learned.  Only did this once. Attached ImagesLast edited by wroughtn_harv; 01-18-2006 at 09:45 PM.life is good
Reply:This is one of those musta gates.  I musta been crazy when I said I'd do it.  Musta been crazy when I stubbornly did it.Actually it was a little bit of a victory for me.  I'd built this fence for the high school and in a moment of musta been out of my mind I said I'd do them a drive gate for five hundred dollars.The drive was twenty six feet across.The design for the gate came about because I had some remnants of three quarter inch tubing that was almost long enough to reach the middle.  Along with the fact that I just this amount of pipe left, well you get it.It was a musta design because I was a hadda otherwise. Attached Imageslife is good
Reply:It worked.I heard last year one of the ag teachers ran into it head on.  Tore up a Suburban pretty good and they scrapped the gate. Attached Imageslife is good
Reply:This truck brings a smile to me.You'd never know the name of the client's company was "Green Feets" would you?If you're familiar with cab over rigs you realize I had to make the head board and over head tilt back.  It also has a trunk.  I liked the idea of a truck with a trunk.Plus I liked the idea of having one look give all the good stuff security.  You see with the tail board up you can't life the trunk lid.The client called me the other day to see if I had any pictures of the rig.  It seems someone stole the whole truck.  There goes the security thing. Attached Imageslife is good
Reply:My dad walked out to see what I was doing when I was doing the feet for the tail board.  I'm not sure if he was proud or just concerned, probably concerned. Attached Imageslife is good
Reply:Here's another truck bed I did for a landscaping company.  It was a lesson in learning but we won't go into that now.  It came to me one of those surplus Hertz rental trucks they'd put a dump flatbed on. Attached Imageslife is good
Reply:Client wanted a combo truck that he could load from the sides with a forklift and yet have sides for hauling bulk.  Oh, and he wanted tree bars too. Attached Imageslife is good
Reply:Nothing but a thing as they say. Attached Imageslife is good
Reply:I used to be so easy. Attached Imageslife is good
Reply:One of my ideas was a Rick Rack.  It held a full rick of oak as seen in this demonstration.What made it trick is I figured out I could take a bunch of pieces of inch and a half fourteen gauge pipe sixteen feet long to the muffler shop on a slow day.  They charged me five dollars apeice to bend them three times with my help.I'd take those pieces back and any two would fit together to make a whole rack.It was fun and I made quite a few of them.Like I said, I was easy back then. Attached Imageslife is good
Reply:Every now and then I'll get a call asking if I do handrails.Yeah, I've done handrails.This one is all solid stock and each piece was bent at the shop, no import stuff here. Attached Imageslife is good
Reply:Part of the fun in this stuff is beating that four inch rule. Attached Imageslife is good
Reply:Sometimes we have to keep things in perspective.  Something that looks not so good up close........ Attached Imageslife is good
Reply:Cool pics! I like that red 69-72 C/30 dually too!
Reply:Can make sense at a distance. Attached Imageslife is good
Reply:Nice harvey! especially that gate for 500 bucks... I'll take two!  Oh and by the way , Is that  Chuck Norris on that tow motor?Johnny
Reply:This was made from quarter by inch and a half bar stock.  I'm not an artist and it took me a long time and many pieces of twisted frustration to figure out nature is really lazy.  She uses the same basic shape over and over.  Once I figured that out it went fast.But learning that lesson, whos, I might have been easy, but it wasn't. Attached Imageslife is good
Reply:Every now and then someone will call and ask if I do ornamental iron fence.Yeah, I've done that. Attached Imageslife is good
Reply:This was Red.  69 C 30 with a hot rod 350, heads, intake, headers, Comp 292H cam, four speed, 4:88's.  She was a toot.  No power steering or a/c but lots and lots of personality.Miller Legend welder painted red to match the cab.  The auger is a Little Beaver Hydraulic with some of the bits seen here.  Working by myself I had to lay out a system where I could load and unload it by myself.This is the first bed where I carried the two big oxygen bottles horizontal on roller bearing trays under the welder while the acetylene was carried vertical.With the motor and 4:88's I could drop off into a wet pasture, put it in third run the speedometer up to seventy and just crawl along digging my way to where I wanted to stop.  Then at the end of the day drive out the same way. Attached Imageslife is good
Reply:This is a shot of being ready for a day's work. Attached Imageslife is good
Reply:Every now and then I'd do a gate. Attached Imageslife is good
Reply:I just like doing different...... Attached Imageslife is good
Reply:You now you're getting old when you look at a picture and know you did the work but can't remember when or where.jeez z z z z z Attached Imageslife is good
Reply:I'll make this my last visit to my past.  The towhead crawling out of the first thing I made because I wanted to welding will be thirty three in a couple of months.Time flies.But it slows down while you're learning.Stay in school. Attached Imageslife is good
Reply:That was a fine slide show, harv.  I bet your vacation pictures are a blast.  When you put a bit of yourself in everything you do, you can have an effect on folks you never even meet.  I can see you put a LOT of yourself in what YOU do.  Again, a fine show.Smithboy...if it ain't broke, you ain't tryin'.Thats some great work. AAA
Reply:You really do exceptional work!!
Reply:Originally Posted by smithboyThat was a fine slide show, harv.  I bet your vacation pictures are a blast.  When you put a bit of yourself in everything you do, you can have an effect on folks you never even meet.  I can see you put a LOT of yourself in what YOU do.  Again, a fine show.
Reply:Bravo!!!
Reply:you are  doing a fine  job!!!!
Reply:Thanks for the trip Harv. It was cool!
Reply:I bet most of us wish we'd kept more photos of the things we've done (not just welding) over the years. I like home renovating, but I always forget to take the 'before' photos. At least I've got some good 'after' photos. I'd post a link to a house I did, but it's got more timber than steel visible and I don't want to get thrown off the forum for 'insufficient metal content in a project'.That's a great record you've got, Harv.ScottLast edited by scott brunsdon; 01-19-2006 at 11:03 PM.
Reply:I read your postts for the first time today.  You are incredible in the way you associate youself with steel.  I would say you are a poet, and one tough man.I thank you for you inspiration,  I thank you for answering a pile of questions I never asked you.  But mostly, I thank you for being who you are.  Curt