What did you do in your shop or garage today?

My latest project made with some stuff on had lying around the shop. Not sure what wife will use it for yet, maybe a plant stand? Its 25" tall & the top is 12" in diameter. May even get a small round piece of glass made for top.

 

Probably spray some clear on it I think.

 

Love it. Would make am awesome end table for a cigar and a whiskey. Or snacks can never go wrong with snacks.

Seriously though that is pretty cool.

 

I love it. Really cool stuff.

 

Here's one I made last Spring for the yard.

 

I haven't. But always looking for scraps to make something with.
My neighbor gave me some 100 year old rough cut oak boards off of a barn last year & I made a beautiful picnic table for my shop.

 

Very cool, I'm always looking in the metal scrap bins at work. Made a couple of these vice stands one for me and a buddy. Commercial truck drums are a great base, heavy and can lean and roll them easily.

 

Love the look with the studs & nuts. That makes it. Better than welding.

 

Project for today, put together a grill/smoker I got for FREE. My nephew works at Lowes, they gave it to him in box, nothing damaged or missing. I'm thinking it was a closeout but it was originally priced at $400. I can't complain!

 

That’s a big boy blade the mill was using to cut that wood.

And that’s big boy money for boards like that too. Beautiful work.

 

Unfortunately my project for today was clearing snow & ice from our driveway, which is 14,000 ft. Took awhile.

 

Had to replace the tongue on one of my trailers, welded on, so it took some time to get the old one off. Then did some rewiring & replaced the 7way plug on front of trailer as well.

 

Trying to buy a dump truck........

 

Today I started getting mowers ready for spring. I know it's a ways off, but what else to do when it's cold & crappy outside. First one is this little J.D. rider that my brother in law uses. It got a complete service & new blades.
Second one is my main mower, a Dixie Chopper that got complete service, blade sharpening & I finally replaced the 13 year old belts, that still looked good actually.

 

Worked on the fuel injection wiring on my k5. Hoping to get the exhaust finished this week and start breaking the motor in. Still need to order some snake skin to clean the wiring up.

 

I have 2 Pittsburgh aluminum floor jacks. A 2 ton that had a bent frame (my fault) and a 2.5 ton that leaked badly. I decided to make one good jack with these two. All I had to do was change the side pieces (blue) & now I have a good usable jack again. Funny thing is, the lift cylinder on both of these was identical, down to the part number. So the 2.5 ton rating difference is a wider frame by 1/2". Lift mechanism is same on both. Made an aluminum scrap pile to recycle & added all the bolts to my bolt bins.

 

Don't forget to scrap the left over parts you have no future use for. Do not put into the trash. It's metal, it's worth something.

 

After the deep freeze we've been through this month, today was sunny & 61°. I got the fever, opened up the shop & changed oil in the Hellcat. 48 days till Spring & it can't come soon enough.

 

I changed the thread title, hopefully more will feel free to contribute.

 

Installed some bed lighting, (light strips & push button switch. I'm ready for spring so I can quit spending $$ & get outside.

 

Added a larger hydraulic cooler to my zero turn mower today, then ran the small factory coolers in series for engine oil cooling. It's always seemed to run hot, & the next size larger mower has the larger cooler. Just an upgrade that will hopefully help.

 

Spent 6hrs wiring up the water meth system on the tundra and getting the gauge mounted and wired. This weekend, hopefully, going to install the turbo and injectors and start tuning.

 

Changed both oxygen sensors on my sister in law's Rav4, 2010 & 145K & still had original sensors. It popped a code & disabled AWD. Here's what I found, cracked all the way around.

 

Finally warmed up enough to put a few coats of clear coat on my project from post #1. Wife loved it & made room for it in our sunroom. No, those arent internals from a gen3 Tundra!

 

Built this windmill today replace a rotten wooden one. Its 12' tall & all aluminum. Put it together yesterday & anchored it today.