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Projects Let me get this straight (axle). Streetfreak project!!!?

Discussion in 'The Hokey Ass Message Board' started by Firedup, Aug 7, 2018.

  1. spudshaft
    Joined: Feb 28, 2003
    Posts: 677

    spudshaft
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    Great job on this build. I had a 53 h/t I should have kept.
     
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  2. 1971BB427
    Joined: Mar 6, 2010
    Posts: 9,429

    1971BB427
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    from Oregon

    Looks like time to set up a Costco canopy so you can keep going now that the rain is back again here in Oregon! I built 3 gassers in my Costco canopy before I finally did a metal shop building. It can be a little tight at 10'x20' but it sure beats being out in the rain!
    Like your build, and the way you're going at it too!
     
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  3. Firedup
    Joined: Feb 2, 2018
    Posts: 147

    Firedup
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    from Oregon

    I tried one of those before and it didn’t go so well. I had it anchored with concrete screws and tied 2x12 boards on the outside to help weight it down. Wind storm blew it up and over my boat 2x12’s and all about 50 yards into my field. I don’t know how it missed taking out all the windows in my boat. I’m sure it was close. Lol. Plus it got all mangled up, although I did repurpose some of it for a rowing frame for my raft.
     
  4. 1971BB427
    Joined: Mar 6, 2010
    Posts: 9,429

    1971BB427
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    from Oregon

    I used 5 gal. buckets filled with sand outside the canopy at each leg to tie mine down after it launched into the neighbor's backyard in what we think was a freak Oregon tornado one spring. Fortunately mine lifted straight up and over a 5 ft. fence, landing upside down unharmed on his grass. Neighbor saw it happen and said he couldn't believe his eyes! By chance my Austin gasser just happened to not be in it the day it happened!
    After that I anchored the feet with 1/4"x4" concrete anchors at each leg and it never left again.
     

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