Another project needing doing is done.

Adirondack case guy

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A fellow YTer came here today to purchase some attatchments for his newly aquired Case garden tractor. There was a couple of parts that I knew were under my welding table. Well I had an acumilation of peices of steel stacked high and spreading laterally away from under the table. We pawed through the whole pile looking for the missing peice, and didn't find it. Dave left without it. 20 min after he left, I found it, rite where it thought it was---LOL.
Anyway since the shorts of steel were strewed all over the floor, I decided to put the shelves in under the table. I had steel panals from an old feed cart that I had saved a couple years back to make the shelves.I cut and welded angle irons to the front legs and the extended boiler frame, and laid the panals in. Sorted out the steel, rounds on top shelf, angles, square tubing, and flats on secont shelf, and bigger and odball stuff on bottom shelf. I can slide up to 3" lengths in on the shelvs. (I have racks bolted to the north wall, for full length steel)
The other plus is that my wood boiler is directly behind the welding table, and I have built an extension jacket for it, and the heat that radiates of the back of it is asorbed by the steel, and with the aid of a little fan, the heat is being dispersed into the shop, and the steel stores heat during the night.
Loren, the Acg.
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Nice table and storage Loren. That's also an interesting project on that tractor in the background. I hope you show more of that as it progresses.
 
I tease the wife about how the entire house gets cleaned and straightened out whenever we have guests. I guess your shop is like that now.

I like how you organized your steel. I "keep" too much of the short stuff. I hate to scrap any steel.
 
Loren, nice job on the table. Just one little question on the tractor - just how do you plan on removing the hood without removing the canopy ???

Doc :>)
 
I have been posting some pics. on Case forum, but to enlighten you a bit, I bought a older Myers 6' snow plow which was originally fitted to a 1957 Case 300. It had all the mounting brackets and such for the 300, but I wanted to tuck it further under the front end of my Case 440 and raise the frame up to match the clearance under the drawbar of the tractor. Pics. are of the reconstructed plow frame. and the grill guard that I built last winter. Our local Cub Cadet dealer retired and had an auction to liquidate remaining inventory. I bought the ROPS frame which fit a CC side-by-side and revamped it to fit my 440. I have salvaged glass from some Case tractor cabs so I am enclosing the structure. The rear and front enclosure assys. are bolted in so they can be removed in the summer. I am also fabing up engine side panals to funnel the heat back into the enclosure. I am probably going to remove the original fenders and enclose the sides and make doors, to totally enclose it. I have it all designed in my head, and have the salvaged steel to make it happen.
It will cost me more to operate and maintain my grinders, torch. and welders than the materials to enclose the ROPS will cost me. I am the King of scrounge! The structural tubeing that I used is made from non returnable Kubota crates, and the 1/16" sheet stock for the sides will be made from the roof of a new outside wood boiler which was damaged when a truck driver threw a nylon strap over it and sinched it down on the truck. HeHe.
Loren
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Walt.
I will be cutting a recess in the strutt that goes from side to side, to follow the profile of the hood and I have a rubber seal that will conform to the hood and allow clearance to remove the hood. It was a bit tight with the window glass that I have to get everything to fit, but it will work. Stay tuned.
Loren
 

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