Weekend is over...what did you get done?

Lowrange2 said:
Trust me. I agree with you both completely. I currently live in a house that my grandparents allow me to live in. If there's one thing I've learned is that debt is bad. I've paid off all of my student loans and have very little debt. In fact, the only debt I have is the 200 bucks or so that I haven't paid on my credit card this month yet.

When I say I'm going to find myself a truck it'll be one I can pay for with cash...

When I say I need to find a house I mean that I need to start looking for a cheap fixer upper double wide to stick on one of the 200 acres that my family owns around here long enough to get financially stable enough to build a house. I'm only 25. I've got plenty time. I just need something that's big enough to hold my entire family. 4 people in a 1 bed room house is quite cramped. ;)

For the last 2 years I've had a bunk bed in my living room. My living room doubles as my 2 daughters bed room but hey, they have a roof over their head and it don't leak. :)

It really suprises me that when I tell them they'll have their own room soon they tell me they don't want to move at all. (Might have something to do with the 52" LED TV in the living room. lol) They want to stay right here.

I love this land, I love this road, I love this whole county. I love being able to go outside at noon in my boxers and piss off the front porch. lol

As far as I'm concerned I'll never move off this tract of land but I have to do something with this house. I'd add on to this house but in my opinion it's not worth adding on it. The house is good shape for it's age but it's not something I want to sink a bunch of money into...
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Jesus, between you and Ghost it sounds like I should move to the SEC, people look at me like I'm nuts when I say basically... this.

I only have a quarter acre right now but I have multiple acres of uninhabited woodland surrounding me, which is pretty nice. It's like having a wooded back yard I don't pay taxes on.

I would love to buy at least a hundred acres on the eastern slope of a mountain range (preferably the appalachians, white mountains up here, etc) with some wooded land, a big huge rockfield, 10 miles from the nearest town and build a house and a 3 car garage into the side of the mountain. I don't really like dealing with most normal people.

If I strike it rich I'm going to try to buy a big section of old coal land in WV or PA, I've seen it as cheap as ~1000/acre for large tracts and it's always mountainous out there. Then I'll build a house and some jeep trails and try and convince other NAXJA members to buy smaller blocks of the property and do the same :)
 
scarylilguy said:
me likey. how much all that run?
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Not much. I bought the long arms and shocks from a guy locally who rolled his jeep. No damage to suspension just crushed the roof in (ouch). I did all the work myself, so no labor cost, just a PITA. And I pieced together two leafs for a bastard pack.

So all in all
450 for long arms and shocks
10 on sandpaper and paint
25 on new u bolts (made locally)
150 for leafs and bushings
100 for adjustable trac bar (not pictured)

Total 750 ish and a weekend.
 
Ghost said:
You should come visit me when I'm in Aiken next time. Mom and Dad redid the house they lived in when I was little. It was built in 1908 and when we lived there it had three rooms, a hall, a kitchen, and a bathroom added onto the back porch. They had to take it down to the frame but wow its really nice now. That house is on 48 acres that was my great grandfathers land too. I know how you feel about that! All my family knows that hill is where I want to be buried.
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This house would need to come down to the ground if I wanted to make it nice. It just makes more sense to rebuild completely. If I added a room on to get by for the next couple years would be a waste of money.
 
Got my new-to-me seats all cleaned up and ready to install. These go into the Teal b*tch since the lovely stock seats have broken frame, torn upholstery, are uncomfortable, and generally suck all around. These are leather, powered driver seat, and have lumbar adjustment. They are WAY more comfy that what I have, and best of all, they were free. :) They came out of a 2005ish small Mazda minivan of some sort. I wasnt there when they were pulled...

They also have SRS airbags in both, but those wont get hooked up. :)

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Is there a reason I couldn't narrow this axle? I need the spring centers to be 36"ish.


Edit: Oops, forgot the link. http://www.northerntool.com/shop/tools/product_200330529_200330529


Also, Am I going to mangle a standard hitch on basic trails? Do I really need to run a pintle hitch on a mild offroad trailer? When I say mild I mean that it MIGHT go down a simple trail to the campground and that's about it. I'd like to keep all my hitches the same so I don't have to carry more than one hitch.
 
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Lowrange2 said:
Is there a reason I couldn't narrow this axle? I need the spring centers to be 36"ish.


Edit: Oops, forgot the link. http://www.northerntool.com/shop/tools/product_200330529_200330529


Also, Am I going to mangle a standard hitch on basic trails? Do I really need to run a pintle hitch on a mild offroad trailer? When I say mild I mean that it MIGHT go down a simple trail to the campground and that's about it. I'd like to keep all my hitches the same so I don't have to carry more than one hitch.
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Why not buy a bare axle and the spring perches? They sell them both here: http://www.agrisupply.com/
 
I figured it'd be easier to buy a complete rather than having to source all the parts... I might not have to narrow it. Just depends on how wide I make the frame...
 
Lowrange2 said:
I figured it'd be easier to buy a complete rather than having to source all the parts... I might not have to narrow it. Just depends on how wide I make the frame...
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Agri has all the parts. They have decent prices too. Look and see what the sight has.
 
Do they have the axle tube stock? I know the 3500 lb tube is arched. Is it a srping steel or a standard piece of tube? Im not seeing any shorter axles on that site. I know I can build one from scratch.
 
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Do they have the axle tube stock? I know the 3500 lb tube is arched. Is it a srping steel or a standard piece of tube?
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That I am not sure on. I believe the 2K one I bought was made from some type of tube. Like HREW or DOM.
 
Everyone keeps telling me I need a 3500lb axle. I don't see me carrying 3500 lbs of camping gear. I guess overkill won't hurt tho. The price difference between the 2 axles is marginal. I wonder how rigid those springs will be from Northern Tool. I don't want my trailer to bounce in the air when I hit a pot hole... But at the same time having the axle come with springs, hangers, shackles and all the bolts is nice.
 
I am en route to Cheeseman fab and Nacho bar in northern Missouri!
 
Lowrange2 said:
Is there a reason I couldn't narrow this axle? I need the spring centers to be 36"ish.
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You can pretty easily narrow them. I did one on my old Offroad trailer a while back.

This was a Dexter 3500# axle, with electric brakes.

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I turned it down in my lathe so it would fit inside the axle tue again.

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After it was all welded back together. Take note of the built in camer of the axle, you will want to leave that in.

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I love picture whoring.

~Stump
 
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