2009/11/23

Hoodlum's log, supplemental.

Painting complete. It needs to dry for a day or three before I mount it on the frame.


2009/11/22

Dents in the hood.

Work continues on the hood. I'm trying to do a better job of this than the fender.


I didn't get quite enough filler in here.



After filling the little dents with a little more bondo, I re-sanded and sprayed a little primer. It was too cold to paint it at night, so hopefully I can do it tomorrow.





Slight bump here. Not too bad though.

2009/11/21

Throwing a little light on the situation.

Work continues on the sheet metal. This time it's the hood.



When I got the hood back from the welding shop, they filled all the holes except this one. I'm pretty sure it's a bullet hole from a .22 rifle or something like that. I don't mind, gives it street cred.


Primer where possible, bondo in the low spots. Tomorrow I'll sand and add more filler if necessary.


But as the nights are getting so long (seriously, I took this shot around 4:30pm) it's time to add the headlights. I've been dragging my feet on this for a long time, not sure why exactly.


No flash on this one, they seem to do a pretty good job lighting the way.

2009/11/15

Enthusiastically scratching.

Thought I'd give the disker a try, given that it's a semi-nice weekend.


This is a patch of dirt at my parent's place. It fills with water in the spring and doesn't grow anything except dandelions because of it.


Max attack angle, max down pressure.


Did a pretty good job. I wasn't able to do the middle because of the turning radius, but it worked pretty well.



Also fixing up the remaining fender. Body filler and paint, doesn't look great. I may have to make fibreglass ones from the one good fender one day.

2009/11/08

Implementing the hitch.

I've been scouring the yard sales and online sales listings lately. I found that I can usually buy used equipment a lot cheaper than building it from scratch. Sometimes I even get really lucky and find something perfectly suited to what I have.

This is a Massey Harris brand cultivating disk. I think this is the one that was marketed around the same time that my tractor was back in the 40s. They go together perfectly.



I also picked up a chain harrow for cheap. I ordered this middle buster online, this is the only new device I'll have.




Got my sheet metal back from the weldor's.




I welded on the bracket I made a while back, to complete the frame for the hitch.



Now I need to make a lift mechanism and finish fixing the sheet metal.