The life of a scratch builder

[Johnson]

The life of a scratch builder:

Spend most of the day fabricating the jig for the base frame, and only one hour welding it together (while you wife is out boutiqueing:cool).

Two days later set the engine in frame rails.

Next day, fabricate your own engine mounts, because you are not satisfied with what you can get locally, and you don’t want to wait.

Next day, fabricate transmission mount.

Three days later fabricate front suspension chassis uprights.

Next day, the upper control arms, then spend the rest of the day trying to figure out the lower ones.

Next day, waist precious time after work finding the correct size tubing to fabricate the lower ball joint cups.

Spend the next Saturday bouncing between running the tractor on the plot for the corn patch, and fabricating one lower control arm.

Two days later trade three basket case jeeps for one 46 Studebaker flat bed truck.

Next day, mock up one front tire/wheel, and the two rear tires/wheels, then admire how cool a cobra looks while your dinner is getting cold

Two days later, build shelves for your wife in the laundry room.

Spend the next two weeks working 60 hours of overtime.

Take time on the next Saturday to go exploring the back roads with your kids, because you haven’t seen them for two weeks.

Three days later trade antique 6000 pound lathe for miniature antique 5000 pond bulldozer you came across on Saturday.

Two days later make your wife happy by using that ugly tractor you just came home with to move the “pile of junk parts” from behind the horse pens to behind the barn.

Next day, spend that overtime money to buy another gun; you should have spent the money on the windshield for the cobra.

Spend time after work fabricating a new sun shade for your future boss’s boat.

The next Saturday you get your argon tank filled so you can finish the other lower control arm.

It’s now five O-Clock on Monday, and it’s quitting time so maybe I can get that lower control arm fabricated this week, and then move on the rear suspension.