The Fine Art of Salvage...

[Photoman33770]

Sorry to say most garage sales in my area are a waste of time as everything is way to high. People are wanting close to full price for well used stuff. The cheaper stuff is falling apart. But it does kill a weekend.
I did look and GASP there is a habitat store 20 miles from me ! gonna have to go check it out after my haircut tomorrow !
My sister in law does the goodwill etc stores every few days. So I may just give her a list of things to watch for and call me.

[bobhenry]

Well I was on my way home Friday and tripped over a yard sale and stopped.

As I am building the caboose to live in a couple of old lanterns caught my eye. I asked the gal "how much for thr lanterns" she replied "two dollars" I asked "is that for each or for both?
Her reply was "I don't care !" I gave her two dollars each anyway.

Dietz lil wizzards the brown one has the red signal glass globe in it

[bobhenry]

Friday after work I had a few extra bucks in my pocket and a yard sale was calling my name.

I am sorry I didn't think to get a picture but stole this one off of the net.



Yep a sweet sounding Sony am fm cd player for $15.00

It mounts under the cabinets taking up little if any room. It will be a great addition to the caboose.

[eaglesdare]

[GPW]

BH, you’re getting all the Good deals !!!

[bobhenry]

BH, you’re getting all the Good deals !!!

You don't know the 1/2 of it........

My buddy Bubba called late saturday night and gave me a list of goodies he was givin' away out of a popup he was gutting to make a motorcycle hauler trailer.

In the list was the 50 foot #8 Gage S.O. cord that I need for the caboose. The top lifting mechanism may be a sorce of parts for the in cupalo storage bed. A 3 burner cooktop, furnace, converter with battery maintainer,cabinets, and other items I have forgotten. I figure the items I don't need I can share with the other members that I camp with for their builds and remodels.

I love free !

[bobhenry]

Saturday was busy shopping and such but I just couldn't resist a few yard sale signs and I tripped over 350 feet of extention cords. A couple were 10gage heavy duty ones. Here is the 12 volt wiring for the caboose build

Oh by the way total cost $4.00 and they threw in the crate



Oh and here are some pics of my free popup salvage furnace and the bed lifting sidewinder winch.

[KCStudly]

Score!

[Wimperdink]

30lb propane tank, thrift store pot, metal cabinet nob, and 2.5" exhaust pipe. Total cost under $20. My next will be an over under like the old 55 gallon drum style but using 20 or 30 lb tanks.

[MikeyLikesIt]

Bob,

I need to follow you around for a week.... My "treasure" hunting skills are horrible.

[Wimperdink]

For now its done, until I decide to put a chimney in the garage.

[bobhenry]

nice little stove

Right after my first divorce I went and lived with a buddy in a big old rambling farm house. We where both scratching for a living and heating that monster was expensive. Luckily I was working in Industrial maintainance and had assess to all kinds of plumbing junk and welders and power hacksaws and loads and loads of other toys so I made " Miss Piggy".



I dragged in a 15 ?? and a 20?? gallon water heater and added 2" pipe feet and a 2 1/2 coupling for her nose ( dampered intake air ) and in her back inserted two 4" pipes for heat tubes to the second stage combustion chamber then out the stack. This thing was truely remarkable 2 minutes after ligthing the fire the top tank was hot hot hot and the fire tank was still hugable. The off gasses were being driven off in the fire chamber and thanks to some poor welds, a few intake leaks at the 4" tubes added oxygen where shown and the gasses were now yellow and blue as your gas stove flame. With a stack damper and a nose intake damper the stove was very controlable and could be shut down almost at will. So in short don't dismiss a secondary air intake in the stack gasses this will make a really clean burning and very effecient heat stove.

[Wimperdink]

I was planning one of these for build two. I wanted a cooking surface on this one, the next one should have the extra barrel for radiating heat. I can see the value of more oxygen for burning the exhaust gasses. I was going to use two 20 lb tanks for that one. I only have a 1 car garage to heat.

[Wobbly Wheels]

Hit a few garage sales yesterday but, as usual, most people overpriced their junk...
On Friday, though, I had a 15" Lodge cast iron skillet with lid given to me. I was helping a guy clean out his garage and it was in there. It had never been used, never been seasoned.
The little bit of surface rust came off with some oil, some steel wool, and some elbow grease. Then I cleaned it, oiled it, and seasoned it. This is the 'after' picture...after I made breakfast in it:


Among other things, I think it will make a great pizza/cornbread oven for the campfire...
The lid is flat enough that I should be able to load it up with coals, even though it doesn't have the lip that DO lids have for that.
Man, I'm looking forward to the first batch of bannock to come out of it !