**** day with engine swap (novel, ramble warning)

blacksheep10 · Dec 11, 2007

So I have been out of a shop for 3 months now. my dad is doing and engine swap in his grain truck. a 78 chevy c60 with a big block for gawds sake. its not a fuggin semi you have to take the cab off of or anythign. So over a week ago I helped him set the new one in and bolted up the bellhousing/motor mounts and started the TC nuts. Okay, he can surely get it from here. no harvest, no major cattle work, not much else going on. yep, in just under 2 weeks he got the exhaust manifolds on, the PS pump half bolted on and the air pump on......and.....that's fawking IT

So, I take a ****ING day off work when I'm broke as balls to help him. drug him out of the house at 7 this morning, fed a couple bales of hay in the ice to a couple pastures and went for it when we got home. From 9 til 6:30 tonight I only let him stop for a lunch break and one at 3 for some whiskey to keep the knee and back pain down. it was pretty bad, tonight he couldn't walk back to the house from the pain, but the truck runs!

I'll have my shop back in no time. I call it my shop because he doesn't want me to build the shop/house I'm going to build. He thinks I should build a house first then a shop if I can afford it. I'll never be able to afford a 50x100 shop if I build a 150K house. Michelle is on board with teh shop/house, and we're a go. He's trying to talk me out of it last night (while a little tipsy mind you) when he says "why do you need a shop, you've got one out here that's yours any time" molaugh

I smirk and laugh some. He then realizes I have projects for customers on hold for 2 months and backpedals.....well, I've had it tied up for a little bit laughing laughing That's when I decided to take off work, do his **** for him and get the shop back. **** it, its over, done with and will be out tomorrow night when I get off work (yeah ****ing right)
So, I guess the moral of this rambling is, if you want to have a nice shop, build your own. the roof leaks like a seive on this one, not a cooll thing to have when its 32* and raining its ass off for a couple days.

bigsilly · Dec 11, 2007

Kelly I look forward to your ramblings on a daily basis. Keep up the good work. :popcorn:

6uldv8 · Dec 11, 2007

I too feel my day is now complete!

Bones · Dec 11, 2007

I have a love hate relationship with that shop. It's always below zero when I am there, or I am not planning to be there and I am in flipflops awaiting a tetnus shot before entering.

BamaTJ · Dec 11, 2007

The Silence of the Lambs shop! Nice ramble!

Bones · Dec 11, 2007

BamaTJ said:
The Silence of the Lambs shop! Nice ramble!

InDaShop · Dec 11, 2007

3 months, been closer to 4 hasn't it.

I feel for ya, and connect to your pain on every level.

My ramble is exactly the same except the shop my old man and I split isn't the north pole or have dungeon lighting. It does however get hotter than Africa during the summer, making it near useless from July-Sept.

Bones · Dec 11, 2007

And Wyatt's has a ton of COOL **** in it.

cash talks · Dec 12, 2007

I hear ya man. i have my dad in laws 40X50 with a lift that my green truck is in, my dads 30X50 with heat, A/C, and a lift it it, and my 30X50 building in Spring Hill with a lift, and cant own my own at my house to do a damn thing in till i get some **** sold. I understand, it sucks balls :drinkers: