Author: Charley

It’s in the shop.  Where to start….

Well, first I needed to make some space.  The move came up rather quickly.  So all other projects and various stuff got shoved in corners or wherever.  This led to a couple weeks of shop re-organizing along with unloading a bunch of unused “things” on The List of Craig.  Gotta have some elbow room here. Continue reading “Okay, now what?”

Challenge:  How do you move a nearly four ton piece of equipment sitting on dirt in a back yard to a shop 300 miles away? A logical idea is to get an even bigger piece of equipment to lift the engine up and set it on my trailer.  That’s how it got there in the first place. Seems reasonable. Who wouldn’t want to watch a crane lift a big hunk of iron and skillfully set it on a trailer. But I had a couple of issues with that approach. Continue reading “Step 1: Getting it to my shop”

It would have been nice if this blog had been started in October when I actually purchased the engine and began restoration.  I’ve been taking many pictures and sending them along on demand.  I was also considering logging hours and tasks.  But I hadn’t considered a web site or blog.  This was Skylar’s idea.  And now it makes sense.  After doing some research I decided to use WordPress on a hosted platform.  So far, so good. I’m going to get this site published about 24 hours after starting.  We will see how it evolves.

I will add some retroactive posts soon and get caught up to real time.

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