Archive for January, 2008
Wednesday, January 30th, 2008
Off-road Camping Trailer
Well, it is about time to rebuild/resurrect my camp trailer design. I first built it about 5 years ago on the back of my M416A1 military trailer. It has a hot water heater, 20 gallon water tank, electric water pump and double sink.
I started by building a frame out of 1×1 thin wall [...]
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Monday, January 28th, 2008
Plumbing the Shop for Air
After being in my shop for 5 years (but only using a decent compressor for 3) I have finally plumbed the shop for air a organized all those loose hoses I kept tripping over. After much reading I decided to go with Type L copper pipe. From what I could tell it is [...]
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Sunday, January 6th, 2008
Sledding at Ahtanum Meadows
We headed over to Yakima again this weekend hoping to make it up to Treephones and some deep snow play. I guess we were just lucky last year when the road to the cabin was open all winter. Normally it is closed at the bottom, open only to snowmobiles. That was the [...]
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Friday, January 4th, 2008
300,000 miles
Well, it has happened. At 8:44 pm PDT January 3, 2008 my 1987 Toyota Land Cruiser turned 300,000 miles. While this isn’t the highest mileage vehicle out there, it is my first one to reach such a distance.
As irony would have it. It tripped the mark crossing the same bridge that we [...]
