Post #620745 by Bay Park Buzzy on Thu, Jan 12, 2012 9:55 PM

On 2012-01-04 22:45, MadDogMike wrote:
Do you have any sunsets to show us? I didn't notice a shop-vac in with the new tools :D

I haven't moved the shop vac out there yet...or the carpet. How about an old sunrise I never posted:

I forgot about one past project when i posted the other day. I redid the interior of another vintage trailer. It's all tapa-ed out. here's the fridge and closet:

Dining area:

sleeping area:

Kitchen:

Here's the prop and engine on the plane:

Crazy Kelly Osbourne had an Explorer engine in his yard that he donated and welded the prop mount on it:

Here's the wing of the plane made to funtion as a bartop and seating area:

On 2012-01-05 09:26, bigbrotiki wrote:
It's good to see some of the nuts & bolts work, too - not just that glamorous artsy stuff. :)

More nuts and bolts work...

I "lost" my old carving stand somwhere on the road, so I had to make a new one:

It looks funny with no sticker on it. :(

And I cut a piece off of an old Benzart pole to make it more shipping friendly:

From the Desert Fun and Games department...

We're fixing the lake here, and to do that, we had to get rid of all the water. We didn;t want to waste it, so we decided to make a mud bog track to drive cars through. Local legend Crazy Kelly-O was first to try it, and he didn't quite make it all the way through:

Two quotes from Crazy Kelly-O right after landing here: "I sunk like a rock!" and "I'm going to be here all night..."

"No problem" he says, "my girlfriend has a 4WD and she'll come tow me out..."

Ooops!

So then comes Victor with a truck and trailer with a tractor on it to the rescue, blazing right off the road into the desert sand. Right after I asked Kelly-O, "Hey, didn't Victor get stuck the last time he drove his truck with a trailer through there?", Victor got stuck there.

I went and got the Official Mojave Oasis 4wd jeep and came back and pulled Victor out. Then I went and pulled Kelly-O's girlfriend out. While I was towing her out, Victor got his truck stuck again. I went and towed him out again and parked the jeep back at Mojave Oasis.

We never bothered to shut off the pump, so Kelly-O's Bronco was pretty deep by now. He hit a deser "tree" trying to get out and had to cut it off the axle:

Meanwhile, Victor got the tractor there and made Kelly an exit road:

Victor carves Kelly-O's front end out:

Kelly finally got free and wanted to try a run at it again, but we told him if he got stuck, we wouldn;t help him out again. He left, and Victor worked on a little "habitat restoration" until the tractor engine seized:

We called local legend Crazy Kelly-O to come and tow the tractor out:

Kelly struggles to free the tractor:

Until he gets stuck again:

He digs again while I go and get the Official Mojave Oasis Jeep 4wd and tow him out:

I get him out, he gets Victor out, and we all ride off, or are towed off, into the sunset:

Some fun it was!

And finally, Mojave Ice Trees in full bloom:

The First Annual Tiki Ray Fishing Derby is under way here as well. I'll have pictures of that soon!
Buzzy Out!