PEP Badge: Oddball

This is an oddball on how to lift heavy items in and out of a pickup.

...a friend gave me this idea so I cant take credit, but I do use this trick now!

Its as simple as a pallet ramp ...1 pallet, then 2, then 3, then 4 stacked.   Then you can manuvere from there to the bed of truck.   I can get by with just 6 pallets in a pinch, buts its all easier if you have about 10.

Too fertilize my garden this year, i hauled in 13 barrels of lemon rinds, 12 bags of (leaves/grass/and hopefully viable pecans), and two truckloads of cedar mulch to dress up my working paths.

Not counting drive time, i have over 20 hrs invested in this project

I was asked to fix a cut off saw for a friend.  It needed a new starter rope and spool. Also the spring popped out of place and needed rewound and put where it belonged.

My alternator went out on my way to work one morning fortunately, I made it to work.  I tested alternator directly from the battery and it was not charging the way it’s supposed to. So I borrowed a guy‘s truck went and picked up a new alternator and attempted tempted to get it changed before the rain started.
First I unhooked the battery cable from the negative terminal. Then I removed the belt. I tried to remove the alternator without removing a bracket that was in front of it, but that didn’t work so I had to remove the bracket then unbolt the alternator.  Afterwards I unhooked the wires and installed the new alternator.

We are starting to raise rabbits and needed a hutch for our first Bun, Susan. The entire project (except the wire mesh) was built from materials already on hand. Most of the wood is heat treated pallet wood that took apart a few years ago. The rest was 2 x 4s that were left over from odd projects over the years. The hardware was also from my stash.

I built a 2' x 4' hutch with an insulated "house". The insulation sheets were from years ago when we did stained glass and traveled to art shows - it's repurposed. To prevent the Bun from eating the insulation I placed boards on the inside and outside of the walls of the house sandwiching it in between.

I started the project after my daughter left for work,  you should have seen the smile on her face when she got home!
Project took 9.5 hours total to build, another 1.5 hours to move and set up for its new occupant.