Jonathan Shively
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Warning, this will be picture heavy. Have two old tailgates, one a green Dodge Ram tailgate off of one of Fina's (CJ's mom) old pickups and a white Chevrolet tailgate off of a truck my mom and dad rolled over 6 times when they got hit in the driver's door from a car that ran a stop sign. Anyway, wood was from trusses and lumber I got from a house building company (TollBrothers, Inc) that went out of business. I knew the truck driver that was supposed to haul the lumber to the landfill, he hauled all the spec trusses and wall patterns to my house. Been scavenging and burning in my outside wood boiler for two years now. In the entire project, only 4 - 3/8 X 8" carriage bolts, 4 flat washers and 8 nuts were purchased. Even reused screws I took from the wall patterns. Paint was left over from his woods project from last year. Here goes the pictures:
CJ figuring out how the tailgates should meet together.
CJ washing the tailgates we had laying around the farm.
When the girls were little and we had a lot of ponies with different diets, we had mousetraps on each stall so they would feed each pony correctly. Well the fan kept blowing our "detailed" plans around so we put it on a converted mousetrap to hold it in place.
Did not get any cutting and assembly pictures as we were busy. Here he is sanding the front brace.
CJ figuring out how the tailgates should meet together.
CJ washing the tailgates we had laying around the farm.
When the girls were little and we had a lot of ponies with different diets, we had mousetraps on each stall so they would feed each pony correctly. Well the fan kept blowing our "detailed" plans around so we put it on a converted mousetrap to hold it in place.
Did not get any cutting and assembly pictures as we were busy. Here he is sanding the front brace.