Springfield Flyer.

[tauruck]

More pics. I really enjoyed this process.
It must have a lot to do with being relaxed from Thursday's
meeting.

[tauruck]

A few more pics.

Sorry I messed up on the sequence but you get the picture.

[tauruck]

Two more.

[tauruck]

The hold down is almost done and the chassis mountings are done.
I'll finish up today if all goes to plan.

[tauruck]

I have bunches of pics of progress but thieves stole the phone lines in our area.
No land line or PC right now.

I'm at Ian's place checking emails etc.

Should be back in a day or two.

[floydjer]

They STOLE THE PHONE LINES ??  Good grief....I get p*ssed at people that walk their dogs on my private street..............

[fordboy628]

but thieves stole the phone lines in our area.

Thank you emerging nations, for driving up the price of copper . . . . . .

Phone wires is one I haven't heard of before.

Here in the U.S., vacant, foreclosed homes and businesses, factories, schools and other buildings are being broken into and stripped of their wiring and plumbing for the copper.    Scrappers typically accept these items without verifying where they come from, or ownership . . . . .      It is a HUGE problem in cities like Detroit and New Orleans.

  
Fordboy

[Milwaukee Midget]

I remember when I first moved to Milwaukee a number of years ago.  I was working for Menards, and a customer came into the building materials department and bought sufficient vinyl siding to recover his house.

Seems his aluminum siding had walked away while he was on vacation.

Copper has been of particular note over the last five years with the number of boarded up foreclosures we've seen.  Usually the water department is the first municipal entity to get the red flag after 6 months of astonishingly high unpaid water bills, or if they're lucky, a clogged basement drain that backs up the water to the point that it starts coming out of the basement windows, and a neighbor calls. 

But to have stripped out utility poles - that shows a degree of work ethic I usually don't associate with thieves.

[Buickguy3]

  Here in Montana the BNSF Railroad is entirely wireless communications now and the thieves are rolling up all of the copper wire along the tracks and burning off the outer coating and selling the wire. Now all of the salvage places have been alerted to what is going on.
    Doug 

[floydjer]

Not to hi-jack Mike`s thread, but I have a friend ( yes Chris, Honest...One friend) who owns a scrap yard...he had a f`n loser show up with a trunk full of bronze cemetery markers...he barely made it off the property with his life.

[kiwi belly tank]

You can't sell copper around here without proof of ID. Thieves were cutting the ends of wiring on irrigation pivots, hooking it to the back of a truck & driving away with it.
  Sid.

[tauruck]

I don't want to get into details, but i was told 3 days to 3 months before my service provider will restore the connections.

TIA aka This is Africa...

I'll be back soon.

[kiwi belly tank]

At least you have somewhere to race!
  Sid.

[tauruck]

Hey Sid, I just saw that SW had been cancelled.

I feel for all you guys that spent a year getting ready only to have this happen.
This sucks big time and I'm sorry for you all.

The Subaru on this side is also ongoing.
I don't want to even get into it.

Working on the car as long as materials are available.

Waiting for another miracle bucks wise.


Guido's "FANTASTIC" son never paid me for the gates I built but something always turns up.

[SPARKY]

I know more and more tradesmen that require parts or 50% which is greater just to start--and a lot of we racers are getting ripped off.