As of lately there's been a more or less general cleanup vibe going on around here with us doing things that revolve around getting more order to the compound by getting rid of more stuff and putting things in their place as well as setting things aside that can go out for scrap. Some things are slated to be sold on ebay or other online outlets as well. But what does this have to do with firewood storage? Or gravel in the garden or the 51 Chevy? Well if you remember we took some time recently to clean up an area where I had some old pallets stored, breaking many pallets up for firewood to burn up some stumps. Some of the pallets were still in good shape and would be perfect to expand the firewood staging area to provide more storage when I produce more firewood from the Fallen Trees in the future. This is some general cleanup here because of clearing the old pallet storage area as well as setting up the firewood storage area. After getting some gravel I laid some rock down in this area so I could lay down the four pallets I set aside. This allowed me to lay the pallets down so the whole job is completed versus just having pallets stacked against the fence doing nothing. A place for everything and everything in its place. Now for the garden. With the batch of gravel I had in the truck I still had to spread gravel around the five drum planters I had around the north side of the Dog Kennel Greenhouse. After putting a section of tarp down to put the drums on, I had to spread gravel over this area to cover the tarp and make things look nice. With the gravel spread and used up I cleared the truck to be ready for the next gravel load, which will continue to be spread in the garden to cover more ground to make these grounds look better and be more convenient to walk over since the ground tends to get mushy making for a pleasant feet soaking experience when moving through the garden. Making things more complete around here. Now another thing that needed to get done to further get ahead on some things was put two tires on the 51 Chevy. We managed to get a couple of truck rims from a friend that had the same bolt pattern but had a different hub spacing or offset so the third rim we had would not fit on the front hub as the rim interfered with the steering of the truck. So with that I had to put the truck on some ramps placed under the truck's frame rails to hold the truck up while I got some tires put on a couple of rims. We ended up using one of the LUV's spare rims and one of the original rims from the 51 Chevy since they were the same size. One of the 51's old rims was a size smaller. With tires on the rims the truck is now able to be rolled from its resting spot to wherever we need to put the truck to work on it in the future. I can also put the other spare rim in storage temporarily with the other spare rims we have in the scrapyard, if I don't just scrap the rim since it's rusty anyway. Either way, getting wheels on the truck puts the truck in the position where it can be moved if need be. As weird as it sounds, having these vehicles able to roll kind of shines a different light on the truck as it makes it appear more "complete". It really wouldn't take much to rebuild the brake system and even the suspension of this truck with reproduction stock parts for this year of vehicle then swap out the old power train with a run of the mill SBC V8 and auto transmission that can be typically had for relatively cheap since a lot of people are upgrading to LS power trains. Barring the cosmetics, it really wouldn't take much to put this truck back on the road even in a minimalist sense. But when we do things like this, it puts things into their final use places, rims, tires, etc, versus having these same items laying around the yard doing nothing but being in the way. There's still plenty of crap around the grounds that needs to be applied to their end uses so the stuff isn't just laying around. Again, a place for everything and everything in its place. Even with the ongoing projects, we will continue to try to beautify and organize the compound so this place will be a better place to work and bring more projects to completion.
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