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Those are awesome, quite a jackpot indeed. Leads me to a question (that's probably been asked/answered before). Are the rest of you printing your manuals to keep in your shops, vehicles or both? I love the idea of printed material but I currently use a tablet with pdfs so I have all my manuals...
Several years ago I won sealed 55 gallon barrels of coolant, oil and atf at a construction site auction. Been using them in my tractors, gen sets, and vehicles ever since. My overthinking involves finding a clean enough jug to pump into, and not using the oil jugs for coolant.
Looking like some really fine work. It's even better when you can re-purpose materials like an old ladder into something useful, putting your skills and creativity to use.
The corrosion from the pee is worse than the nesting material, that looks awful. I probably won't get to building a shelter until next year and I'm watching for ideas.
Well, you motivated me to get out and look more closely at one of my shelters (it's an S-280 B/G), so thanks for that. I had seen faded lettering on the side (Fort Huachuca, Ariz) but now I see lettering above that reads USSTRATCOM.
One of my recent trailer purchases had a stray 25 foot section of 3 phase cable tossed on the deck and I'm trying to identify it before putting it to use or selling it.
I cleaned it and found these specs...
CO - 04HOF(4/4)1340 MIL - C - 3432D CAROL CABLE CO WEST
Did some research and came away...