{"id":71,"date":"2015-02-24T03:30:23","date_gmt":"2015-02-24T03:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peacegrove.ca\/?p=71"},"modified":"2019-09-14T19:52:36","modified_gmt":"2019-09-14T19:52:36","slug":"long-road-ahead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rodbinder.com\/1955\/2015\/02\/24\/long-road-ahead\/","title":{"rendered":"Long Road Ahead"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Today I had the first constructive day I have had since the accident. I added one window to my shop to give it a little light.<\/p>\n

Tomorrow if all goes well I will add a second one. Adding a window normally would have taken me an hour to do.<\/p>\n

It took me all day. I had to take numerous breaks to accommodate the injuries I sustained in the accident and the subsequent spinal surgery. It was slow and painful but the end of the day there was light coming into the shop.<\/p>\n

I know there is colder weather coming and having the shop doors wide open for the big clean up wasn’t an option. I grabbed the chainsaw \u00a0and some other tools and a window I had hoarded away for special occasions.<\/p>\n

Starting the chainsaw was a painful reminder that I just had surgery boxing day, and was not healed, and standing upright for more than ten minutes was still somewhere up ahead on the road to recovery.<\/p>\n

I haven’t done any building in over three years, since my I asked my wife to leave the house. Really I haven’t done much of anything. This old truck has become more than just a recuperation project, but a reason to get better physically and mentally. Thank God for Louis Chevrolet and General Motors and the 1955 1st Series Chevy truck sitting on a GMC Yukon Frame.<\/p>\n

I don’t know where the money will come from to do the work or for the extra tools, but I have a feeling they will show up as I need them. For now, I have an extra window and my shop is getting cleaner. Soon the snow will be gone and I can start working on the truck.<\/p>\n

First job is get the cab off the frame and start sand blasting. Oh yeah I need a compressor and a sandblaster.<\/p>\n

I have been spending time on Youtube learning how to build a gas powered compressor. I think I know where there is a tank. I have an old compressor body under my house I used to use for aerating my pond.<\/p>\n

I don’t have electricity, \u00a0I have generators and some solar power. I do have some basic bodywork tools but no blaster yet. “Later on I did get a blaster and a gas powered compressor.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

It was going to get interesting either way. Can you be off the grid and restore an old truck.<\/p>\n

I will let you as I write in this blog.<\/p>\n