Yesterday afternoon I drove by the shop only to find Ferry doing a great deal of work on the bed. first he found this incredible nice piece of equipment:
and then turned his attention to the sheet metal that had come away from the bed stake pockets. it had been repaired in the past..and I mean really the past, because when sawing and grinding we struck gold!!
ok ok, not real gold..but a kind of brass? I had no idea people used that to 'weld', but any way we got it removed so we could line up the side with the pockets again and then spotwelded them in place.
so that's a major hurdle out of our way, and to quote a popular dutch saying:
"Good tools, do half the work"
which is so true, because try this in just a day without a spot welder..