Grizz's Redneck Express 1966 Chevy Short Fleetside RESTO-GO!

[Grizz1963]

Originally Posted by Braunschweiger

The Astro is not only beautiful, it can also work.
Great news about the convertible. Summer is coming.

Yes it works.

I use my car’s sympathetically

Getting the convertible sold is important.

I need the space.

[Grizz1963]

So.

Those bricks.

I fetched them in 3 and 1/2 trips.

Bringing about 190 or so at a time.

Uncle Peter is 86 and long since successfully retired from building houses.

But he spends at least four hours a day working on things. Either at the yard or at home. Currently he is working at repairing parts of one of the barns that had been damaged years ago by a machine hitting the corner of a wall. Also repointing the cement between the bricks. The wall spans two eras. Part is built using lime mortar and parts were done with cement mortar.

I love watching him work. The details in those bits of cement he is replacing. Vertical and horizontal are different.





I had to figure out where to store these bricks. Ultimately I decided outside Georges door made sense.
Even sense checking the way the gate opens so I could still get cars and diggers and a crusher and possibly a few other machines through there.
I moved a pile of 450mm paving stones to the kitchen door as well.
Hoarder central.



Wood store with two cement mixers.



So off to UncleBobs yard.

First load in the van.

And first and second loads unloaded at home.
Onto a plastic pallet. Mistake. Too late.
Thankfully I bought three pallet or pump trucks for either £5.00 or £15.00 each years ago. Gave two away and kept one.

What a multi purpose tool this is to have in the garage and on site.







Last load was smaller but included 23 dark clay bricks.





And finally all of the bricks packed and sorted.

I took 2/3 and 1/2 bricks as well.

Total is about 623 bricks (23 clays weigh more)

Approximately 1.7 ton at 2.7 kg per brick.






So the question of course is WHY?

Well, the BBQ that I built 13 years ago and abused over the years, including a massive fire in it mid winter a few years ago has left it significantly damaged.

So it’s time to destroy it and start a rebuild.

Biggest problem is actually that it needs to dovetail into a bigger job that I have wanted to get done for 14 years.

What we have right now.







As always, the invitation is open to anyone interested in helping me get it done.

I could break it down and save the rubble before the next big job, but I am waiting for a price on some 3mm mild steel plate.

I want to build a steel BBQ inner to then sheath in insulation and brickwork.

Something like this.



So there you go.

Massive update.

And invitation.

Peugeot 206 CC next.

[Grizz1963]

Here is a complete build thread of this BBQ


https://retrorides.proboards.com/thr...ld-kent?page=1


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