little while back, mr t did some repair work...
I did a repair on my broken lawn spreader. you wouldn't believe it if you saw it but it works...hahaha. It took about two hours. Maybe I should have Nathan take a photo. Use five makeshift steel brackets and various sizes of nuts and bolts and washers. used a drill to make bolt holes.
I had run into it with the car, pulling into the garage one dark January night. Broke a corner piece off of the container part and cracked another section on the same side.
This reminds of the kind of repair my dad would do on something if he thought he could get away with with it. Often he would fix stuff in the garage or Grandma's garage at old 27. Us kids would hang around and watch, help, go play and come back some more to watch. Or putting some new thing together, like one time it was the new swing set up at grandmas. I think Paul and Vane put that together for something different to do other than golf one Saturday in 1963. Then they went golfing the next day on Sunday. Of course this may have involved beer too. You can't concentrate or focus on a serious home improvement project like that without the help of beer.
Once in while when I do these things I am reminded of our dads and the handyman stuff they would do - tune a lawn mower or get it started, build some tool rack in the garage, pour some cement for a patio or a repair, concoct some gadget for us to ride our bikes over. and to think they learned all this from their fathers, and on and on. When I was using the circular saw last year and smelled the saw dust, that old memory gate flooded open and I remembered dad using his many times on certain things - he built a homemade ping pong table, painted it green and put white decal lines on it. He had built the upper story with FLoyd Allen on our old house on Indiana Street around 1956-57. Dad also built the entrance to our dirt basement on Indiana Street - he laid bunch of cement blocks and a plywood roof over it with tar roll paper surface. This was after he had dug out the basement from a crawl space. We had an oil furnace then, back when oil was cheap. He added a patio, using patio blocks, and added a cement surface in front of the basement entrance. He added tool shelves hung from the basement ceiling rafters along the side as you went down the ramp into the basement (also known as "beer shelves" - hahahahaha).
At the Ridgefield house he built the basement family room in 1966 (I helped a little and laid down tile (with mother's help) on the floor. Then in the 70's he redid the wooden panels for the same family partitions and changed and added partitions in the basement. I am sure I have forgotten half the stuff he did. In 1986, he replaced the worn out wood panels in the entrance and the east wall of the living room. when we sold the house I had an in law paint those white because they were out of style. They looked better that way. In 1977, dad and I and his friend built a tool shed (I was 21), a deck, and he and friend did the cement patio at Ridgefield Rd. I remember Vane built his tool shed and an addition to his house in Oscoda. Paul helped with some siding shingles one memorial day weekend, probably , probably 1973..."
and how did that repair work out? got this ,this a.m....
"Treated the front and side lawns with Weed and Feed this morning, then tilled the rest of the garden. It went from muggy 78 degrees to chilly 40s overnight. that allowed my to finish the garden tilling with "no sweat." i have not collapsed yet like i thought."
update from mr t...
Repair of the lawn spreader went fine. only added this: clear postage package tape to plug the cracks inside of the spreader. No leaks.
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