just a little update on my shop I have got it all painted white these two
things here that's what I got my chicken feed in a scratch on the chromeless that
was five book city art sell for both of them but this is what it looks like it's
a little brighter in here and I've gone in up here I had some of that foam that
you put on your mattress and I took it all up in them cracks
and I've done the same thing for the most part here where the really big
cracks are I do have some caulking that I plan on filling them holds up but I'll
tell you what what a difference what a difference I mean it's it's get so long
here with a stove as choked down as I can get it it gets so warm in here now I
have to open the door so this leads me to my next project on the other side of
this wall is my my other shop that get most of the time see me in but in order
to heat that shop I have to use the electric heaters and boiler them things
using juice so what I'm going to do in this upper corner over here I'm going to
cut a hole into my other shop in this lower corner over here I'm going to cut
a hole as close to the floor as I can get as a return on that hole down there
I'm going to take this fan and blow some of this heat over into the other shop
and maybe I could get it warm enough where I can work in there and my paint
will freeze and and it'll make both of these shops usable most of the time when
I do a lot of welding I do it out here because it's concrete floor and that's a
wood you know wood bench with wood floors in there and my other little
project coming up is this here I've been wanting to put a CB antenna on my pickup
truck mostly because I'm a redneck and it's the law
and these spring things here they're $55 is the cheapest I could find one and I
just can't spare fifty five bucks for something you know that's not absolutely
necessary but I found a guy on Craigslist like the day after I decided
I was going to put a CB in there and check the price of these things the
next day a guy on Craigslist have this and an Avanti six foot fiberglass
antenna and I called them to see how much he wanted for it and he said 35
bucks which is not bad for the justice part here would have been worth 35 bucks
it's brand-new never been mounted but the amani antenna is he had the price
tag on it it's still in this little cardboard tube and it said 146 bucks on
it well I didn't have that kind of money I
mean I you know I do but I just can't spare money for things that are not
necessities right now but what I did have was a frequency counter for an old
radio I had that had extra channels in it but you didn't never know what
channel you were on because it didn't have a frequency counter so it got rid
of that radio years ago and now I have a ranger 2950 with a frequency counter in
Adana 10 K hop and military channels oh let's cut it all so I asked him if he
needed a frequency counter and he said he sure did so I bought this old
frequency counter over there and we swapped out even so I may get to this
today I'm not gonna use this antenna I have a quarter wave stainless whip that
I'm gonna put in here I just like it it bends over real easy
this is a solid antenna the the stainless whip if I hit something it'll
Bend back and anyway yeah this guy got it and he's gonna put it on his camper
and realize it was way too tall and he decided to go another route so that's a
project for today and the the holes in the walls I gotta get inside my shop
make sure I can actually put the holes where I want to so I'm gonna get right
after that and see how quickly it warms up in the other shop
I want to put my hole into the other shop as high up and as close to this end
as I can and I'm not sure where it will end up in the other room so I popped a
hole through this wall and through the wall of the other shop and I'm gonna go
see where it comes out over there all
right there it is that's a 16 17 inches from a
ceiling I really wanted it higher but that's the best I can do right there so
I think that'll work I think that will give me a I believe
there's a stud right at the edge of this plywood here so I think I can give me
about a 8 inch by oh I don't know 16 inch hole I'll have to do a standard
size that way I can find a great to fit over it I think I'm gonna go through I
want to find the stud and I'm gonna cut through this side over to the other room
that way this is the more critical side here already there's the one the lower
one now I'm going to go over to that corner climb up on my special ladder
chair and cut that one over there you know what before before I do that I'm
gonna get a thermometer and stick it in the other shop over there and let it
acclimate to that temperature over there and then when I open this up over here
I'll somehow mount that fan up there turned it on and give it about 30 40
minutes and see what the temperature change is all right according to this
thermometer it is 40 39 40 which is about right now I'm gonna go on the
other side cut that hole put a fan up and about an hour or so
about a cup of coffee maybe two and I'll come back out here and see how much it's
warmed up in here it is so warm over there that it's just uncomfortably hot
so that ought to really make a difference and I'm glad because I I
really prefer working over here because all my you know most of my tools are
over here I do have a a smattering of tools over there but all my good stuffs
in this shop hey guys don't y'all ever quit geez okay just the
short amount of time it took for me to cut the hole
build a little shelf for that fan to sit on and just took me up you know five
minutes it's really crappy a little thing I just threw together with the the
wood I cut out of that hole and just that amount of time I've gained oh right
at two degrees and I hold my hand up and you would not believe the warm air it is
gonna be it's gonna be nice in here I'm so glad that I thought of that and and
what made me think about it was how hot it got oh I'm sweating it's that hot
over there that I'm sweating just from a little bit of work I've done in there
all right I'm gonna come I'm gonna drink a cup of coffee and come back out here
and check this
while an immediate difference all right this is the the return the air going
into the shop with a wood stove and tell you what just walking in here it's it's
warming up now or I could work comfortably huh what is this
55 54 yeah about 54 degrees and I still feel very warm air coming in here well
that's great I just figured out a way to heat this shopped cheaply and I think
it's an old video but maybe some of my new subscribers don't know I know a
place to get wood I'll show you my wood while I'm talking about it for 20 bucks
a cord and you know some people may not believe that so I'm gonna show you and
then tell you where I get it and what these are is it's a factory that makes a
railroad ties and they make them on oak white oak red oak and this is what I got
left now this pile before the winter started this pile was right here where
the dolly is and so I've used almost a cord of wood and this short amount of
time I would say 3/4 of a cord because us I'd I have reached act this I've made
that down there a little higher and so I would say half to 3/4 of a quart of wood
just in this short amount of time anyway what these are is the ends that they
they make the railroad tie they run it through the mill and make the tie and
then they cut it to length and these are the ends that they cut off so they're
all oak there's no bark and they stack up nice and easy and no
these are not treated with creosote they don't even have Chris oat on this
railroad tie factory site said they put them on a trailer and they truck them to
another destination to be treated with creosote so what was I saying anyway
yeah 20 bucks the cord is all on pans so that's a gonna be a cheap way to heat
the shop let me walk in here and see if I can see a difference in and how much
heat is in here because it was actually fairly uncomfortable you guys coming in
yeah this is much better much better all right I'm really happy I did that so
yeah so I'm heating all I'll have to do the math I can't I can't do math in my
head this is 16 by 24 and that is 24 by 24 so if you and I I don't have enough
fingers okay I'm gonna put this video up and then I'm gonna set a spell I'll
answer some email what some videos it's Sunday you know I don't want to get too
busy and then I think I'm a it's supposed to be like 3 o'clock this
afternoon is supposed to get up to 50 and I just might get out there and back
my son or my son my truck around into the Sun and mount this and then go
through my Faraday cages and dig out with a CB that I want to put in the
pickup truck that's another project all right I'm gonna put this up and I hope
you all had a great weekend talk to you later