Fortuitous developments...

My neighbor just had concrete poured on his driveway this week, and so there's a nice paved apron that ends about ten feet from the tank. This is a huge help! We may see about that today. or do some thinking, anyway.

I want to get the oxy-acetylene torch out and working today too. We'll cut up some of that crosshatch plate for the running boards. I also need to get brackets for the lights, which means taking the lights to the store...

We were wondering how in the hell we were gonna work with this big tank up in the air, when Brendan (whose house we're building this beast behind) pointed out that he has a steel frame crane back behind his house. I need to get a chain hoist, and then we're in business!! Everything works so serendipitously with this project.

And now I'm off for parts.. what a gorgeous spring day.

Today's Update

We spent most of the day trying to figure out how to get the big tank out of my backyard. Promising ideas, but no winners yet.

We're going to put running boards on it, and Jason welded on the first piece of that. We'll knock that out next time (when he brings the oxy-acetylene torch.)

We got chain connection stuff (cool lookin') and some really cool black spray-paint that's less a paint and more of a bonding agent with the rust. It's wild -- bonds with rusty and unrusty steel equally, and turns them flat black.

Got a few pictures but will upload more later.

Rolling...

Video of the rolling trailer.

Pics of the Trailer