Escape Bird Cage - Front Storage Box

[cpaharley2008]

The original escape box had a lid with recess middle portion that always held water. Later Reace flipped the lid, thereby eliminating the recess but now there is a rise in the middle portion that eliminates any standing water.

[Iowa Dave]

How’s the cutting board top coming?
Though I wanted to try them I passed on some corned beef brats this a morning at the store. Gas was 2.03 a gallon this AM so I filled up and figured I was good for gas for the rest of the week.
Iowa Dave

[cpaharley2008]

Dang, that is cheap, it is about .$50/g higher here.

[HABBERDABBER]

Dave

I've got some taco brats in the freezer, awaiting barbie time, coming soon. Had Hormel corned beef hash this AM. My corned beef limit is met.



Well, Dave, you're all tanked up and full of gas. What else is new?


The attached image is why I am an "artiste", and not a mere craftsman. Thoer captured it at the New Glarus, WI brewery last week. We had a toast in your memory.

[Iowa Dave]

I only visited the artist side of life for a few brief seconds a few times in my life. Notably when cutting the spermatic cord off a ham face on a swinging half hog moving by at the rate of 642 animals per hour (1284 halves) and making 4 or 5 strokes on each ham, not nicking the product with a 10 inch butcher knife after having tuned my body with a couple water glasses of peppermint schnapps spiked with black velvet in the parking lot just before we “hit the gate” as they called it. Amalgamated meat cutters and Butcher Workmen of the World is what the union decal on my hard hat read. But you sir are truly an artist. I was only a butcher workman to the world according to Carl Sandberg. But like Chicago, I had big shoulders.
Iowa Dave

[HABBERDABBER]

I guess I'm a bit of what they call a wood butcher.

[thoer]

Originally Posted by HABBERDABBER

Dave

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The attached image is why I am an "artiste", and not a mere craftsman. Thoer captured it at the New Glarus, WI brewery last week. We had a toast in your memory.

And what a brewery it is. I highly recommend a stop there for anybody who loves beer and stainless steel. I still can't believe how much they have spent on architectural buildings and beer garden. But if you do visit and run into Tom- if he tries to take you to a microbrewery named after a cephalopod run like hell.

[HABBERDABBER]

I pulled my rig out of storage the other day and started tinkering on things. I got the "bird cage" front storage box mostly completed, and will permanently install tomorrow. My ciphering of dimensions were correct, but I'd installed a clamping catch midsection, which did not work out. Poor access with the propane tank cover, so I reinstalled 2 of the clamping catches on each side. Images may not match in pesky details, but you should get the picture. Batteries, hoses, electrical cords and all the other detritus details of trailering are expected to end up in this container. Long, arduous winter project, just like how winter can be. But both of those rascals are winding down.

[cpaharley2008]

Where are your batteries? they were in the box on my 2016 E19? There was a plywood base as well as wooden cover over the dual 6 ers.

[HABBERDABBER]

They will reside in this front box, mounted in their original plastic container boxes. Or so the plan is planned.

[mtnest]

Looking good, Tom!