John Deere Gator 6X4

Hi, I also picked up this Gator from the University of Missouri agroforestry Dept and have had a ton of fun restoring it. Me & "Jack" took it out to the desert and put it through it's paces and what a ball. This monster will climb a tree if you want. It's a real work horse.

Honda CR500 for sale too!

This CR500 had been neglected and abused so I disassembled most of it and replaced the wheel bearings and brakes, chain guides and rollers and a new O-Ring chain, cleaned out the gas tank & carb then lots of elbow grease, soap and water

Howdy, Here's my latest projects- Restoring a classic 1985 Honda CR500 one of the fastest production motocross bikes available at the time, and man is it!

1967 Airstream Ambassador remodel

Here are some pictures of when I cut out the original aluminum window frames for curved glass, and installed new straight frames for flat tempered glass.

This is a carbide router bit used to cut out the original curved window frames

Now the frames are clean and flat ready for the new template

I had to completely gut the interior due to dry-rot

New window with tempered flat glass and weather seal.

You can see the new frame for flat glass.

New window of flat tempered glass with new Stainless Steel clips.

Here I'm drying some cedar fencing I recycled milling it into tongue & groove flooring. 

Here's a picture of a finished window. 

This is the finished Airstream & before horse trailer that had been rolled

Here's me in the Airstream after I finished the stone work and stove.

I rescued this old horse trailer from the dump. It had been rolled and was buried on a farm for over 30 years, so of course I drug it home!

This how it looks after a long weekend. I also added a little tailgate that has hidden ramps that extend out for loading Motocycles or ATV's or anything you want. I painted it to match my 100 year anniversary H-D Road King.

This is the inside of the 67' Airstream.

The Airstream is solar powered and completely self sustained so no need to plug it in anywhere. The stove is a "coach stove" from the mid 1800 from the caboose of a train. I took a year searching for it and it works perfectly! The desk pulls out and converts to a full size bed and you can see I rescued a crashed shopping cart for the wood crib and 40's art deco lights that have all been converted to LED & low voltage compact fluorescents. I made the cabinets from maple and butcher block white oak that was a work bench. The sink is a recycled bar sink and fixtures from Stardust recycling. I installed a full size shower pan (I'm a big man) and made the shower rod by heating and bending PVC. The cook stove is portable and I put gas cocks on both sides so I can set up a kitchen out doors in nice weather on either side and the refrigerator is low or high voltage and doubles as a solar deep freezer.

Recycling

Hi, I'm Jeff and welcome to my world!
I really like to create things from something other than they were originally. everything can be improved, at least that's my thought. Everything we use in our lives has to fit certain parameters relating to cost and efficiency for manufacturing, So with the mind set cheaper, faster and profit seems to be the only criteria and as a result of that we seem to live in a disposable society. Inevitably we end up with a lot of waste, one of my arch enemies. The other is ignorance. I personally think that people that waste have never had to do without, or they have more dollars than sense.  What do you think?

contact - jeffgentle@gmail.com