Scrap Removal Day |
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Today was our one week anniversary with the school bus and it was an exciting day for sure. Its amazing to see how much has already changed with the bus and how close we are to being done demolition.
This mornings demo project was to get access to the floor. This was done fairly simple as the aluminum trim and the screws holding it were quite rusty and easily pried up. Although easy, maybe not a good sign of whats going on below the floor. Each school bus holds a big surprise under its floor boards for converters and I'm a little worried our surprise won't be the good kind.
Using a chisel, hammer, and crowbar we pried loose the trim on the passenger side and the covering for the anti-freeze filled hosing leading to the heaters. In a couple places, the covering for the hoses needed screws undone or to be grinded off.
Using a chisel, hammer, and crowbar we pried loose the trim on the passenger side and the covering for the anti-freeze filled hosing leading to the heaters. In a couple places, the covering for the hoses needed screws undone or to be grinded off.
An example of the trim on the passenger side
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The tube covering and fiber glass section over the wheel well
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Although it wasn't the biggest work day on the bus necessarily it ended up being a long day. I wish I had photos from our adventure, but being with some old school manly men, talking shop, I didn't want to flash a camera around, mention the blog, and lose my inherited street cred… or should I say bush cred?
My uncle took our sheets of tin from the ceiling and we drove off to his friend Del's house to unload the seats, aluminum and smaller tin scraps. He deals in scrap metal and old vehicles. I really wish we had of visited him in the spring because he mentioned he had some old RVs on his property we were welcome to scavenge for parts. It ended up being an arctic trek through two and a half feet of snow out through his property to find the RVs. They had a lot of good looking stuff in them but after lugging out a propane tank (pulled by me on a string) and a generator (pulled by Phil on a large shovel), it was a shame to find out we weren't able to test anything out.
After walking there and back a few times through the snow we (Me, Dad, Uncle Wayne, and Phil) decided we didn't have the strength to try and carry a fridge, ovens, or furnace out of there. Plus the sun was setting and our adventure had taken 6 hours from load up to arrival back home.
I felt very lucky today to have such a great support system and inherited connections. We currently though are eyeing up similar trailer collectors whose trailers are closer to the road. haha.
My uncle took our sheets of tin from the ceiling and we drove off to his friend Del's house to unload the seats, aluminum and smaller tin scraps. He deals in scrap metal and old vehicles. I really wish we had of visited him in the spring because he mentioned he had some old RVs on his property we were welcome to scavenge for parts. It ended up being an arctic trek through two and a half feet of snow out through his property to find the RVs. They had a lot of good looking stuff in them but after lugging out a propane tank (pulled by me on a string) and a generator (pulled by Phil on a large shovel), it was a shame to find out we weren't able to test anything out.
After walking there and back a few times through the snow we (Me, Dad, Uncle Wayne, and Phil) decided we didn't have the strength to try and carry a fridge, ovens, or furnace out of there. Plus the sun was setting and our adventure had taken 6 hours from load up to arrival back home.
I felt very lucky today to have such a great support system and inherited connections. We currently though are eyeing up similar trailer collectors whose trailers are closer to the road. haha.
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