Modern Farm Truck

[Stoffregen Motorsports]

Thanks guys.

Have the tail lights and the pump coming, going to pick up steel tomorrow for the deck (they don't deliver way out here...). We decided on 1/8" diamond plate steel. I know, this thing aint gonna be light, but strength trumps weight in this instance.

 

[screwball48]

You need to install rain gutters all around it to catch the drool off lookie loo's.

 

[mbrewer]

That is beautiful.

 

[Stoffregen Motorsports]

Updates soon. Been working on the bed and it's coming out just the way I wanted it. I hope the customer agrees.

 

[thethePete]

^ At this point, I have a hard time believing anyone would question your judgement on a build. This thing is turning out amazing. Top notch work!

 

[Stoffregen Motorsports]

Thanks! I'll have to remind my customers that only I am allowed to question my judgement.

I used to work at Robert Mondavi Winery as a sous chef and we used to joke that the job would be the best if we didn't have customers. Meaning, if we were left to our own devices and allowed to exercise our creativity without the confines of the customer's expectations, only imagine the kind of things that would happen.

Not that I don't appreciate customers. I love them in fact. They give me the opportunity to try out new things on various types of vehicles. I couldn't afford to do it without them. Thanks customers!

 

[forty2]

I used to work at Robert Mondavi Winery as a sous chef and we used to joke that the job would be the best if we didn't have customers. Meaning, if we were left to our own devices and allowed to exercise our creativity without the confines of the customer's expectations, only imagine the kind of things that would happen.

I used to run construction projects, mostly high six to seven figure single family, both remodel and new build. Most clients were actually pretty stellar, but the absolute best was a guy who spent his year split between China, France, and Redmond, WA with only about two months of the year in Redmond. I met him in person twice before we started, in the second meeting he basically said that he had full faith us as the contractor and in the architect's design and it was up to us to work out anything that came up during the process. He didn't want to hear from us (or the architect) at all in the ten months he was out of town and he wanted the house complete done upon return. It stands alone as the only project I've ever done that stuck to the original timetable and budget. To contrast, the other main project I had going around the same time started at $400k over 6 months and ended at $1.3m over 16 months.

Anyway, back to you. I love this build, looking forward to seeing the rest of it.

 

[thethePete]

Thanks! I'll have to remind my customers that only I am allowed to question my judgement.

I used to work at Robert Mondavi Winery as a sous chef and we used to joke that the job would be the best if we didn't have customers. Meaning, if we were left to our own devices and allowed to exercise our creativity without the confines of the customer's expectations, only imagine the kind of things that would happen.

Not that I don't appreciate customers. I love them in fact. They give me the opportunity to try out new things on various types of vehicles. I couldn't afford to do it without them. Thanks customers!

Nailed it.

 

[Stoffregen Motorsports]

I used to run construction projects, mostly high six to seven figure single family, both remodel and new build. Most clients were actually pretty stellar, but the absolute best was a guy who spent his year split between China, France, and Redmond, WA with only about two months of the year in Redmond. I met him in person twice before we started, in the second meeting he basically said that he had full faith us as the contractor and in the architect's design and it was up to us to work out anything that came up during the process. He didn't want to hear from us (or the architect) at all in the ten months he was out of town and he wanted the house complete done upon return. It stands alone as the only project I've ever done that stuck to the original timetable and budget. To contrast, the other main project I had going around the same time started at $400k over 6 months and ended at $1.3m over 16 months.

Anyway, back to you. I love this build, looking forward to seeing the rest of it.

That's a great story with a good moral to it. I'm going to use that one sometime if you don't mind. It's true that the best judge is one's self and when you start questioning the original plan, all bets are off. Oh, and I'll call you when it's done!

 

[forty2]

That's a great story with a good moral to it. I'm going to use that one sometime if you don't mind. It's true that the best judge is one's self and when you start questioning the original plan, all bets are off. Oh, and I'll call you when it's done!

Use away. The crazy thing looking back was that I was really sweating the whole absent client thing for the first half of the project but things really fell into place. My boss, the owner of the construction company, was probably the sharpest guy I've ever worked for and put together a really solid budget with very good estimates throughout. Also the architect, whom I'd never worked with before, was extremely detail oriented in both plan and specifications, I think I wrote maybe five RFI/RFCs (10x that would still be a low number for a typical $500k remodel) during that whole project. Without those two doing things the way they did it could have gone a completely different way.

 

[Stoffregen Motorsports]

The flatbed is almost done, but we had to make some changes. As mentioned in the title, this is going to be a working farm truck. There is going to be a 100 gallon tank to hold fertilizer in the front of the bed and to pump that fertilizer, there needs to be a gas powered pump underneath the tank. Underneath the bed...yeah, I know.

Here are some updated pics of the bed. You can see the farm truck style rear of the bed (no frills), and the fuel filler that had to be fabbed up. Also, I'll show the outside of the box thinking that we needed to embrace to get the pump located.

 

[Stoffregen Motorsports]

Pump and bed mods.

Before



After



Notched the frame and put a hole in it to provide a space for the pump inlet. This is as low as I was willing to go for the pump assembly. As it is, there's only going to be about 14" of ground clearance under the pump.

 

[big a]

That is some real nice fab work! And, looks like it's going to be very practical and useful!

-Andy

 

[Stoffregen Motorsports]

Very useful indeed.

 

[Stoffregen Motorsports]

The bed is complete...unless the customer wants to add or change anything...!

Here are some pics.

Pump platform:





Daylight!!!