Bought a rusty old rack, shortened and widened it to fit my old Toyota so I can carry some old used necky kayaks. Projects are fun.
nice. i picked up an old ladder rack from someone recently that I am intending to do this with. Going to widen it a few inches and lengthen it a few inches as well. I have it set in the back yard under some tarps and recently went to move it and found a mama possum and babies in it so im leaving it be until they ship off, then Ill mess w it.
pine trees giving east Tx vibes.
north of screwston in the most regressive county in texas
solidarity, comrade. im south of Corpus. not quite as bad as where you are but close enough. the whole state is just shades of the same shit IMO.
big pro tip: if you have a ladder rack on a truck and it’s making the WORST FUCKING WIND NOISE in your entire life, the solution is simple. You wrap some rope around the front bar like the bit you can see on the frontmost upright on my shitrack. Wide spaced loops. I went from “oh shit did I spend a hundo on a shitrack and a hundo on new steel to make the truck deafening above 50MPH?” to zero added noise just by wrapping that spare rope around the front horizontal. It breaks up vortex shedding, in the oilfield they call similar structures in subsea ‘strakes’.
Nice job, looks good from here. The rack on my truck is aluminum, which someone painted black, and then someone else painted silver to look like aluminum again, and I would be tempted to paint it black once more, but I’m truly too lazy.
There’s something pleasing about grinding down to metal for a weld or a ground and exposing numerous layers of drastically differently colored paint
Same thing in old houses, I dunno what’s harder on the lungs though lol
we’re all getting cancer, thanks paint!
