2009 at the Hammond Barn

[RHClarke]

It looks like the weather for the last weekend in September was going to be the shits. Rain and more rain. Reminded me of May-Mid August... Bob and Grant where busy elsewhere, so I had the barn to myself (not including the mosquitoes).

The rim was sandblasted in Bob's blasting cabinet this morning. Nothing new was revealed. I will upload my Blackberry pictures later. A few things were noticed tho': a. the stamping was on the inside half of the split rim. b. the Dunlop stamp was indeed two stampings overlapped. Either a nervous operator or s/he had too many beer at lunch.

The rest of the day was spent cutting the tires from the HUW's front rims and removing the instrument cluster (which is in rough condition). The data plates are in great condition. The rest of the HUW will make its way into Bob's back field for the winter.

After a morning of working in the rain, I called it an early day and headed back to complete some domestic chores...gotta keep on the wife's good side!

[RHClarke]

What do two unemployed bums do in Ottawa on a Friday? Sandblast at the barn! Bob and I decided to take advantage of the "good" weather on Friday to do some work at the barn. Time was of the essence as we also had a Gracie's call that night.

First order of the day was to remove Bob's truck Lettie, from the barn. It took a few trys to get her rolling and the idle sorted out, but she finally rolled out under her own power.

She was running a tad rich:


Bob then blasted a good number of sheet metal panels from his and some donor cab 11s.


We set up a containment "cathedral" and recovered about five bags worth of media of the ten we used. This recovered quartz will be screened twice and pushed through a larger nozzle. It will save some money and we saved a lot of time by having the containment shelter - we just rolled up the tarps and refilled the bags with the sand that landed on the tarps.

I took advantage of the situation to clean up some rims. The aim was to knock off the big deposits of rust etc... in prep for treatment, priming and painting (next week).


Interestingly, we discovered other stampings on the Dunlop rim - Bob will post photos later (his camera has better resolution than my camera).

[RHClarke]

I was sitting around the house stumped with jack to do... So, off to the barn I went. Space around the barn is getting crowded due to the recent influx of CMPs. Winter is on its way, so snow lanes will be needed for Bob to move the mountains of the white stuff that surely will bless us with its presence.

Bob and I decided that the best place to put the Prototype "on ice" was next to the barn adjacent to "Ted's truck". It will be out of the way but easily accessible for the many small over-the-winter projects.

The first step was to remove four stumps. Since Bob was at work with his new job, the tractor was not available to dig them up and haul them out of the ground. With no HE around, all that was left was muscle power. It was a good time to burn off some of the fat I put on while working for the government. Armed with an axe, shovel, pick and come-along, I managed to dig out three of the four on Thursday morning. The fourth and smallest stump can wait until later – sadly, I need to get back into good shape…

The digging took the most time, but once I got a chain around the bottom of the stump, the come-along and farmers jack made easy work of the removal. I can only imagine the effort it took for the pioneers in this country to remove the thousands of stumps to clear the land.





A couple of loads of fill will even out the pad and then we can move the Prototype and shelter.

[RHClarke]

Holiday Monday. The weather was not too good in the morning as winters icy grip has started to sink its claws into this region. It took a few minutes to scrape the ice off the car windshield early Monday morning:



The sun slowly warmed the temp to about 6oC and it was quite pleasant at the barn. With Bob back from visiting the in-laws and Acton, I took advantage of his presence to remove a few more stumps with the tractor, and to move the Prototype to its winter home. After leveling the ground, Bob and I nailed up some boards on which we will mount our shelters. These heavy creosote soaked timbers are ideal for weighing down the shelters.

After the boards were made up, we hauled the HUP Prototype to the new site. In the meanwhile, she was swaddled with tarps and the cover off of my Quebec garage. That should hold her for the rain coming on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday...



Bob spent some time playing "le Cowboy". He got good at stump wrangling:



Failing to pull any stumps with his rope, he headed off to the wood pile to do some more splitting. I ran out of time for the day, so we will move the shelter over the Prototype later this week.

[Bob Carriere]

Sorry for the delay in posting Rob funny looking rim....

... in addition all the rim studs have been broken off at the weld in the back except for the two longer studs..... the mushroom caps weld are clean broken.... no grinding evident...... rim was held together by nuts and bolts.

The markings were not visible until the tire removed and sandblasted....

Enjoy.....

Boob

[RHClarke]

Done! The Prototype's winter shelter has been moved and now sits next to Ted's truck. Thanks to Bob for the help making up the foundation boxes and for the space.



Today was an extremely pleasant day. The mercury hit 12oC - perfect for painting various bits and pieces. Eight 1 gallon POW can holders and half a HUP rim got the treatment today.



I am looking forward to this weekend as another road trip is planned for the retrieval of yet more HUP parts. I figure I have will have enough parts to help restore the Prototype, build most of a 44 HUP version and finish the 45. That being said, I am still interested in other HUP bits and pieces that may be for sale in Ontario/West Quebec...Yeah. I got it bad.

[Alex van de Wetering]

Hi Guys,

great work again and always a pleasure to see pics of your achievements of the week. The POW can holders look the business!

I wanted to ask you about the black primer you use. It might have been mentioned in one of the posts before, but I haven't been able to find it. Is the black stuff, just a basic primer? Or does it have anything fancy to it....an etchprimer? Or a zinc-primer? The reason I ask is because I want to use a black primer for my C8 as well. I am rather fond of a zinc-primer supplied by Motip here in Holland, but that only comes in grey.

Alex