On my first vw trike i too had a tight budget. Yamaha 650 front end. Got brake master and lever from local mc shop used 10.00 got the hand controls for 15.00 reused old headlight off a gl 1000 and cobbled it all together.
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On my first vw trike i too had a tight budget. Yamaha 650 front end. Got brake master and lever from local mc shop used 10.00 got the hand controls for 15.00 reused old headlight off a gl 1000 and cobbled it all together.
[QUOTE=vwbug72501;630930]Robert, since the garage is attached, I'd have a conversation with Ferrell Gas about the local codes and types of heaters that can be used in attached garages. Any heater with an "open flame" may have to be mounted X number of feet above the floor as gasoline and other combustible fumes usually dissipate at floor level. Also, make sure that you have a working carbon monoxide detector in the home for everyone's safety! (Not to mention insurance liability for the property.)
Another option is, if the house has natural gas already, look into the possibility of piping an overhead shop heater in the garage. Can't hurt the property value in the Great White North to have a heated garage space. :clapping:
Sometimes the "quick and easy" solution ends up costing more in the long run. "Pay me now or pay me later."[/QUOTE]
Tom;
I will hear back from Ferrell Gas on Monday, or Tuesday. Their yard here is only for refueling their delivery trucks, so it is unmanned. I'll try to have them answer all of the pertinent questions about safety, and such.
There is smoke alarms, and CO2 alarms in the house. There will be alarms in the garage. There is also renter's insurance, as my daughter rents this house. I had a manufactured home in a senior mobile home park in Lodi. I had live there since 1995. My daughter talked me into coming to live in her basement. I love my daughter, but I'd have been better off staying in Lodi.
Be safe.
Robert.:dancing-santa:
[QUOTE=rrunner;630935]On my first vw trike i too had a tight budget. Yamaha 650 front end. Got brake master and lever from local mc shop used 10.00 got the hand controls for 15.00 reused old headlight off a gl 1000 and cobbled it all together.[/QUOTE]
Bradley, You sound like me. My wife used to say, on more than one occasion, that I'm so tight that I squeak when I walk. It was a good thing I was tight. I spent over $350,000 on an Alzheimer's care facility in the last 5 years of her life, not including her Social Security check the home automatically took.
I had my own company, and authority for the last 7 years of my career. I drove over the road trucks for 37.5 years. Now I am just living for the next rush, without the benefits of the drugs. Trikes do it for me. I miss the road. In my trucking career time, I've became an introvert, and like it.
Sorry, I ramble.
Be safe
Robert. :dancing-santa:
Rambling is ok. I am a retired public school employee, 32 years. Now have a part time tow business. The trikes are my toys.
This is Sharlee, some friends of hers and me going for out morning constitional in South Western Minnesota. [ATTACH=CONFIG]64518[/ATTACH]
Don't see Sharlee? She is between two of her friends, keeping warm. After we got back into the house, I had the bright idea of going into the garage to take the other pictures of the pig trike. We were in there less than five minutes when Sharlee tried jumping into my arms. I picked her up, and her little feet were frozen from the outside and the concrete floor. Sharlee has spent her whole life indoors, she is a chihuahua and Dachshund mix commonly called a [I]Chiweenie Dog, but there is nothing comm about her. She has even started answering to Bar-B-Que. [ATTACH=CONFIG]64520[/ATTACH]
We cut the picture taking short, so Ill get back into my fur parka and brave the frozen North again.
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[QUOTE=rrunner;631141]Rambling is ok. I am a retired public school employee, 32 years. Now have a part time tow business. The trikes are my toys.[/QUOTE]
Bradley; my X father in law worked for the Stockton school district as a tire man for almost 40 years. He was a good old boy, as he shared the tire companies that gave discounts on 11-24.5 tires. The school used them on buses, and I used them on my trucks. When I bought my first truck, my father in law would give me some of the take off from the buses, and I would give him my old may pops after I switched them out.
Be safe
Robert.
[QUOTE=curtit;631153]This is Sharlee, some friends of hers and me going for out morning constitional in South Western Minnesota. [ATTACH=CONFIG]64518[/ATTACH]
Don't see Sharlee? She is between two of her friends, keeping warm. After we got back into the house, I had the bright idea of going into the garage to take the other pictures of the pig trike. We were in there less than five minutes when Sharlee tried jumping into my arms. I picked her up, and her little feet were frozen from the outside and the concrete floor. Sharlee has spent her whole life indoors, she is a chihuahua and Dachshund mix commonly called a [I]Chiweenie Dog, but there is nothing comm about her. She has even started answering to Bar-B-Que.
We cut the picture taking short, so Ill get back into my fur parka and brave the frozen North again.
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I apologize for the size of the Sharlee pictures. I did not know they were that big till I looked at them a while ago.
Robert.
Wow, frozen tundra is that what you call it, LOL
We call it a "cold in Hell" because shit does not move around here when there is that much snow on the ground.
Lovely pictures, so sorry about the little one frozen paw's, we have one we have to watch also. Best little lap buddy there is. Enjoy life as we can, that is all we can do.
Just thinking back, because of my frequent scrounging at land fills, dumpsters, and backroads, my mom used to call me Sanford. From the show Sanford and Son. I still pick up usable to me stuff but not so much after land fill closed and now have a transfer station to take our junk. Sorry for the hijack.
[QUOTE=grandpanystrom61;631305]Wow, frozen tundra is that what you call it, LOL
We call it a "cold in Hell" because shit does not move around here when there is that much snow on the ground.
Lovely pictures, so sorry about the little one frozen paw's, we have one we have to watch also. Best little lap buddy there is. Enjoy life as we can, that is all we can do.[/QUOTE]
Andy; Sharlee is a surrogate for my kids being all grown up. She sleeps on the bed with me, where I go, she goes, most of the time, she always gets the first bite of my food, and I always crumble , or cut, her food up for her
I usually buy my furry child's food once a month. My daughter and I went to Worthington, about 45 miles away, (a large town, considering the size of town I live in) to do some shopping. She was surprised when I spent over $80.00 on Sharlee's food. She ask why I didn't just get her a 50 pound bag of cheap, dry dog food. I told her because it's DOG food, and Sharlee is a furry person. I never got you kids a 50 pound bag of (whatever) when you were young, so why start now. Sharlee was so offended by her question she wouldn't look at my daughter the rest of the day. My youngest grand son (18) has a small sadistic side to him. When I first came here he hurt Sharlee on purpose, then told me it was an accident. I kicked him twice in the shins, and told him if he hurts me or mine, I hurt him worse. He went crying to his mother and I had to explain to her how my kicking him twice after he "accidentally" hurt Sharlee was as much of an accident on my part, as his accidentally hurting Sharlee was. Virginia told him to stay away from the dog and away from me. You have to train them early. We haven't had any more accidents here in 7 months.
Be safe,
Robert