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Posted: Thu Jun 30, 2011 11:55 am
by dburt
Rudy- have you rested enough now?? :P

Since you had to go and delete all those pictures of Zac's house build, are you going to post some that will 'pass muster' ? :wink:

I want to see how the build is going- so please get up and going again, and get those pics and progress reports coming again! :lol:

Posted: Thu Jun 30, 2011 12:07 pm
by Sharkey
dburt wrote:you had to go and delete all those pictures...
I'm going to jump in and point out that nobody "had" to delete those photos, Rudy decided to do so of his own accord.

Just making sure that the impression isn't created that I made that action necessary as a matter of forum policy.

Posted: Sun Jul 03, 2011 5:48 pm
by dburt
The "had to" part was said 'tongue-in-cheek'. I thought that perhaps he had decided to delete the aforementioned pics and repost with some updated ones or ones that would be more 'OSHA kosher' to avoid any controversy or problems for anyone.

Not knowing what may going on, I tried to gently needle or prod him to return to daily postings of the project after his rest from his previous labors that he said he was going to take.

Posted: Sun Jul 03, 2011 10:33 pm
by Dennis The Bus Dweller
:roll:

Re: 1973 Blue Bird

Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2011 2:18 am
by Stealth Camper
Rudy,...missing you!
Hope you are well!

Dan

Re: 1973 Blue Bird

Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2011 10:11 am
by dburt
Last I heard from Rudy he was scrambling to find work and income. Don't know if he is still up in Missouri or elsewhere. His buddy that was doing the underground house build hit a temporary dead end on the project due to lack of funds, so perhaps they are both turning thier attention and direction to other venues to making some bucks.

Re: 1973 Blue Bird

Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2011 10:56 am
by Stealth Camper
It's rough out there without a steady place to go every day. I was there for about 4 years and came to really not like it very much at all. But then, with the attitude that people tell me I have....

If you hear from him again, say hi to him for us, and looking forward to "seeing" him again on this place!!

Re: 1973 Blue Bird

Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2011 12:17 pm
by kb2iaw
...You can find rudy at his own home page ...GOOGLE his name RUDY HARLEY and follow the links , some may also lead to marc`s and a note can produce a phone call ...

Re: 1973 Blue Bird

Posted: Fri Aug 19, 2011 4:36 pm
by dburt
I heard from Rudy today, and he won't be coming back. He has alot on his plate right now, being in economic survival mode has him quite busy now just trying to keep his head above water. He added alot to the site, and he will be missed!

Re: 1973 Blue Bird

Posted: Sun Dec 02, 2012 7:08 pm
by Rudy
That's the progress as of now. If all goes well, the rest of the posts and girders will go up soon

We got most of the purlins loaded on to the girders so far. It was Zac, CJ, Gary, and myself. I'll have pics of those efforts posted soon.


Stay tuned.




Here, the third row of posts have been installed with the beams (girders) atop of them.

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Re: 1973 Blue Bird

Posted: Sun Dec 02, 2012 7:09 pm
by Rudy
Here is the super-cool Zac driving the great blue Genie

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Re: 1973 Blue Bird

Posted: Sun Dec 02, 2012 7:11 pm
by Rudy
One morning, our friend, John came by to help us out. John is perhaps the strongest guy we know. Yes, it's true that the Amish people are strong, however, John is as strong as two of them, and stronger than 1000 other men.

He may look like a rough character, but let me assure you that he is kind and gentle. He is definitely someone that you want on your side, though.


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Re: 1973 Blue Bird

Posted: Sun Dec 02, 2012 7:13 pm
by Rudy
Here is John drilling the one inch hole into an especially hard rock area.

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Re: 1973 Blue Bird

Posted: Sun Dec 02, 2012 7:15 pm
by Rudy
John's truck and Zac's golf cart.


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Re: 1973 Blue Bird

Posted: Sun Dec 02, 2012 7:15 pm
by Rudy
Let me tell you about Zac's Yamaha gas powered golf cart. He has had it for many years, and has put it through MANY MANY unbelievable trials. Any other golf cart would have died many years ago.

Just last week, we took it into the woods where we cut down eight cedars to be used as bracing posts. Most of these cedars were close to twenty feet long. Zac used that golf cart to haul those trees out of the woods. I was duly impressed.