Nice leather seats out of a Chevy suv..........fun.

Cruiser.

So winter is about here. You know, sometimes we get a good amount of snow in our driveway. Sometimes our cars get stuck there. That could be a problem, which sometimes results in me having to put my shoes on. Can't have that. So being the good family man that I am, I decided to be a forward thinker and buy this Land Cruiser project so we don't get stuck in our driveway this year.
In all seriousness, since I started buying, selling and obtaining cars since I was sixteen, I have owned about one hundred and fifty cars. My wife, (Emily Forscutt, the very first Miss Provo College, and a babe), said that I have a problem and need counseling. Well I have decided that this 1977 Toyota Land Cruiser will be my final car that I buy. Any future vehicles purchased will be by Emily with my help if she wants it but I am done.
I have my Mercedes coupe project and this Land Cruiser project. That should do it for me.
This Cruiser will be painted the original color code # 621 Rustic Green. Don't worry friends, except for that part in the back and a small hole here and there, it's all surface rust.

Mercedes 300cd

In the year 1978 Mercedes decided it might be interesting to make a two door coupe diesel automobile. Now there are many, many Mercedes 300 series diesels on the road. The diesel engines mercedes made from approximately 1978 to 1985 were made out of iron and were very durable. Engines with over 500,000 miles on them and still on the road are not uncommon. There are many one million mile Mercedes Benz vehicles out there still also. But they are almost all four doors, not two door coupes. The first year they made this somewhat rare two door coupe was 1978, and the only made about 1500 of them. So to find one in any kind of decent condition is a good deal. I traded my one hundred dollar Mercedes 300se for this one. It should be up and running after we fix a few things before it snows.

Salmon for dinner, perhaps?

Size matters

Now that's a compressor. A Saylor-Beall 120 gallon monster that will pump out 17 cfm when hooked up to the motor. Loving KSL classifieds.

Must...eat....meat.

P.E.T.A. this! And that's not even showing you the rest behind the front seats.

Frankenstein log splitter

Fabricating the power and hydraulics for my latest log splitter, "Nutbuster III". That one hundred pound, 220 volt, farm duty motor on the left is going to rotate that Vickers 20 to 45 gallon per minute hydraulic pump on the right and man oh man are we going to have fun splitting wood this fall.

It's a little early to go logging, with my log splitter not quite done and all.....but I still wont turn down some wood if it's good burning wood like Chinese Elm is.

"Come on girls, it will be fun, we will go slow, and you wont get wet!"

So we have decided to rename our blog site the Utah extreme weather site as this seems to be my latest obsession. So Emily is at work and I take off to where I think there will be some action up in the sky. You can see it's not even very dark yet.

It really started raining hard so we decided to get a few shots from the tree house in the back yard. Trees everywhere. Guess that's why it's called our treehouse.

It finally stopped raining, so we decided to make like lightning rods, and go back out to the desert and take a few more pics. It got a little hairy out there.

Last night too!

It's been a bad few summers as far as really good lightning storms go but last night we had a pretty good one come through town and for a few minutes it really rained hard.About 100 lame snapshot attempts can usually garner one decent picture.