Arnold, CA…It has been waaay too long since we have worked on the ole GPW publicly. It has been a busy few weeks with some travel helping a family member get ready to open a business & collecting parts and with winter heading our way getting an old 3/4 ton, 4wd pickup running to move […]
Arnold, CA…Well there has been another gap between videos. Work interfered yet again. I have however been doing a few minutes here & there. I also picked up a used $400 utility trailer we are going to paint to match the GPW. It’s not a WW2 trailer but it is one that if we add […]
Arnold, CA…Well tonight the job on the list is try to get the old melted fuel pump off of our old GPW. Our budget build theme continues as our new fuel pump cost us a whopping $32 dollars. So the premise for Hewn is can anyone whether they be rich or of more modest means […]
Arnold, CA…Out little bit of “Pioneering” tonight is to see if we can get the 79 year old fender off of Ruby the GPW. Once we have the fender is off it will free up enough room to make some repairs straightening some bent up bits and also start working on getting the ole Jeep […]
Arnold, CA…Can you still Pioneer in 2021? We certainly hope so and are betting our future on it. We hope to turn a 5 acre hilly, steep mountain property into a livable little homestead. We also plan on doing this for less that $100k. We chose this amount as it is about the maximum mortgage […]
Arnold, CA…Another Late Night / Early Morning Work Session. It has been too many days. A funeral out of state, a son with Covid and basically life got in the way. Son is fine and getting better so now need to get Ruby back on track.
Arnold, CA…Tonight we are going to be cleaning, heat cycling rusty bolts, cleaning, heat cycling rusty bolts…well you get the idea.
Arnold, CA…Tonight we are able to pick up the tools again for a few minutes after fires in our area and the threat of fires impacted our work schedule. Tag along with us if you would like below…
Arnold, CA…Today we picked up some new tools that we hope will allow us to make good progress on Ruby our old 1944 GPW. On this project there isn’t a budget to pay anyone else to do anything so like our forefathers we will just have to do it ourselves. Lot’s of great tool options […]
Arnold, CA…Today was a looong day in the news business. We have a 1,000 acres plus fire here locally and when the fire broke out with it’s initial rate of spread we thought we may have to evacuate today. Firefighters did a wonderful job slowing it down and we are still here as is the […]
