PETERBILT 349 FRAME STRETCH PT5 FINDING THE RIGHTAND GOOD USED FRAME 

you are right. i will have many unpaid hours, lots of unpaid consumables. loads of unpaid materials. what i will have is the peace of mind that he is in a good truck that will keep him and others around him safe. i dont want to get too personal about my friend but if you had the life that he has had.....i would do the same for you. i do get frustrated, but it wont stop me from doing the absolute best job i can. my standards dont change due to finances or time. it is what it is. i wish it could be done much faster and with less costs but it needs what it needs. when i said "i will build this truck the best way i knew how", i meant it. i will plug along on this truck just like i am building one of my own. appreciate you watching and commenting.

@@j.c.smithprojects i would count my blessings daily to have a friend like you. Very profound words and an even better work ethic. I keep telling my kids "its always nice to hear someone say I love you but a 1000% better if you show them" so say what you mean and mean what you say because the only thing you truly have in this life is your word. Great build, can hardly wait for the next video.

@@j.c.smithprojects Thanks for the reply, I know exactly where you are at I've done the same thing fixing tractors for friends/customers that were in trouble when life went a bit south. I always told them find the money for parts and pay me when they can. In the end they quit farming, and I enjoy their friendship way more now when I see then or their number on call display. The what's screwed up now and i should be doing other work feeling has gone away. I didn't realize how much it mentally stressed me out dealing with it either. when one quit I helped him clean up his yard as he's hurt his back bad, when the farm sold. He gave me a quite large amount of cash I never asked for a cent of, and said thanks for helping me the last few years, I'd of gone bankrupt as nobody else was going to help like I did, so he really did appreciate it way more than I thought he did.

@@j.c.smithprojects this is how real friends are

i really dont know if he will.

Sadly that may be the case, but at the very least you and a few know that you have gone above and beyond

Reading both your comments as you said in the first video I ever watched ( the original video about completing someone else's work on the tanker ) you didn't want to put your name or reputation on someone else's shoddy work . At the very least this will have been done to a very high standard of workmanship that you know will be safe . Appreciated or not . Hopefully the client will ....

i really dont know if he or most others would understand or appreciate what it takes to build a truck this way.

that was a tough situation.

this is why i dont work on trucks for other people. this is the wrong truck to build from the start but this is what he has. i would have spent the money on a better suited truck to start with. then the scope of work is far more focused on "up fitting" and not making a "round beg square". it has been a "soup sandwich" from the word go.

the puzzle piece will come about on one of my builds. im sure it will push my skills beyond my capabilities but i think it is worth the stress and struggle.

@@j.c.smithprojects 👍👍

just in my head and a file folder. i cant remember lots of things but i can tell what i paid for every truck i own as well as what i have spent or sold on each.

I agree it would be easier to use new but not cheaper or faster . the new rails from pj adams would have been over $6500 with shipping and a 6 month wait. the least expensive i could find were only available in 20ft lengths and 2 weeks out. so it would have had to be spliced and it was mild steel. not actual frame rail. the cost with shipping was over $4400. so this was still the best option for me.

it will all work out in the end.

it is a jerrdan bed

@@j.c.smithprojects used to be Grove... 👍😎🇺🇸🏁. We'd go down to Green Castle n pick up two or three, swing over to Valk in Carlisle then head back up Rt11 to CNY cause there weren't any scales... Put it all on a Binder or Dodge, then we connected with a Chev dlr. We'd get a cab n chassis, put a hoist n body or rollback as a demonstrator. We had Mid Equipment n Grove rollbacks plus.... guess Mid Equip is gone...

not really. just more frustrated that it sat idle. once the frame is spliced, it should start moving much faster. fingers crossed there are no more major bumps in the road.

there isnt enough room in the budget for one frame rail from pg.

have you considered buying another dodge frame and cutting the donor at the back of the cab and yours at the forward leaf spring hanger on the drive axle?

yes but the outer frame is already made.

sad really....

he isnt a customer. just helping a friend.

@@j.c.smithprojects I was once told: "Never work for friend or family" but that's all I can do in my old age.. LOL

friends and family will never be a customer but customers will quickly become friends and family....

give me more weld surface.

no. the one that had the rear end fire is project "overkill".

@@j.c.smithprojects Ok nice, overkill will be awesome once completed

Very cool , love your adventures!!! Thanks for taking us along!

think about how this would play out.....do you think i would do well with someone doing work in my shop that accepted the other truck as "OK"?

@@j.c.smithprojects lmao but it might make for good entertainment if it was on video 😂👍

i needed each to be almost 23ft. most shops around here can only do 20ft. i would have had to wait for the other shops to do it plus pay over $1000. shipping from the closest one. if it was cheaper to go that route, i certainly would have,

i stood it on its side and pushed on it with the gradall. i pushed passed straight. let off of it and it came right back the way it was. also it was "racked" 3/4" out of square.

price 27ft frame rails shipped to your door and then tell me that.

@@j.c.smithprojects PG Adams ....only way to go ....prices are more than reasonable ...but I guess that's all relative...and they're only an hour away.

$6500 from pj adams

@@j.c.smithprojects considering price of everything these days that's to be expected. They were less than $4k not that long ago. They do incredible work.

cost

not the case. this donor frame is 120,000 tensile strength. original frame was lower.

i really didnt have the time to do this truck at all. so having it get delayed like this just makes me angry. im already past the time i allowed for the entire project and i am only 1/3 of the way through it.

im sure they were "acceptable" to others. the closer i get it it, the easier it will all come together.

need to stick weld? why? explain this to me. plated? why? explain this too. dont go missing now. explain your statement with as much conviction as this comment.