I Give You...The Hootis!
After months of anticipation, I have decided to unveil the Hootis. When I look at the picture, it looks like about a weekend's worth of work. However since it was built from scratch, trust me, it was a lot of work.
I started with an old Craftsman lawnmower that I had sitting out back and some plans I ordered from PF Engineering. Then, I overhauled the motor, bought the steel, welded it up, ordered a bazillion hydraulic components since the tractor didn't have hydraulics on it and presto-chango a front end loader back hoe for the homeowner. I've still got a number of things to do, such as get the hydraulic pressure up some and change a couple of the hoses.
So...now you know what a Hootis looks like. Actually the word Hootis came from a friend that was trying to guess what I was building. Apparently Hootis is synonymous with "contraption". When I get all the bugs ironed out, I'm gonna be a hole digging son of a gun. I might even take it to my father's house and dig holes in his yard since he enjoyed all the ones I dug as a kid. He fussed at me so many times but I figure if he really wanted me to stop digging he would have hid the shovel. I loved the post hole diggers, too. I have no idea why. Just stupid I guess.
I started with an old Craftsman lawnmower that I had sitting out back and some plans I ordered from PF Engineering. Then, I overhauled the motor, bought the steel, welded it up, ordered a bazillion hydraulic components since the tractor didn't have hydraulics on it and presto-chango a front end loader back hoe for the homeowner. I've still got a number of things to do, such as get the hydraulic pressure up some and change a couple of the hoses.
So...now you know what a Hootis looks like. Actually the word Hootis came from a friend that was trying to guess what I was building. Apparently Hootis is synonymous with "contraption". When I get all the bugs ironed out, I'm gonna be a hole digging son of a gun. I might even take it to my father's house and dig holes in his yard since he enjoyed all the ones I dug as a kid. He fussed at me so many times but I figure if he really wanted me to stop digging he would have hid the shovel. I loved the post hole diggers, too. I have no idea why. Just stupid I guess.
Posted by TBF at 4/30/2009 7:10 PM 
Categories: Daily Life
Tags: Micro Hoe Back Hoe Front End Loader Craftsman Tractor
Categories: Daily Life
Tags: Micro Hoe Back Hoe Front End Loader Craftsman Tractor
Damn!!!! I am impressed!!!!! Can you bring it down here and dig me a hole? I have been wracking my brain for ages trying to figure out what the Hootis was going to be. Never in a million years would I have come up with this. I thought it was going to be something like one of those two-wheeled scooter contraptions. Good job.
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The two wheel scooter contraption is next...whatever that is. I'll tell you what's funny. I had Deb go to Autozone to pick up a v-belt for it yesterday and of course they wanted to know what it was for. You know at Autozone they can't sell you a part unless you can tell them what it goes on. That's the only way they can actually identify what something looks like. Anyway, I wish I had been there when she told them "it goes on a Hootis!"
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Those guys at Autozone probably think it's one of those new hybrid cars. The two wheeled thing is the Segway and I want one. However, my kids who claim they love me insist that I "don't really want one of those things." They say I will let it shoot out from under me. They say I will hang on and be dragged for miles. I just want it for the pits at the racetracks we visit because I think it would save me a lot of shoe leather. My son-in-law, the racer, says I'll kill myself. He must love me or he would have already bought one for me.
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If you get one, I will gladly pay to have a video camera installed on it...pointing at you. We could start a video channel that would rival YouTube! You falling off, you going over the handlebars, you running over someone, you being dragged out onto the race track, you getting black flagged, you getting your hair caught up on the tire, you with two pit monkeys hanging onto your legs, you hitting someone on one of those ice chest scooters, you driving up into the fig tree, you etc., you etc.
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KISS MY HOOTIS
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