Tracker Grizzly complete rebuild

[Prowelder]

Tucked all the wiring in the front deck compartments

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[Bigwrench]

That looks really nice. Hope to start wiring mine up this week.


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[Prowelder]

Finished the wiring and did a first coat of paint tonight.

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[Prowelder]

Got one side of the blue led strips installed and some more painting

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[duckman11]

looking good buddy!

 

[Bob9863]

A hell of a lot of work but its paying off.

 

[Prowelder]

Before & After pic of back compartment wiring.
I made a little progress yesterday installing the blue strip light on the opposit side and tightening up some of the wiring. I am going to put a couple more hours on her tonight trying to tighten up all of the wiring. The plan is to get the Hydro-turf on this weekend and get her out of here. I have 2 other boats here in 2 more coming. There just aren't enough hours in the day. A big part of me wants to run with this full time!

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[Prowelder]

Got all the wires ran. All i have to do is connect them too the switch panel and tuck them in nicely. I love these side lights. They are a pain in the ass and i always tell myself dont tell this customer about them, but i can't help it they are too cool. Estimating 2 hours to hook up switch panel and tuck wires. 2 hours to mount front deck. 2 hours to put motors on and then I'm on to the hydro-turf. Hopefully this thing will be leaving my house by next week! I got a call from another guy today that needs pods welded on his duck boat. This is turning into a fulltime job. Im honestly considering runing a night shift at my shop with a couple employees just doing boat work!

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[duckman11]

Aluminum welding shops are few and far between and ones that will weld on a boat are even more rare. You are already paying rent/mortgage on a shop......might as well get the most money you can out of it! Plus im sure your wife would love to not walk into a garage full of welding fumes lol

 

[Prowelder]

Aluminum welding shops are few and far between and ones that will weld on a boat are even more rare. You are already paying rent/mortgage on a shop......might as well get the most money you can out of it! Plus im sure your wife would love to not walk into a garage full of welding fumes lol

I was kind of thinking the same thing. The only issue is my dad owns the shop. Him, my brother and i run it together so during the hours of operation i cannot keep boats there. As for my wife she just wants me to get my boat out of our garage! Lol. My dad has a detached garage/ workshop at his house next door to mine where I do all of my work. It's not so bad during the Winter time but during the summer he uses the garage a lot. If it wasn't for my family and buisness bieng located here. I would move my family to Florida in a heartbeat and open my own fab shop! That's kind of been the dream for the past couple years, but I'm tied down here and don't want to waste the opportunity my dad has given me with Professional Welding. He has put his whole life into building this company.

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[mtntop]

Nice work! I liked the idea of your children helping. everything I learned about construction, and auto repair was due to my father and great-grandfather letting me help them over the years

 

[Prowelder]

Nice work! I liked the idea of your children helping. everything I learned about construction, and auto repair was due to my father and great-grandfather letting me help them over the years

Yes they love it. My 7 year old wants me to teach him to weld and buy him his own boat. I told him he has to wait till hes 10 . He thinks hes 16 lol

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[Bob9863]

Get them into it while they are young, he's better off learning the basics of welding then mincraft or the Xbox. :lol:

 

[Prowelder]

Get them into it while they are young, he's better off learning the basics of welding then mincraft or the Xbox. [emoji38]

They have their videos games and tablets but my kids are very hands on. I am the type of person who believes that if someone else can do it then why can't I do it myself especially if it saves me money. They always help me with my projects from remodeling the house to large projects like our fence, or deck and pool. The boats have just been something I picked up the past couple years. I am really trying to work on their drawing skills. To me if I can't draw it, I can't build it. I've been doing fabrication work for the past 15 years but really honed in on my skills the past 5. I'm 34 now and I can only imagine how much better I would be if I started out at their age

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[Prowelder]

Finished with everything except for Hydro-turf and installing the motors. Have 3 more boats lined up after this one And then I'm going to try to fix up the one I bought and sell it. Any new projects my hourly rate will be going up. I just wanted to get some products on the streets so people will start talking. This one has definitely been a work in progress but There is light at the end of the tunnel! I'm really excited to wrap this project up and can't wait to see how the Hydro-turf turns out.

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[LDUBS]

I went back to Post #1 where your helpers were pulling out the old foam. Man, you have done a lot of work. This is like an entirely new boat. =D>

 

[RedHatRedNeck]

Looks good.

 

[Prowelder]

Looks good.

Thanks

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[Prowelder]

I went back to Post #1 where your helpers were pulling out the old foam. Man, you have done a lot of work. This is like an entirely new boat. =D>

Thanks. All my builds turn out that way

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[Bob9863]

Sometimes I think it would be easier to buy the materials and build a boat from scratch rather then rebuild one.