Customs winch and tree body work on my 1948 Oldsmobile futuramic 98 today

Wench and a tree man auto correct is killin me! Parked the olds by the ol juniper tree today attached the rear frame rail to the duramax put some chalks down and got to wenchin! And dolly hammer snd maybe a 4x6 smack or two and shizam.

 

To Cool

 

Well let me shake your hand . You are the first person I have seen that gives “shade tree mechanic “ a good name .

 

That's a great result....good job!

 

nice pull

 

The good old fashioned way still works. Did you check your door gap while you were working? Most times a hit like that will moved the fender back into the door gap.

 

I used a movable 'pulldozer' in the trade years ago to do the same thing. Necessity is the mother of invention. Kudos to you. Damage needs to be repaired in the reverse order to how is occurred.

 

Old School body work. It doesn't get any better.

 

Nice work there going back to old school ways

 

Nice work there! Stands to be a very nice project.

 

Great job! Haven't seen that done in years.

 

Perfect!! Have not done it myself since the early 80`s,but I had a tractor.

 

Who said ya can't do it at home? Bravo!

 

I need one of those trees!

 

My story also involves and an Olds ('58) and a tree. Pulling the V-8 with a chain around a branch and that attached to a chain fall. Every time we came close to clearing the rad. support, the branch would sag and we would have to repeat the process. What to do? We finally Lowered the car by letting air out of the tires! I think we were 15 at time and the Olds made it to the Henry J frame, but it was never completed. Probably a Good thing!

 

I know how my luck works. The tree would fall and crush the whole car!

 

Pretty darn cool. I did that once with an off topic caddy in the late 80's. I used a tree, put car in reverse and hit the pedal. It worked.

 

Wow that turned out nice. Never seen it done like that. Great work.

 

You can't do that! You need a big fancy shop, and all sorts of expensive tools to do that! You're gonna make all those with that stuff irritated, and they'll push everything out of their shop and go find a big tree!
Really nice work!

 

Yep, I have done that trick a few times too. Looks good!

 

Yup the core support up front needed a yank as well and the door wasn’t opening before and now it has a better gap than the other side! Also hanker on the hood hinge too but I think I just need to adjust the hood.

 

Exactly! How it was hit is how it gets fixed just slower and account for some spring tension from the metal!

 

Whatever you do .. don't loan the tree out to friends. You'll never see it again.

Nice job !!

 

Trees are our friends. When I was 16 I used a big old cottonwood to pull the motor out of my '55 Ford and drop in a 289.

 

That's such a pretty body style. I hope you're able to get it back to pristine condition.

 

You’re the New Shadetree Bodyman Champion!

 

That's how I used to straighten out the stock car. Except I'd just chain it to the tree and then floor it. Of course, it didn't have to be real straight either.

 

When I was 16 my Dad had a 74 Ford pickup with West coast mirrors that stuck way out and I was in a hurry backing out of this pole shed and I caught one of the poles by the edge of door opening and bent the right had bumper half damn near 45 degrees out the front. I got out and looked at the bumper and knew I was in trouble.
Thinking quick I slowly drove the truck bent bumper into a big tree in the yard and put enough pressure on it to bend it back. After a few pushes it looked pretty good. Only problem in the middle of the bumper there was about a two inch tent from bending the bumper back. Couldn't figure out how to remove that.
A few weeks later Dad noticed it and asked me how that could have happened? I fessed up. Did not get into trouble. Dad was pretty cool and still is.
Trees can come in handy.

 

Better than mine turned out!
Then again I didn’t have a Duramax and a tree, just a forklift and a telephone pole.