Saturday pictures

The window framing finally fit! I understood it was not exacty a perfect fit when they started putting it in, but now all is ok!

And yet another picture of the inside, because it is so beautiful and industrial...

Hanomag Henschel dump truck II

Here are the front pictures of the old Henschel, who is unfortunately not from Ruizeveld but from one of their customers... Too bad!

A real discovery was that this is a Hanomag Hensche...

Some nice tank! Probably not the one fitted in the Hanomag Henschel factory...

Peeking through the side window...

Does it fit...

Today was a rainy day. Everything looked dull, gray and muddy.

The second part of the front of the building was removed. I watched them doing this and it is just a job of minutes, building it takes much longer!

The inner walls are now all finished for my part of the building! Now, I finally get the feeling of the actual size of the part I will get. And I can tell you it is nice and roomy! I almost regret putting in all the tools & cars I have bought already! No, I'm kidding!

This picture does say it all. Muddy, wet and gray. Hopefully tomorrow will be better!

The Wall

Today they built the separation wall. Now I finally have an idea of the actual size of the shop!

The first row of bricks is carefully placed upon the floor...

Around noon this was the status...

And at 15:00 hr the largest gap was closed! Jurre and Rozemarijn are fascinated by it...

When all walls are built, there would be no way to get out of the shop, because currently there are no doors in it. But a quick removal of part of the front of the shop created a new 'way out'.

Hanomag Henschel dump truck

I find local automotive companies very fascinating. That is why I love to have a real Koni car lift, because this is a local company.

Another automotive company is Piet Ruizeveld kippers, a famous company manufacturing all kind of 'kippers' or dump trucks.
Last week I spotted something interesting on their parking, an old Hanomag Henschel dump truck. Does this bring back memories of the early '70-s!!! I went back this Saturday afternoon, but unfortunately the gate was closed so I could only take a few pictures from behind the fence. Hope you enjoy the pics!

Then and now...

Some of you might wonder why we need so much space to expand...

Well, here is a trip down memory lane...
Here is our attic in early 2005, when we are a few months 'old'. What you see is pretty much our whole stock at that time...

Now fast forward to 2008...
Same corner, somewhere at the right of this image...

Same photo location, but now aimed to the left. This is 'isle 3'.
And this is 'isle 2' ... There is NO MORE room left... boxes are everywhere...

Yes, we are looking forward to more ROOM!!!

Concrete floor finished

Today I took a couple of pictures of the finished floor.

This is how it turned out. The man who made it told me that using this 'vlindering' technique, he could turn the floor blue. And look here... it is blue!

The water is from the sawing machine with which they freed the floor from the foundation of the supports.

The floor is 7 days old now and to be completely safe it will not be damaged, we have to wait 7 more days before they can restart any work in the building. And with the upcoming Eastern weekend, they decided to start after Eastern.
And a lot of things will happen then: removal of the old facade and installing the new one and building the separation walls!
WOW!

A genuine Tokheim Gas pump

Patience pays... As today I spotted this excellent gas pump on a Dutch auction site!

This pump fits perfectly into the Garage equipment, it is of the correct time period and it is Dutch, in origin and in execution. Writing on the plates is Dutch, in guilders and liters. Excellent! It is not new, but has the exact desired amount of patina.
The decals will be removed and maybe I'll add decals of an oil company... We will pick it up this Saturday!

'Vlinderen'

Part two of the concrete floor...

Two men are working till very late (or better, early tomorrow) to get a super smooth finish of the floor.

This is a funky toy, looks like a hovercraft, but is driven by two horizontally mounted large blades, who spin and leave a super smooth surface. The two controls make the machine turn into every direction, even circles.

The renovation: Construction phase 1

This morning (Thursday 6th of March), the construction phase took of with a bang! When arriving, this is the view I had. A large concrete pumper, pumping concrete into the building.

It must be pretty close the largest pump available...

Workers were very busy getting the concrete everywhere, and level! Using a laser guided system, pretty nifty! The man controlling the 'hose' has this box with which he remotely controlled the complete operation of the pump outside. It even had a horn! Cool toys!


There were about 10 workers around. They did the whole floor in about 2,5 hours. WOW!

And this is the 'in between' result. Now they are waiting for the concrete to dry a little, and then get some funky looking vehicles to 'vlinder' the surface. This will result in a super smooth floor! They expect to be finished tonight at 4 AM...
I will take more pictures later today!