I'll Fly, Drive, Walk! What Ever It take to Save a Scotty

I'll Fly, Drive, Walk! What Ever It takes to Save a Scotty.

My good Scotty friend Rose offered me some window parts and skin for my Scotty project.

She lives about 100 miles from my house. My plan was to fly there in my plane. I got the weather. The winds were calm and it was little cloudy. Here I am ready for take-off.

As I flow east passing over the Laurel Ridges at around 5000 ft. I had a smooth ride. After passing the ridges I started seeing a thicker deck of lower clouds. Well you may see were this is going. Well I ended up in the soup. I was fogged in. I was unable to land at my destination it was below minimums. Well all must of turned out OK. I'm blogging this. I had lots of fuel to get to another airport. I called ATC and requested a cleaence back to my airport. I climbed to 7000 ft and final broke out on the top of the clouds. Heading back west the fog broke up and I landed back home safe.


Well here is Rose. I ended up driving to Somerset PA to meet her.
We had lunch and talked vintage trailers for a good hour.
Thanks you Rose for the parts.

The Work Has Begun

I started working on my new Scotty. Its seen some hard times. I removed the lower skin. The side wall has come loose at the bottom. The side wall bottom is dry rotted.

I'm going to reinforce the floor and wall and reattached them.

In this photo you can see the ground from inside the trailer.

This is the bad area in the roof, See the roof seam. I have removed all the nails, stapeles and bad wood. I need to replace the roof supports. Then I can repair the ceiling.

This is the gauge of progress.

Yes My Feet Are Plant On The Ground In My Scotty

I guess if you work on vintage trailers.

Sooner or later you will find yourself inside a trailer standing on the ground.

Here I am standing in my new 1966 Scotty Hi-lander were the orig floor heater was.

My trailer buddy Steve said that it would make a good Ice fishing shed.

I was thinking I would make it a trap door.

This it my new Scotty A 1966 Hi-Lander

This wall is sanging and has come loose at the bottom. It is a very soild trailer.
I can put it back together



Loving the skylight



This is all the stuff I found cleaning out this trailer.
This is almost enough stuff to have a yard sale.



This trailer has been passed through 3 other owner with the intentions of fixing it up.
I was told that one of these people got as far as redoing this table.
That is about the last thing I would have done when doing this restortion.





Still diggin the skylight.






Don't worry I have a plan!
Stay tuned.

Another Busy week In My World

I had a busy week. The weather has been dry and warm for November so I've been able to work outside. I've been cutting dead timber from my woods. I drag it out of the wood and cut and split it. I don't heat my home with wood. I just like a warm fire on cold nights.

Money well spent this tree guy came over with his stump grinder.

He did 10 stumps in 2 hours for $300 cash

Yes there is a Scotty in the Port!! This trailer needed a new home and some love.

More about this trailer to come.

Winter is Coming

Hey All Winter is coming! That means that my work is slow. So I have more time to work on projects. I'm hoping to paint my Scotty Tonga and put back together a Honda mini trail I'm restoring. I spent sunday at the airport with my son Adam. We had a great time. It was sunny and warm. I gave Adam a flying lesson and then he help me wash the plane.

Adam is very much at home in the plane.

He has been flying in small planes is whole life

After we were done working at the hanger. We went for a ride. Here is Adam riding a 1970 Honda Trail 70. We take this bike camping with us. Its great for getting around campgrounds.