I had a little goal to write a story for Etsy’s blog, The Storque. It happened. What a fun endeavor. The original story was written about the, “making of a tractor hood table.” I took over 400 photos [I am not a photographer] to come up with what you see below. I tweaked the story a bit [to make it more appealing to a wider audience]- but I thought I would share with you the original snapshots.

1. a tractor hood from Allis Chalmers 180
2. measuring hood to determine height of table
3. the metal is dirty, dented, faded and worn from youth & employees behind the wheel of the tractor
4. the recycled pipe that supports the top of the table is cut with a hacksaw
5. the tractor hood is cut to size with a plasma cutter
6. a piece of flat sheet steel is welded to the bottom
7. smoke pours out of the hole where the radiator would have been
8. a piece of new American made 10 guage steel was welded to form the top and the edges are ground smooth with a hand held grinder
9. the final step is to weld the bottom and the top of the table together