Garage On A Spool
Published January 29, 2024 · 5:07 · 63,138 views
About This Video
Vintage truck vs. the birds. A five-minute problem-solution video about protecting the 1987 Toyota Land Cruiser from bird damage using a cover system rigged on a spool. The reel assembly and installation process is classic Spirited Man workshop content: an improvised engineering solution to a mundane problem, executed with more care and craft than the problem strictly requires.
The garage-on-a-spool concept is a compression metaphor: the entire protective infrastructure of a garage, reduced to a retractable cover. For a man who lives in Topanga Canyon without a traditional garage, the spool is both practical necessity and philosophical statement. Shelter doesn't have to be permanent to be effective. The Land Cruiser, as always, is the protagonist that connects Van's workshop practice to his broader argument about maintaining old things in a disposable world. An 8-lb sledge base for the Destroyer lamp. VHB tape holding what screws can't. Everything earns its place.
Transcript
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videos on our patreon ad free including one called ambition about the first tape
I ever shot we also have interviews that I shot 20 years ago in Berlin about Berlin exp Patriots also I do live
streams also it's the best way to get in touch with me I respond to nearly all of the messages I get on the patreon about
every week There's Something New it's five bucks a month and there's a link right at the end of this undefined undefined
video I try to be a man of integrity and as such I won't drive around in a car with bird [ __ ] on
it I ain't precious I don't mind dirt God made dirt and dirt bust your ass but bird [ __ ] is
undignified a conventional car cover is a pain in the neck and where am I going to keep
it these balls are supposed to deter birds but they don't for years I've been
spot washing but spot washing only looks right on a freshly washed
car on a dirty car you get polka dots undefined undefined
[Music] but for months I've been conceiving this gadget as I fall asleep at [Music] [Applause] [Music]
night what for [Applause] undefined undefined [Applause] for all right I didn't do a great job I didn't do the running boards I didn't do
the wheels I never do the roof it takes 20 minutes to bottle wash
the Land [Music] Cruiser a minute and 45 seconds to deploy the shoot [Music] and to furl and Stow the shoot takes another 5 minutes and 23
seconds for a total of 7 Minutes 8 seconds per use 20 minutes to wash 708
to cover and uncover on this week's patreon only video magical places finding them is an internal drive for me I live in one a undefined undefined
magical place this is the kind of magical place that I love once great and some one's trying to save [Music] it
Products & Tools Mentioned
- Toyota Land Cruiser mentions — Van's vintage truck, central subject — custom cover reel built for it