RMA

Dude... really nice truck and great work on the axle . I like it eveything all clean and shinny , I didnt see a drop of grease on the floor in the house.

86Toyrunna

lookin good man, i think that smoothing the frame rails down had to be the worst part of the whole thing. Though once you get them all cleaned up and painted it really makes it look good. haha and i can dig a solid axle for a room decoration lol

94runnerfan

Am I missing something or are your high steer arms swapped?

Jaybob

Dude you are the Martha Stewart of the SAS a Frass...

Ahhh yes I remember the point of NO RETURN... Great Job.

TOYOTA 1

94 runner is right!

you got your highsteer arms mixed up, the one with two holes goes on the passenger side.

toyospearo

well Gawwwwd DAMN!
So I did.
Fixed now. Thanks for that!

94runnerfan

I have been reading your thread for a while, I thought that picture looked funny it just took me a while to figure out why haha. Good work though that axle looks ridiculously clean. keep the picks coming

toyospearo

I thought this might be kinda interesting-
Right in the middle of this swap I have a job with The Discovery Channel doing a series called "Mega Beasts." This week long series focuses on Spinosaures. A T Rex kinda dinosaur but TWICE as big.
Below are a few photos from todays shoot. I got to play the Spino. We use painters sticks with orange bars with plastic ends for eyes to mock up the size of the dino in order for the CGI guys to use as a reference.
Check that jib out!!
The jib operator has been hired out for all kinds of movies and Tv stuff. "I Am Legend", "Gladiator", and everything in between!

Thats a big ass dino way back there lol!

Me with the director playing the Spinosaur!!!


blue screen in for the CGI!

toyospearo

I got so excited at the idea of this being done I wasn't paying attention to the placement of those.
Fortunately I used anti seize on the knuckle cone washers so they would come right off.

RMA

Looks Like you have a pretty kick back job. where is that and what vehicles do those people use .

toyospearo

"KICK BACK" ??????????
I just got done with a 16 hr day . These jobs are very intensive. 4 am call time and quit time around 11 or 12pm, same thing again the next day, then the next and so on until we wrap. Some shoots go on for months like this. I don't think most people realize how hard the people behind the scenes of feature, commercial and print film work. I grew up working on a cattle ranch and these people work circles around that.
Most of this shoot we did in the Redwoods and a few rivers bars nearby (Humbolt County, Ca.)
We usually rent big 4 x 4 Dodge or Fords and the Grip and rigging guys drive up from LA in their Grip trucks. Totally decked out with everything you could possibly imagine.
It is interesting most of the guys I work with who are grips are usually fabricators and truck mod hobbyists. One guy on this shoot is a total sand rail guy and does a ton of 4 x 4 mods for fun.

Lama glama

Whoa, cool job! That looks like fun! What exactly do you do? Grip? And I always thought T-Rex was bigger than that.... been a while since I played with dinosaurs, though.

toyospearo

In that scene I am the head of the Spino close to the ground ready to get a drink of water. The Spino was 75ft long and 40ft tall!!!!
Usually I am a Production Consultant. Sometimes I play am an actor and/or Production Assistant.
Nothing really ever to glamourous!

RMA

I meant Cool ,Bad A***,Kick back job . Not anything else.

toyospearo

It is cool to see the finished product. After a week or two working on stuff like this things get kinda blurry. When it is in post production and final I am always amazed at the outcome.

Lama glama

Ah, I see. That makes more sense. Definitely wouldn't want to cross paths with that guy.

brunner628

my pops has been a cinematographer for 40+ years. i have been on MANY a location with him at 5 am and getting home at.....well whenever. hey spearo, what is your title.

toyospearo

Mostly I am a production assistant. I do production consultation from time to time when a shoot needs advice on diving, surfing, fly fishing, local conditions etc.
I have been a gaffer, grip and an actor on a few ads as well.
I will tell you one thing, it was NICE to sleep in this morning!
Yesterdays call time was 4:30am

brunner628

right on. i did alot of grip work with pops. speaking of fly fishing....i want to get back into it and was curious about a decent beginner rig.

toyospearo

I use to be a casting instructor and had the fortune/misfortune of casting ALL makes and models of fly rods. In my humble opinion there isn't much difference between the high end rods these days and some of the low end rods. Most are fast action and the designers of the higher end rods have catered to an audience that has not learned to cast properly and as a result has
meager casting skills. This being said if you learned to cast correctly and painstakingly practiced day in and day out and you went out and bought a Three Forks rod from Cabelas and a higher end rod from Sage or Winston you might only notice a slight difference in performance. The difference in performance wouldn't be worth the $400.00 increase in price.
I own the older slower action Sage SP series rods built by Jim Green who use to be with Sage and I cherish them to no end. These rods are extremely sensitive and supple. They work well with a "positive stop" casting technique and perform in all sorts of conditions- wind, slow water, fast water, spooky fish, line control, distance and son on.
The new high end rods are very different and do not make the cut as far as I am concerned. It is a good example of supply and demand.
My advice would be to buy a "kit" rod, reel, fly line ect. and learn how to cast the "positive stop" technique. The kits are much cheaper overall and should you end up hating fly fishing you won't bang your head against a wall a year later wondering why you spent so much money on a high end rod.

I hope that helps.