I'm the same, i used to have the luxury of having an old school style dump where i used to live, tons of vehicles dumped there that i could access parts fairly cheap. Spent many hours there scrounging parts with my dad lol.
I havent done to many projects yet, i built a utility trailer from scrap lol....it has an old dodge caravan axle & leaf setup from the dump, the frame is made from cross rails from an old pallet racking setup....my fenders are made from an old super 8 sign lol....and the deck is made from decking from an old beaver lumber green house....oh and the tail lights lol, they came from a caravan to.... its a little funny looking but its strong lol. Only a 4x8 but it hauled the front half of a minivan to the dump on its trial run lol.
I downsized most of my tools.....and spare parts i'd collected over the years when we left bc lol. It was to costly to get a uhaul to go across canada was going to run me around 8000 in total :S figured i'd could replace or rebuild new tools once i got out there
Have you read the gingery books? I found them online a while back, there's some interesting stuff in them. I plan to build a T....just still trying to decide how i want to build it lol, luckily i have some time before i plan to start
For the mean time I'm doing a lot of reading,etc
How far along are you on yours? I have a ton of questions lol...hopefully i'll be able to pm soon, for some reason the campground here wont let me get into the control panel,etc :S what about inspection? Are you allowed to weld your own frame there? when i looked into it in BC i had to have a certified welder do it...I havent looked into it here in alberta tho ( regulations from what i'm told here are pretty lax ).