mickyd wrote:Garage is normal size 2 car. Space is too important to store vehicles. Cars live outside. Keeping them well waxed is all the protection they get. So the boat has one half, SS and all my stuff have 1/4, wife's sewing / craft stuff has 1/4. Boats gets trailered outside if either of us need breathing room. She comes back in at night though. She can't sleep outside.
That's the one thing that bothers me about moving to Florida.........lack of hobby play space. I don't like to have vehicles sitting outside ( and the place would look like a used car lot if I had my way ) and I've really been spoiled by the basement or eventually part of it as it gets built out.
etc92guy wrote:That's the one thing that bothers me about moving to Florida.........lack of hobby play space. I don't like to have vehicles sitting outside ( and the place would look like a used car lot if I had my way ) and I've really been spoiled by the basement or eventually part of it as it gets built out.
Ah.....a basement. I miss one of those sooooo much. They are unheard of out here in San Diego. In New England, everyone has a basement. My folks house had a huge, split level basement, one level the garage area, the other with pool table, shuffle board, full kitchen, bathroom etc. It was gorgeous. More like an apartment. In my teen years, I moved my bedroom down.
OK, I'm trying to cut back... I may run down toward Louisville KY to look at another old tractor. I found one with a bad engine like one I already have with an excellent engine. Mine is in pretty good general shape but needs a few parts. It works real well to buy two of one and make one really good one out of the two. I have done the same thing with Shopsmiths...
My father did that with a couple of old McCormick 10-20 tractors shortly after WW-II when tractors were really scarce yet. The trouble back then was that when he got done the "left-overs" had very little value beyond junk. Now with the old tractor hobby being so popular I can do that and when I get done with mine I can easily part out what is left for much more than the second tractor will cost me. I did that for my son one time when he was still in high school. He had bought a kind of tired looking old 78 Olds Cutlass Supreme that was in pretty decent running shape but was missing a bumper and had some dings in the hood and trunk both. One day I ran across another that had some engine problems but still ran. It was a better looking car (even the same color) but was not really worth trying to fix. I bought it for $150 and he parked them next to each other by the auto shop. Two days later he had a nice complete car with good bumpers, good sheet metal, a much better set of tires, all manner of stuff from the interior that was better than his. I can't remember what all he swapped but when he got done the second car was still running so I sold it for $150.
It was kind of sad and funny both. A bunch of boys bought it and were going to fix it up. I had told them what was wrong with it (including it being low on oil) and advised them to take it very easy and that it should make it back to town to where they were going to be working on it (about 4 miles). Weeellll... Young bucks do not always listen well... They rolled out of my lot and back toward town with the hammer down and leaving a vapor trail like a 747... They were probably doing 70 by the time they went out of sight and they made it all of two miles before it blew. I have no idea if they ever got it going. I'm sure they didn't with that engine.
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Francis Robinson
I did not equip with Shopsmiths in spite of the setups but because of them.
1 1988 - Mark V 510 (bought new), 4 Poly vee 1 1/8th HP Mark V's, Mark VII, 1 Mark V Mini, 1 Frankensmith, 1 10-ER, 1 Mark V Push-me-Pull-me Drillpress, SS bandsaw, belt sander, jointer, jigsaw, shaper attach, mortising attach, TS-3650 Rigid tablesaw, RAS, 6" long bed jointer, Foley/Belsaw Planer/molder/ripsaw, 1" sander, oscillating spindle/belt sander, Scroll saw, Woodmizer sawmill
robinson46176 wrote:They were probably doing 70 by the time they went out of sight and they made it all of two miles before it blew. I have no idea if they ever got it going. I'm sure they didn't with that engine.
If you look real hard as you drive down the road, somebody probally made it into a planter or something..
I see said the blindman, to his deaf wife, as he picked up his hammer and saw.
Shopsmith Mark V. DC3300
Jared
Humble beginnings.
I hope this isn't a duplication. Sometimes I lose track of what I posted where... Or what I was doing.... Or why I am in a given location... Or which location I am in... Or where I was really headed when I got there...
Some of you know the feeling.
This link is to a picture taken on a farm my grandparents once owned. http://picasaweb.google.com/robinson46176/FamilyTreePictures#5428846777002223394
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I was actually born in a hospital (1942). I have the original bill here someplace. Doctor and hospital both came to just over $50.
I'll probably get that bill paid off in a few more years.
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farmer
Francis Robinson
I did not equip with Shopsmiths in spite of the setups but because of them.
1 1988 - Mark V 510 (bought new), 4 Poly vee 1 1/8th HP Mark V's, Mark VII, 1 Mark V Mini, 1 Frankensmith, 1 10-ER, 1 Mark V Push-me-Pull-me Drillpress, SS bandsaw, belt sander, jointer, jigsaw, shaper attach, mortising attach, TS-3650 Rigid tablesaw, RAS, 6" long bed jointer, Foley/Belsaw Planer/molder/ripsaw, 1" sander, oscillating spindle/belt sander, Scroll saw, Woodmizer sawmill
They rolled out of my lot and back toward town with the hammer down and leaving a vapor trail like a 747... They were probably doing 70 by the time they went out of sight and they made it all of two miles before it blew. 