Shop Time w/T.W. Friends

How can you even walk after sleeping in a chair all night?....

 

So I have weight on the trailer & wheels on the ground -- what do you want to see first?

 

I got out of bed at 1:30 and went to the couch

 

Walking can be difficult for me to begin with, sleeping in the chair doesn't seem to make it any worse.

 

You decide

 

The other day I sneezed and almost threw out my back...



I'm 35

 

It just gets better with age...

 

I tell Cole "I'd love to tell you it gets easier but it doesn't".....he's 13

 

I get that. However, it would be nice if it would stop happening so quick

 

Slow go the days - fast go the years,
time has a way of slipping into second gear.

 

Yes

 

and you sir, have a way of skirting the inevitable....where's dem piktures !!!

 

They say if you want to get ahead get a hat...

And if you want to mow grass get a big d*ck... *cough* deck.

Will 60" do?



A big whomping engine helps too.



My friend Dave's brother got a new mower and gave him the old one. He found out it is just too darn big for an in town lawn, fast too - maxes out at about 9 mph.

Dave could use some cash, I can use a big mower at home so a deal was struck.





Except it won't fit on my trailer...

 

Nice!

 

And then there is the iron.

Dave hadn't been back home 15 minutes when I called him asking if he was up for a little road trip.

We were going to look at a bandsaw that had been sitting in a wood shed for a few decades, with no motor.



The (poor) photos didn't really depict the scale of the machine well. I knew it was a larger model.



Bloody hell!
The thing weighs almost 700 pounds!



With a come-a-long, chains, straps, boards and a lot of ratcheting (good ol' Dave did that) we got it on the trailer just as the daylight ran out - I owe him a China Buffet trip.

So I ask the fellow "as long as I'm here is there anything else I shouldn't buy?"

He says "There's a drill press in the other shed..."

 

It will fit on the car hauler.

 

I called it money wisely spent.

 

Drill press my foot... This thing is stunning.



Walker - Turner radial drill made in the early 1940's.



Amazing T slot cast iron table.



It came with this huge vice also, there is a lower rotating section too. This is a two man lift item for sure.



It was back in a corner with a wood stove next to it. We got some pipes underneath for rollers and with some cussin' & fussin' got it to the door - repeat with the come-a-long.



About 2 hours to load, got back to the garage at 9:30 parked the whole shebang, went home & fell asleep in the chair.

It was a good day.

 

That is what I'm thinking, haven't measured the track width yet.