Posted by Geo-TH,In on October 16, 2022 at 03:33:20 from (50.102.6.87):
In Reply to: My projects posted by 37 chief on October 15, 2022 at 22:01:13:
Stan, I was denied a childhood. I had to work on Dad's dairy farm. Child labor. I couldn't play sports, I had to get up every morning and feed the calves before the school bus. Get home and work until 9 or 10 and try to do some homework. Good thing the teachers let me sleep in study hall. I guess I never learned how to play. Like you, I had to twist wrenches to keep tractors, trucks and my motorcycles going. I still twist wrenches. I've built a few room additions from the ground up, totally rebuilt houses. One was in a fire. I spent a year helping a neighbor rebuild a 110 year old barn that was falling down and he needed a barn for his 3 horses. That was a challenge we'll never be able to do again, too old. It was fun. I did it for Free. Making my neighbor who has battled cancer a few times happy was payment enough. I don't play golf, I don't smoke, I don't drink, women stop chasing me so I don't have to run. I enjoy a 4 mile trike ride when I can. My life consists of repairing things like you. There aren't too many engines I can't bring back to life. I collect tools. If I need a tool, I buy it. At one time I made a body shop out of a 28x44 garage. I lost interest in welding in new body panels and painting cars. I do enjoy crappie fishing with my sister in the winter. I have 6 rentals. At one time I had 12. I do all the maintenance work. I could make more money and do less work if I sold them and put the money in the stock market. I love math and the stock market is a cool math game. I keep my rentals so I have something to do. I think everyone needs to have a source of aggravation, rentals properties are one of mine. I have 2 workshops 18 miles apart. One pole barn has welders, lathe, torch, 20 ton press, table saw, trim saw, wood planner. I can build about anything I need I think we are very much alike. We have to be doing something. Life is too short to sit in front of a TV and watch Football. My days of restoring rust buckets are over. My days of riding motorcycles are over. My days of fast cars are over. I once restored a 1962 jaguar XJE and a 1966 triumph 650 MC. I don't care to make sawdust anymore. I do have reminders of all the furniture I've made out of red oak. I've passed some of my wood tools to my son who has some interest in wood projects.. Cheif, don't give up. Invent something to do. My sister, my fishing partner, taught special needs until she was 73. Now she can't handle just sitting around so she does volunteer work at an animal rescue center's thrift store. She still enjoys going to yard sales. Now working at the center, the good yard sale items come to her. I know a retired man who works part time at Menards just to have something to do and he enjoys talking to people. Best part, he gets paid..go figure. I've been retired for 18 years, no plans to ever go back to work. I seem to find enough to do. I hope I've given you some ideas about what you can do. I've even volunteered to get two old tractors running for 2 different people. One was a TO20 and another was a MF35. I completely rewired the MF35 and split the tractor to install a new clutch. Perhaps you could advertise helping people breathe new life in old tractors, old cars, old motorcycles. Have them bring them to your workshop. As long as I have get up and go, it's a good day. I hope it's never the other way around, go before I get up. It feels good to help people and gives you a sense of purpose. Invent something to do. Take care, George
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