halfmileharry
Grandmaster
I am at a point where some of my old tools need rebuilt/replaced.
There is also this gun thing.
It's ok. Guns are tools.
I am at a point where some of my old tools need rebuilt/replaced.
There is also this gun thing.
I once sold a socket set because I had 2 of them then later on I discovered I needed an extra socket from it and since then I’ve hoarded tools. I like to learn how to do things on my own so I’ll buy tools if I think there’s a possibility I’ll use it in the future. I hate hiring “professionals” to cobble stuff up so I might as well try to figure it out on my own.
I really have no idea how folks can afford to pay others to do everything.
In this I have learned to do everything I might need to do in this life as to home/auto maint. etc.
Bingo. Needing tools for work, more and more, I've added substantially to my already decent tool collection. The downside is duplicates or is that tool at work or home?
I really have no idea how folks can afford to pay others to do everything.
In this I have learned to do everything I might need to do in this life as to home/auto maint. etc.
Keeping old tools
I really have no idea how folks can afford to pay others to do everything.
In this I have learned to do everything I might need to do in this life as to home/auto maint. etc.
I know. Wouldn't you love to know how much money you've saved yourself over a lifetime of DIYing?
I know. Wouldn't you love to know how much money you've saved yourself over a lifetime of DIYing?
I had a deal with my wife that I got to keep half of what a contractor would have charged each time I did something myself. Unfortunately, I was doing so much, we couldn't afford to keep doing it.
Here in Bloomington, the trades have a great gig. They can pick the jobs they want to do, charge what they want and even fail to show up or do quality work.
So with few exceptions I do everything myself. So if I need a tool, I buy it. Still much less than hiring someone to do the job.
Hey, leave CM alone! He does the best he can.
I've got an old John Deere garden tractor that I'll never get rid of. Thing weighs 1000lbs, and is soooooooo much more machine than these new ones. Its shaft driven To the hydro pump. Only belt on it is the deck belt. To replace it with a new similar quality deere would be $6000 or more. 10 times the money I have in the old one.
I beat it like a rented mule and it never hesitates to perform. .
Could hand them down to a young man and train him(or her) proper usage?
Morgan88