Ive had my kids in some crappy situations, like pressure washing old machines- they hate it at first but learn its just all part of the job you gotta do before anything can look pretty again. If my wife woulda saw the mess i had in the driveway cleaning the clark, she'd have flipped out...musta been 20 pounds of grease/grime- 1-2" thick in spots... i put down tarps, rolled up the mess and washed the concrete, even pressure washed my work clothes and washed them before she got home
thanks, when I saw it was a 90's model, and a triple, just couldnt stand to see it sinking in the ground... honestly, a smaller truck would be better at home, this thing is too tall to get into one garage and weighs 9900, worried it might crack the floor...gonna need to pour a heavy pad/put a lean to on the garage to keep the truck i didnt really need...but heck, getting older, having easier ways to move heavy stuff might be a back saver- i built a big rotisserie out of a gantry crane for my mustang, put it together by myself except had one of the kids on one tractor to help roll it upright(used legs like a 'gin pole' to roll it upright- top beam is >500 pounds alone). that was 5 years ago, doubt my back would tolerate taking it apart now- this thing will make that easy peasy. ever since putting it together, ive been thinking how much harder it was gonna be to roll it down without damaging it... heck even moving the cradles/lift tables I used to hang the car can be be done easier with the truck...the cradles alone were a couple hundred pounds ea...they clamp to 2x2 lift bars, and support the body under full length of the rocker...made them in 2003 to pull the body off our 65 galaxie, but my back was still pretty good back then
same here- and kinda neat crossing paths with others having similar passions for old stuff...stuff todays generations typically would toss away without blinking a eye...
yep, i dont 'feel old' but definitely know things like joints ache and make noises i never knew when younger...i'm getting 'old man hands' as I used to think of them as a kid, fingers getting crooked, etc...funny, i remember being 15, my grandpa told me 'i still feel 15 in my head, but cant do what i used to', and see that plainly now at only 55...but i had(still do) a bad habit of lifting things i shouldnt, rode atvs for years(and rode like a total idiot- flat out, jumping higher and higher till stuff broke) and all that beating takes a toll...as kids we dont realize a spine can take only so many impacts, and i was ticking them down daily
same here... i got 4 sons, a couple are into building stuff, but not much...but still young/learning, hopefully they'll be using this crap long after i'm gone- if not it will be worth a few bucks to someone, those bucks will be spent and forgotten... alas, it is what it is
on the clark, i just couldnt see past the potential enough to think about 'why/where'...if i had any common sense, i wouldnt even walk out to the scrapyard area...after the fact, maybe i shoulda spent the past month and a half enjoying the summer more...oh well.
wasnt trying to offend any age group- shoulda said todays mentality or something- just most people these days dont fix things anymore, as its easier to just go buy new- and that includes folks my parents age too, not so much folks my grandparents age, but not many of those left...
wasnt trying to offend any age group- shoulda said todays mentality or something- just most people these days dont fix things anymore, as its easier to just go buy new- and that includes folks my parents age too, not so much folks my grandparents age, but not many of those left...
love to see younger folks like you and others that still value old stuff, even if its 'old'... my three oldest sons all rebuilt their first cars(with help) but they got dirty, got learning, and wound up with pretty decent first cars- without going into debt, by doing the work themselves- wound up with cars way better than my first few...
my one old friend Al who we lost to ALS at 70 years young, had a nice set of patternmaker tools that were his Dad's, along with saws, a planer, jointer, etc... his kids started cleaning out his shop, almost threw all that 'old junk' away, but one 18 yr old grandson stopped them, oiled/packed them carefully away as his dream was to build a custom cabinet shop- was so happy to see that, know Al woulda been too...another buddy we lost to cancer a week after his 90th birthday- Don bought a 1968 cub cadet new, we'd helped him rebuild it after it caught fire a decade ago...at his estate sale, I bought it and his jointer, most of his hand tools too- mostly just because they were his, but also, they were all good stuff...cast iron rockwell jointer was only bid on by a scrap guy for 20 bucks, I bid 100 just to get his family something out of it...only used it once, but what a nice machine...
anyways sorry for generalizing a age group- its not any one age, but seems to be growing- its becoming a throw away society, where more often than not, old is seen as bad(sometimes for good reason though)...worse yet, new isnt made to last or be repairable any more
I'm 35, despise being associated with an age group with so many idiots and weenies. Its infuriating to talk to the entitled college educated twenty something morons that work in our IT department. I know people in their 50s and 60s that are the same way. Just not near as many of them. And I can talk bad about college kids, I have 2 college degrees and 2 professional trades.
^^^love this. folks like you give me hope for the future
if i could do it anyone could... i really hope my kids take a little of that...my 19 yr old just started on maintenance and likes it- of my 4 kids, i really wanted hm to get into engineering/programming, as can just tell hes got the perfect mindset for it, but hes not interested yet...maybe a while 'fixing' things and feeling the satisfaction of seeing it go might light a fire under him to get into the programming aspects, to me thats where the 'fun' always was...but thats gotta be for him to choose.so, did the welders work out?
^^^love this. folks like you give me hope for the future
I started out at the place i'm still at in highschool...sweeping floors/patching roofs, but read and tore into everything I could...they let me after hours tear apart scrap equipment to see how it worked and use machines, even a computer after the engineering guys went home, learned gcode/cad/pretty much all the machine tools that way, with just time and library books- and was thankful for the opportunity...within a year on maintenance with no training, they had me gut a huge(100' square) Lamb transfer machine- gutted the problematic 1960s 'numa-logic' controls(each 'or', 'and' etc gate was a separate board!) replaced with a early 'mcgill' PLC- they ran it 12 more years... 3 years was retrofitting Fanuc series 6 CNCs on old machines, all seat of the pants...years later wound up in Japan installing automated wheel lines that i was charged with automating, and showing the Japanese guys how to teach the robots...and I aint the sharpest crayon in the box, just wasnt afraid to get dirty, always liked learning, had a knack for tinkering, and took things on as a challenge instead of a chore...never dreamed i'd wind up the guy drawing all the schematics, writing all the ladder logic/interface stuff...and earning a comfortable living to boot
so, did the welders work out?
