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| 75Plus:
--- Quote from: vtsteam on September 20, 2013, 11:34:44 AM ---Absolutely right about the propane heater problem Joe! Forgot about that. I actually haven't used the heater in years. Well woodstove only it is. --- End quote --- Steve, You might look around for a wall heater that uses propane. They are vented and don't generate moisture. Another solution is to pick up a small forced air furnace and use it. A horizontal unit could be suspended from the ceiling so it would be out of the way. Joe |
| vtsteam:
Thanks Joe, but for now, I'll probably have to make do with a very small woodstove I have already. Pete -- some very good suggestions there. Especially to get rid of things which haven't been used for 2 years. I'll try to be ruthless, might not make it though. Keep telling me this kind of stuff, it really helps! Andrew, sounds like you have a GREAT setup! I will be happy once this is over with, but it's hard right now. Chipenter, yes mate, it's a struggle short handed. All that mass you appreciate in a machine when using it, doesn't want to move elsewhere than where it's planted! Today I fought with the mill. Lifted it from the stand slung from an overhead beam with a come-along to gradually convince it onto a dolly, which bent visibly under the weight. And then using a pry bar, inched it towards the doorway. What do these things weigh altogether 600 lbs maybe? Anyway, got it to the edge where it could be reached by a boom on the tractor. Unfortunately a 1951 John Deere Model M only has 18 horsepower, though they are honest horses. But the state of hydraulics back then on a small tractor aren't what they are today, and it couldn't lift the mill drill. So I pulled the 4 bolts that held the ways to the pillar, guess I'll be shimming and tramming. I had the head and pillar up in the air ready to move on over to the other shed and the slides and base on the dolly when the tractor engine suddenly stopped. I was just over the door threshold. Couldn't restart and the boom started to come down -- old hydraulics don't hold forever. I decided to lower it myself rather than wait (a mistake) and it came down too fast with the pillar tilted enough to start keeling over. I caught it with the control before it dropped, but it gradually lowered itself on its side -- half on the concrete pad and half in the dirt outside the shop. Luckily it was on the left side, and nothing contacted that could get bent or broken, but still I was acursin'! Turned out the tractor battery was dead -- the generator wasn't charging. It was nearly evening, so I moved sensitive stuff indoors, covered over others, including the mill head and ways, and put the tractor on a charger. I couldn't close the shed door because the mill head was half in and half out. Oh well, we'll sort it in the morning. That mill WILL arrive in its new quarters before rainfall (100 % chance of heavy rain) Saturday evening, even if I have to take it and the tractor to bits! Don, grateful for a lack of photographic equipment today. It would only have been thrown at a tree! :lol: I promise to take photos when and if there is something civilized to shoot! :beer: |
| dsquire:
Steve I feel your pain. Been there, done that years ago. Patience is your best friend. That light you see at the end of the tunnel is not a freight train, but a candle and it will get brighter as you approach it. We are getting thunder showers as I write this so I will try and hold them back to give you time to do your thing tomorrow. All the best. :D :D Cheers :beer: Don |
| awemawson:
Steve, Sorry to hear of your moving issues, I hope today goes better. Working single handed can be a real pain. I recently shunted stuff about in my welding shop to make room for the Edwards box pan folder, and an extra pair of eyes would have been SO useful! The major stuff to move was a 2 ton radial arm drill, and a 3/4 ton 'garage press' . Although I had the right kit (skates, hydraulic toe jack, pallet truck, firm concrete floor etc) I had headroom issues - both items have top mounted motors and the roof construction meant they had to be moved in a particular path to avoid beams. Not so easy seeing where the top is when you're at the other end shoving ! I will be thinking of you today and hope that the weather holds off for you to get things sorted. One thing I have come to appreciate in a workshop is a good solid level floor. At least then shoving stuff about becomes possible single handed even if an extra pair of hands would help enormously. |
| DavidA:
Can I join your club ? My workshops seem to be in a constant state of flux. I'm also trying to rationalise my (still) growing stock of off cuts etc. The problem is, I find, that you think of thowing something out, then get paralised by a fear that you may just need that particular item. Maybe tomorrow, maybe next week. So you keep it 'just in case'. After long and painfull contemplation I have come to realise that the problem is basically due to an over optomistic image of what the future after retirement would be like. There would be the re-building of my two old cars, the garden to play about in, all the little projects that would be used to pass the 'golden years'. But , of course, it doesn't turn out quite that way. You don't fell quite as enthusiastic about crawling under cars at 69 as you thought you would when you were, say, forty. But I still try my best to get rid of all the stuff I won't need. I think it is mostly psychological. A built in aversion to discarding what is after all, still usfull 'stuff' even if you know in your heart of hearts you will never use it. Dave. |
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