Dang it you all!

[Tractorhead 9,064]

Only one machine ?

No hesitate on collecting.

 

 

Honey, what do you think is better, waste the Money in a Bar, 

or have a Men‘s Toy and invest the Money ( because the Value stay‘s)

oh huh, i have found something... whoww look 😂

 

it works on my Side.. 👍😂

 

[ebinmaine 67,265]

4 hours ago, Lee1977 said:

back-up for the back-up

Back about 30 years ago my father was visiting his brother. Noticed he had 2 snowblowers.

Only one person ever ran one at a time.

My father says why do you have 2??

 

My uncle Ron says 

If it's important enough to have one, it's probably important enough to have 2.

 

There's good logic ....

 

[Greentored 3,201]

HA- Thanks you all for the good laughs this morning while sitting in the dungeon (office) at work with my coffee.  It about shot out of my nose on a couple of these comments. 

  In my girlfriends (might as well be wife) defense, after 8 years shes well aware of my 'addictions' and pretty much supports (or is it 'tolerates') them, usually with an eye roll.  Between Coleman lanterns, home brewing, and buying a house (a long term flip/escape from the rat race on weekends) I truly owe her a ton of credit. Pretty sure she knows where this latest addiction could go....

  For the first 40 years of my life, it was hotrods and Harleys, period. I own a hotrod/classic car shop now, and although (for the most part) its not a drag going to work every day, it pretty much ruined the only hobby I had. Enter camping, more hunting, fishing, collecting lanterns, guns, brewing beer, and now with a new property with an acre to clean up, plant a garden, a food plot for deer, and play on, it's Wheel Horse time!

PS- yes thats a real, numbers matching 70 Buick GSX under the plastic. Customer is having it hopped up a bit, yet retain the original parts and appearance.

[ebinmaine 67,265]

37 minutes ago, Greentored said:

sitting in the dungeon (office) at work with my coffee.  It about shot out of my nose on a couple of these comments

Best to keep a bath towel handy with the way some of us are.....

 

 

As far as women go I may be the luckiest guy on here because mine Love's machinery just as much as I do.

 

Good to hear yours has learned to tolerate your behavior.

 

[Pullstart 62,783]

52 minutes ago, Greentored said:

HA- Thanks you all for the good laughs this morning while sitting in the dungeon (office) at work with my coffee.  It about shot out of my nose on a couple of these comments. 

  In my girlfriends (might as well be wife) defense, after 8 years shes well aware of my 'addictions' and pretty much supports (or is it 'tolerates') them, usually with an eye roll.  Between Coleman lanterns, home brewing, and buying a house (a long term flip/escape from the rat race on weekends) I truly owe her a ton of credit. Pretty sure she knows where this latest addiction could go....

  For the first 40 years of my life, it was hotrods and Harleys, period. I own a hotrod/classic car shop now, and although (for the most part) its not a drag going to work every day, it pretty much ruined the only hobby I had. Enter camping, more hunting, fishing, collecting lanterns, guns, brewing beer, and now with a new property with an acre to clean up, plant a garden, a food plot for deer, and play on, it's Wheel Horse time!

PS- yes thats a real, numbers matching 70 Buick GSX under the plastic. Customer is having it hopped up a bit, yet retain the original parts and appearance.

 

So even more “beach ball instead of bikini...” is that a swamp cooler between the horse and the hot rod?  Looks monstrous... but isn’t that a lot of humidity for the rods?

[oilwell1415 563]

1 hour ago, Greentored said:

I own a hotrod/classic car shop now, and although (for the most part) its not a drag going to work every day, it pretty much ruined the only hobby I had.

Same thing for me, except I didn't own the shop.  Finally got out of the business 10 years ago today and still don't care much for working on cars.

[Achto 27,502]

1 hour ago, Greentored said:

I own a hotrod/classic car shop now, and although (for the most part) its not a drag going to work every day, it pretty much ruined the only hobby I had.

 

One thing that I have learned over time "Never turn your hobby into a job". I like cars and had a hand full of them, I enjoyed fixing them up. Got a job in a body shop & soon had no interest in working on my cars. I like wrenching on and riding bikes, usually put about 8k to10k miles on mine every year. Took a job as a Harley mechanic, between wrenching on and test riding other peoples bikes I soon lost interest in mine. Now I work on generators, get to play with engines up to 65L and hardly ever think about them after work.

[ebinmaine 67,265]

@Achto

Dan you don't have a pile of friends bugging you to fix their own 65L generators on the weekends??

 

[Alex175 784]

16 hours ago, stevasaurus said:

God help you if you are worried about the wife with just 2 horses.  What are you going to do when it is the 4th horse.??

   Hint...the 2nd horse is for dedication...so you don't have to change implements in the middle of a storm.  The 3rd horse is just in case one desires to take a break.  The 4th...well, now you are just collecting.

 

Well this perfectly describes how I rationalized everything to my wife over course of the last year of building up my herd....I mean perfectly.  Glad to know I'm not alone 

[Greentored 3,201]

33 minutes ago, Achto said:

 

One thing that I have learned over time "Never turn your hobby into a job"......

I had a saying for years- "do what you love and you never work a day in your life". The new saying is- "do what you love and you wont for long". I have a couple hotrods and a shovel topped 53 FL I chopped 20 years ago. They get to stretch their legs 2-3 times a year. It used to be weekly, if not daily.....

53 minutes ago, pullstart said:

 

So even more “beach ball instead of bikini...” is that a swamp cooler between the horse and the hot rod?  Looks monstrous... but isn’t that a lot of humidity for the rods?

Yes it is, we run a pair of them. Its already pretty humid here in the summer, and with these requiring fresh air/open doors, it doesnt bother anything. I wouldnt aim it directly toward a bare metal car body though haha.  The high ambient humidity does hurt the efficiency of the units, but it takes the shop from 'ridiculous' to 'bearable'.

Edited January 21, 2020 by Greentored

[oilwell1415 563]

34 minutes ago, Greentored said:

I had a saying for years- "do what you love and you never work a day in your life". The new saying is- "do what you love and you wont for long". I have a couple hotrods and a shovel topped 53 FL I chopped 20 years ago. They get to stretch their legs 2-3 times a year. It used to be weekly, if not daily.....

I had the same shift in the saying and our toys have seen the same decrease in usage.  My wife's Camaro SS hasn't been out of the garage in probably a year and hasn't driven 100 miles over the last 5 years.  In her defense, it needed a fuel pump for a few months before I got around to fixing it.  You have to pull the rear end to get the gas tank out, so it was a multi day job on my back on the garage floor.  But I used it as an opportunity to put an exhaust on it and some lowering springs and upgraded shocks.  Now I've got to get her other Camaro running so I can get this one out of the garage.  Ugh.  Damn GM products.  I haven't driven my Lightning much either, but it hasn't had a lot of use anyway.  It's an 01 with 18k miles on it.  I put 8k miles on it the first year and 10k in the 18 years since then.  But it's been a hard 18k miles, usually on the way to the track for play time and back.  But I do get it out a few times a year and terrorize the high school kids in their rice burners.

[ronhatch 406]

Beautiful restoration Job on the 520.   IMHO, if you're going to buy and restore, rather than park them in the backyard under a tree to rot, go for it! Personally,  I prefer a rainbow of tractor colors; green and yellow, orange, red, which is what you'll see in my tractor shed. I enjoy how each machine is engineered differently. admittedly some better than others.   Years ago I restored (I use that term loosely) a '57 Chevy to relive my youth, built a kit car plus owned many motorcycles (of which I enjoyed everyone of them), but I feel that my restored working garden tractors,  unlike restored cars, actually serve a purpose. I guess in my old age, I've become a very practical kind of guy. 

Edited January 21, 2020 by ronhatch

[ebinmaine 67,265]

2 minutes ago, ronhatch said:

restored working garden tractors,  ..., actually serve a purpose.

 

Trina and I couldn't agree more

 

[Tractorhead 9,064]

I agree totally,

a Job must be a Job (sometimes bit more or less) to earn Money and a hobby just shall be a hobby.

Mixing of both or turning a hobby to Job ain‘t a good idea mostly.

Exceptions prove the rule.

 

 

When you enjoy you hobby, you invest much by less benefit but it satisfies and relaxes you from Stress.

If you turn hobby into Job, your mind will change over the Time and things you liked before becomes a sad touch or a dislike.

I did this fail also but learned also my lesson about.

 

Great that my treasure Kati accepts my hobby (ok, also sometimes with rolling eyes)

but she know‘s how important that is for me and she knows me with that kind of Madness at beginning

 

[Achto 27,502]

2 hours ago, ebinmaine said:

 

Dan you don't have a pile of friends bugging you to fix their own 65L generators on the weekends??

 

Has never happened. On occasion I will get a call from our service group with some questions, some times this leads to going to a job site to assist. I enjoy going to job sites because it involves getting on a plane and an opportunity to check out a new area all expenses paid. Mean while usually banking some OT.