I drove a 20’ flatbed lumber deliver truck for 20 years. Had to unload woodburning stoves, refrigerators, 24” x 48” concrete culverts, all sorts of things. By myself. Many times at the end of a long hot day. And sometimes I had to pick those things up for returns. Down is much easier than up, when the bed of the truck is 52” off the ground. Back then I weighed 135 lbs. :bigsmile:
You find ways, and a lot of times that someone trying to be helpful but having no idea what they’re doing is the one thing that gets something broken, or someone. Sure, a forklift is nice. When you have one. Bubba is handy to have around sometimes as well, doesn’t know his own strength. But putting up with him the rest of the time isn’t worth any of it.
We all know Justin is creative, I’m pretty confident he’s gonna figure it out and be just fine.
Tell her it will return to normal when the money runs out. :bigsmile:
Honestly, how could she be upset about strangers on the internet giving you nearly $4k to buy tools to help you earn some income? Seems like a weird thing to complain about.
Had I but only known, I could have given you a nice solid old jeweler’s drill that is much better than that one you just bought. It was given to me some 18-20 years ago and barely used.
Nice that you got one though, You’ll love it, much better control with the variable foot pedal, it’ll be come the go to fine detail tool in the shop.
What are you going to do with the smaller drill press? Keep it or sell it?
I am going to keep it for a week or so and make sure the new one is working properly. Once that happens, I will post to see if anyone close to me, wants to come and get it. I think it should go to a fellow member, if someone is close enough to make it worth while picking it up.
Write me down as interested, it’d be worth the drive to me as the piece of junk we have here has been bad pretty much from day one, 27 some-odd years ago. Dad and I have cursed it many a time, and yet we keep it here for some reason, beats me.
I just added a bunch more photos, in the OP, that the wife took, of the arrival. I was amazed she came out and took photos, since she hasn't wanted anything to do with this whole thing. Women, never have figured them out.
