Hello to the Sawmill Creek forum community. I wasn’t sure where to post this thread, but I thought here was as good a place as any. If a moderator disagrees, please move it.
My name is Greg, from NW IL. I am 67 yo, married to my wonderful wife Judy for 45 years. I drink, I cuss, and I smoke. Just a normal guy. We have a boy and a girl, both married, and we have 9 grand kids. I spent most of my working life in the bowling industry. Everything from trash pick up to mechanic, to manager, to owner operator for 15 years. The last 6 years I worked was in construction. I retired 5 years ago, parked my butt on the couch, watched TV, and promptly ate my way up to 220#. One day my wifes mower quit working. I went looking for a new one. She informed me she did not want a new one, she wanted this one fixed. NOW! I surprised myself and actually fixed it. This started a hobby of buying up dilapidated Lawn Boy mowers and refurbishing them. I did this for a couple of years. I am now down to about a dozen Lawn Boy mowers. If you need a good refurbished Lawn Boy, I’m your guy. The mower hobby eventually led to garden tractors. I had a Massey Furgeson that I inherited from father in law. I rebuilt it. That led to another Massey, then a John Deere, which led to another Massey, another John Deere, 6 Wheel Horse tractors and so on and so on. I have a total of 13 tractors, all rebuilt, but they are not for sale. I soon ran out of room for tractors, which forced me into another route, and got back into wood working after a 30 year hiatus. The hobby I enjoy the most. A friend and I used to have a shop together. He owned some of the equipment, and I owned some. His son owned the building. Don passed away about 15 years ago. The equipment sat virtually unused for almost 20 years. I brought home my equipment, and was able to buy Dons Delta Unisaw from his widow, and purchased a couple of new things. My equipment is far from being the best, but it will do for now. I am on the look out for a good used drum sander if anyone has one for sale. My shop is my 24 X 26 garage. Everything is on wheels. It all goes out to the driveway in the mornings, back in at night. I never considered myself a great wood worker, but I hope to improve on that by asking a lot of questions, and generally making a pest of myself. When I can, I will post some pics, (if I can figure out how) of projects from 30 years ago, and recently. There are some memories coming back about wood working. Like how good any oak project can look with a little walnut inlay. How bad walnut tastes. I don’t remember walnut costing $7.50 bd. ft. You would think wood this expensive would taste better.
BTW I am now down to 120#. Who has time to eat?