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Finally after too many years I'm working on my 500/4
Green1:
I know how you old farmers work.
I have a customer that won't bin nothing as everything is considered repairable.My dad painted the outside of his house in the late 80's then he phoned me about 5 years ago for a price on just the bits that need touching in. :o
Mick
matthewmosse:
But pretty well everything is repairable. Given time and resources. Christ, an old friend of mine, sadly no longer with us, was still fixing up and using 1940s crawlers til last year. The things that I learnt about fixing stuff from that old boy. Hay baler broke. Mid harvest, no spare ones available, £100s in crop standing to be ruined by rain if not bought in that day. He had it running using a nail. I fixed it the same way using a link from a 500/4 chain once I knew the trick. I agree my workshop is barely workable these days. But i would sooner fix my bike first. Hence the second shed the bike lives in. Apart from the loft (rooftop jumble) I can still find most tools inside 5 Minutes let alone 5 days. ;-) organised chaos. All those crates of bolts the exhausts are on go on shelfs. Just easier to rummage on the power hacksaw.
So there are tightwad farmers in France too?
UK Pete:
I love the stories of messy work shops, anyone who has been to my place will no the real meaning of mess and clutter, i am too ashamed to even post a picture, there are at least 5 restorations in various stages, trying to find anything is like a needle in a hay stack, its all part of the madness i think, yet i usually no where to find most stuff, if i ever try and tidy up it is a shit hole within a few days as i just have to much stuff and not enough space so you have to pull everything out to get to the item you want , i wish i could change and really do try but your either a tidy person or a messy person when it comes to workshops
pete
Green1:
Totally agree with you Pete my garage is my office,workshop,joiners shop and general junk room all rolled into one tiny space.
My neighbor is even worse being a builder his garage is stuffed to the rafters he has to climbs over it all but strangely he always finds what he wants.
Mick
matthewmosse:
In that rooftop jumble attic, I have about 8 x 500 or 550 sohc engines, 2 bmw aircooled boxer lumps with gearboxes. A rebel 125 engine, a few kh125 engines and some kl250 ones, and a hatz diesel in bits, and most of about 14 motorbikes. It started off tidy, but countless rummaging trips have turned it into disorder. The projects don't end there, downstairs there is a 1914 lathe I am converting to single phase and recommisioning and 3 power hacksaws. The one I bought new is so hopelessly unreliable I am rebuilding a vintage one. Finding a k0 has resulted in some upheaval as I wanted to know what exactly I had stored, not that I am any the wiser. I am not sure it makes much difference. The whole place is a bit like Gormangahst. Last proper go at clearing out I had netted £600 or so listing everything at 99p start. Nothing sohc sold, some bits of drz I pulled out of a scrap pile paying weigh in for it on the other hand went mental, along with some boat stuff Dad picked up in a sale we couldn't identify. Glory of ebay, it establishes stuffs true value if properly listed.
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