SquirrelsTools
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I guess I missed this thread when I finally joined yesterday.
My friends call me bear. I'm an indigenous Cherokee from Appalachia, living in Flint Michigan.
I've used this site as a reference for a long time. I'm not the most talkative or social creature, but I basically live in my garage.
I collect, repair, restore and predominantly use (sometimes give away or sell things, especially newer post 1980s stuff). I bid on shop liquidation pallets that no one else does and sometimes I get lucky. That's the hobby. It supports itself mostly. Mostly haha.
I'm pretty disabled now, but I spent 25 years bouncing around the U.S, and then a couple of other countries doing commercial and residential contractor work. I've done electrical, grew up in plumbing, and labored at everything from ditch digging, to Uber precise CNC laser cutting at Tesla (Working on old Hamburg presses at RRDonnely was my favorite by far). If I don't know it, I want to learn it. If I can't do it, I'll admit it and move on.
I don't lie. I don't cheat. And I've never stolen anything from an individual (and nothing that wasn't edible otherwise). I'm not a nice guy, but I'm kind and I try.
I'm mentally ill, but I don't believe in using it as an excuse for bad behavior. It can be a reason you do something, but owning your consequences is what makes someone a decent person. Reason, doesn't equal excuse.
I've lost a sibling, my father, and my grandmother this year. I got divorced at the beginning of it. But met a woman in the process that might be the only person that I've ever been around who doesn't ask me to be different.
Her hobby is taking vintage toolboxes that are well beyond normal restoration, and doing patches, bodywork, sandblasting, and custom painting it into a toolbox, gun case, or something practical.
We don't believe in waste, entitlement, or laziness. And we strongly believe that planned obsolescence didn't just destroy tool making, but society.
Thanks for reading if ya did. I appreciate it. I'll go back to lurking lol.
My friends call me bear. I'm an indigenous Cherokee from Appalachia, living in Flint Michigan.
I've used this site as a reference for a long time. I'm not the most talkative or social creature, but I basically live in my garage.
I collect, repair, restore and predominantly use (sometimes give away or sell things, especially newer post 1980s stuff). I bid on shop liquidation pallets that no one else does and sometimes I get lucky. That's the hobby. It supports itself mostly. Mostly haha.
I'm pretty disabled now, but I spent 25 years bouncing around the U.S, and then a couple of other countries doing commercial and residential contractor work. I've done electrical, grew up in plumbing, and labored at everything from ditch digging, to Uber precise CNC laser cutting at Tesla (Working on old Hamburg presses at RRDonnely was my favorite by far). If I don't know it, I want to learn it. If I can't do it, I'll admit it and move on.
I don't lie. I don't cheat. And I've never stolen anything from an individual (and nothing that wasn't edible otherwise). I'm not a nice guy, but I'm kind and I try.
I'm mentally ill, but I don't believe in using it as an excuse for bad behavior. It can be a reason you do something, but owning your consequences is what makes someone a decent person. Reason, doesn't equal excuse.
I've lost a sibling, my father, and my grandmother this year. I got divorced at the beginning of it. But met a woman in the process that might be the only person that I've ever been around who doesn't ask me to be different.
Her hobby is taking vintage toolboxes that are well beyond normal restoration, and doing patches, bodywork, sandblasting, and custom painting it into a toolbox, gun case, or something practical.
We don't believe in waste, entitlement, or laziness. And we strongly believe that planned obsolescence didn't just destroy tool making, but society.
Thanks for reading if ya did. I appreciate it. I'll go back to lurking lol.