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I never "got" the "pet" thing. I grew up on a farm with livestock and working dogs. The working dogs were our partners. We worked with them every day and we "loved" them, I thought. Went through a lot of them, though, which was the price of doing business. We even raised dogs for sale and...

See, I don't see how those jobs ****. Do you know what *****? Sitting through mandatory "Don't **** your Co-Workers" or "LBTQ-EIEIO Sensitivity" Classes, taking so-called "self evaluation/self-improvment" psych tests, or dealing with all the office ******** and backstabbing games it takes to...

First, the retirees that had to go back to work after 2008 were those who were under-capitalized in retirement. Or had invested unwisely. I know a couple that ran into serious liquidity problems, and they did everything wrong to get there. I'd probably be willing to murder someone to keep from...

When you are talking "business owner" vs employee working overtime, you are talking about two different kettles of fish. God bless business owners. They work themselves to death and they are worth EXACTLY what they can take away from the business. And give the rest of us schlubs someplace to...

I love Cane Corso's. My buddy has a big brindled black one, that provides continuous entertainment. We were having a cookout at his place, and he was starting to make moves toward the meat as it was coming off the grill, so my buddy put the Cane Corso on the other side of the fence. The dog...

What is it with this fixation with "40 hours a week?" I've never worked a job anywhere that was "just" 40 hours a week. You bet your **** management works 60-70, as does every other salaried job. If I had a 40 hour a week job, I'd need to find a part time job, or I'd just be leaving money on...

Will look forward to seeing your build. I have something very similar in mind.

http://www.allmetalshaping.com/ Answers to all your questions, right there.

I love this thing: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00HAH9ATI/?tag=atomicindus08-20

It's amazing what kind of quality you can build when iron is such a rare commodity. Scarcity drives value way up, and the Japanese treat metal work as almost a religion.

Lela:

Here is my bearded axe. Lots of folks think the bearded axe was designed as a weapon of war, and most art, media and re-enactors portray it as such. In reality, the Viking war axe was a completely different design. The beard on the axe is to allow the hand to be placed behind the center of...

I've seen them advertised as low cost alternatives to metal buildings.

I'm still planning my garage build, and I am seriously considering doing the entire garage as a lean-to. My wife and I are planning to move to Tennessee, and build a roughly 1600 sq ft small house. We are looking for ways to have a large-ish garage without overwhelming the small house. Growing...

I need some more metalshaping hammers, but what I WANT is an Eastwood SCT.

I'm also going to tag team on the "bigger is better" thing. First, there is such a thing as aesthetics. I know, that is true blasphemy in McMansion Hell many live in. Second, smaller forces you to be clever instead of using size to get what you want. I know that when I am given space, I fill...

This, exactly. My oldest daughter has little/no interest in tools. When she needs to do something with tools, like assemble her made in Eastern Europe IKEA furniture, she uses the little bit of metal supplied with the kit, or an inappropriate tool. Since a Harbor Freight opened down the...

The 20 ton press is ok, as far as I can see. The 12 ton press is just too rickety to be good for anything much. I set it up correctly, tighten up the joints, and locktite the **** out of the nuts, and it still flies apart every time I try to use. I'd say it's a 12 ton press in a frame that...

If you know a thing or two about tools, there ARE some bargains at HF. When I was first starting out, I found some full chrome Indian manufactured wrenches, and a bit of messing with them found them to be excellent in every way. Still use them, and didn't have to go into debt to buy them. My...

I swear, their Vulcan line of automated inversion welders have changed me from a "gobber" to a competent welder. I'm an old school Oxy-Acetylene guy, and various high quality Tig and Mig machines have defeated my efforts to learn the electric welding systems. 5 minutes with a Vulcan MigMax...