I thought some of you might be interested in one of my ongoing non-car projects. It’s the office area/secondary work area in my shop. It all started a couple of years ago when I restored my Granddads old forge and kind of took on a life of it’s own after that.
I grew up on a small family farm in the Midwest and the majority of the tools are from when my Granddad was farming it back in the 1920-30’s. Neither my brother or sister had shown any interest in “the rusty old junk” my dad had saved from those days, so a little bit at a time I eventually moved it all out to Arizona with me. As I would get it out here I would restore it and try to find a place for it. Eventually my office area got pretty much turned into a 1930’s farm shop.
What I have pretty well represents what was used to maintain and build equipment during that era.
In case you are wondering I actually do use the area and equipment. The anvil, grinder and vice are pretty handy for fabricating repair panels and were actually used for some jobs when I was building my El Camino. The old post drill actually works better for drilling large holes and using hole saws than my modern drill press in the main shop due to it’s low speed.
The last big thing I resorted was this old Waterloo Boy hit and miss engine of my dads.
Of course that has led directly into one last (?) major project. After watching the little engine sit around and turn money into noise I decided I would really like to see it do some work. I’ve decided to add a line shaft to the shop so the engine can power the grinder, post drill, compressor and a small generator.
At this point I have just about everything to get it installed and will probably get started on that in the next week or two.
So anyway that is pretty much what I do when I get tired of working on cars. All in all it’s a pretty nice place to sit and have a beer at the end of the day.
I grew up on a small family farm in the Midwest and the majority of the tools are from when my Granddad was farming it back in the 1920-30’s. Neither my brother or sister had shown any interest in “the rusty old junk” my dad had saved from those days, so a little bit at a time I eventually moved it all out to Arizona with me. As I would get it out here I would restore it and try to find a place for it. Eventually my office area got pretty much turned into a 1930’s farm shop.
What I have pretty well represents what was used to maintain and build equipment during that era.
In case you are wondering I actually do use the area and equipment. The anvil, grinder and vice are pretty handy for fabricating repair panels and were actually used for some jobs when I was building my El Camino. The old post drill actually works better for drilling large holes and using hole saws than my modern drill press in the main shop due to it’s low speed.
The last big thing I resorted was this old Waterloo Boy hit and miss engine of my dads.
Of course that has led directly into one last (?) major project. After watching the little engine sit around and turn money into noise I decided I would really like to see it do some work. I’ve decided to add a line shaft to the shop so the engine can power the grinder, post drill, compressor and a small generator.
At this point I have just about everything to get it installed and will probably get started on that in the next week or two.
So anyway that is pretty much what I do when I get tired of working on cars. All in all it’s a pretty nice place to sit and have a beer at the end of the day.
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