Ironman
Ultra Member
To introduce myself, so....
I have spent 35 years in the mining industry as a underground miner, supervisor and eventually a small contractor driving access ramps and bulk samples. I worked as a machinist for one year and the mining money called me back.
I have a lifetime collection of tools and still have the Indestro 1/2" socket set I bought when I was 16. At my age I have more equipment and tools than I have ambition. Lets see, Propane cutting torch, 400 amp welder, stick and wirefeeder and a little Lincoln I use for the light stuff. A Enerpac press, and 20 ton Mubea ironworker missing the punches, but it mostly is used to shear. I have a 14x48 Western lathe and a Lagun FT3 mill, and the never ending tooling for these things. In 2007 I bought a plasma table and 80 amp Hypertherm. I'm sure there is stuff I forgot, but then there is my shop. In 2009 I built my first shop, I used 2 Seacans spaced 30 ft apart on screw piles, with concrete floor in between. It was a joy to have a concrete floor instead of grass in front of a chicken shack. It is a 40 x 46 floor plan and one can is my machine shop, the other is cold storage. Playspace in the middle.
My other hobby is guns, in the subsonic range, and bullet casting.
I have spent 35 years in the mining industry as a underground miner, supervisor and eventually a small contractor driving access ramps and bulk samples. I worked as a machinist for one year and the mining money called me back.
I have a lifetime collection of tools and still have the Indestro 1/2" socket set I bought when I was 16. At my age I have more equipment and tools than I have ambition. Lets see, Propane cutting torch, 400 amp welder, stick and wirefeeder and a little Lincoln I use for the light stuff. A Enerpac press, and 20 ton Mubea ironworker missing the punches, but it mostly is used to shear. I have a 14x48 Western lathe and a Lagun FT3 mill, and the never ending tooling for these things. In 2007 I bought a plasma table and 80 amp Hypertherm. I'm sure there is stuff I forgot, but then there is my shop. In 2009 I built my first shop, I used 2 Seacans spaced 30 ft apart on screw piles, with concrete floor in between. It was a joy to have a concrete floor instead of grass in front of a chicken shack. It is a 40 x 46 floor plan and one can is my machine shop, the other is cold storage. Playspace in the middle.
My other hobby is guns, in the subsonic range, and bullet casting.
