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Welcome Forum => Welcome Board and Introductions => Topic started by: herbie on May 18, 2011, 11:38:20 AM

Title: I didn't know
Post by: herbie on May 18, 2011, 11:38:20 AM

I've been traveling and just got back to the computer.  After reading a little I discovered your crash.  Well it's good to see a restart.  I only recently joined in early April without a proper introduction.  So, I'll take this opportunity to tell.

I have buckets of tools yet to be viewed.  They are from my father (a farmer, mechanic and machinist who threw nothing away) and from my neighbor (a farmer who threw nothing away), my house (whose previous owners threw nothing away) and me (a retired university engineer who in spite of his wife's urging can throw little away).  My wife introduces me as a guy who would rather build another shed than part with a piece of junk.

I also owned several Triumph motorcycles (I still have one sorely in need of attention), Triumph and Morris Minor cars, a 1939 International F20  tractor, a Ford NAA tractor, a 1933 Plymouth Coupe, A 1935 Dodge pickup and all sorts of small engines that I played with.  Other then the F20 and the British cars I still have the rest of the stuff.  I also have a wood working shop with both antique and modern tools and machines.

Three years ago I had a fire in my shop (woodstove) that took it and the nearby garage down to nothing.  I was able to get most of the rolling stock out (lost the F20 and a very nice 1920's Johnson outboard motor).  Most of the tools were in a different shed.  However, I have found that most of the mechanics hand tools that were in the fire have been reclaimable without significant degradation.

A wall in my new barn has a display of tools that I have cleaned up and I need to do a lot more.  I know you want pictures and I'll try to get some. 

I'm now 69 and still in good health and I like to play.  I told my daughter that I was saving this stuff to be distributed among her three boys (ages 3 months to 6 years) and she gave me a rather weird look.  We'll see.  The older two already fight to see who gets to play in the truck or on the tractor.

Herbie

Title: Re: I didn't know
Post by: walker on May 18, 2011, 12:17:07 PM

welcome to the site herbie,owned a morris minor once,it died.
brian

Title: Re: I didn't know
Post by: 64longstep/Brian on May 18, 2011, 12:20:25 PM

Howdy and Welcome from Phoenix...

Title: Re: I didn't know
Post by: BRwrench on May 18, 2011, 03:32:26 PM

Hello and welcome from Ohio.

Title: Re: I didn't know
Post by: Nolatoolguy on May 21, 2011, 10:13:58 PM

Welcome Herbie

Title: Re: I didn't know
Post by: RLT on May 21, 2011, 10:36:05 PM

Both the Morris Minor and the Triumph cars were a blast to drive. 

Title: Re: I didn't know
Post by: Neals on May 21, 2011, 10:37:58 PM

Hi and welcome from Alberta

Title: Re: I didn't know
Post by: Batz on May 22, 2011, 02:35:15 AM

Hi and welcome from Queensland Australia.
I think your problem is that you like most of us here and can be classified as a hoarder. You can hold your head high, you have many friends here !

Title: Re: I didn't know
Post by: mrchuck on May 26, 2011, 06:22:45 PM

Herbie,,,where are you located?

Title: Re: I didn't know
Post by: herbie on May 26, 2011, 09:54:23 PM

I live at a place called Cliffs City.  There are no cliffs and there is no city.  Just a dozen houses in a mile of dead end road on Maryland's Eastern Shore.  That is the land east of the Chesapeake Bay and Cliffs City is on a river of the westward side of the land or the eastern side of the Bay depending on how you want to look at it.  I'm about 20 miles east of Baltimore but I have to drive 90 miles to get to Baltimore.  I'm surrounded by farmers, watermen and summer homes.

The folklore is that a man named Cliff got a grant of land from the King of England because Mr. Cliff thought by the maps of the day that the site would make a wonderful shipping center.  There is a wide river here (the Chester river) and the point of land here does appear ideal.  However, the maps didn't show water depth.  At low tide one can walk a half mile into the river and not get a wet head.  Apparently Mr. Cliff was unable to overcome this deficiency and Lord Baltimore succeeded on the other side of the bay.  Or, so the story goes.  But, Cliffs City lives on.   

Title: Re: I didn't know
Post by: Wrenchmensch on May 28, 2011, 04:49:03 PM

This site's a great place, isn't it!

I only know 1 guy in our age group (I'm 71) who still owns 1950's and/or 1960's vintage English cars, and he speaks Ukrainian. I also know he doesn't drive either car(an MG TF and and MG A) as they are not currently drivable. That said, I bought a new BJ8 Healey in 1967. I kept it 2 years, learned not to trust it, and sold it. Much  was good about the car and much was bad about the car.

I am delighted to hear that your wrenches survived a shed fire. That was good news, I bet.

Bob

Title: Re: I didn't know
Post by: gibsontool on May 28, 2011, 07:31:17 PM

Welcome from northern British Columbia.