THE MOTHER OF ALL MOVES |
Although certainly not related to metalworking, I thought some pics of the move from Wis. might be entertaining. I had toyed with the idea of moving for a while, and after my property taxes took a huge jump the decision was easy. After mentioning it to my neighbor, he bugged me constantly to buy my place. He wanted to live there and expand his business. I found this place on Realtor.com. What would we do without the internet? I searched for property in Tennessee, Kentucky, and Missouri, and set three basic requirements: Very Rural, Lake frontage, and a large outbuilding (for a shop). I drove down here to check out some properties around the end of April, 2001, and made the offer on 25 April. There was no building for a shop, but two out of three wasn't bad. After returning to Wis, I closed the sale of my home there on May 14, drove down here on the 15th, and closed on this place on the 16th. With lots of help from the realtor while here, a builder was contracted to have the shop built and ready by the time I arrived here in late July. Woah! Now I must get ready to move . . . line up a trucker on the Wis end and a method of unloading here. I had till the end of July to vacate the Wis. premises and close out my little business. (I was retiring, after all). Talk about stress! A trucker was located from a close neighboring town in Wis. After many phone calls, I contacted someone with a large Bobcat to unload on this end (no one would transport a forklift out this far). Looking back, I can't believe how everything just clicked, almost like it was supposed to happen. Then it was one trip down with a very large, overloaded U-Haul for smaller tooling and some personal belongings, a couple of days unloading boxes and the tools, and back to Wis. On final moving day it was help load the 48 ft. flatbed, load up my van with what was left, drive down and wait for the truck. Unloading day was hotter than Hades, and humid as all get out (SW Mo in late July). I still had to run power into the shop, wire it, put in lights and all the rest. Needless to say it took a while before I was ready to start making chips. These pages show some of the loading of the flatbed, unloaded tools on this end, and what it looked like inside my shop before everything was arranged. I'm still looking for a few things two years later, even though each box was marked . |
A close neighbor had a large forklift, absolutely necessary to load all the stuff. This is the Vernon Horizontal. |
The flatbed being loaded |
Tools are stacking up, ready to be loaded |
Partially loaded Flatbed |
Some of the bigger stuff |
Besides the metalworking toiols, there is a lot of woodworking machinery from the Jewelry box business: Powermatic tablesaw, Delta bandsaw, Delta/Onsrud Overarm Pin Router, jointer, thickness sander, 15" custom-made surface sander, dust collector, router tables, and misc. The woodworking tools will be another page, eventually. |
I DO NOT PLAN ON DOING THIS AGAIN, EVER. |
