[TheForge] Retirement Plan

[Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer]

Michael;
What's "retirement"?
Does getting tired over and over qualify?
.......pf

Michael Horgan wrote:
> I'm not getting any younger. In point of fact I'll be 60 tomorrow, but 
> I've just implemented another piece of my "Retirement Plan."  With 
> retirement scheduled in the next 5 to 7 years, maybe sooner, I have been 
> buying tools for later use, when the budget is a lot more constrained.
> 
> Yesterday Northern Tools delivered a Hobart 250 plasma cutter. Self 
> contained, with a built in compressor, it runs on 110v, so I can use it 
> most anywhere. Should work fine for cutting knife blade blanks, flower 
> and leaf blanks, and other bits for decorating gates and the like.  It 
> will cut 1/8 inch steel cleanly, and sever 1/4 inch so should do for 
> most of the fab work I have planned.
> 
> I had thought about getting a heavier machine, but my carrying capacity 
> is dropping. I can still move both the wood and metal lathe's and both 
> band saws, too, but the milling machine I'd need help with any more.
> 
> The plan is to make sure I have enough projects to get done, that I'll 
> never have tome to die. I've lost too many friends lately who had 
> nothing to do when they "quit working" so just faded away.
> Anyone else have a similar strategy? Other than Winning the lottery?
> 
> 
> 
> Michael D. Horgan , lughaid at earthlink.net
> http://members.aol.com/lughaid/
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> Blacksmithing and Metalwork
> Claremont, Ca.
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