First one of these I’ve ever attempted to work on.

Yeah, no problem. Unless I’s down in the workshop. It’s about 400 yards from the house.

Red cutting some knife handle slabs on one of my table saws.

"I'll bet that sucker is heavy!"

I ran across one similar to that when I was helping my mom clear out her house (and storage outbuildings) prior to a real estate sale. I'm pretty sure it had belonged to my great grandfather and it was, indeed, a heavy piece of equipment.

Hushnel, that typewriter looks a lot like the one my daddy used to "cut the stencil" when preparing the bulletins for the church where he preached.

He did all the dirty work. I, with occasional help from my brothers, had to fold the bulletins, making sure all the corners lined up perfectly. "Fold every one like it's going to be the one Mrs. B. gets, because if it's not straight, she might say something about it."

The table saw is a beast, I have a Craftsman that’s similar and a DeWalt jobsite table saw I use all the time. You can’t see it in the picture but right behind this saw is my forge and anvil, the anvil is over 300 lbs. I don’t have a scale that can weigh it.

Gato, I’m a VW freak, I don’t have one at the moment but that is rare. My first was a 68 Beetle, then a 72 convertible, the weird Automatic shift was a POS though, then the 66, I really liked this one it was torky but didn’t have the power of the 68, then the 69 Karmann-Ghia, it was cool. I keep my eyes open for another.

My abilities with mechanical stuff and properties of materials I was born with. In more normal stuff I had a lot of trouble, it took me forever to learn how to read, and even today with all the proof reading and spell checking I do, I still make a lot of mistakes. Numbers are a problem too, if I don’t write them down forget it, I may get all the numbers correct but they will not be in order. The reading thing took a few years to straighten out. The freakin words wouldn’t stay in place, mixed up, backwards, reversed. A teacher noticed I had a problem, the optometrist gave me a prescription for glasses. The good thing is I can read mirror images, the book can be upside down, it doesn’t matter, it’s all the same. I managed to adapt fairly well.
After a construction site accident where I broke my back, I was required by Workman’s Comp to attend a week long testing at the County Hospital’s Rehab/Physical Therapy Department. At the end of that week I was asked to come back for two more days of testing. I was the only one, out of that group of 15 attendees, that was there. At the end of those two days, without a college degree or any technical training they offered me a job in Bio-Medical Engineering. I retired after 30 year wrenching, testing and even a little designing of Life Support equipment, primarily ventilation/respiratory, anesthesia machines and the monitoring/alarms used in the ICUs, NBICU and ER. No machine I ever worked on was cause of a patients harm or death.

This typewriter’s serial number indicates it was manufactured in 1933.

Henryj, you never heard of a folding table. It’s a square board with a straight lip at one end, with opposing edges placed together you put it against the straight lip then using the bone folder make the crease, a perfect fold every-time. I have one sitting right next to me. It’s mostly used for sheet music and a surface for writing on, I added the straight edge lip for those reasons but its also used for folding.

Well, I don’t think I could throw it very far “o)