Not a tractor, but you can learn a lot!

If you haven’t watched Karl Fisher’s youtube channel, you have missed out.

Look at this bit of magic. Many ideas for our hobby, plus Karl is always doing something amazing.

Well that's one way to give an old hopeless car some afterlife, I like it!

I just finished watching the video. Karl has a great shop and made a lot of his own tools. He also tells and shows how to make a lot of the things he makes, using normal tools like we would have. A zip cut for example instead of plasma cutter. Lots of good tips and ideas in every video I have watched, plus, he is always positive and fun to watch.

what if I don't even have a rotozip... I'm not even kidding, we have about 3 mastercrap grinders but no such tool, ours broke 5 years ago and we never replaced it

I was talking about 4” grinders with a cut-off wheel. I have a rotozip, always thought it was useless until I got a 1/4” collet for it. (I lost the original one) and now use it as a ‘die grinder’.

A zip cut (picked that name up from watching metal fabricators on the tube) is a great tool. The cut-off wheels are just super strong now. Even the cheap ones. I snagged one and tore a chunk out of the edge trying to get it out and it still worked fine, no breaking.

His shop is decent sized and very well organized.

I think my biggest problem now is too many tools in too small of a place, I literally have zero room to work on stuff. When I turn around in my garage there is a good chance of me elbowing something or having my hiney knock something down (still makes me laugh) and I have to high-step over stuff which is now common.

The tool bench I want to make is one I can drive around, 4'x8' and has most every tool I have down state on it.

Nevadablue wrote:

I was talking about 4” grinders with a cut-off wheel. I have a rotozip, always thought it was useless until I got a 1/4” collet for it. (I lost the original one) and now use it as a ‘die grinder’.

A zip cut (picked that name up from watching metal fabricators on the tube) is a great tool. The cut-off wheels are just super strong now. Even the cheap ones. I snagged one and tore a chunk out of the edge trying to get it out and it still worked fine, no breaking.

Oh, okay that makes a little more sense, and yeah cutoff discs are super cheap here, you can normally get them for 99 cents a piece or less...