vtsnowedin wrote:I like my fuel injected computer controlled pickup that starts at forty below zero , goes 5000 miles between oil changes and will last me 250,000 miles if I don't wreck it. If the gas goes away I'll walk or ride a bicycle.
I prefer a good razor sharp butchers knife to a Cuisinart because it is more versatile and easier to clean. I love my chain saw but know how to use a axe and crosscut saw if needed.
I have a 42 HP diesel tractor with loader and tillage tools to grow all my own food if needed but spent $250 at the market the other day.
My plan is to use the best thing available but know how to get by if the high tech stuff stops working or becomes unavailable.
SeaGypsy wrote:India has functioning factories making British designed cars, motorbikes, sewing machines, small motors and lots of gadgets from the early.to mid last century, with a few modern tweaks, metallurgy, some of this stuff is better than original spec.
vtsnowedin wrote: All together JD has plants building tractors and construction equipment in twenty seven different countries making them a local business all over the world.
Hawkcreek wrote:vtsnowedin wrote: All together JD has plants building tractors and construction equipment in twenty seven different countries making them a local business all over the world.
Evidently local everywhere except in the USA, seeing as how you had to import yours from India.
And any replacement parts will have to be imported as well.
Kind of a shame, but I have a Yanmar diesel tractor, so I can't really bitch about the situation.
pstarr wrote:I bought one of these from Harbor Freight for $150:
sold my oxy-acetylene-torch-set because no longer have a metal shop.
Don't want to combine wood and metal work in the same room. no.
Throw in a $500 milling machine and you can build the world again. I'll bet with these tools and enough scrap you could build anything. Humanity really doesn't need all those printed circuits. People did fine back in the 1970's pre-Apple Dark Days lol
Throw in a $500 milling machine and you can build the world again.
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