What are your plans for 2022?

[Braeden P]

1 get enough money to buy a 1860s metal planer and a 10 foot B and S straight edge

2 finish my lathe restoration

3 make a good scraper and get a decent surface plate

4 catch the giant bass I caught before during pre-spawn

5 get another machine!

 

[FOMOGO]

Get back home by Feb 1st, and get back to work on the shop, and finish the damn thing, so I get to the fun stuff. Mike

 

[7milesup]

Finish the trim in my new house.
Finish the wine cellar in my new house.
Build another shed this spring to store my tractor attachments and enclosed trailer.
Build some more attachments for my tractor.
Build a 2x72 sander.
Start on a tool and cutter grinder.

I suppose I should spend some time with the wife, lest she gets cranky.

 

[Alcap]

I took a chance buying a non running chipper that was sitting for quite some time . Found out water must have gotten into #4 cylinder cracking the block . Pretty sure the wife wouldn’t be too happy if I started another project until this ones done and she can park back inside the garage . This is what needs to be done first in 2022 !

 

[woodchucker]

You going to replace the engine, or bore it and sleeve the bore?

 

[rabler]

I'm just working on figuring out what I want to do when I grow up.

 

[awsubie]

Looking at acquiring a tool cutter and grinder, maybe a cincinnati monoset.

 

[Suzuki4evr]

My plans?

Keep breathing. Everything else just happens.

Sofar the best answer IMHO.

 

[Alcap]

Woodchucker , I’ll have to see if any local automotive machine shops still do sleeving , and cost . Its a 2.3L Ford Industrial gas engine , might be the same block that was used in Ford cars through the years . To be honest , how many hours a year would it get used ? Nothing like what a tree service would use it . If a car/Ranger engine would bolt up to the PTO/flywheel it would most likely give me years of service , just borrowed an engine hoist so I should have it out this week .

 

[7milesup]

It looks like there were a lot of Ford cars that used the 2.3L engine. Escape, Fusion, Ranger, Focus, Milan, and Mariner just to name a few. Looks like anywhere from $185 to $300 for a "rebuildable" block (whatever that means).