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tomNE 
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Posted: 11 Aug 2020 at 8:46am |
The time has come to move to town! I sold the drill press i loved, that made many brackets! My local welding shop has offered to let me use there's. It's where i buy the steel. sept 1 it's off to a townhouse in the local town of Friend NE. For years i'd hoped for a young guy to take over the farm but even after many hints, no one showed interest. The door shock business will continue but it's another business that i've dropped hints about succession and no one has shown any interest! Have a great day, to my many AC friends!
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Gregor
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Posted: 11 Aug 2020 at 3:35pm |
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Good luck in retirement. I believe it was Dorchester our kids played in basketball and played Polka's at halftime. Not sure, but somewhere down there in one of them schools. Finally music I could enjoy instead of that noisy crap. LOL. My kids are at East Butler.
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Posted: 11 Aug 2020 at 6:59pm |
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Tom, wish you the best on your move. Stay on here and keep the rest of us in line, just because you move to town doesn't mean we will think less of you. Personally I hope I never have to move to town (those people wouldn't like me) but one never knows what life will send their way.
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tomNE
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Posted: 11 Aug 2020 at 7:58pm |
I still rent out the farm on shares, so i'll be involved in the farm and 'Old Allis' has always been a big part of the door shock adventure!
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Posted: 12 Aug 2020 at 1:25am |
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you can park an AC in the townhouse garage!
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Posted: 12 Aug 2020 at 5:51am |
Tom, Good luck in your move. I stopped living on a farm 30 years ago. Went from 200 acres down to 4 acres. luckily it was in the country and I have farm land around me. But I struggled for a while with the down sizing. Now its goin the other way. I sometimes dont need the 3 acres to mow. Regards, Chris
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Posted: 12 Aug 2020 at 10:41pm |
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Sounds like I should’ve moved to Nebraska! Do you sell a lot of kits Tom?
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tomNE
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Posted: 12 Aug 2020 at 10:42pm |
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I made up a bunch of kits before disassembling my setup and selling off my drillpress. The rest of the equipment will go into storage until next spring. I've got 30kits made up!
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tomNE
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Posted: 13 Aug 2020 at 6:35am |
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I'm around 400 total kits sold! It's is slow but steady. i usually make up a between 6-12 at a crack. I knew my assm line was coming down, so i made up extra. about half get sold during my jan door shock sale and the rest, sprinkled thru out the year.
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Posted: 18 Oct 2020 at 8:16pm |
Tom,
Happy retirement!
But what is the door shock business all about?
Tom
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Posted: 18 Oct 2020 at 9:02pm |
tony; i make door shock kits for 7000 series tractor cabs. I been doing it for a dozen or better years. the old system just didn't work. I went to replace the old stuff and was it was all back ordered. bounced around some ideas with my local dealer and there head mechanic and went home and made my own. long story short, i kept figuring out how to make them nicer and cheaper. I use to have a website but i was going to need to raise the price of the kit and decided to leave the price the same! if u have interest, i can sent the direction sheet.
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Posted: 19 Oct 2020 at 1:27am |
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sorry you hafta move to town...i know it would make me feel bad, plus like Ted says, i don't think town folks would like me living closer to them too. hope all goes well where you land!
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Posted: 19 Oct 2020 at 2:09am |
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health issues made living on the farm almost impossible. i've adapted well to the move and so has the wifey! getting ready to go snowbirding on dec 1!
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Posted: 19 May 2021 at 8:34am |
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We're 9 months into the move and things are getting pretty much normal. I solved the problem of making door shock kits and have my first dozen ready to package up today. I think 11 are already sold. I made up 30 before leaving the farm and shipped the last 2 out around may 1. my garage is smaller but have learned to make it work. No drill press but solved that problem also! Happy to be off the farm but as far as being busy, i've never woken up 1 day where i didn't have anything to do. Spending 4 months outside Yuma Az, every winter, sure helps my attitude concerning cold weather!
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Posted: 22 May 2021 at 10:48pm |
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Good to hear that you are keeping the farm. In my part of the country whenever a farmer retires a developer swoops in and buys the place for more than a farmer can afford to pay and throws up a bunch of new houses.
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Posted: 22 May 2021 at 11:10pm |
I did become tired of paying taxes on my creek acres where i paid taxes and never got a dime's income, so i'm selling those acres off! I also rented out on shares. also made my renter boss; I'm much to much of an experimenter. BUT i never lost a dime experimenting; I've collected mountains of money from information learned from my experiments! That's how the door shock kits came into being; experimentation!
Edited by tomNE - 22 May 2021 at 11:11pm
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