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Hello from rural SK (near Saskatoon)

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cannuck

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Glad to find this site as I am - as you might gather from screen name - in Canada. I have worked around and with metal forming and machining tools for a half century, but honestly I am still very much a hobbyist. Looking forward to learning from others and possibly finding some tooling deals in country. Working out of my backyard shop in town now, but accumulating tools for new shop on farm (bare land now) as we can afford to build. Main tools are now a 38 year old 14 x 40 Taiwanese lathe and Chinese dovetail column mill of half that vintage. Ultimate goal is to develop my "retirement" business for my grandsons to learn and hopefully some day earn in.
 
cannuck said:
Glad to find this site as I am - as you might gather from screen name - in Canada. I have worked around and with metal forming and machining tools for a half century, but honestly I am still very much a hobbyist. Looking forward to learning from others and possibly finding some tooling deals in country. Working out of my backyard shop in town now, but accumulating tools for new shop on farm (bare land now) as we can afford to build. Main tools are now a 38 year old 14 x 40 Taiwanese lathe and Chinese dovetail column mill of half that vintage. Ultimate goal is to develop my "retirement" business for my grandsons to learn and hopefully some day earn in.
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Welcome from Lillooet BC.
Lots of help to be found here. Enjoy your stay.
 
Welcome, nice to have you here. You'll have fun growing your hobby/retirement business and I look forward to watching the progress. Lots of great help on this forum so don't be shy.
 
Welcome!

I was born about half way between Saskatoon and Humboldt. Retired about 15 years ago and now operating a small (by prairie standards) row-crop farm in SW Ontario.

I miss Saskatchewan.
 
Susquatch said:
Welcome!

I was born about half way between Saskatoon and Humboldt. Retired about 15 years ago and now operating a small (by prairie standards) row-crop farm in SW Ontario.

I miss Saskatchewan.
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Wife and I are army brats and never really had a "home". When we decided to have a family I looked literally around the world for the ideal community that we would stay with until kids were finished post secondary education. 40 years later, we aren't going anywhere (except 4 mile SW to our little farm).

I work in US and elsewhere so don't get me wrong: I enjoy a few websites, but they are US so much of the opportunity to buy stuff has a very real 49th parallel in the way (although I DO get stuff delivered to one IL and one WY address to scoop up on my way through) - I really appreciate a website that has a much more Canadian orientation - and from what I have seen in my very brief time is one I can easily relate to - both the subject matter and the people.
 
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