Moving your machine shop is like a reverse barn building, only in this case your friends show up and start taking things apart. In this picture Joel and Ben are about to lift the head off of my mill.
It was a long weekend – but we broke down my machine shop and moved it 1200 kilometers into Ben’s shop. Having shops and a lab is awesome, but they do sort of keep one foot nailed to your home base. Ben is being nice and taking care of the machining equipment for a few years, enabling me to be more mobile and do some traveling.
Ben recorded the move – so we have this video.
If this all seems like some high testosterone weekend – it was quite the opposite. I spent as much time making flowers from gravel on the driveway with one of Ben’s daughters as working on the equipment. Sure – that was mostly so ben could work on things undistracted, but I actually had a lot of fun. Getting older is both fun and weird.