Binks Moe-Air compressor

The Binks is a carry-over from Rube, so it is very, very old, but works just fine although the hoses are getting a little old.  Used it most recently to blow the water out of the outside faucet system on the farm.  I have made up a fitting that goes into a valve after I remove the stem.  I leave it in for a little later in the year, around Dec, when I close up the house for the winter.

Ridgid Shop-Vac

Another Menards acquisition, some years ago.  Have gotten a ton of use out of it.  Cleaned the garage floors with it this year and just used it yesterday, emptied and cleaned the filter after dusting up the outdoor saws and table after fixing the fence.

McCollough 14" chainsaw

This is a handy little saw especially for trimming up.  I have given it a pretty good workout in it's lifetime, bought it at Menards I guess, a few years ago.  Fired it up today because the 16" was vapor locking on me while I was trimming up the big pine I cut down.  There is some worry that the chain is not being oiled, but I will have to have a closer look after this outing.  It worked pretty good, considering it probably hasn't been run in over a year.  It's good to have 2 of them functioning.

Trailer: 5 X 8 from Fleet Farm

Bought this little worker ten or fifteen years ago and built a pressure-treated wood frame for it.  It has moved us to the farm from Portage, to Pass Christian, and carried many, many loads of lumber and other stuff.  The frame was getting banged up, so I spent 2 hours fixing it with some new boards and putting new bolts through places where they shook out.  Looks pretty good now.  May be needing it to take stuff to Madison to the house we bought there.

Black & Decker Small Drill

This is a lemonade drill, hardly enough power to do much, but since I left my big one in Madison, I used it to drill the cedar boards for the fence repair and to drive some screws through to the posts.  I could smell it heating up a little, but it did the trick.  Probably belonged to Gordon.

DeWalt Chop Saw

I bought the DeWalt overhead chop saw quite some time ago, probably when I built Gordon's house.  It has served me well ever since and I have kept good care of it.  After Gordy's place, it has made the cuts for five decks here on the farm, all of the ash flooring in the house, the oak baseboard and door trim, window trim, roughing out the two patio doors to decks, punching a hole through the wall to the porch to make it part of the dining room, combining the two bedrooms, and probably ten other projects that I have forgotten, including building Pam's deck and doing her base molding.

17-foot LoweLine aluminum canoe

After golfing with Tony R in Racine, we happened upon this canoe for sale in a guy's front yard on the way back.  I returned and bought it for $300, strapped it onto the top of my truck and brought it home.  Included 2 paddles which could use varnishing, about 8 tie-down come-alongs, and six life vests, 2 of them still in the packages, some ropes, six styrofoam blocks for carrying it on the vehicle roof, and a bar to put on a vehicle roof, which I really don't want.  This enables me to sell the Peter Pond, which is too unstable for taking grandkids canoeing.