posted 5 years ago
Between yesterday and today I have taken up the wrenches, and managed to save myself about $2250.
The first repair was when my Bostich Framing Nailer quit firing. I figured I would have to buy a rebuild kit for it ($25), or buy a new one, but I figured I would tear it apart first, and see if anything was amiss. It was full of dust, so I cleaned it up, put it back, and it still would not fire, so I tore it down again. This time I used some grease and greased everything up well even though it was just Vaseline that I used, and I'll be darned, but it started working. Granted I smell like coconut oil because the Vaseline we had was scented, but it works. So that was $250 instead of buying a new framing gun.
Then the tire on my tractor kept going flat. Every morning I would have to pump it up, so today it was raining and snowing, so instead of logging I set out to fix the rear tire of my tractor. It took me two hours, but I got it fixed. In the end I did it the hard way, pulling the tire, then breaking down the tire and rim, pulling the tube, and then patching it, an putting it all back together. Again, two hours of work, but my dealership charges $2000 a tire. My cost was $2.99 for the tube patch kit at Autozone.
So in the end; 3 hours of my life, and $2.99 in cash, and I saved $2250, so I am pretty proud of myself.