Oxtools Epic Egress 1
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- Опубліковано 2 жов 2024
- Well the cat is out of the bag now. Oxtools shop is moving! In this video we get a sneak preview and mini update on some things going on behind the scenes. I want to thank all the folks that reached out and sent me concerned emails wondering where I was and if I was okay. Thank you all the loyal Oxen for thinking of me. Lots of new exciting things happening with the new shop and our new home! Be sure to tune in and check out the Epic Egress series for the latest news. There are tee shirts commemorating the event for folks that would like to help out. It is not required but it is greatly appreciated.
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At just the right time...Young enough to get moved and set up in a new place and old enough to know exactly how you want to set everything up. Congratulations.
Tom, the place is beautiful. When I heard about the move, my heart dropped. I was wondering, are you losing your lady. Big Relief! Now you can breathe and raise chickens. Grab a cup of Joe and tour your property. Ahhhh! The fresh air. Remember, we are your people.
That grin as you christened the gate shows how exciting this time is for you. Congratulations!
We all saw you trying to stop a massive grin.
After using a chain fall on a portable gantry crane for years around the shop, I cannot stress enough how much investing in an electric hoist can save time, aggravation, and your back. They are not super cheap, but it's worth it in the long run.
Landlord: "Hey, we are increasing your rent."
OTC: "Hey, we are moving."
Former Landlord: "Wait, what?"
too many landlords are facing an epic battle with evictions brought on by the WuFlu. It's unfortunate that some of them are soaking their paying customers to try and make up for the shortfall.
It's the San Francisco Bay Area. That shop is worth way more as a housing development than as a rental, assuming you can get the local government to let you do that.
Been there, done that. Landlord thought I would decide to buy the place. I thought it was time to upgrade. My boss sold me his house. Best move I ever made.
@@Double_Vision Basically the same process pushed all the small industry out of inner city suburbs, it happens all over the world.
They'll re-rent very quickly. There are very few vacancies in the Berkeley area.
Your new shop front elevation looks a lot like Keith Rucker's shop although yours is steel siding which is a good thing if that's wildfire
territory. Hope the house is fire resistant as well. Nice score Tom, I'm green with envy...
There's plenty of parking :D
"A change is as good as a rest", apparently. But after the work it'll take to move, you'll probably need a rest too. Good luck with the move.
Well Tom, the new shop looks like the new shop of Keith Rucker, but with different siding. Congratulations are in order for the change of scenery. Tom by any chance, you don't have a secret door that once open you end up to Keith shop in Georgia
Tom, just speculating here, but that looks a lot like a retirement villa. Fill us in on your plans with respect to work, etc.
What he said
Yeah 100 mile+ commute one way....Although at a previous job there were several guys who were commuting 50-60 miles one way on a daily basis for years.
SF is already 20 miles away from the lab he works at, and that's a terrible drive. He's not driving 200 miles round trip into work everyday. It's just not possible, especially considering the traffic around the lab area. That's around 4 hours of driving a day. I suspect he's retiring or will live in SF during the week, and go up north during weekends.
Congrats. Looks like a little slice of paradise.
Awesome new place, Tom. Can you feel the jealousy all of the way through the interwebs? You made out like a bandit. I hope the commute doesn't kill ya.
Looking forward to ingress.
Hugh MacDonald, Lol 😝
Besides T-shirts, I'd be interested in buying any tools or nick-knacks you're willing to part with to make your move easier. 😁😁
Wow sounds like a piece of heaven , big beautiful shop building on a tree filled hill. Congratulations on the find. Now the hard part MOVING .
Good luck and a safe move. I will be watching for the appearance of new swag.
Tom, I am very happy that you both found a place to your liking. I hope the move goes well and safely, with no mishaps during the move. Can't wait for some more video from you.
Take Care and Stay Safe.
Bob
Congratulations and good luck with the new place. It’s looking great.
The new place looks great!
so jealous of the new place! Im in marin county would love to help out
That’s a nice Keith Rucker looking shop Tom I hope it serves you well
Looking forward to a full video on the property. It looks very ideal. Congrats!
Congratulations Tom!
I know what it’s like to move a big shop and it will be worth the effort in the end.
Mike E.
If you have time, would love to see you unload the equipment in the new shop. A lot of folk make video about moving, but not the hassle of the new place. Of course, if you have time, i fully understand the disaster after everything's there and one has to handle things. Good luck!!!
Damn OX ….nothing like having to move a machine shop & house ……I’ll keep watching ur videos …nice job
Just found your videos and I’m hooked. Was watching Vintage Machinery channel and saw your UA-cam on there and glad I did!
Good luck with the move Tom!
Top looking place there mate. Enjoy the move.
hi tom it seems to me you look really happy about this and the job ahead. moving is a pain but you have an absolutely gorgeous new place. good luck and keep the good spirit high. seems a good place to get in touch with nature and taking a few off. lucky guy :D. take care. peter
nice one. That was really uplifting.
I can't even imagine the amount of work it'll take to move everything. Seems like SoCal is just pricing everyone out. Good luck with it all.
I wouldn't consider SanFran SoCal, but I am not from there. But when I did live there for a bit, everything south of Sacramento was a mess.
@@MyLilMule I was a native CA so am old enough to remember when CA was the envy of the country. Got out 5 years ago and remarkably in my humble opinion it's gone over the cliff since then. 40% increase in SF, a city that has become a s**t hole is why people are leaving CA in droves. Nice piece of property Tom, look forward to the move.
I spent a year in Burbank, and it was insane how expensive everything was.
@@lowellsandell427 I wanted to go to graduate school for chem in Stanford or Berkeley so bad. That was before I knew how much of a dump it was there. I can't do lib states. It pretty much goes against everything I believe in. Whether it's freedom of speech, 2A, or their politics. It's just not something I can compromise on. I ended up going to an R1 research university in the state I lived in anyways.
@@littlejackalo5326 Good for you.
your excitement is conveyed really well when you are showing the new place, can't wait to see it all setup.
As someone who is moving next year, I would really like to see how you prepare your shop 's equipment for the move. I don't have anything near what you have, but packing it all up for a move is overwhelming at this point.
Not sure how much land you're going to be on, but a compact tractor with a loader or a skidsteer would be a good idea, especially if you're talking about acreage to take care of.
Good luck!
Benicia is a pretty cool place, i remember street fair once a year, sure there are still some affordable properties in northern California.
Congratulations on undertaking a monumental task. :)
I am cheering you on from here.
From the glimpse you gave us it sure looks more peaceful than where you are now.
Scott
Rigging from Harbor Freight...🤔 Trying get an early Halloween scare in?
Congrats! The place looks awesome.
The new place looks sweet! Too bad you are on the other side of the country or I could bring a trailer and a little forklift to help out. :-)
Hey Oxtoolco! How many oxen will you be getting for the ranch? They should be handy moving heavy machines around on sledges or rollers! Good luck! Ride ride ride!
7 Bhp = same as 5 oxes...so i bet 5 lol
Looks like a very nice piece of property Tom! Nice big shop, a place for mrs Ox to work. And surrounded by nature, which is healthy 👍🏻 Awesome! Good luck with the move!
Gosh, 40% is a bear but I always connected with your concept in your current place of no maintenance, no yard care, roof repair, etc. and the time that afforded you to do what you enjoy. 40% is a real kick in the teeth. Bonus I guess in that location and by the video you dont have a lot of grass to mow lol. It'll be interesting to watch the process an hopefully you chronicle a bit of the pro's and con's of property ownership vs. rent. Im currently owner (decent size commercial shop on main drag, very large 115acre personal property) and I often find myself wondering if ownership is a pro or con especially with equity not always being what its cracked up to be.
Great video 👍fit the workshop out how you want it and rent free!,and the wife gets a studio.
I don't envy the work you have ahead of you. That is a serious move.
That is an impressive piece of property. Congratulations on finding it.
I suspect the life restoring "F. You! landlord" effect coupled with the excitement of the purchase of the new property helps replace most of the moving pain with zeal and extra energy! Moving with no OR a lesser place to go is far more difficult.
I assume that means you are retiring, or you will be traveling far to work?
Love the new place. Hope you are not in harms way with fires, earthquakes, or mud slides...
Wishing you the best and easiest move.
The commute was my question as well.
@@nicholasmcneely245 same here
Congratulations Tom!!! Wish I was closer to come help out!
Congratulation's on "THE MOVE". I can't begin to imagine the amount of work that moving you and your wife's shop out of the bay area. It must be the greatest feeling in the world to get out of the city and into the country.
Best of luck to the both of you.
What a great looking place you're moving to! good luck with it.
Congratulations Tom! Looks like nice high ground... Can't wait to see how you set up the new shop.
You're gonna love living in the country Tom. We moved from the big city to the Texas Hill Country 25 yrs ago and haven't looked back--best thing we ever did. BTW: You're gonna need a tractor. Get a diesel with a front loader 40hp or so. Sounds like a big buy, but you'll be glad everyday you did. Mahindra seems to be the best deal for the money now, but you can figure all that out. Good luck and Godspeed! BTW: be sure and let us know when the surplus sale starts...
Happy trails pard.... keep moving forward.
Good luck with the move Tom, great looking new place, you are clearly very happy with it, well done. Cheers, Jon
Nice property!! You need to buy a tractor with front end loader and pallet forks! Look at a Kubota L4701.... get 4wd with HST trans. Basically all terrain forklift. You can do all sorts of stuff with it.
well more space mabey cheaper rent maby not but what a pain to move not cool. good luck on the new endever buddy boy.
Looks nice almost as big as Keith Ruckers new shop. Still way too far from Texas.
What is the power supplies situation? 3phase? Hopefully! Had a good friend who lived in Navarro area, really enjoyed visiting the area.
Looks like a beautiful place Tom, count me in for a helping hand!
I love it. It will be so much nicer having your own space. Cannot wait to see what you do with it.
Congrats on finding a new place!
Does it have 3 phase power?
Hope you have three phase. Nice place. Good luck with the move.
I wish I could come over the pond and help you out and lift some crates! its not an option today!
40% rent increase? I thought there were laws in the Bay Area limiting rent increases to only 10% or something small like that?
Hello Tom,
WOW that's going to be a great place to live... Lots of living space and also workshop space...
Take care.
Paul,,
Very nice Tom, best of luck. What is happing with your "day job"? 100 miles further or closer?
Is his shop really that far from Berkeley?
@@douro20 Definitely 100 miles further north. The Berkeley lab is in close to Oakland (bay area).
Congrats Tom! I did the same a few years ago, moved to rural Oregon west of Portland and have a similar setup on the shop as well - about 2k sq/ft and overheads on both sides so you can drive through.
100 miles is a long commute to the lab. Are you retiring?
Ready for more about your epic move, Tom. Congratulations!!!
Cheers, Gary
Hi Tom, fantastic you have found a good spot (sometimes a crappy landlord is what you need to move your life forward!).
On a different note (but because you mentioned them in your video) I need your influence and I would like to publicly ask a favor. I am Australian, but live in the Middle East where it is very hard to find materials (tools, special nuts and bolts etc…). McMaster-Carr is the solution to this, but they are now refusing to ship to my US postbox who then ships on to me. They say it is because of the costs of documentation. Given that they are shipping domestically, this is BS. Would you be able to give them a positive shout-out, asking them to reconsider their shipping options because there are people like me who simply can’t get what we need any other way. Thanks!
I can't imagine moving all those heavy machines let alone the smaller things.
Good luck with the move...
New subscriber and really liked your detailed guide on making lapping plates! Very cool … from a 70 year old man.👍. I always wanted to be a gunsmith machinist, but the Air Force had other plans so I maintained the bombing/navigation computers and radar set on B52s and B1b bombers for nearly 22 years.
I was most interested in your lapping process and how I might adapt it to my project of lapping the bottom of computer CPU heat sink coolers. You can find videos on UA-cam of guys doing this, but even a layman as myself can see many flaws in their work.
These flat surfaces, usually copper or aluminum, sit directly on top of the CPU, with a thermal interface material between them, to wick away the heat. I would greatly appreciate your input and recommendations on a more precise method of approaching this task. Thank you. Good luck on your move. I spent 9 1/2 years stationed by Sacramento and several years in Fairfield. A 40% rental increase is just barbaric!
And the new property has an outhouse already...
I hope your old shop sits for a long long time empty. 🤠
Super nice new place Tom! Necessity is the mother of invention and sometimes invents a whole new great experience as it looks to me. LIKE IT!💪😎
Tom, please make sure you cut fire lines first thing after you move in, nobody is safe from the wildfires now and your only defense is a large fire line around your property. What was once unthinkable is now commonplace, if I had remained in California I would have lost everything.
good on u Tom ...looking forward to the ' move ', u'll find that in moving, u will dig up items u completely forgot u had ...
More of an epic find than epic egress. Life changes are ripe with opportunities,
I sure was hoping that you would be moving over here to TX.
Seems like those T-Shirts should have an ark instead of the Titanic... all the heavy equipment and such. "And he brought the optical comparitors two by two." EDIT: Also, think DEFENSIBLE SPACE! Some of those trees are too close to the shop and while I know people love old growth and shade and all that, but the fire risk looks pretty bad.
Good luck and God bless, Mr. Lipton. Would like to see a little more of the shop. Starting life over here, but its nice to see someone being successful. Thumbs up to you
I bet you’ll fall in love with that place. I’m anxious to see what your plans are for your day to day work out there. I assume this means you’re transitioning away from your day job?
Rent increase of 40% would be illegal in Finland.... that's just nuts....
They want people gone so they can demolish the properties and build apartments or something, they pay better.
This is how you get businesses out of a city :)
OMG.. YOURE MOVING NEXT TO DALE!!
That's awesome news, Tom. I haven't had chance to watch the most recent Meatloaf, so to hear that you're moving was a bit of a surprise. The new place looks amazing, can't wait to see more of it. Hope the move goes smoothly. Stoked for you, man.
Best of luck on your new venture in life Tom. A man of your skills will land feet first. You let me know when I can visit.
Since it's that far of a move, I wouldn't think you'd be commuting to the lab every day. Have you retired?
Tom have you retired or will you commute to work? Nice to have a bit of land its the only thing that they will not be making any more of
Take breaks before you need them. Congrats on the new place.
I am green with envy on the size of that shop, can't wait to see more details.
Very cool, probably a good opportunity to organize and make some improvements!
Congratulations to you and your wife Tom! I wish you both more success, happiness, and most of all good health. Enjoy your hard work!!
That looks like paradise to me. Now you have more room for more tools/stuff.
Best wishes Tom and Mrs Ox, hope all goes well with packing up, moving, unpacking and having everything sorted and correctly stowed!
Have I missed the rest of the old Egress videos for Adam Savage’s NASA collab? The last video ends with you putting the letters on the device but there was still much more to do. Obviously it was finished but are there other videos documenting the process to completion?
@Snazzles Saw that, and I love how Adam specifically mentions the quality, haha. I just wish Tom had finished filming of the machining. At least, it looks like there was a lot more to machine. But please, anyone let me know if I’m missing something and the build was completed and in a different video?
Awesome new place. Best of luck on the move. Moving a complete shop is never fun, but at least this should be your last move.
Another example of the harder we work the luckier we get from what I saw its made a great first impression, plus you got a surprise 300 sqft extra dank!
Glad to see the shop is a steel building. ~100 miles would put you in the Clearlake area, and I hope you're thinking fire prevention! I've thought of heading north myself, but I don't want to deal with the fires.
OxFather !!!!
Hands up everyone who thought Tom's shop was attached to his house already?
What town are you closest to, Tom? Scrub oaks say you are a little lower than I am, but if you're close, I'll certainly help you move.
Kool looks like we give Stan a brake an have the bash in the new place
May i suggest renting a forklift and pallets . Life will be easier