Author Archives: Jay Bates

My 101 acre plan….that will change

In this video I covered our 101 acre plan. This is a 5-10 year plan that will obviously change. As things progress, perspectives and priorities evolve. Being able to look back onto this initial plan will be fun in the next few years.

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Moving Machines

Anyone who moves from one house to another understands how much work and stress is involved in moving. Moving from one shop to another shop is a bit challenging as well. I did just that in 2019 and covered the experience in my 30×40 shop series. I…

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Bye Bye Avid CNC

We sold our house and shop, so it’s time to move my Avid CNC machine. If you’re not familiar with the machine, it has a horizontal capacity of a smidgen more than 4′ in the X direction and 10′ in the Y direction. I added a verti…

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All my bags are packed, I’m ready to go..

All my bags are packed, I’m ready to go… We’re moving. Well, we’ve already moved since recording this video. I’ve got my office setup in the garage of our bumper pull toy hauler, rocking two out of five bars of LTE cell ph…

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