opinions..... front end rebuild

At age 77 and raised and lived in the country my whole life, I fool well understand that I have a different mentality that some people that have lived in a more urban/surburban life. I have a different mindset than many much younger rural people. Being raised by parents OLD enough to have been my grandparents, same with my wife, but she was raised by her elderly grandparents. My mom was also the next to youngest of 10 surviving children, my dad was also second youngest of 10. Survivors of the Great Depression, horse and buggy days, and WW11. I say life though their eyes I guess. Back in Ga. where I was raised, I was half raised by an uncle that farmed 300 ac. of row crop with MF 30, for many years, by himself, no hired man, before he got a "little" bigger tractor!

The older you are and the further in the country you are raised, the more you learn to be self suffucient. You learn to help friends and neighbors that are willing and able top help you, and you learn to be ready to help them in a moments notice. You learn your limitations, and when you must have help. The fire dept. was a rural volunteer group. The sheriff condoned killing anyone that threatened you your family, or even your property. Rural Missouri.

I enjoy reading about the guys on her that have the $ to pay for their dream garage to be built. A few, build one themselves, I have seen some guys build one out of pallet even! A garage. Pure joy.
I would have to stop and count how many shops (like a garage maaybe), barns, sheds , lean to's I have build by just me. From the poles to the tin. I could do it, why ask for help?

I lived in Mos. 47 years ( 1970 to 2017) before 2017 when I came to S E Texas. My neighbor was a life long tractor, truck mechanic, worked all his life right on 400 ac.of cow pasture, his mother had never driven a car, and yes he could fix any truck or most cars too. He had a slab of concrete ( maybe 75 years old) in his cow barn, No heat, that was his old and dead dads cow barn, an overhead hoist and a couple of tool boxes. He passed in 2012 at age 55. A real mechanic, a cow man, my friend, my mechanic if I needed one. A real man. He never made $40 an hour. His value was unmeasurable.