When is too much too much?

[Bruce Parker (RIP)]

"Hello group, my name is Rob and I'm a collect-o-holic..."

No really, I think you have to look at why. If it is to truly restore it all and keep it all running and in top shape, you have to ask yourself if that's even possible. Or asking the same question the other way around, what is the number of vehicles you can adequately maintain? I expect that many of your acquisitions are for parts or just to save them so there's a chance someone will give them the treatment in the future.

This topic blends in with the other 'de-mob' thread here that asks the questions "what next?" and "what prep should I do for the eventual?" I suppose nothing so long as doing what you're doing makes you happy and is sustainable. Don't expect that everything you save will get restored, it won't. But as you say you'll never see that. It doesn't work that way.

For me, the reason to collect or restore is the joy of doing it and for the sake of the history and the veterans that used them. Second to that is running them followed by showing them off (we all like a little pat on the back now and again).

[rob love]

Was just out putting a floor in place for the next shed, and realized the old 1949 Oliver 88 tractor is also not maintenance free. So I guess it is no47.

I don't even know how many lawnmowers and other small engines like log splitter, wood chipper, chain saw, generator, pumps etc are out there. It surprises me how I even keep going what does run.

For me, the hunt for the parts and pieces is the best part of the hobby. As soon as a restoration is completed, it's down hill from there. I have seen early restorations of mine later sell thru others. One of them, a M38A1Cdn2 w/w, was featured in one of the restoration magazines as an unrestored, unmolested example. I actually built that one out of pieces from several Jeeps.

[Robin Craig]

Rob,

no problem at all.

[Bruce Parker (RIP)]

Originally Posted by Robin Craig

Rob,

no problem at all.

...enabler...


KIDDING!!!

[rob love]

Whoops, I meant to post this thread in the Sgts mess, not in WW2 military History & equipment.

Hanno (or any moderator), if you see this could you move it to the appropriate forum.

Robin
Thanks for your words of support.

Robin knows about the deal I missed last fall, and that the true number should be closer to 49. I don't get nuthin.

[Barry J. Cox]

My view is that if one knows how many items one has in the accumulation , one does not have enough of those items in the accumulation...

Note that this philosophy on occasion requires the expenditure of a portion of the available funds in the purchase of jewelry for the much better half of the equation. Failure to invoke such a safeguard to one's behavior will almost certainly lead to a reduction in the accumulation.

YMMV

[rob love]

Originally Posted by Barry J. Cox

My view is that if one knows how many items one has in the accumulation , one does not have enough of those items in the accumulation...

YMMV

I agree wholeheartedly. A number of years back, there was a great deal in the US on front sight guards for the no4 Lee Enfield rifles, so I ordered 20. When they showed up at my US postbox, I was presently surprised to find they were all Canadian and in their original Cdn ordnance boxes of 10. So when I got home I ordered another 80. This time, the customs guy asked me what they were for. I said personal use. He then asked how many Lee Enfields did I have? I told him "that's not really the kind of thing a guy counts". I truly had no idea. And I still don't.