Greetings from Northern Arizona

[northazman]

Greetings,
I've been lurking here for a while and figured I should introduce myself.
I am a custom cabinetmaker by trade and have been a woodworker for the last 25 years.

I took an O/A class at the local community college a couple of years ago because it was the requisite first welding course. The instructor told me the best place to go from there would be a MIG course. There is a new instructor now and I am hoping to get into the class this month, even though the course listing says that ARC 1 is prerequisite to MIG.

I have pretty well settled on getting a Lincoln SP175T, as it seems to be a decent value and spares are readily available.
I hope to be able to make carts, fixtures, jigs, etc. as I worked briefly with a guy that could weld and the things he did in thin-wall tubing and angle were much better suited to the task than the wood and plywood we used.

I appreciate the level of maturity that is shown on this forum. There seems to be a lot of friendly help available, even for questions that are repetitive or would initiate a firestorm on some other boards.

Reece

[zapster]

hey reece...whats up? welcome to the coolest place on the net for hot metal...

we're working on the repetitave questions...

this is the place for welding questions...but in the future...

it will be alot easier to get the faq's here..

you'll see soon..

...zap!

[sunpowered]

Welcome fellow AZer, I hail from NE AZ and there are a few others from the hot box state floatin around in here.Lots of cool projects and tons of info for folks like me tryin to learn something. I hope yer getting as much rain as we are as we here in AZ need it bad.

[prop-doctor]

HOWDY pull up a chair

[northazman]

Thanks guys,
sunpowered, I'm in Chino Valley and although we have had more rain than the last several years we are still at about half of our average. We have had a very quiet fire season so far and are thankful for that.

[sunpowered]

growing area over there did you get in before the prices went up. I did over here east of Show Low got in at 2,000.00 per and now they are askin 30,000.00 per for same stuff man ain't land great only thing u can buy and sit on and still make money.

[northazman]

My wife and I both grew up here and bought a house in Prescott Valley in 1989. Sold that two years ago and bought present house in CV. We had enough equity in the other house to make the move pretty painless, as well as getting in on great interest rate. Right now land is at about 80,000.00 per acre here.

[sunpowered]

Yea thats great all those new folks movin in.I figure another couple years here for those prices right where I am at, but across the hiway it's like that, but they have water to the lots we still haul here or wells. Once that power came in it went crazy, and when the water comes I will be ready to run and find 40 way,way out take my solar system with me and do it again.