Dad said no to many things, mostly because either a) as a parent your kids will always be kids, and he didn't want to see a kid do anything that they could get hurt at; b) he was very possessive of his stuff and didn't want me borrowing his tools to use for fear of not getting it returned, and didn't want me doing something with my stuff in his yard because he didn't want it sitting there a while; and c) he was generally of the mindset that things don't get done unless he does them (and he was right; you got in trouble with him if you did something without him) and he was not interested in many of my projects.
Yes, you have a point that some stuff would need to be bought, and he wasn't into buying stuff if he could avoid it. He found a 50-year-old grain vac in someone's grove and scabbed a PTO drive from a feed-grinder onto it to make the vac run. I was there for all of that. So even if I haven't done these things or know a lot of theory, i've seen it done.
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