I do relate to the limited income thing. Just yesterday a guy that I am making some special air tanks for calls me up and asks if I am interested in a 36" by 10 ft lathe that I looked at while in Connecticut recently.
Sure I'd love to have the lathe I told him there is just 1 minor problem, which amounts to there is zero funding available just now for a purchase of that sort.
No problem he says. The large lathe the Cincinnati horizontal mill the P&H welder the 6 head drill press and the small 10" lathe plus what ever tooling and accessories I can dig up ate yours just figure out how you can get them to Texas we'll work out the details of the nickels and dimes later.
Nickels and dimes to him are the national debt to me But at least I can cover the haulage issue as long as I am given time and my bud can arrange a high enough paying load up there to defray the expense of returning with the stuff without the possibility of a paying return haul.