and tools power tools that you would by from home depot im looking for a book on how to bulid them

OK… I’m going to school for welding right now (I’m gonna be a boilermaker, they make big $$ and i love welding anyway) but i want to learn all this other stuff cuz it’d be really useful. so here is the list of things i’ve come up with so far:

- CARPENTRY: I was in a cabinet making business for a while and learned that i love carpentry, but without a job in carpentry i really can’t learn much (i quit because i needed money and the business only had good busienss for about half the year and the rest of the time i was left only doing work when they had some for me to do) so i would like to know how i could lear more about it. i dont just man the basic stuff that can be done in most garage shops either.

BLACKSMITHING: I’ve always loved the idea of blacksmithing, and i made a small homemade forge for it and use a piece of train track as an anvil, but i need someone to learn from. For those people who say “who the hell would want to make horse shoes” i agree… but there are tons of other uses for blacksmithing. scroll work and fancy railings, making blades, making your own tools fabricating parts to repair things or make them better (i.e. I am constantly having to weld broken parts on our brush hog because the factory parts are pretty weak for what it has to put up with, but if i could just fabricate a stronger part then problem solved)

PLUMBING: plumbers cost $$ and i dont see the use of hiring them if you can do it yourself. besides that, one of the things i want to do for a few extra bucks on the side is gutting small, cheap houses, crappy and then making em better and selling them and you cant earn money on that if you hrie the work for it.

CONSTRUCTION: This could definately be useful. I could build my own house for one, and build my own shop, probably build a few other thigns to, and besides that i could help friends out with extensions on their houses.

AUTO REPAIR: it’d be really nice to know how to repair cars, and besides tat i would be able to take useless junkers and make new cars out of em (my dad knew a guy who did that and that guy earned a killing off of it as a hobby. he’d take a bunch of junkers that were from the same manufacturer and take the good parts and make a new car out of it and sell it with a list of all the parts in the ewn car. he made something ridiculous like $50,000 a car.)

ENGINE REPAIR: This would definately be useful. if something with an engine were to break down it would cost m a lot less money if i could fix it than if i replaced it.

if you have any idea how i can learn any one of those without going to school for it then please tell. and if you have any ideas for anything else i should learn then tell me that, too.

fyi I’ll be able to have a lot of time on my hands with a job in the boilermakers, because they can take as much time as they want between jobs, so time shouldnt be a big problem as logn as i dont have to take a long class/ stay in one area for more than 6 months at a time.
Oh and this one:

HYDRAULICS: I want to know how to build hydraulic pistons etc. so that i dont have to buy em. might not be possible but i think it probably is. I have a lot of ideas for machines using hydraulics

My main question here is we are not a construction company building houses. BUT if these guys get hurt I want to protect all my assets. I have heard of OCC/ACC but does this cover me if something should happen. Is this enough protection that I don’t ever need to worry about someone saying they should have been employees on workmen;s comp. In this field no one is an EE. These guys will work for two companies at the same time. I have General Liability insurance but they just charged me a huge fee for hiring unlicensed, uninsured contractors. I’m trying to do everything I can to do it right. Will this insurance work? HELP!!! ASAP!!!