So, after two years of being a 'street mechanic' and bumming other peoples garage space I'm slowly getting to the point where I can do something again

The last couple of weeks have been spent scrounging around here looking for old but useable CNC stuff, I've found this machine:

A 1980's bridgeport, the controls are blown but the machine itself is still in excellent shape.
After putting out a call for a lathe someone closeby offered
this old weiler, weighing in at 2 metric tonnes! The electronics were already ripped out, as well as an elderly deckel
(1967!!)

Which they'd already started to convert to CNC using stepper motors, but it
turned out to be a bit more work than they anticipated.
The Deckel is already at it's new home, it's the lightest machine of the three
so I figured I'd start moving that one, but at 'only' 1000 Kg or thereabouts it
still took me a whole day to get it here. The problem was that there was very
little clearance above the machine to the roof of the shed that it is in now
so unloading was like one of those japanese puzzles, only with much larger pieces 
Tomorrow a friend of mine will come and together we're going to pick up
the lathe, the big Bridgeport will live at his place because there is no
way it will fit here.
The deckel actually started it's life as a grinder, it does not have machined
ways but ways with rollers! The bed is not very large, but with the bridgeport
as a backup I don't think that's going to be a problem.
So, the next couple of weeks / months I'll be spending on getting all the
electronics working again and writing / adapting CNC software. I'll be
documenting the process in case anybody is interested in doing something
similar.
I don't have much power here, only a single phase,, 16A at 220V, so I'll be
using some variable frequency drives to run the spindles and I have
to change the spindle motors from star to delta. Also there won't
be power enough to run both machines at the same time, and running
a plasma table like the one that I built in Canada is not going to
be easy so that will have to wait for a while. The plasma + compressor
used about 12 KW, I'll have to get the electricity company in before
I can even think about something like that.
On the renewable energy front the local planning office has a habit of
not allowing anything, so we'll see what it takes to get a windmill
up. Right now the plan is to put it up 'decoratively' at first, see
if they notice and / or make a fuss and then slowly spin it up 
Guerilla tactics for renewables.