Recent content by arbutus

I'm bound and determined to acid stain my basement floor. It was built in the early 1990s, fairly smooth, machine troweled hard, and only a few tight hairline cracks from curing. Water beaded up and stayed until it evaporated. I ground the first area I will be doing, both to open the concrete...

Old loaders add to the complexity too. I have a 73 Ford 3000 with loader, took the loader off for a tractor split. With it in place there isn't enough room for hands to get to the places that need tinkering. Don't need it bad enough on a regular basis to put it back on. I'm WAY more...

Not quite the same, but we had a foundation issue and dug down to the footing around our basement to fix it. Before backfill I insulated the entire basement wall with R10 ground contact XPS foam sheet. I also blocked up two of the original 16x32 single pane basement windows, and removed and...

Always nice to hear the old project start! I read through this thread over the last few days. Seeing the photos you shared and reading the details is inspiring. Good work and thanks for sharing.

Buy a nice set of ramps. I can roll a large snowblower up them into my van. I haven't tried, but I'm pretty sure I could drive a lawnmower in if I wanted to.

I have personally used and would recommend either the Leica Disto or Hilti's offering.

Looking for something like the Lyon 8193 and Lyon 8190 racks for storage of large taps and drill bits. Lyon is not currently producing these. If anyone has a recommendation for a similar product manufactured by a different vendor I would appreciate it! Thanks...