Recent content by barlow

dad called it a brush axe, I called it hell. Seems like everything around the farm that didn't get used every year required that to free It from the honeysuckle.

my snappy guy has a few on the truck from trade ins. He mentioned there will be no updates or support for them in a couple years.

Putting Smokey Yunick's sign out front means you got some pretty big shoes to fill.

My roper/whintney 20 ton power punch was the best/worst $100 I spent. Works great and great for this type project but damn punches are expensive.

I agree with not spending that much on materials. Trust us when we tell you what ever you buy for inventory will never be what you need for the project at hand. My local scrap yard has drop material coming in all the time and every couple months I stop by and grab a couple hundred pounds @.30...

One other suggestion is to buy a very good bit. Make sure you set the speed correctly. Improper speed and cheap bits will add hours.

Forget the fix a flat. Get a tire plugging kit and a 12 volt pump. Nothing pisses me off more than busting down a tire with that smelly messy **** in it.

listen too and watch us old guys. We will bend over backwards to teach and assist you up to the point you tell us we are doing it wrong or don't know what we are doing.

After having my *** blistered for killing a black snake in the barn when I was a kid, I shy away from killing any snake unless its poisonous. With that being said however, one point to consider is if you have machinery, lathes, mills or the like the last thing I want to do is die getting wound...

I just did a disc brake conversion on a friends 73 f240 4x4( closed knuckle dana 44). I turned his hubs to fit the rotors. Done, he'll never need any further machining when the rotors need replacing.

thanks bigbubba. that will get me started.

Six years ago my wife and I bought a parcel of land we had wanted for some time. 1872 feet of the paved road. Left property line bottom of a ravine, right property line bottom of ravine and rear property line in the middle of a creek. Four years ago we started clearing for the house, by hand and...

I looked at one found on CL. It was listed for 6k and was a 30x40 with three roll up doors. I went and looked at it. Panels starting to rust from outside flat storage, insulation was shot, door panels bent and warped. $4500 was his best price which wasn't bad until he said" I threw all the...

I can almost promise you unless you are at least spotting the punch mark with a regular bit BEFORE clamping you will have this problem with any drill press. Bringing the drill bit down to the punch mark will only center one direction. The bit will need to be rotated 90 degrees and rechecked. I...

I don’t really know if any of the boxes made today are better than one or the other. Seems all the younger boys that get hired on have boxes the size of Toyota trucks and probably cost just as much. I’ve seen several drawer slides get replaced on their boxes. I have a matco box that I bought...