Recent content by BMWBOB

Fabricated some heavy brackets to hold up a 2x12" shelf, about 8' off the ground. All of the materials, except the light bars underneath the shelf were scavenged out of my junk pile:

I know of the Timms, too!

Opened all the windows and doors: raised the inside temperature about 25 degrees!

I had a straight pipe on my former 1ton - kinda loud, but not too bad. Didn't really seem to matter very much for power

Very cool!

Salt strikes again!

Harrington is on one of many of my scenic routes to Spokane....

I have worked in agriculture more than 30 years - just in E WA, and I can tell you, those bins have no value. Farmers don't store hardly any of their crop on the farm in this area. They deliver to large coops who help them market their grain, and store it properly. In fact, you won't be able to...

Greetings fellow Washingtonian! I've seen bins turned into dining space, homes, and even condos. None of which were in WA. I expect you will run into all sorts of building permit issues. I would imagine if the 10x10 opening was framed with steel it would work - as long as the framing was...

A week ago I was wire-brushing some rusty steel. When ********** afterword I realized I had a wire stuck in my thigh about 1/4"! Of course it didn't hurt me at all, but had the grinder been turned over... a REALLY good reason to where eye protection!

I'm pretty sure these are leather working tools. The first would be used to bevel the edge and I believe (not completely sure) that the other would be used as a gouge

I'm in S E WA - we get 70-80 mph every year and over 100 every 10 yrs or so, but always Chinook winter (Pineapple Express) winds when the sails would be down. However, we have thunderstorms every summer with 30-40-mph gusts, but otherwise very little wind in the summer. Getting steel in rural E...

Thanks for the clarification! Looks like you used some pretty heavy gauge steel - was this laying around or do you think thin wall would suffice, excepting the mounting plates for the soffits?

I really like your sail installation - Could you give us some detail on how you fabricated/anchored your posts, and also the anchors used on the soffits etc?

I'd probably get a pickup load of gravel to ramp to the slab. you'll need to do some dress-up with at least a blade by spring prior to pouring anyway