Recent content by Cheesy1

Stuff (employees) like this when it happens to me, makes it become my sole mission in life to get them to admit they’re wrong. Sure it’s a $5 socket and it’s going to cost me time and frustration. I’d start calling numbers until the resolution is the store manager that told me it wasn’t...

To heck with clockwise and counterclockwise and left and right and which end if pipe you’re looking at. Hold the tape in one hand. Fitting in other. Turn the fitting like you’re tightening it. Let it pick up the tape as fitting rotates.

Previous owner had installed a plastic corrugated plastic for this purpose prior to us moving in. It didn’t hold up well. During some other deck repairs, I stripped it all off. They’d made a substructure of 2x4s to attach it to. Gave it about 6”? Of slope over the 11’ length. This was still...

Hauled hundreds of them growing up on the farm. Just bow them up in an arc and haul them in your truck (trailer in your case).

Growing up on grandpas dairy farm, we cut tons of barn tin with a skill saw with blade turned backwards. Worked well. Use ear protection. And safety squints.

If my Exmark won’t get it, RoundUp will.

I’ve never purchased a single tool based on tool color.

In front if my garage, but close enough. Yesterday my old Ford with 220k miles got an alternator. Today it got the steering gearset tightened up. Goes a lot straighter down the road. Dressed 6.0, but it’s been a dang reliable truck in the 15 years and 180k miles I’ve had it.

Coated with its namesake?

I like WD-40 for what it is. Might buy a flannel.

Snap-On has never stopped at my house. But I can drive 7 miles into town and be at Hobo Freight, I just wrench on my own trucks and cars and equipment, and I’ve never had to warranty any Icon or Doyle stuff. But if I did, it’s 7 miles to town and they’re open during reasonable hours.

a couple of those vacuum cups from hobo freight are cheap and give a handle to grab

25 years ago I was in college with a busted back window in an 88 Toyota pickup. $50 at a salvage yard and some cord (550-ish) and some dish soap. Put rubber on the glass. Wrapped cord all the way around on outer groove of the rubber. Had it lubed up with dish soap. Pushed window and rubber...

Vice Grip Garage gets my views. Drag it out of a hedgerow where it’s sat for 20 years. Fix it as minimally as possible. Drive it home 500 miles. Sometimes.

I won’t get into the structure of your garage, other than saying, it will be fine. When I pulled the wife’s JKU top this summer I slid a 2x6 under the back of the jeep top and a 2x6 under the front of the jeep top. Had an eyebolt on each corner in the 2x6s. Then ran ratchet straps from the...