Recent content by Dustin Pahl

Just received my new Stanley fatmax auto lock tape. Love it already!

Awesome!! Thanks Jp great setup you have there. I hope to someday be as organized as you!

You must be on one long vacation! [emoji481]

Are you home yet?

Awesome! I can't wait!

Do you have pictures of your progress or end result of this. I would love to see how those HF boxes are layed out. I'm planning on doing the same thing soon.

First of all I just want to say I love your setup you are using to store your hardware! I plan on doing something similar but not that fancy or big. But I would love to see more of the insides of some of your boxes just to see how you have things layed out. If you could post some more pictures...

I am looking to start a collection of hardware to keep on hand in my shop. I plan to include bolts nuts washers screws and nails along with some specialty cap screws set screws etc. I plan on making a cabinet to hold the harbor freight storage bins something like this. Has anyone used bins like...

I might as well share my little setup I have. Currently I am 18 years old and love to spend time in the shop building fixing repairing things. I am working out of a harbor freight 5 drawer cart and a small Craftsman box along with numerous small toolboxes. I hope to someday have a nice big...

How do you suggest I do that exactly?

Because I don't have a 35 foot beam and I would have no way of getting it up there.

Okay I drew out my final plan for this project. The only thing is my beam will go across more joists because it will be a 10 foot. But otherwise this is what I plan to do. Extend my mount 4 feet so it doesn't take all the weight to the middle and I will have 4x4s on hand incase I need to lift...

Okay so I have decided that I am going to make a beam with 3 2x6s laminated together I am going to reinforce the bottom chords with ply wood across the metal brackets. What I need help with now is how I will mount my eye bolt and how I will secure the beam so it doesn't move on me. The reason I...

Is there any way to see exactly what you did with the 4x4s and how you mounted everything?

Okay after looking in my shed today it will be hard to work around lateral posts even if they are removable.. So my question is.. Is there any way I can just use my beam and my trusses and have it sturdy enough to do what I need? I could so extra bracing or something. That's all I can ask at...