Recent content by Farmallboy15

Thanks for the feedback platonic. I think 8 will be better. Counting the openings between joists, 8 will make it more even anyways..,

I’m wanting to upgrade the lighting in my old timber frame barn. This will be under one of the two hay lofts which will be used for parking the mower and some smaller equipment, as well as an alternate workshop. Due to the low ceiling height and how close tractor exhausts are to the joists, the...

I used two of these in a 40x48x14 with their on the wall controller (speed and fwd/rev). They have been awesome...

I attached screenshots of the quote that we accepted. Concrete was $9k and change. Shell was $25k. Add in $10k for insulated and liner. Spray foam added $1k to this price. We also used more gravel than expected. Wiring and the office was done myself.

Well, there hasn't been a whole lot of updates on the shop this winter but having heat has been a significant upgrade! The furnace really does not run a whole lot and recovers quickly when the doors have been open for a couple minutes. I was able to get the Bridgeport rebuilt and running with...

If you expect someone to design your building in CAD, you should give them some idea as to what to design... Is this a 10x10 shed on skids and a door or a 60x100 building with a flat roof. You at least need some hand sketches of the size, layout of doors, etc and to specify vinyl siding, sheet...

Do you have sketches of everything and specifications for materials?

I have never had a screw extractor work until I tried one of these on my cordless impact driver: Highly recommend...

Well number9, I decided against smurf tube for my case. When I went to lowes I realized the ENT was over $1 a foot in 25ft rolls and I had a few hundred feet to run; it wasn't worth it to me. I just bought some low voltage old-work boxes and popped them in the drywall and ran two drops of...

Yes, I could just pull the Cat5e / Cat6 but would like to future proof to some extent, hence the reason for ENT or smurf tube. I will probably run PVC conduit for the longer runs: Outside of house to distribution point/ethernet switch and to the outside of the house where it goes to the shop...

Through what? Something like this...

I'm wanting to run ENT through out my house for CAT6. The shop will be connected, so kind of garage related.:) I would prefer not to bust a bunch of drywall to get to a stud and mount a nail on low voltage box with a knockout to hookup the tube. Does anyone know of any old work boxes/rings with...

I used 3 of these on the outside my shop and am very happy. I later added 2 more to the outside of the nearby old barn. Pictures are at the end of my build thread. They are mounted at about 12ft https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01MSVY8TR/?tag=atomicindus08-20

You could use Unistrut to space it off.

Don't even bother with a 25hp loader backhoe for doing real work like you are talking. Not even talking power wise, you won't have the weight and traction to do any real loader work or the backhoe width or reach to dig a house foundation. We have a L5030 50hp Kubota and it does fine for most...