Recent content by FarmWrench

If you ever have a "bad shop" contest, I'll enter. Looking forward to seeing more than the once a year special from "Wood".

I have a few. They are not the best but when you like to save way too much junk.... 1. Hard to beat for manuals and records. 2. Those things that would destroy tool box space. I keep my Diesel injector tester. Beed roller. a "fender fixer" plannishing hammer. spare set of torch regs and...

1. Casters are nice but you will never buy another set after you figure out how to use a pallet jack and build stuff to work with it. 2. You make no mention of how the rest of the property is laid out. My vice and tool box are situated so I don't have to move my feet and I am never more than...

I am looking to re-truss a block potato storage built in '58 and now surrounded with other construction. 50x80 (with 75# snowload) and a 15' wall hight has me thinking of building a mast on a steel pallet. (Google sent me back here to see how others have done it) Set the trusses up on supports...

I have had the same conversation with a guy that works with my wife. Your at MOST 40 years from that shop being under new managment, don't sadle your estate with something as useless as a "Carrage House". If you have a DOT door, 14x14 or what ever can have licence plates and drive down the...

I love it and HATE IT! Instead of a race car I have the broken remains of a MANURE SPREADER bogey on my shop floor. After grinding through the layers of rust (and a little poop imbedded with it) into the broken pieces your garage would need a steam cleaning, mine wouldn't change. Nothing...

Nice wing. If that is a cunk likely to end up junk; could you line the first larger wood patern with sharpened steel and make a cookie cutter to stamp blanks with a shop press? Then use a second die to form the edge without all the trimming? Or was this a one time, never to be crashed project...