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My neighbor plows my half of the driveway (shared driveway) and the driveway to my barn. Come tax return time I put a Thank You card and $200 cash in a zip lock bag and tape it to the service door to his shop. 2 or 3 times a year I'll buy him a case of his favorite beer and take it over to him...

Murphy's Motorsports uses Haas CNC exclusively for making rods and pistons. 4140 material for rods and I think something like 7074 (not 100% sure) aluminum for the pistons. Search Murphy's Motorsports.com!

Kennedy tool boxes is to Machinists/Maintenance/Maufacturing trade like Snap On is to the Mechanics trade. Kennedy is solid and will last a couple life times with minimum maintenance.

I've talked to the Power company already and it is $575 to hook on and $5 a foot to dig it in plus the cost of the meter, wire and getting it into the barn! The barn is about 450' from the box in the ditch, they will not set a pole and go overhead. Then as stated I would have the monthly charge...

I wouldn't have a problem with a new breaker and wiring to the spot where the hot tub was! Basement is unfinished so getting the wire to that spot would work ok. I would need to use conduit or schedule 80 from the house to the edge of the patio area and then trench 2' down and angle toward the...

I want to get some power to my barn which is about 200' from my house. I have access to a box on the back of the house which used to power a hot tub and the breaker for this hot tub in the Main panel is a 2 pole 50 Amp. I want at least a 100 Amp panel in the barn to run an air compressor...

TSC also offers 100% price match! One of the home box stores (Menards) was advertising wood pellets on sale and I was running low so I stopped at TSC and asked the store manager if he would match the advertisement and without blinking he said yes! So I now have another source for home heating...

I have 2 & 1/2 acres and the County I live in says 1800 sq ft max for the size of my property! Heres the kicker, I can fill up my property with as many 1800 sq ft buildings as I chose so long as I stay 15 ft from the property lines and the buildings aren't connected.I can also apply for a...

Red Wing brand is good, $120 and up! Red Wing also has Works (spelling?) which start at $89. Another brand to consider is Timberland Pro for $120!