Recent content by LJB55

I was hoping 60,000 would be big enough but I received their heat loss calculation and they recommend an 80,000btu with 30' of tube. Maybe because of the 3 overhead doors. Their calculated heat loss was 37,889.

I have these weeds too. From your pic it looks like creeping charlie. It is very hard to kill and will take over your lawn if you don't take care of it. I was told dicamba or tricolpyr work best to get rid of it. It may take more than one application to kill it. I hit mine once with dicamba and...

Hi everyone, I was thinking of buying a Mr Heater radiant tube heater from Menards like this one: https://www.menards.com/main/heating-cooling/heaters/gas-garage-heaters/mr-heater-reg-dual-fuel-radiant-garage-heater/f102652xl/p-1444441199826.htm They do a free planner for you to suggest a size...

Thanks for the replies! I'll have to check out pricing for the different type of insulation and also if there will be delivery or pickup issues with the quarantine in effect. I checked out your build thread kj mustang, that is an impressive building you have there. Stay safe everyone!

Yeah I have seen those from places like Morton. Just don't know yet how expensive they are and if I could hang them myself. The website I linked shows the builder in Michigan just uses 22" R19 that can be bought at any big box store and would be easy to install. Gotta have more air leakage...

Hello All, hope everyone is staying safe. I built a 32 x 40 pole barn last year but had to get some hand surgery so never finished the inside yet. Was trying to come up with some ideas to insulate it myself to save some money. I don't want to spend the money for spray foam so looking at batts...

I put lay a nickel flat under the skid plate and adjust the 2 side skis to touch the ground.

Well I got it done. I lubed and pushed the cable while my wife pulled. We used our phones to stay in sync. The pull tape I used has the number of feet used and the run from the house to garage turned out to be 92' which was 10' longer than I thought but luckily I still had enough wire. The pull...

Thanks, that is encouraging to hear. My underground pull from the lb is 80' but has 1 less 45 than yours. Not sure if my wife is as strong as yours bit I will give it a try :)

I bought it new in 77 while stationed at Alamagordo, New Mexico. Rode it everywhere till I had kids. Took it apart and stashed it under the basement stairs because I couldn't bring myself to sell it and it stayed there for years. Put it back together and rode for a while but it was going through...

Ok, I finally dug the trench and buried the conduit. I am not sure of the best way to attach the pulling line. I have bull-line pull tape that I got at a moving sale. It is a pre-lubricated flat rope about 7/16" wide rated at 1500 lbs. I bought a pulling grip for 3/4" to 1" cable but am not sure...

Yes it can be direct buried but from what I have read it needs to be in conduit inside a structure because of the insulation used. Yes "belt and suspenders" I wanted to just run it the whole way in conduit for some protection.

Mobile Home Feeder is a quad cable so no worry about twisting individual cables but harder to pull thru the sweeps. Is your avatar a GTO or LeMans? Looks nice.

Thanks for the tip, I used to work on F4's and A7's in the USAF and know what you are referring to. Your name seems familiar, did you ever post on the kzrider website? I haven't been there in a while.

Thanks for the advice. Bert, I see what you mean about pulling the back of the LB last as the wire coming out would be in your way when pushing in the other. I have yellow 77 and will use it generously. I will pre-lube it to. Anybody have any tips on attaching the flat pull rope the the cable?