Recent content by mattv97

Just build your own. Alot cheaper and can be constructed anyway you want it to be and as strong as you want them to be.

I just bought some high output sylvania's from Menards and they were made in Canada.

Just wish more manufacturers here in our country still believed in doing business right here in the USA.

Give me your opinion on installing overhead garage doors and whether its worth doing it yourself?

We have numerous 70's vintage wilton bullet style vises in the shop i work in and they are the best vise in my book. I was also looking at them dawn vises and it's nice to see a company proud of there history and that they are still owned and producing vises in there country. Prefer American...

So i have been researching and pricing overhead garage doors for my new 30 by 40 by 12 pole barn. Some details about this are I live in southern michigan so it can get pretty cold at times and i do plan on heating it when i am working in it. On the budget end I have been looking at the...

I am a diesel mechanic and prefer standard because manufacturers tended to use less sizes when everything was standard. Not to offend anybody but America isn't a great country to live in because we followed the lead of everybody else.

I worked at a major diesel engine manufacturing plant dated back to 1938 and they had some of the wood block floor there still in there tooling area and it worked great.

Hi i am new to the garage journal. I am going to build a new 30 by 40 by 12 pole barn this spring, and i am having a tough time making a decision on a couple of things. First of all the overhead door size. I plan on putting two 10 by 10 or 12 by 10 doors on the gable end and just don't know...