Recent content by Mezz2006

Prepped and painted the interior of one of the garage entry doors. I had done the outside previously, so this leaves only the house to garage door needing paint. I also prepped the outside of the house to garage door, but ran out of paint.

Pulled the camper out from its winter hibernation in the shop.

Spent a decent amount of time in the shop this weekend. Got the lights I put up last weekend tied in to the panel and functioning. Replaced the damaged sheet of roof steel with help from my Father-in-law. On Sunday I replaced the suspension on our camper. New springs, wetbolt kit, and Dexter...

Switched the mower from winter mode to summer mode - pulled the snowblower, rear weight, and chains off and mounted up the mower deck.

Got 3 more lights hung up and wired in the shop. Just need to complete the PowPak (Lutron Pico switchs) and panel tie ins. 9 lights down, 5 more to go.

Wired a light into the attic above the garage. Now I don't have to take a flashlight up when changing out seasonal yard decorations.

On Friday, I had just walked into the house garage after being in the shop when I heard a terrible crashing sound of wood on steel. Walk back to the shop to find a tree tipped over onto the roof. Go inside the shop to see daylight peeking through the roof...Great, now I need to to patch it...

My drive is ~250ft long and asphalt/concrete except in front of the new shop. I plowed the drive for a few years after a first moved in, I enjoyed it, but it was a pain to maneuver the truck and took longer than it should have. Then I bought a new truck and sold the old, so no more plow. I...

Buddy in college parked his dirt bike in the living room of his house over the winter. He was known to be found sitting on it making dirt bike noises with his mouth when it was really cold out. Every once in a while he would even start it up.

Got 3 more lights installed in the shop. My boys also helped me make a cover up for my new Camp Chef griddle. It started out life as a trailer fender that we were scrapping at work. Need to add a couple handles and some touch-up paint. Its not perfect, but good enough for what it is for.

With having the week of Xmas off, I was able to get boxes installed for 3 of 4 rows of lights in the shop, wiring run for 2 rows, and lights installed on 1 row. Couple more hours of work and I'll have the second row of lights done, then will get a start on row 3. Row 4 will need to wait til...

Put some air in the tires on the wife's Durango. With the below zero temps the last week, she was a few psi low. Also made up a pull rope for one of the kids sleds.

A little accumulation of stuff from the long weekend: In the house garage I did an oil and fuel filter change on my daily driver Ram 3500, put fall decorations away in the garage attic, got winter decorations out of the garage attic, got snow shovels out of the attic, and got sleds out of the...

Laser welding is cool, but it is limited to fairly thin materials. It looks like this unit is good for up to 3mm (1/8") in both welding and cutting. If your plan was to use on thicker material than that, you won't be happy.

I am also going to be hitting the ~100fc mark with my lighting. 227fc is a lot! 200w+ at 12ft is probably going to be like spot lights. I just got my first light up (temporarily). Pic is set on 150w, at ~18' high. There will be 14 of of these fixtures installed in my 44'w x 56'l shop in a...