Recent content by Natty Bumppo

Yes. And as others have mentioned, $2 more per board on a building that small hardly affects the cost.

Same. I have drywall in my attached garage. But for my detached "wrench barn" I went with rough-sawn 1x10 shiplap pine 8' up, and painted OSB for the final 4'.

A gallon on propane contains about 90,000 BTU's x 1000 gallons = 90,000,000 BTU's. A cord of firewood contains anywhere from 18 to 30 million BTU's depending on species. That's where the OP is getting the numbers....2.5 to 3 cords of firewood. However, I suspect propane furnaces are more...

Think I would do the piers with a floor framed over the pad with one exception...I would do Techno-posts. No digging, no pouring a footer, no messing with rebar and cement, etc. No time spent with leveling the cement piers. And really, for the price of the tube, cement, rebar, and some kind...

I just did all Perma-Colums....no wood in the ground. 5" pad. And as Firebirdparts mentioned I braced it well.

Not sure what kind of a mounting system you have for the Dish, but I repurposed an old DirecTV mount when I installed Starlink.

You're talking about disassembling and moving the structure, correct? How about a timber frame? It's wood, which you like. No nails or screws. 100% portable in 10 years.

I added 4x6 braces to all of the corners of my pole barn. As the others have mentioned, sheathing also works to brace a building. I'll add this too...I am pretty sure adding knee braces to trusses is NOT recommended unless the trusses were designed to handle that load. It's been discussed...

Roughly a 25x35 with a 12' wall and attic trusses. Plenty of height for my Rotary lift and my Silverado. I would be hard pressed to fit 3 cars in there with the lift....but with your 30x40 I think more doable. I also have no basement so went with attic trusses which gives me a ton of extra...

Seriously. Responding to an 11 year old thread like it was yesterday?

I did something similar for the top to my K5. I have 4 different attachment points to my trusses and lagged the angle iron directly. Using ropes, pulleys, carabiners, some angle brackets that I bent, and a $100 HF electric hoist I rigged up the system. It's a one person job...on and off. My...

I repurposed a DirecTV mount to install my Starlink. We have few options for internet in the Berkshires where I live. Previously the best I could do was about 12 download. Went with Starlink 2 years ago and now get around 100 to 150 download. A very heavy thunderstorm or a heavy snow squall...

With the heating/cooling unit you're approaching a quarter of a million dollars for a wood shop? A quarter of a million dollars. For that price...for a wood shop...you better be Norm Abrams. Insane.

I've used both flail and rotary mowers. One issue with flail mowers is grass length. If the grass or weedy brush gets too long the flail mower has a hard time dealing with it. The grass will get wound up and bound up around the shaft and it can be a pain to untangle. Nice sharp blades can...

I was thinking the same thing. I know he's not the norm, but tend to imagining aging like that 101 year old D-Day veteran who still lives alone independently and just returned to Normandy for the 81st anniversary to tour the battlefields. With that said...put up the lift! Instead of...