Recent content by Panz

My wife was out looking around garage sales and sent me a text "What the heck is this thing" She found a 3 ton Famco ratcheting arbor press - offered $25 - accepted. A little clean up to do, but overall a functional press.

I actually just picked one up today. As others have said, there's about 6" of a pallet under the tool box wheels. Outside the cabinet is 1/2" foam, a double walled box, and 1/4" plywood tacked to 1/2" plywood "crate" on each side. The top of the cabinet has another 1/2" of foam, a double walled...

Cool, good work. Any project plans for the press, or just a project in itself?

**** in Wisconsin -- described an "open" ground source heatpump, unless you have particular geographic features that make this attractive many new ground source heatpump installations are closed loop (circulate the same water and don't dump water continuously). Depending on how mild your heating...

I started looking at the pictures thinking, "man when I moved my full size mill into the garage it was a little difficult I couldn't imagine getting it on top of the mobile base..." Oh you have a full size tractor with a loader, isn't that cheating? ;-) BTW: If you don't happen to have that...

...you'll notice it all boils down it "it depends". You can certainly build a cheap post frame or a cheap stick frame building. Likewise premium materials designed to last a lifetime will drive up cost. For my 20x24' garage material costs were similar between stick (2x4 walls, 8' wall) and post...

I'm in the process of building a 480 sq ft post frame building ("pole shed") as a backyard workshop. I went through all the second guessing of what to build, pole vs stick. I chose post frame because it allowed me to get a structure up within 2 weekends with 4 helpers over 4 days and not pay the...

I bought a Paslode framer that accepts paper tape nails between 2-3/8" and 3-1/4 or 3-1/2 (packaging says 3.5, manual says 3.25). I've shot about 7500 nails putting up my 20x24' garage and a basement framing job. So far no issues with the nailer even during 30 degree weather this November in WI...