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The only thing "Hillbilly" about that stand is the fact that the parts came from a scrap pile. That's practically art. Nice work! I'm laughing because it's not at all like the vision that popped into my mind when I read the title of the thread. The first thing that popped into my mind is a...

Re: Stupid Question? How to make an inline "live" tire air gauge during inflation? Howdy Edward! FYYFF! :3gears: You're right, this takes longer to fill a tire. They just installed one of these contraptions at my local filling station out here in Pudunk, Colorado, and it is dreadfully slow.

In any populated area, the land is littered with easements that limit what you can do on your own land, and it's rare that a surveyor is asked to include their locations. Including them would drive up the cost of the survey, make it harder to read, and nobody wants to pay for it. Surveyors...

The only thing crazier than trying to make your basement look like the inside of an old barn is trying to make the inside of an old barn look like the inside of an old barn. I'm converting an old barn to a shop. It's just a huge open space, and I'll be adding some walls and, um . . . "stalls"...

I'll be the first to suggest that people don't **** in and tell me how to do my work. That said, I'm gonna do it anyway. Please think about the future homeowner who decides to remodel, and tears that floor out twenty years from now. They're gonna start breaking concrete and breathe in the dust...

It seems you're awfully late in the design process to be hanging a two-ton hoist from the rafters. Unless those are some seriously stout rafters, they won't support it. You'll need to locate it so that you can place posts under both ends, and those posts will require adequate bracing to...

Are you planning a dedicated paint booth in the new garage?

There are a number of parts in a typical well system, and any of them might cause the problems you described. If you can find an honest well service business, they will be able to run a few quick tests and identify the problem in very short order. But based simply on the age, I'd bet that your...

Sorry I can't help much. We just finished construction on a ginormous pole barn near Elizabeth. I'm pleased as can be with the contractor (Cleary) but I think they just do pole barns. It might be worth a call, though, because I may be wrong about that. You could try Lynn Ginn at Cleary's...

I always laugh when I read stuff like this. I've spent so little of my life in areas where building codes were in force, that I find the idea that people's minds are consumed with the minutiae of their local codes entertaining. Please be aware when you feel the urge to display your intimate...

Just in case a visual helps anybody, here's a photo of one of my posts, with a truss sitting in the notch, supported by a filler block (slightly darker) that was cut at just the right length to make that particular truss sit at the same level as all the others. I like the inherent strength in...

I've since built a number of laminated posts for various purposes. It's easy, and best of all, they never warp like solid posts often do. Theoretically, laminated posts are stronger too.

When they built my riding arena, they used posts that were made from three 2x6 boards, glued and screwed together into a laminated post. At the top, they left the middle board out of the last three feet or so, so that the top of each post looked like a fork with two prongs. That way, they could...

Kind of an odd garage project . . . I built a prototype manure sifter table, to separate the manure from the bedding (pine shavings) in our horses' stalls. Basically it's a slanted expanded-metal screen, with a reciprocating mechanism to shake it. Shovel the soiled bedding onto the screen. The...

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