Recent content by Rst277

50-100 acres is a lot of land if you are not farming. 4 acres is plenty of land for farting around on. But if your wife wants to be close to the kids / grandkids then you need to look at a shop at your current house.

Do you have a specific bypass LED tube that you use? I'm considering getting some for my farm shop but the variety available is pretty overwhelming. I would be fine getting some from amazon or home depot / Rona.

You could screw a 2x4 "ledge" on the bottom so that you can rest the sheets on it and then screw / nail them on. Move it as needed. Maybe snap a chalk line all the way around to get it at the right height.

As others have said 22' wide is too small. Do you want to put anything in this garage or is it just a car hole? At 22' and 2 big vehicles you'll hardly be able to walk around in there.

Since most north americans are either overweight or obese, it's very unlikely he will starve.

That's quite the collection!!

I file the rakers down a bit (5-6 strokes each) on a new chain and then leave them. If you file them too short, the saw becomes more difficult to control, too long and you're making sawdust not cutting wood. The saw should be cutting strips of wood, the size of grated carrot in coleslaw. You...

Two passes is a touch up, not sharpening. File each tooth until it is sharp, don't count strokes. Ideally all the teeth wear evenly but a little variation doesn't matter. There is a wear line on the chain teeth. Scrap metal after that point. If the file is not filing off obvious metal...

I'd gladly never do shingles again - strap it and put on a metal roof. That being said, nothing wrong with seconds, it's a barn.

Not trying to be pedantic but still a rare occurrence then.

Commonly? I've never heard of that being done.

I'm on the prairies where it is very dry all the time so that may be a factor, a leaky screw or ten will just not be an issue when the sheathing under the metal is baked in the sun for 4 months. The price of a fancy metal roof might make more sense in a wetter climate.

How many barns are there with exposed fastener metal roofing in North America? A million? Sheathing, tar paper, screw the roof on, good for 50 years. Hardly insane as it's incredibly common.

Forecast is for 2" of snow today......

I've used Seal All on two leaking gas tanks that were like colanders from rust. Held for years.