Recent content by SHawkins87

The timing may be a little off but here is a neat looking photo of The MILQ Barn I ran across when scanning old photos for my build thread.

Thanks to all of you for the interest and the positive comments on my story! This is the first time I have started a thread like this in any type of forum. It is a lot of fun seeing the view count increase and the responses from different parts of the world. The kids think it is cool that I...

Now I am feeling the pressure to update every night so you have something to read with your coffee. I don't know if I can continue under these conditions. ;)

You folks are impatient. Your getting ahead of me on the story! ;) MILQ (pronounced as milk) is an acronym for Mother-In-Laws Quarters. Part of the focus of the rebuild was to return the apartment to better than original condition in order to get it back into the rental market to recover...

No unfortunately we do not have it anymore. It was a really good truck and served us well through the original build. We sold it to a local teenager with a newly minted drivers license. He was thrilled to have it. He kept it on the road for many years. We eventually lost track of it. I am...

Now we are on to the second floor framing. We used 2x4s for the walls up here. Here you can see the gambrel roof starting to take shape. Setting the roof trusses was an adventure. It was very windy. It seems it is always pretty windy on this hill top. My wife and mother swear they...

Please forgive the quality of some of the images of the original project. They were all taken with a film camera and have been stored in albums for years. I am scanning and touching them up as I go. Looking back I wish we would have taken more photos along the way. You won't see too many...

I grew up on a farm in rural Hardin County. I met my wife while working at Hardees in Elizabethtown.

Hello all, I have been looking forward to sharing my project with you for a good while now. I have a bit of a story to tell and lots of photos that I will be posting in the days to come. This project originally started a little over 20 years ago. My young bride and I had found the property...

Great, thanks for the info. I hadn't started shopping for materials yet for that project. I will look for them. I will be starting my thread soon. I have been working on my remodel for the past year and a half. I have been planning to start a thread but haven't had time. I have taken lots...

Can you post more details/photos about the railing? What did you use for spindles? That looks similar to the design I had in my head for a railing I am getting ready to build.

My neighbor scored a deal on a bunch of electrical stuff at an auction. An electrical contractor was going out of business. He asked me to list some of the items that he didn't need. He has 2 175 watt Crouse-Hind security lights new in the box including the photocell for dusk/dawn...

You can have multiple openers operate a single or multiple lights. I have two openers and four lights. Each opener operates all four lights. There is a button on the light that you press to put it in program mode. You press that button and it's LED starts flashing. You then press the light...

I am not sure why it wouldn't work for you. I don't see what the drum size has to do with it but I would defer to the instructions if they say 4 inch minimimum I wouldn't take a chance without contacting Liftmaster for clarification. I measured my drums just to see and they were 4 1/2 inch...