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The bottom cord of the truss doesn’t even land on the wall girt. You’ll be $ ahead by tearing down and starting over. Re-use the metal if you want but those trusses gotta go

Maybe I’m not following correctly but that seems convoluted. I’d look to rent a material lift and pick up the bundle and work backwards from the gable wall dropping one truss at whatever spacing you require...

Thanks everyone for posting in this thread. Here’s my very quick and dirty setup based on the group’s feedback.

Little portable ones are great for tires and nailers and 60 gal and up are great for air tools, painting and small blasting but it really seems the market for 20-30gal ones should be cratering. I have a 20 gal and the only thing I use it for is small plasma cuts

For anyone recharging or adding due to a longer line length I found a good place to get R32 online was Royal Refrigerants. The scale and reverse thread fitting needed to connect to your gauges can be bought on Amazon.

I lived with a 1.5 car garage for about 15 years and the best thing I did for organization was to build a 200sqft support shed. For your lot I’d make a new garden shed that is 10’x20’ since that seems to be viewed as a temp structure and can be close to the drain field. Store bulky tools out...

with 12' walls, what about doing 12' sheetrock mounted vertically with 1x3 or 1x4 over the screw lines. Caulked and painted it would look just like board and batten, would be cost effective and give some fire protection. More if you added a coat of mud under everything.

That’s just a quick example I pulled from Amazon. With the Giraffe the whole machine is garbage if the reel breaks. With a diy, just the reel needs to be replaced

A DIY system (Reel, Hose, Pressure Washer) all separate vs the all-in-one of a Giraffe. https://www.amazon.com/MEKOH-Pressure-100ft-Mounted-Outdoor/dp/B09WMX3J7K/?tag=atomicindus08-20

I've been considering a giraffe tools pressure washer reel but it seems there's some solid options out there to build the same system on my own for about the same cost. Whats the pro's/cons's of each? I'm leaning towards building my own now as it seems easier to fix or upgrade one component...

I did snap lock standing seam on my gable 40x72. The only different trim detail over an exposed fastener roof was a drip edge for the flap to wrap around. The only special tool I needed was a $60 hand bender to bend the flap for around the drip edge and a sheet metal clamp to finish it off. Mine...

here's the process I'd follow. 1. pour extended new slab with 3 midwest permacolumn wet set brackets in place. 2. install 3 anchor set permacolumn brackets on the existing slab. 3. bracing everywhere 4. sawzall cut posts flush with ground. 5. use bottle jacks and set each post on a cheapo...

another vote for side mount. They're also extremely quiet.

This is the way

If anyone has this style of lift with the detent in the sides, here is how I mounted unistrut on mine to hang utilities. on the top the unistrut is bolted through the bottom bolt of the upper post assembly. On the bottom its secured with a 1/4-20 bolt that is below the carriage when its all...