Recent content by someguy123

I finally got the winch mounted in the attic. Bolted it to a piece of 1/2 x 6" flat iron I had laying around. Then secured the flat iron between the roof trusses over the hatch we made in the loft. It worked perfectly. It took all of 10 minutes to lower the lawn mower down from the loft...

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We are planning 2 windows in window wells where the basement meets the house. I haven't shared all the details of the design. The bunker floor is going to be a bit deeper than the house basement floor. One thing you don't want to do is excavate near or beneath the house basement footings...

I've gone through the demolish/dismantle/lift scenario with a building mover, carpenter, designer and structural engineer. Everyone thinks its worth the pain to lift it in place and work around it rather than any other solution. Exactly where would removing the garage save a significant...

One other thing. $180/ month seems like a lot for a half garage to store my lathe and mill and tools. However, whenever I want to get work done on a vehicle, its $100 per hour at the shop and machine shops charge way more than that for machine work. Hardly a month has gone by where I haven't...

What kind of bolt heads are those ? I don't think I've ever seen them before.

4 bedrooms up, 2 down. Fully developed basement, all the space is used. I'd like space to store all my shop stuff and a bit more for contingencies as they arise. And if the past is any indicator, they do arise. We got exactly the house we wanted. I don't want to be storing furniture in...

Would it be possible to lift the existing garage on beams and dig and pour the basement under it while lifted ?

I don't know what in this thread warranted that tone, but there were financial reasons why it was better to rent that space. Like I said, it was temporary. And if you must know, the new house is 5200 ft^2 finished on 3 levels. It has lots of space, but it always seems like we are storing...

I'm thinking both, actually, on the same "hole". The lift would have momentary switches on the main and basement levels as well as on the lift itself. I'm thinking that I'd also build a nice winch up stairway that slid off (sorted) to the side of the "hole" (under the main floor) so that the...

We just bought a new (to us) house. It has a newer, uninsulated, unfinished 22x31 garage with an 8 foot ceiling. I'm thinking of selling it (tearing it down) and building a 24x32 garage with 10 foot walls, a vaulted ceiling (via scissor trusses) and a 9 foot basement, with a suspended floor...

A bit off topic, but what is the model number on that fork lift ? Do you have more pictures of it ? I'd love to find a tiny forklift for my shop. Would be so handy.

Miller has some paper slide rule type welding calculators for sale on their website. $3 each plus shipping. A good way to get started with TIG, if you have AC capabilities, is to lay bead on aluminum plate. If not, I would get some thicker SS plate and lay bead on it. It will oxidize faster...