Recent content by stankp

Sorry for the lag in response guys. Thanks for all the thoughts. Yes, I want to eliminate the plug and hardwire. Right now I am turning it on and off by the circuit breaker which I know is less than ideal. Here is a photo of the mag. switch, it is in it's own box. The orange wire is the one...

I have searched the site and have not found my answer directly. Here is the question; I have an old single phase 5hp compressor. It already has a magnetic starter but no actual switch to speak of. To turn it on I plug it in. This is obviously less than ideal. I am wondering what type of...

This was our alternative as we do not have much of a backyard so we wanted to "soften" the look of a drive. They are 4'x4' poured in place concrete slabs with roughly 4 1/2" of space between them.. Kinda a PITA so shovel but you get used to it...

Hey, one of those is mine.... Here is one of me welding a window in... This is our cabin about two hours north of Minneapolis. It is two 20' containers with a framed section in the middle. There are two queen sized beds above the blue container in what we call the loft. The blue has a...

Thanks. We built that a couple years ago. We like the aesthetic of gabion baskets so this is our thin, vertical, non-retaining version of that. We used 4" "W" shapes with 2"x2" welded wire on both sides then simply filled with rock. The whole fence has a total of about 5 tons of granite in it...

Thanks. Again we wanted something we could drive on but was "soft" looking. It is a bit tough to shovel in the winter but I just set the snow-thrower up a bit and it skips over the sod bits..

We ran into a similar deal. Our lot is quite narrow and we do not have alley access so our drive had to be about 50% of our yard. We poured 4'x4' concrete pads about 5" apart and laid sod in the voids. Gives you a little of both worlds, I suppose you could increase the spacing if need be or...