Recent content by TheJudge

Now that's just cool. I always entertained the thought of building something like this, and incorporating a toolbox into it on the bottom side. Then I realized my tool box of choice would never fit. Haha Sent from my LM-G710VM using The Garage Journal mobile app

My father and I had (having) this issue still. Given, we started with just the bare interior of a 40x100 pole barn, and built the 40x40 shop from there. We found on the interior walls of the shop, that by putting up steel roofing, and creating that air barrier between the outside T111 and the...

I'm actually in a very similar boat. My father and I got 2 bench grinders, a 6" craftsman and a 5" no name $5 auction special. Joining them is a (older) Delta Belt sander. In doing some research, I'm finding some decent units, the Metabo and Dewalt units for being of decent quality, yet still...

I guess it all stems from ones fascinations in your childhood, and or what kind of upbringing you had/people you surround yourself with. From my childhood, watching my father start from a simple 2 bay garage, to the 40x40 shop we have in a 40x100 pole barn, and being part of helping him set it...

The toy in the foreground is my most recently acquired tool. Been a long time coming to get a good set of Oxy-Acetylene Torches -- especially when you live, and work on stuff in the rust belt. The toy in the background is a project I'm working on with/for a friend. 85 Dodge W350 with a Holmes...

[emoji1786] 84" Epiq. I'm jealous. Favorite style of box right there. Sent from my LM-G710VM using The Garage Journal mobile app

Yooo... What! My father has the single battery unit, and it chews through batteries like no tomorrow. Never knew they had a dual battery one! Sent from my LM-G710VM using The Garage Journal mobile app

I'd say you did! Good deal. I'm in the market for another box myself, but what disappoints me, is that most "off brand" boxes advertise 100-150lb drawer capacity, even on the double slide drawers. I've resorted to having to buy someone's used big 4 box because of a better drawer load capacity...

I get all of my GP sets from Amazon. Took a bit of time to research all of the part #s to find the master sets, but I highly recommend doing that from the start. And whoever recommended Snap on Sockets as an upgrade, I'd stay away. Several of my close friends who are full time techs or heavy...

TonkaJoe, Very nice utilization of space man. I dig it. I'm envious though of your career choice, as that's what I always wanted to be; a dozer and shovel operator in a pit. :bowdown: I've been around the big tonka toys since i was just a young tyke, but never could get my foot in the door being...

Okay, I'll start with that I am blown away. just poured through this entire thread, looking at all your build photos. You truly took the Built Not Bought slogan to the next level. Props to you. Beautiful dog by the way, I got 2 shepherds myself, my eldest I refer to as Mechani-Mutt, as he has a...

Ever since playing with my father's original GW ratcheting wrenches, I knew at some point I'd own a set. As I became of age to buy a lot of my own tools, I was ecstatic to know I could buy the lot of them from the local Advance Auto (Whom my father and I had developed a professional relationship...

No pictures, (Even though I probably should've taken some during the disassembly process, as it would've saved me a months worth of headache.) But I finally got the carburetor for my Arctic Cat 300 Fourwheeler all put back together, with the advice of a local professional. It sat apart on my...

Jmiller, That is a really nifty idea with the office cabinets for tool and material storage. I really dig that idea man. Are they just a generic style steel office cabinet?

Lifts and ****** jacks are some of the best inventions to have ever come about. I know all about the fears of injury with a ****** jack -- Having a 700lb Eaton Fuller Dump truck trans precariously balanced over my lower torso on a HD ****** jack, trying to get the input shaft into the pilot...