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Teaching An Old Dog A New Trick... Since September I've been using the mirrors on our new Ranger pickup to back into the garage. That works but occasionally when I get out of the truck, when the drivers door is wide open, the door touches the wall if I don't get the truck centered up just...

Most of my hand tools are Craftsman... I worked at Sears in the hardware department back in the late 70's early 80's. I needed to replace a 3/8" drive 6" long extension.. and bought one online via Amazon. Does this look like a Chinese knock off, or do you think it's legit? Not a big deal...

Anybody have one of these or familiar with them? I found one on a hike in the mountains here yesterday. It was covered in oi soaked dirt and filth. Cleaned it up and it works great. It's this model...

I have a 10 ft x 10 ft metal shed that was at our place when we bought it in 2015. Originally I had planned to demolish it once the barn was built... but it's such a great space for storing lumber and yard tools we decided to keep it. The roof is white and there is some surface rust. Nothing...

Looking for some help in picking out chisels. I just acquired a Jet JWL-1236 and will be turning mostly pine. I've watched numerous videos and done some searching online and there is so much out there it's hard to determine what would be a good starter set. Any suggestions would be sincerely...

Stumbled upon this today. More than just trusses, click "Home" in the left top, a lot of good data here, check it out. Midwest Plan Services / Iowa State University Technical Publications for the Farm and Countryside

I had to pull a roofing nail out of my Tacoma's tire today and plug it.... which got me to wondering... How many of you guys fix your own tires?

I'm still trying to determine on my barn if it's cost effective to try to capture the benefit of the sun heating the steel. We have about 300 days of sunshine. I recorded temperatures inside vs outside and it's obvious that there is a solar benefit... but capturing it is the rub. The...

Thanks to ARD and Bob Heine for helping me to figure this out. Step One

What tool do you have in your arsenal.. that you've never used? Strouty's recent thread "One way to spin it.........." made me think of the "Wizard" tools I inherited from my Father. It has a 1/2" Drive Slide Bar.. it's like new, he never used it. And I have never used one. So what's the...

Slick. Anybody here seen one or have one? http://social.diply.com/article-images/4706e6f7-3c48-4932-8d74-59b6ca39ac90.gif

Anybody here have 1st hand experience with these? http://allgaragefloors.com/specialty-mats/ I'd like to get one or two for our attached garage, but I am wondering how well they really work. Thanks :thumbup:

The barn on my roof has wood purlins, covered with 2" insulation blankets, then steel roofing. Screws hold this all in place. No plywood or OSB decking. There are a number of places where the two guys that installed this either missed the purlins altogether, or they hit the side of the...

I'm going to build a stairway to access the loft in my barn. I've been using my Werner 8 ft Type IA Fiberglass Platform Ladder but trying to carry / retrieve items from the 10 foot high loft using a ladder just isn't very safe. The Hansen Pole Building site has a nice design Pole Barn...

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Anybody have an exterior door on their home that opens outward? If you do is it a nuisance in regard to when when you enter the house? We have a mud room that we want to replace the exterior door on and an out-swinging door would give us more interior room. There's a breezeway, so we don't...

Back before I got my lift I wanted a way to set a vehicle on the wheels, but lifted up off the ground. I had a set of wooden ramps my Grandfather had given me back in the 1980's. And I had a bunch of 2x material and 1/2" plywood left over from other projects. So I built these lift boxes...

I’ve tried to use the saying “Trust, but Verify” whenever I am working with a contractor. The following is what I did when the slab was poured on my barn to ensure I received the concrete I asked for. My contractor and I agreed to this, and everything went great. Additionally I had a local...

Tips For Picking a Pole Building Contractor Something I've been working on.... Picking A Barn Contractor So, before you select a builder, ask the prospective candidates: How many barns the contractor has built in the last year. Find out if they have a regular crew and ask how long each of...

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