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There is a 16" Yates that's in good shape for $2,100 that's been on marketplace for quite a while. If I could get it into my basement, I would have bought it already.

I've been tentatively looking for a used 8" jointer for the last year or two to pop up. There's been a few DJ-20's that were in the $800-$1500 range. Whatever jointer I end up with will be getting a helical cutter head. I've also seen some Grizzlies pop up that already have the cutterhead in the...

I've spent the last month staring out of a tractor, but things are finally starting to slow down. In April I was able to finally dig out some pesky stumps that have been in the way for a while. I underestimated how much digging it would take to get them out, but at the end of the day they were...

I love what you ended up doing with the porch. It looks really good! I'll be honest, we could have tried to harder to save it, but I just didn't want to deal with scraping the lead paint if we were able to reuse it.

Thanks! A bit more progress on the drill press. The motor did not get repainted, but I cleaned it up and it got two new bearings in it. The wires however were in rough shape. When I took it apart I didn't look to close at the wiring. I figured it's a 3 phase motor, so as long as I hook up the...

I don't have any advice, but that's a lovely building!

I appreciate hearing this, because that certainly doesn't seem so terrible.

I've been restoring a drill, and using simple green to clean and degrease. We'll I had a couple gears that Were caked with old dried on grease. Even soaking in full strength SG for a few hours and scrubbing hard did nothing. Well I tried WD40 and within 10 minutes they were looking new!

haha You're correct :) It will 100% be a shop used for wood working, welding, and a place to facilitate the fixing up of our house. Not storage, and not a garage (though it would be used to get our nice car out of the weather when needed). Right now all my free time from work is in the winter...

I appreciate the advice. You're right about the in floor heat being expensive and a not insignificant cost. I'm in South Dakota and all my free time is the winter, so I want it to be comfortable and everyone raves about how nice it feels, but at some point budget does come into play. That's...

Yup. That 20,000 number was always just a pole shed with no floor. I got a quote of 15, for a 36x40 x 5" slab with pex, but that was a napkin quote, so subject to change.

Possibly? My hope has always been to be able to get shell up for around 20,000. But I don't think that's a possibility anymore.

To avoid rambling, I will get straight to the point. I had always planned to put up a 36'x40' shop when we moved onto our acreage. I wasn't going to waste time and money building something twice, or skimping out on something and regretting it down the road. It was going to have in floor heat...

I believe there was. I wasn't paying super close attention! It was definitely the bottom coat though.

I think the void by the jaw was inflicted after manufacture at some point in it's life. But I believe the rest are just casting voids. I could be wrong, but It appeared to have some sort of filler on it. You can see here the they're not all that noticeable. Under the green paint was a black...

I started working on my Athol 613 that I picked up. Stripped the paint and then wire wheeled it. It seems to be in pretty good shape, though I'm impressed with how worn the jaws are. Not sure if I want to put a bunch of work into it right now, or just give it a nice paint job and call it good.

Well I should be able to fit everything into a single post... I prefer to buy used older equipment if possible, and really like old cast iron tools. So hopefully someday I'll have a whole shop full! My first table saw was a borrowed cheap jobsite saw, but my first and current saw is a...

I would share mine, but I'm still on the first set of everything! There is a 16" yates jointer near me, but figured getting the shop built is more important than a jointer.

Keeper bolt installed And the adjustment screws installed Stopping point for the night and couldn't help but put the slide in the carriage It's not surprising, but the lifting mechanism works WAY better compared to before. It's a one hand operation now, where before it was almost a full...

I took Friday off since the weather was so nice, with hopes to get some work done on the drill parts. I spent the afternoon outside with the bench grinder and a wire wheel cleaning up the hardware that I had left. I also cleaned up the column using a tubing polisher. I tried to do it by hand...