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    Door track as hoist track?

    I am going to be looking at building some sort of lift in my pole barn, I have about 7-8 vintage dirt bikes I want to put up on top of my work shop that I built inside my pole barn.. It is 7 feet high. Most of the bikes weigh 200 to 225 lbs. But the problem is length. I will have to make a...
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    Ceiling options

    "I will have to start researching metal in my area…. Maybe I can even find someone with surplus stock for a faction of the price! " We have 3 or 4 metal forming places with-in 20 miles of us. I paid $1.70 a foot (3 foot wide) for white interior panels. (29ga) .56 a sq foot J-Channel was...
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    Ceiling options

    I just ordered the metal. White, 10 foot 2 inch. Doing our ceiling with that as well as half of my walls of my 30X40X12 pole barn. The other half is already done with OSB. No way was I gonna try and do the ceiling with OSB by myself. Bob
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    GARAGE TIPS and TRICKS - POST 'em!

    I took 4 of the filters and formed a box shape and taped all the edges and taped to a box fan, so I have a air filtration system I can run any time to get rid of **** in the air..
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    Mice in shed

    My wife raises parrots.. They are messy and seed is everywhere. The mice were everywhere.... We used traps, glue sticks, decon just made em fatter as they ate it. We had mice everywhere.. Hundreds of them. We talked to a local vet, and he suggested CyKill. We ordered a bucket of 100 packs...
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    Plumbing air lines - small garage

    Another easy deal is hyd hose at TSC is cheap, they got ready mades to 120 inches, a swivel for a union is 3 or 4. I wouldnt use Hyd. Hose. it is made for high pressure liquid. Not air. We used some for our hi-pressure fill stations and found the outer coating bubbling up. With low...
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    Winterizing a lawn irrigation system?

    around here, $50-60. But we got a card in the mail from "Bills Irrigation" that does it for $35 and if several in one area, will do it for $32 each... Bob
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    Bead Leak..

    We usually clean the rim, clean the tire bead, then use bead sealer. This stops 90% of the bead leaks... (a quick and easy fix that works only some of the time is to spray brake cleaner in the leaking area) (with the tire deflated) Bob
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    chimney

    I just did mine today in my 30x40x12 high, pole barn.. 8Inch Double wall stainless thru the ceiling and roof. $100 each 3 foot section. below the ceiling, standard 8inch black stove pipe. Down to a T. elbow off of it,(gives me a clean out) at 6 foot level, then down to stove. I used a...
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    10x16 tool room heating problem

    I put 2, 8' electric baseboard heaters in our work area of our pole barn behind our shop. We only heat half of the 40x48 foot shop. (24 by 40) It is super insulated 6in in walls. 12 inch in ceiling. Then OSB board on all walls and ceiling. (9 foot walls) Then I stapled 2x4 ceiling panels we got...
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    Retrofitting a garage to be heated.

    Yes, the tapered foam sheets are used in roofing.. and some of the sheets are 4 inch thick with out a taper. We got 8 Truck and trailer loads of it from a place about 20 miles from us. For FREE ! We used a long razer knife to cut the sheets. We used 6 in. in the walls of my wifes 30x40...
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    A Quick Set Of Custom Truck Ramps

    Had a Gremlin X.... Great little car..
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    spray foam in a small tubeless tire?

    Spray brake cleaner around the bead. Re-inflate. Works on lots of bead leaks.. Bob
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    putting on a steel roof

    The screws should go thru the OSB and into your 2x4's Never a problem that way. Many of the amish build around here that way. Survivied many a storm... Bob
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    putting on a steel roof

    We put OSB under the metal. Bob
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    Garage Heating/Need Good Info!

    To give an example of costs, We built a pole barn for my wife and partitioned off part of it for her Parrots that she raises. It has a 1500watt electric heater in it. in cold weather if it ran 24/7 here is how I figured it. 1000w = costs .086 cent per hour 1500 w = costs .129 cents per hour...
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    New Motorcycle Lift Made in USA!!!! The best just got it in!!

    We push HD's up on our Greg Smith lifts all day, every day. No problem. (MC mechanic) Im 60 years old and not a big guy. Just get em moving a little and push ! I would never ride one up and try to get off one once on the lift. Bob
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    Hello from Indiana

    LOL.. Harrison Rd.. Just bought the place last year. Lived in our Mishawaka house for 38 years
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    Hello from Indiana

    Another OC resident here... Bob
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