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Well, this part of the shop has really been a long time coming. It was also a huge ordeal. Anyone in the Great Lakes region can attest to this being the wettest spring in recent memory, not the time to dig out a pad for a garage addition. I basically dug 14 yds of mud out for this. Also, the...

Thanks 1/2. Hopefully soon I'll have something good to post here. Still digging for the addition and hopefully forming up the pad next week. Getting the pad in now and hope to add the garage extension in a couple years.

Thanks, I usually update it fairly regularly. It's quick to just throw a pic up with a little blurb.

Thanks! I finally got it all together and burning ok. Had to alter the door and smoke shelf a bit, but it works well enough for now. It could use some more fettling. Hey Don, actually I've had eaves troughs up for a few years now. The flood pics on the last page or so were just quoted from...

Funny thing, I've been watching a while and it seems people want minimum $400 for some old insert unit they pulled from their parents place. It's a good idea though and if I can ever find some brick I'll toss it in. For now I think these steel plates should serve the purpose well enough...

I finally had a vacation that did not revolve around a large house project, so between family turkey dinners and spending time with my girls I snuck a couple hours in the shop and pushed forward with my woodstove. Got the door all welded up and installed. I have yet to add the handles and a...

Thanks! Hopefully I can get it all certified and get my license. I'll ride it as is for a bit before doing any kind of tear down to get a feel for it.

Andy, I do happen to have a great wife who supports my interests. I am very lucky she 'gets it.' In fact, on one of our first dates I picked her up in my old Wagoneer and she says "I love the old truck smell in here," and I prettymuch drove to the ring store. I've been going over the bike a...

Thanks guys, I'm pretty stoked. Azz_vt, those are probably 2 of my most visited sites. I think if I had to choose I'd lean a little to pipeburn but both have great write ups. Of course, the compulsory sketch. This is a loose sketch of what I hope to end up with someday. For now however, the...

Sorry for my absence here for a while, seems life just has a way of doing that to you. Not much has changed in the shop actually. I did inherit my wife's grandfathers table saw, jointer, and a few other tools. I am struggling to find a place for them though, especially the table saw because it...

Thanks for the comments guys, I'll toss up sketches when I make em. I hear ya xtremek on the continuity between all the glass in the doors. the front door of the house and the garage man door are both squared off glass, so that would keep everything unified. My eye keeps coming back to the...

You know, if I was to get the motor off I could just bring it to work, clamp it to a bench and plug it in if I wired a 3ph plug onto it. All the machines at work are 3ph. I forget if it's the 1.5 or 2 HP model but I found vfd's here to be about the same as a 1ph motor of comparable HP. I did...

Thanks guys, it's been nice to get a bit of stuff tackled out there again. GD, I think just everything involving houses in this part of Canada is just insane right now. I mean, you can't even touch a house in my neighbourhood for under 400k, and we're talking 800sqft 75 year old bungalows that...

I'll post a few shots when I can get my hands on em. My dad took a bunch during the build-out. I took a solid week off after the Canada Day long weekend in July, and both my folks and my wife's folks helped us pull it off in a week. The front of my house is south facing and we have a large...

Small update, I've had some time lately out in the shop to get it all cleaned up after our big re-roof project (no pics of that handy at the moment).Since then I've been going over the XLO a bit to give a bit of rejuvenation before ever using it. As mentioned the old machinist used olive oil as...

Thanks guys, I agree it changes the place completely. I think 15" is a good overhang size for the house. We're going with a steel roof so I tried to match the rib spacing of the profile to keep things looking nice. That meant I had to step the overhangs up by 9" every time i added an extra 'rib'...

Thanks Guys! I've got most of the parts for it now, just need to find the time to finish welding it up and paint it. I could go with a standard bbq paint in black, but I thought a cool retro colour might look neat, assuming I could find it in high heat. Anyone ever paint a stove in manifold...

Here's a few shots of the progress on the wood stove so far. Most of the body is tacked up, and the door is getting the damper welded on. Still have to make the smoke shelf inside and the retainers for the fire brick. Time will tell if the lower kindling box was in fact a good or bad idea for...

Thanks gents, much appreciated. Good to get back and do some posting. Got a bit of time last night to start welding up the little wood stove. It will be so nice to have something a little more substantial in there come wintertime, not to mention with a cooktop. Herb, sorry for the confusion...

Pics as follows; It isn't all sparkly clean yet, but i slowly varsol it a bit each time I go out. that old grease is like cement (it's olive oil, I'm told) This baby is now laying on its side on a large pallet, all banded down and ready for transport. The serial # is 8377.. which I'm...