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    How do you clean funnels

    I spray mine with ether (starting fluid).
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    Received some free Gas Pump Hoses

    About the only thing they're good for is for fuel or oil. They aren't rated for that much pressure so you can't use them for hydraulics. The ends should be standard 3/4 inch NPT. If you know any farmers or ranchers that have fuel tanks at home or nurse tanks to haul fuel in, they might be...
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    How to stiffen my pole?

    Trying to keep it serious here.... I assume you have nowhere to put a 'deadman'? That's the way you brace ranch fencing and gates around here. One thing I have done using 2 3/8 and 2 7/8 pipe (too late for you now) where I couldn't use a deadman was to put a smaller pipe inside the larger one...
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    Harbor freight 12k winch? Opinions?

    I read about the mounting of the control box in some of the reviews on the HF website, I believe. The mods to the fairlead rollers I came up with myself. (I forgot to say above, the fairlead roller tubes will need to be shortened just a bit if you install the bearings. Easy work with a metal...
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    Harbor freight 12k winch? Opinions?

    As a side-business I sell sea containers. I've got a 22 foot tilt-bed trailer to move the 20 foot containers with and a 12 ton HF winch on the front. It has worked flawlessly for a year and a half. There are a couple of weak points, though. Both are easily resolved. One is that the fairlead...
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    Unusual Antique Vise On E-bay

    Hi guys, I've been lurking around here for quite a while and finally joined to see pics of the Blood Shed. Anyway, I was trolling E-bay a while ago and thought some of you vise aficianados might enjoy this...
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