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and as so often happens my life went topsy turvey for the 4 years after retirement. My mom's dementia started increasing and she needed 24/7 supervision. My sister, sister-in-law and myself provided the bulk of that with other hired help filling in nights and other assistance. As you can...

Century Link is not very accurate. I needed to trench the common access lane where my driveway went in for electric. Had Century Link out to mark it. They marked it at the box at the road. Well, duh we all know there was a line there. My dad was sure the had buried a single pair in the...

Just shy of 6 acres of wood land, bought from my dad. Built my house on the back side. I can see the farm and my nephews place out the back door about 1/4 mile away. Far enough away for me. My brothers place is just through the woods. I can see bits and pieces of his place through the...

no chimney so they can't get up that way but they still get up anyway. I've heard them a few times. I went around and foamed the inside of all the corners of my vinyl siding and that seems to have stopped some of their incursions. At least I haven't heard anything lately.

Builder told me to keep branches from trees trimmed back so they don't overhang my house. Just an invitation for squirrels and racoons to get on to the roof and into the house.

Black walnut grow only in the eastern US. If not in a line fence they are marketable for timber. The walnuts when the drop in the fall are a nice little cash crop if you have a hulling station in reasonable distance. You need to find someone that has some trees that they want cleaned up and...

Love going to estate sales/auctions. However, I have found that at 69 plus, I have all the projects etc that I can handle from now until I'm gone. Besides that I do not need more stuff to clutter up my garage and get in the way of what I'm doing now. I also live on a retirement budget of...

Yes. I worked in the saw building at a machine shop. I ran a large hacksaw, later a band saw. When I had a large cut going the boss liked if I could double up and cut thinner stock on the chop saw across the aisle. Behind the chop saw was a shield which directed the sparks down to the...

I'll add another one. I'm a sound tech at our church. We had a funeral coming up and I needed a speaker wired so I could put a monitor in a room off the sanctuary. We didn't have a conferencing line linked to our board yet and would put a cell phone on a music stand and link it up so would be...

I'm surprised some of you are still alive. I've done some dumb things too and had some dumb things done to me. Three that I can recall. I have a small hobby shop that at one time I worked on making various toys for my nieces and nephews. I was making a set of several trains one time so...

Had to have test pits dug and a soil engineer look at them. I have a perched water table so had to put in a double system totaling 900' of leach and a curtain drain. The septic system had to be drawn by an approved designer and installed by an approved installer. Once I had the soil test, an...

replaced the seals in the lift valve on my lawn tractor. Fiddly job. Took hours. Now trying to get the valve handles mounted back in and there is not enough room to get your hands in to put the pins in place. Lost the pins several times and so far only found one so will have to go to Ace and...

Walked in my moms house the other day and smelled sewer gas. There is a stool and sink upstairs that is hardly used. Went and checked and there wasn't much water in the stool. Flushed and ran water into the sink to fill the trap. Smell went away.

Hmm had not thought of refurbished units. I have refurbished Dewalt tools and like them. Maybe the local welding supply will have a refurb unit or who knows a good trade in unit. I'll check it out. I'm not in a huge hurry as in a must have next week or even next month. This is more of a...

This is all helpful. I have done very little MIG. Most everything I have done is stick on a Lincoln BuzzBox. Learned in AgTech years ago on stick before the days of MIG and TIG. Most of what I would do is lighter sheet metal. Rarely more than 3/16'' or 1/4''. If I do it could be tacked...

I want to add a welder to my shop. I have use of the one at the home farm but there are times I can't load everything up and run there. I've looked at the small Hobarts and Lincolns at the local farm store. 115 V wire welders $500-700 range. Most have 5/16'' maximum thickness Most times...

Just wanted to sign on and introduce myself. Not sure where I came across GarageJournal, possibly one of the other forums I watch. You probably won't see me making a huge amount of comments as I am more of a reader than a participant. After reading the threads I have figured out than many of...