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You practically got the place for free! Bravo! This'll be fun to watch.

Most awesome. I would love to have an old place like that.

That's what I was thinkin' too.

Me too. I think mine must be almost 20 years old, and those old stick batteries still charge up and work. There must still be a lot of the old Makitas around-- you can still by the stick batteries at Home Depot. I have other drills, but the old Makita still gets used for drilling holes for...

090s are fairly scarce over here too. Thanks for the link, by the way.

I have an Alaskan chain saw mill. I run it on an 076 Stihl engine with a 36" bar. Works great, highly flexible, easy to pack out into the timber, but is pretty labor intensive. I believe they're only a couple of hundred bucks, but you do have to add in the price of bars and chains if you do a...

All the foam insulation builds I ever saw did have a poly barrier. As stated above, if you have a poly barrier you have to nail (or screw) the whole field. Gluing is out. Typically what we would see would be poly on the outside walls. We would nail off the outside sheets and glue everything...

Home Depot sells 'em by the five-pound box. They come in two lengths~ 1&5/8" for half-inch board, and 1&7/8" for thicker board. You can also buy them at any drywall supply by the pound, clear up to 50-pound boxes.

The following is all my opinion~ Homeowners always seriously overfasten drywall. 5" spacing on the **** joints is fine, but not necessary at the corners. Four or five nails or screws on a four foot corner joint is plenty. If you glue the field, you don't have to nail it (the field) at all...

This is correct......or in some state real estate lawyers can do the title work. Even so, they miss stuff occasionally, but that's why you buy title insurance. In my county all the property records are online. After doing lots of title browsing myself, I can tell you it's amazing how often...

+1 on just running the metal right over the old shingles. I just did a stone-coated metal roof (well, my roofer buddy and me did) on a duplex. Supposed to last fifty years, be nearly hail proof, and it looks great too.

The basic twin-post Rotary lifts I had in my shop needed 12 feet.

^^+1 That's the way it's done. Roll the scaffold into position, boost a sheet up, hold it in position, nail it up. Takes two people.

It doesn't, really. They can get bent though. Or maybe it never was machined quite right to begin with. Back a few posts about rotor runout~ some minor rubbing on the disk turning it through by hand is not nearly enough to cause a problem. If the pedal is pulsing and the the front end...

I have a big pile of 5X5 frames, braces, walkboards and wheels. For me, they're almost worth their weight in gold. I've rehabbed/painted the outside of several two-story houses, drywalled high ceilings and repeatedly loaned some of it out to several of my do-it-yourselfer relatives. Like you...

I have a similar sized back yard and have been planning to build a similar sized garage. Glad I found this thread. Keep up the good work.....will be looking forward to subsequent posts as you move along.

Re: What have you bought for you garage that you "had to have" that you never use? I thought all that only happened to me.

X2 I would either~ 1) fix the glass and install a storm window. 2) remove both sashes from the frame and install an vinyl replacement.

Looks great Jim. A lot of my problem is that any storage I've created over the years is open, and always gets nasty, grimy, filthy, dirty. I'm always welding, painting, grinding, blowing dust around, etc, in my garage. Viewing pictures on here I'm constantly amazed at how clean guys are able...

One day a woman showed up at the shop with a smelly car. I mean really nasty. She had been cruising down the freeway behind a truck full of portable toilets (you know, a Johnny-On-The-Spot), when one fell off the back of the truck and exploded on the road. Following too close to avoid it, she...