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Sorry - It's an x730. Not sure where the x570 came from. Thanks. These look promising. I'll try to get under the mower today and see what's going on. It's a real pain to take the deck off. I'm a bit annoyed. it's only got 40 hours on it. I just had the mower in for repairs last Fall because...

I have similar issues. I think it's mice getting into the walls and digging into random stuff in the garage. It does get worse when the weather gets warmer. I tossed a bag of insulation I had in my loft because they turned it into a mouse condo.

This is a long shot, but recently I was walking in my yard and came across the part in the picture below. I found it in the grass about 1 week after I used my JD x730 mower with a 60" deck (fixed it). I recently purchased the John Deere, and I'm thinking this might be from the mower. I've...

What's the shop made of? I have a pole barn with steel siding and a steel roof. I have a lot of problems with yellowjackets. They like to get under the steel and setup nests in ribbing. They don't need much of an opening. I don't see them inside very often, but my walls are finished with...

I pulled 300' of #2 copper from my house to my barn. Used a lot of lube and a pusher (my son) and a puller (me). I had several 45s and a 90 turn in there. I got 3/4 of the way and got stuck. Ended up putting a pulley on one of my rafters and tied the pull line to my pickup hitch. Worked like a...

Loosely related side story on that beer can. I work for a Great Lakes shipping company. There was an incident with this beer and one of our boats. There's even a T-shirt.

My 'notebook' is composed of various napkins, scraps of paper, pieces of corrugated cardboard, and old wood scraps with carpenter pencil marks, words, pictures, and an occasional doodle. The collection is loosely scattered across my barn, garage, basement, and on the occasional 2x4 covered in...

Great idea. I already have some of this. I think a sandwich of wood, paper, and a drop cloth should do the trick. The stuff I'm using is a gel, so it shouldn't be too runny. I will try the citrus strippper first, but I've tried it in the past and it doesn't work nearly as well as the other stuff.

Unfortunately it's live. I pulled most of it out a few years ago, but I can't get to the stuff behind the walls. Weird thing is, this room was redone at some point. The plaster is gone, walls were moved, and drywall was put up. I don't know why no one addressed to old cable at that time.

I'm assuming it will. It will eat most types of gloves. Isn't polyurethane a type of plastic?

Yes - stripping to bare wood, sanding, restaining, and adding poly. I'm trying to get uniformity throughout the house. The woodwork is original, and about 150 yrs old. The current wood has stain and poly followed by multiple coats of paint, or straight up poly. There were new windows added...

Using this - https://www.lowes.com/pd/Jasco-1-Quart-Extra-strength-Stripper-Semi-paste/1001079512 I also have some Citrus Strip for paint removal if needed.

Working in my barn. The OSB is a great idea. I might have enough scraps around to cover the entire work area. I also have a RustBullet floor covering, so I want to avoid damaging the floor too. I bought gel to minimize runoff, so hopefully there won't be a lot of stray drips.

I have some really old wood trim that I need to strip and refinish. There is both paint and poly on the trim. I've removed the wood and plan to do this in my barn. I also have to do some in-place stripping on the windows. I'm hoping someone can give me an idea of how to protect areas around the...

I have one of the heavy duty huskies. Got a floor model for a great price. It's well built and more than I'll ever need.

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My barn is ~7 years old. Metal roof. So far no water leaks from rain. The screws they use have a gasket that seals pretty good. The ceiling is insulated and I have metal panels on the ceiling. I do have a ridge vent and the eves are vented, so any moisture should dry up. Before I sealed up the...

My pole barn is kept heated, but I added furring strips on the exterior walls that had pvc lines for external spigots. There's insulation between the exterior wall and the PVC. I used freeze proof spigots. I still drain them before winter. I have interior shutoff valves as well. So far, after...

I'm going with option #1. Don't have a need for a large garage door. The prior owner used it for boat repair, so I'm guessing he needed the door that wide. I don't. The existing garage door is crazy heavy. The owner had a forced air furnace running in the garage for years, so the current door...

This is my plan for now. I'd like to stabilize the header and get rid of the wide door and replace it with a smaller door. At this point, it will probably not be until Spring. If it falls down, I probably won't replace it. It's strictly storage and might convince my wife to get rid of some of...