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I thought we talked about this just a couple months ago?

Every time someone asked me to draw a house/building/addition, I would ask them to save pictures of what they liked/needed/wanted. Nowadays I would ask for screenshots. So give us at least a direction you are thinking or we here on this forum will all suggest the most expensive possible...

Two long-term goals coincided today. I had collected over the years what I thought was several tons of broken concrete and riprap and crates of rocks (picked out of the driveway over the years before the snowblower could fling them). I had no particular project for it all, I just didn’t want to...

I used all of the galvanized plate I had on the taller four walls and had to finish the last two sides with some galvanized T beam sections. Got those T’s stretched and welded in yesterday and sprayed with galvanized paint while still warm. Today I was able to finish trenching and bolted down...

I also bought a real fire cabinet, but it wasn’t a deal. I got tired of waiting for a used one and finally bought new after five years of needing one.

I found this awhile back when researching something else and saved the screenshot.

Around here it would be washed river rock and goes for the same price ~$35/yard, but $160+/hr for hauling.

Cris: Thanks! I bought the pre-owned Miller SD180 to eventually learn to TIG. The green argon cap is just visible onboard, behind the boxes and tungsten grinder. The pre-owned Miller Dial-arc 250p ac/dc under the welding table is the dedicated stick-only machine inside, with the auction-sourced...

Progressing: Virtual: I have 362 days to accomplish the latter as a venue for my last daughter’s wedding ceremony.

My favorite wife has been complaining for years about how dull her kitchen knives were, and my huge stash of garage sale chisels were probably even duller, so I treated myself to a set of imported sharpeners last month. Today I realized this catch-all bench might be a more functional and...

I bought a knife/chisel sharpener and a circular saw blade sharpener for myself last month. I had found and rewheeled an antique Neilssen chainsaw sharpener last year, and all the sharpeners needed a place to live that didn’t involve deep dark storage and assembly just to touch up a chisel, so I...

I thought @DocsMachine posted a Hardinge sheave drive lathe restoration series, but I can’t find it. Maybe Doc will post a link when he gets back from wombat emasculating class.

After errands, I finished welding patches on the final plate and hauled it down to check fit to the screwpiles. Then back up the bluff to see if my ignoring of the auction welder for three years had healed the injector pump gasket? O-ring? Sorta, it still drips but it runs! A friend had...

Having to design as I go takes much longer, but I’m using up materials on hand and trying to keep costs down. I decided that pins in the screwpiles would be a good way to bolt the timbers down and simplify welding the retaining walls to the piles. The problem is the inner shape: The steering...

Way back when I was an employee, I was allowed to rummage in the metal Dumpster at work. Over the multiple decades I brought home many interesting shapes and weldments and stuff, just in case. This week’s project needed some heavy sawhorses that wouldn’t melt or burn, so deep in the overgrown...

I use snowmobile skates since I have several sets, and they are rated for at least 800lbs. One set suffered no damage when moving my 1000lb weld table.

Dad bought this Corvair, the first of many, along about 1971. It had already been V8 swapped with the Crown kit to be an ice racer, a local thing to do when you have cars, lakes, and long winters. We don’t know if it ever competed, but Dad used it as a commuter for most of the seventies. Then...

One of the things I did today while cleaning up after many days of installing soffit was to put wheels on the stomp shear. It’s a 1906? Pexto 36” that I used to shear the aluminum soffit. I rarely use it since it’s a 300lb cast-iron pita to move around and I figured “hey, it’s already in the...

The Shop Soffit&Rake Trim Week: One more long-nagging shop project completed! Now I can make an appointment with the gutter guys! The first order of business was special ordered rake and fascia trim (2-3 weeks out), no big deal, that’ll give me time to fix the manlift that has been broken...

After learning that a fellow retiree from work owns a screw pile attachment and had some surplus 6’ anchors laying around, a simplified hexagon gazebo design returned to the top of the plan. To lay out a hexagon, I drilled some 1x4s with holes on 8’ and 16’ centers since the radius equals six...