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I have at least one of all three sizes, plus other ladders. Can confirm they are heavier but they are more versatile.

Does this count? I just finished this parade seat so I can haul old folks down to the beach with the tractor. Once I decide what the floorboards are going to look like I will probably paint it Deere green.

This week‘s project was spurred by one of my daughters when she bought an old church van to make into a camper. I began with a scrap 10’ stick of 2” galvanized conduit, split in half and each bent 90 degrees and screwed onto a hand-threaded ******. Once it was all screwed together, I had to...

That looks like a neon spark plug wire tester thingamabob. Any lettering on it?

Unless you like icicles, you want the most insulation you can get in that area, but still have ventilation. these are what I used: then foam the gaps at the top of the wall. Here is my shop: I later blew in R80

I have used rub-on transfer lettering from model railroad sources.

The next project to take off the too-long-deferred to-do list is our front driveway. When the new neighbors put their driveway in last year they must have blocked our mud road from draining because the ruts have never been this bad (like Jeep-bottoming bad). I have been wanting to upgrade the...

After a couple hundred days of Winter (followed by a near-record cold/near-record wet Spring), the lake has thawed and the trees have budded two weeks later than normal. I survived my final Turnaround and have reretired, and the deferment of myriad and sundry projects has ended. The new...

I built my dust collection system around this surprisingly inexpensive Vevor transparent 4” cyclone and it has exceeded my expectations. And visitors love to watch it work!

I don’t recommend spiral stairs for storage access, but it was the one way I could make this shop design work without completely blocking an entire corner. The second person I showed the newly-finished stair to was a state trooper friend who told me his recent experience with extricating an...

It’s just a hole. I used scraps of 2x6 for several years until I salvaged enough grating. maybe check out my build linked below, since our buildings are similar.

My trench drain (referenced above) is just a 30’ wide sump parallel to the overhead doors that catches all the snowmelt until it needs pumping out with an electric sump pump. No drain, but I could just drill holes if I thought it needed to self drain. I asked the mason for a “shovel-wide and...

I had the front third sloped to a drain trench and the back 2/3rds flat. During heavy snow years I have to pump out the trench maybe twice a winter.

I don’t know if it’s still a thing, but I remember a recent 500psi air system for carpenters/contractors, supposedly for less bulky air nailers.

The VFD that I just put on my bandsaw has different jumper settings to better coexist with gfci receptacles.

The wire size capacity should be molded into the breaker, or at least on the sticker.

I used ordinary hss drill bits and drilled and tapped for 1/4-20 bolts so there wouldn’t be any protrusion inside, and I took additional care to stay out of the path of the carriage bushings. The post steel isn’t anything special. I suppose that fine thread self tappers designed for thick metal...

A lean-to that is only 6 or 8 feet wide is not for parking. What do you plan to use it for? At only 6’, you may be able to just order trusses that cantilever that far without posts. Eight feet is possible but pushing it, depending upon hurricanes or snow load. Four foot is sufficient for...

Scraped the slush from the driveway with the tractor, getting ready for the 3-4” of snow forecast for Tuesday, with more snow turning to rain the next day. Then another GJ member texts me, he’s looking for unrounded bolts to hold his muscle car driveshaft in and he can’t find any in town or...

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