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Captain14, this is the first time I've tackled a building of this era anywhere near so extensively. Most work I've done has been small projects or remodels of various types. My Mother's generation owns a cabin rental resort up in northern Wisconsin with 9 circa-1920 buildings. Though of far...

Thanks for following the adventure, everyone. It's motivating to see interest in the rebuild of an old shop. Moderate progress to report from last few days. Four more lookouts are installed. Yes, they look goofy. For one the lengths are not finished--I will snap lines when they're all...

Thanks guys :beer: Well, things got a little away from me today... My plan was to finish all the nailing on the front wall portal, then get up some gable end studs and finish sheathing the whole front wall. I did finish up the portal nailing schedule, but then, while I was up at the gable...

Gutsy approach would be to leave the breaker on, and approach these fixtures barefoot with a running garden hose, one at a time, and see which one trips the breaker. Kidding, of course. Matt gave you good advice.

Thanks guys, glad there is interest in restored shops! Sometimes I'm not sure how much to document this process; it all feels like accomplishments to me since I'm doing the work, but I'm sure much of it is actually pretty boring from the outside. Some more fun stuff will come once the building...

Framing 201: The Canted Style Header Welcome back, class, to Framing 201. Today we will be discussing a very advanced framing technique: the Canted style header. Don't be shy about questions; the Canted style is really a 300-level technique, but since we don't offer 301 this semester and some...

Boy, zero interest in destructive testing, huh? And to think I took all those photos for you guys.:rolleyes: Well, I'm still here. Due to illness, progress was already pretty slow since we moved in, and came to a complete halt in December. For the last several weeks I have had the energy for...

Re: The Lone Beech Garage Build Thread (60x46) Looking good! It's starting to come together!

Agree on the pull strings. Would say the Cat6 depends on how long you plan to be using it. If you're just a typical home internet user with no great propensity towards techi-ness, CAT5e will do you just fine for a long time to come. If you're really wanting to future proof though and aren't...

I've had a GreenWorks electric washer for almost a year. Has seen quite a bit of use and held up well. For the type of stuff you're talking about, I'd say it works just fine.

Well, you're building it yourself, so... you're already doing it the hard way! 4" slab will support your truck w/o issue. Cracking in the future would come from poor site preparation or poor long-term water management, not the fact that the slab was only 4" thick to start with. However, if...

ProHoe makes a huge variety of garden hoes, field hoes, fire tools, and trail building tools. Many of them are available in multiple handle lengths. Hand-made--and sharpened--in the USA, most of them from recycled agricultural steel. I have a couple of their hoes and they are top quality...

Re: The Lone Beech Garage Build Thread (60x46) If memory serves (and it often doesn't), the hook is basically in a t-slot, with the base of the hook being an upside-down "T" (one piece). You may be able to order a hook with a perpendicular orientation, but you can't turn what you have. Not...

If you share an electrical connection with the barn, you could use a powerline network adapter. You would plug one into a 110v outlet in the house and one in the barn, then link the one in the house to your router (standard network cable) and the one in the barn to a WiFi access point (again...

Re: Designing detached garage - looking for input His image links show up broken, but if you actually click on them they are opening up in another window. Thoraxe, I think you would be disappointed in that layout. It seems that you are coming to the same conclusion. That configuration would...

Well, you're probably not going to break that one...

I know you're kidding, but boy, once you break a cheapo or two, you'll get it! Plus, a nice vise is just so much nicer to use; the jaws stay straight, the backlash is tiny, everything's smoooooth...

Yeah, that green bash vise is not the quality of vise the 1755 is. But, JDon99 is right, the combo can be found even cheaper elsewhere.

Just saw this on Amazon. Wilton 1755 tradesman vise in black paint, plus a Wilton Bash sledghammer (believe it's ~$60 on its own?) for $380. Pretty sure you can't normally find the vise alone for that? Plus this one's black... http://www.amazon.com/dp/B01C9TYP7I/?tag=atomicindus08-20

Re: Designing detached garage - looking for input Yeah, pretty generic, but I'll see if I can get you thinkin'... If "storage / workbench and so on" is really all along one 24' wall, I would say it sounds like you're traveling fairly light. But, there's a lot of individual variation in that...