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I built everything up on casters. Workbenches, toolboxes, work carts, storage racks, you name it. If it's heavier than 100lbs, it's on casters. I also fabricated some bucket forks for my FEL. Harbor Freight has occasional sales on heavy duty casters, or I raid the dumpsters in the nearby...

You'd be right at the M7K's lift capacity. If I had to lift a truck on a Maxjax, I'd have tripod jack stands at 4 points. I have put plenty of cars and SUVs on my Maxjax, no issues whatsoever. As for tractors, I have put my BX2380 on the Maxjax several times. I have to take the MMM off to...

McMaster Carr and Grainger sell vibration isolating feet for small equipment - they're about $24-$30 a piece. Vibrasystems sells them for $12-14 a piece If you ever need something more extreme, I have used seismic loading feet before too. IsoTech, Vibrex, and Resistoflex sell good ones but...

Wood is going to be the most economical- whether you go with OSB or get a nice expensive slab of butcher block. I nabbed a machine frame from a dumpster 13 years ago, 3m x 1.5m. I put 3/4" OSB subflooring on the top and used leftover floor epoxy. It looked great. But, I can tell you from...

I agree. I've done enough P/DFMEAs to recognize when a design is flawed. I haven't really liked the design direction OEMs have taken on quarter-turn drain plugs either in recent years.

I had a JD riding mower before I got a Kubota tractor. The previous owner of the JD routed the drain pipe down and put a ball valve on it. Oil changes were effortless.

Before I had a tractor, lift, and other goodies, I bought a massive SnapOn tool chest from a dude on Craigslist. He used a skid steer with forks to load it on our truck. On the drive home, I was imagining ways to (Safely) get the behemoth off the truck. I had a low-profile heavy duty dolly...

If a section of slab is removed to dig deeper, the new pour should be rebar "pinned" to the existing slab at minimum, but a full rebar lattice is not required. As for rebar reinforcing on a new pour without tying into existing, it's going to add a safety factor but is not 100% necessary. A...

28 days gets you to 90-100% of the design strength depending on environment. Concrete continues wet curing above 125% for well over a year. I've had people argue with me over this, but try busting out old concrete vs concrete less than a year old.

I have a $9.99 HF Chicago Electric grinder that I have absolutely abused for the last 10 years. It's not quiet, it's not comfortable, it's probably glowing on the inside, but it has been trusty. I have wanted that thing to die so I would have an excuse to get a newer one but I just can't kill...

Personally, I would use PT for anything exposed. But, I can tell you from experience that non-PT lasts a while just fine with no coating. My father helped me build a treehouse about 30 years ago. When they sold the property 16 years later, most of the treehouse was still intact. The floor...

This is excellent info, very appreciated!

Funny you mention that... I just got some major equipment quotes for a work project and, sure enough, quote validity has gone from 30-60 days to 10, some as low as 3 days. Leadtimes are going up, probably so they can create supply chains that circumvent tariffs.

I don't see prices coming down, ever. I'm trying to gauge how much prices will increase in a 1yr span. 5%, I can stomach. 25%, not so much. It's not about prices coming down- it's about how volatile the prices are for the next year. Prices never come down unless there is so much economic...

That's my fear- I'm seeing that right now in my industry. I am starting to get "uh oh, we increased our prices due to tariffs" emails and some of these suppliers are 100% domestically sourced, so I suspect they are just scalping. From a supply-chain perspective, I live near several steel...

[NOT A POLITICAL DISCUSSION] I'm curious if anyone has insight on the potential effects from tariffs on steel building prices. I have been working on site prep for a 30x60 for the last two years (long story, huge undertaking, not the point). My plan was to finish grading and pour a slab this...

We pulled the trigger on a BX2380 (MMM + FEL) 6 years ago. It has been one of the best purchases in my life. We have about 5 acres total, 1.5 acres of lawn. Spring/Fall cleanup was a massive chore doing it all by hand (lots of larger trees, weird shaped property, lots of garden beds), and 20...

Hepatotoxicity is the greater concern. It's real and there are many, many cases of it. The Alzheimer's correlation has enough info on it to be a concern, though. There was a time where cigarettes were marketed as healthy. Same with sugar. Not trying to hijack the thread here, just saying...

Chips generated from machining aren't really the issue for inhalation- it's when people use abrasives on aluminum where it becomes a major problem: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24142983/ https://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/toxfaqs/tfacts22.pdf It doesn't mean it'll kill you if you breathe it in once...

This is the best way, honestly. If OP doesn't have access to a mill, you can do "redneck jeweling" using a pneumatic orbital sander and scotch-brite. You'd have to strip the existing coating first though, media blast it. If you do any finishing work on aluminum (polishing or sanding) make...