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Jory put up his 2025 holiday gift guide video. Be sure to show it to your significant other. :)

I saw this guy's video yesterday, he's pretty clever. He was able to operate a driveway gate 1000' from his house using Power over Ethernet, and threw in several security cameras at the same time.

I stopped at my local Goodwill today. I was looking for a new keyboard (and found one) but browsing around the store I found they had a rack of new 4 foot 5000K LED shop lights for $6.99 each. (y) I bought some to replace the dim fluorescents in my basement workshop and they're pretty nice...

I saw this video tonight and thought other people here would find it interesting. It's a guy in Sweden, pouring an apron in front of his shop that includes hydronic heat. The temperature during the pour was around or below freezing. He's apparently sort of a novice for finishing concrete, but...

This is an old video but I just saw it today. :)

About 40 years ago I got one of those plastic tip Snap-On hammers, that has one face made of hard plastic and the other tip is rubber. Apparently the rubber tip just got dried up and brittle over time, and it finally just broke into bits. I wasn't sure if Snap-On would cover warrantee...

I follow the Shop Nation YouTube channel. In the last year he moved to a new house, and built a new shop behind it. In this video it's finally done, and he itemizes the total cost of construction. In the past he's also gone into detail about how much he makes from YouTube, which I thought was...

According to the national day calendar, March 11 is National Worship of Tools day. NATIONAL WORSHIP OF TOOLS DAY March 11th is National Worship of Tools Day. This is a day to go out into the garage, the tool shed, the storage closet, or wherever it is you keep your tools. You can clean...

The topic of how the Amish will sometimes move a barn by getting a couple hundred guys to pick it up and carry it comes up here every so often, but is usually only accompanied by a photo. Here's a video that shows how it's actually done.

The RR Buildings YouTube channel's latest video shows how they directional bore conduit for underground electrical service to his new shop building. They have to go a couple hundred feet, including under a small creek. It's a pretty good instructional video to show how the process works. In...

Cool story about a guy restoring a 1957 Mobil gas station: https://wheels.rep-am.com/2023/09/my-ride-fill-er-up-1957-style/

I got this old Craftsman ratchet from my brother yesterday, he was cleaning out a house he bought. It needs cleaning and lubrication but seems to work well. Any idea on what era it's from? I haven't seen one like it before.

I was at a car show today and noticed a vendor selling new tools by the pound - I thought it was a novel approach. It was all offshore stuff but it looked fairly decent, mainly sockets and socket sets.

Ken's Karpentry is a contractor in northern Vermont that specializes in building garages. For the most part they are very basic with no frills - two car, vinyl siding, metal roof, unfinished interior, and site prep and electrical costs are separate. He posted a video today discussing pricing...

Matt Cremona recently built a 40x72 gambrel post frame barn, with spray in foam insulation and in floor hydronic heat. You can watch the series of videos showing the construction, but in this final video he itemizes the cost.

Matt Cremona is a woodworker in Minnesota, and he recently built a 40x72 barn equipped with closed cell spray foam insulation and in floor radiant heat. In his latest video he discusses the installation costs for both - since price is a common topic here I figured it would be a useful reference.

I saw this product on one of the Saturday morning car TV shows. It's a flexible magnetic socket and tool holder that comes in several sizes. https://www.socketstraps.com They're also available on Amazon as well as other retail sites. Amazon link No affiliation, I just thought they looked...

Edit: Video clip removed...others are pointing out it was faked, so I'd rather not be the source of a big argument. Regardless, wearing proper PPE when using a cutting wheel is important.