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Looking to do some projects with oilfield pipe and sucker rod. Thinking about E7018AC rod on the welder below. I've watched Austin Ross Welding on YT and taken 2 years of welding in High School in the 20th Century. Well versed in welding dirty crappy material with a 6011 to get the job...

I'm thinking about what it would take to upgrade the bridge coming in my driveway. This Bridge served us well all these years with 80,000 pound semi's driving over it daily. Feed deliveries, and a daily milk tanker 7 days a week x 30 years. The Footings are concrete, and probably 80-100...

At our local FFA dinner Dance fundraiser one of the Raffle prizes was a FLIR IM75 Insulation tester. I threw a few tickets in since i needed (don't have my own) a multimeter. Upon winning it I looked it up on the internet and saw it was a $675 value. Not being an electrician, and having...

Many guidelines say to plug a refrigerator or a chest freezer into a dedicated circuit. I'm trying to determine if it would be wise, during power outages to plug both the chest freezer and garage fridge into a power strip and run an extension cord to an outlet in the house that is on our...

My Garage was built in 1942 by my grandfather and the sliding door system is dying an ugly death with rotten framing on the doors and sliding hardware freezing up. I think it is time to put a rolllup (with track) door on one half and frame in a man door on the other half...

Anyone have experience building and designing a Vocal studio in your home/garage? My partner is entering the Voice acting industry and has expressed interest in working from a home studio.

Has anyone been through a patent process and picked up a design that was Abandoned? I came across an abandoned patent on a device i've wanted to create, just in a google search. wondering if this is something i could pick up and run with?

I'm toying with the idea of possibly doing a Coolbot controller on a A/C unit for a seasonal walk-in cooler. Curious if folks here have done such a thing and I'd love to see pictures and hear budget numbers and money saving ideas.

On the ranch is a 50x120 open sided hay barn with I beams as the uprights every 24 feet . It was built in the 60's . Probably 18 feet tall with a slight pitch to the roof. Given out usually wet and windy winters, Adding walls to this barn would certainly improve the functionality of it. When...

I searched and found I wasn't the only one wondering... "Why do 99% of floor plans place the garage at the front of the house now? That's prime space! Are we all so afraid of our neighbors now that we choose to live at the back of our homes? And what happened to the front porch? Ask yourself...

I'm a few months , possibly up to 2 years away from being an empty nester. it has me thinking about making multi use room that would serve as an Office and Guest Room, allowing me to take out a wall, eliminate a bedroom and make my living room bigger. Has anyone built their own Murphy bed...

As the 4th generation on the ranch that my great grandfather operated through the depression, I've discovered the penchant my predecessors had for sliding doors on tracks for all the big openings, including my 1947 concrete tipup garage. I would be the first in my family to own an overhead...

My 19x19 interior Garage is a concrete tip up construction, built in 1942. I've considered putting a grid of 1x3 strips and covering with 1/2 inch OSB on the walls. I live in Northern California near the coast with very temperate weather with highs seldom over 100 or below freezing overnight...

So in my Shop organization project, I bought a set of magnetic Socket holders. My sockets consist of what was in my Grandfather's shop when I bought the house, and a Craftsman set I got in the 90's. 1/4. 3/8 and 1/2 drives. I ended up with a lot of duplicates in the smaller drive sizes. I...

In 2014 I bought my Grandparents home on the ranch built in 1941 and did a great deal of remodelling to modernize the old farmhouse. The Garage is concrete tipup walls on 3 sides. It measures 20x20 on the outer edge with clearspan rafters made with true 2x6 lumber. The date scrawled on the...

I'm 4th generation on the family ranch in Northern California (North Bay Area). I have a 24 year career in the feed business and I enjoy archery, hunting big game, and working with horses and cows. In 2014 I bought my Grandparents home on the ranch built in 1941 and did a great deal of...