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Round here the deer love cedar hedges, so it’s rare to see a hedge that hasn’t been trimmed bare below the 6’ mark!

I would never put one of those Bluetooth or WiFi connected locks on my home. The "chain of custody" of the various layers of tech is a mess, and the security of the whole thing is often hinged on some black box module crapped out of a no name vendor in China. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I sprayed some coffee out my nose...

There's a bit of confirmation bias at play here. You toss 100 things and then you need 1 thing a year later. I get what you have going on, and it is hard to get past. You have to be ruthless and not feel guilty about it. Throw stuff out. Good stuff. You don't have time or energy to sell it...

3M what? They make everything from post-it notes to fiber optic cable assemblies...

You're not out of room! I see acres of floor space.

Says the guy that clearly spends half of his time driving back and forth to Harbor Freight and the other half of his time saving the boxes for piece-of-**** single-use tools so that he can try to resell them later to "people that don't value their time".

Cat6 is a waste of money. 5e is fine. The deal with Cat6 was that it was supposed to pave they way for 10Gbps ethernet over unshielded twisted pair, but nobody cares because nobody runs 10Gb over plain old copper. For anything up to 1Gbps, 5e is just fine. If you want to future proof, run fiber...

So I may have worked out a compromise with my wife that allows to add a second floor to my garage. My property is sloped and my garage is built into the hillside, so that I would have ground level access to the first floor (my current garage) at the front, and ground level access to the second...

Build it 42' 5" x 42' 5" and you'll save the most money on drywall, studs, sheathing and siding.

I'm going to disagree with the other posts and posit that this is polyisocyanurate roof deck insulation. It's made in rigid sheets 2 inches thick or so, with a black paper facing material on both sides. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I had to zoom in on your photos after reading this, and I'm not buying it. Maybe things are different where you live, but I've never seen PT lumber that isn't green or brown. I recently hired some blokes to build a fence for me, and they did the same kinds of things, and wrote them off as...

Thinking about this more, I think I am the knucklehead. 2" bore, 2.375" stroke, 4 cyl, single stage. If my math is any good, i'd need to get down to 30 rpm[edit: divided when I should have multiplied; make that 22 rpm] to run this thing off a half-horse motor @ 125 psi output.

Y'all are missing the point :) I don't want to run it to spec. In fact it has no pulley at all, probably part of the reason why it's in the surplus section. I don't need lots of air, I'm just wondering if I can use a big pump and run it slow to cut down on the noise. Sent from my iPhone using...

Good point on the lube. My goal isn't more air, it's less noise. I'm aiming for the same volumetric output as my little compressor, but lower speeds thanks to 4x the cylinders, larger displacement per cylinder, and much lower overall speed. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I was wandering around Princess Auto recently, and spotted a big 4 cylinder air compressor head in their surplus section, and it got me thinking... Nothing quite drives me to crapping my pants more than my little oil-less compressor kicking in when I least expect it; would it be reasonable to...

Can you get a bill of materials from the manufacturer? Ignoring stuff that was shipped out of error, anything that is on that bill of materials that wasn't used in your barn should be yours. Anything else belongs to the manufacturer, and it's between them and the GC to sort out.

My dad always says that a project isn't complete unless you've bled on it. He has a genetic disorder that messes with his clotting factor, so bleeding comes very easy to him, so I have to take his advice with a grain of salt! After 70 years he's finally getting it treated, so he has to work a...

Spent the day in the pouring rain tearing out the remains of a chain link fence. Not at the top of my list of favourite things to do! Regarding the other question: No Comment! :D

500 pounds if it's concentrated on a single point. Which it's not. And 500 pounds if the concrete exerted the same pressure at the top of the boards that it does at the bottom, which it doesn't. You're looking at 17.4 pounds per foot. I can't believe I'm still arguing this. When people do...