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the floating dock and 55 gallon drums under it, so far been good for a few years now just leaving them in all year round. a little bit of antifreeze in them. to both sink them in water a little bit for better stability, but also to keep ice from forming up inside of them during winter. the...

*rubs chin* not sure if following you completely. the more so the "moving ramp" part. --what i have currently raft and dock, the dock will be getting re done. --the raft, i can not clutter up with boats. used for many other things.

see attached diagram. needing 2 ramps, to pull boats up. i want and need to pull ramps up and out during winter for sure. not wanting to pull entire 8'x16' worth of lumber with decking board up and out onto hill side of lake. was wanting to use some pulleys and a winch per ramp to just lift...

1st lawyer, most likely not, not up on laws it didn't seem, and did not seem that interested. free consult. what the heck. 2nd lawyer, seems like needed to research and look up a lot of extra stuff, go to person, but *meh* 2nd best so far. paid consult 3rd lawyer, yet to actually meet in...

picture from Home Hardware - Up to 2lbs Boat Ramp Kit not liking the hand winch. need to pull bass boat all the way up on shore, and flip it upside down, so it does not get flooded and fall back into lake. paddle boat it might work, but the paddles, and the *meh* forget what it is called...

google your part numbers. and look through a few websites to find cheaper price. double check shipping, some places will charge you arm and leg. other times if you get 25 to 35 bucks worth of stuff on same receipt you get free shipping. amazon, i really should get prime account. i always end...

down in the pasture. the culvert. washed out completely. i do not remember what size it was exactly i want to say either 12" or 15" pipe i did have in place. looking at 2 smaller size culvert pipes. to deal with area. and then needing to pile up dirt/rock over it. in order to obtain enough...

approx 1 to 1.5 feet step from hill to bridge. once bridge ends are re-raised out of water. showing very ugly drawing of min 4 more posts, and a large step or steps being added.

settling ponds have yet to actually measure, just guessing at this stage smallest dam = approx 5 to 8 feet wide, to 3 feet deep, 20 foot pipe going through bottom middle dam = average between the small/large dam, with 20 foot pipe going through bottom. largest dam = 50 feet wide maybe a bit...

fall 2016, neighbor installed drain tiled in their field, at the end of it all, the snuck across and cut through my fence line, and install drained tile onto my property, and changed the natural point of entry were water would normally enter my property. and had been entering my property. of...

seafoam turned the engine oil pitch black for sure. drained the oil, and noticed something, stuck finger up inside oil drain hole, and finger came off with a lot of metal shavings. the metal shavings is something new in the oil since i really looked at things. when i put in a new clutch and...

found what i was needing to figure out size of brakes pic from How to Measure to Select the Correct Brake Shoes for a 6, lb Dexter Trailer Axle | etrailer.com closer inspection. 5 bolt backer plate to axle. toss some PB blaster on the bolts/nuts, hopefully come off easily later on.

glad i decided to take other side off tonight, need another spring as well *doh* and to confirm looks like i will need to pull all 4 brakes off the axles and swap everything around.

heard some dragging, pulled wheel. and found out the spring and the star adjuster broke and came off and both got mangled pretty good. went to see what i could find and have different measurements for star adjusters. how determined what length i need? 7", 10" 12" ========== never realizing it...

time to jinx myself. --3" pvc pipe approx 4 feet long, --3" toilet flange (easier to mount tweeter to) --a tweeter from some old speakers you would toss behind a standard cab bench seat. speaker also has 6" speaker in it --i left the resister in the speaker that was in line with the tweeter...