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Off topic but still laugh, I used to get in trouble for panking snow instead of actually shoveling it. First thing my folks bought when I moved out was a snowblower 😂, before that I just had a shovel. Second thing was a brand new dishwasher.

Finally, I now understand where the origins of panking snow came from. Makes sense it's from the many copper and iron miners that worked and settled vast areas up there.

Your posts have almost motivated me enough to once again tinker with my unusable due to it being unreliable 270c 👍

Probably already mentioned over the years, but Organizing random extra and left over hardware. Built several of these shelves over the years hang on walls cost me nothing to make. the plastic trays I have were also free or pretty inexpensive I add a few inches to the largest tray I currently...

Had an old smaller great bend 651 3pt mounted on my old L2850 very handy, it was self contained meaning you hooked the hydro pump on the pto shaft, if I ever needed another 3pt bh I'd probably look for the same setup for hydraulics. Never needed a thumb I curled the bucket into the stick when...

What was confusing for me anyway, it looked like the end of it was going the same direction as the engine on different grades/ lines why I initially thought there were two different trains running parallel on different grades. Your map clarified why I thought that.

So they built the loop to eliminate switch backs on an old line? Thanks for the map it definitely helped explain things better for me anyway halfway through your video I thought I was watching two separate trains. Lol

Brings me back to a question I asked earlier are equipment tires dated like tires made to travel public roads? not one of my R1 ag tires on either tractor has a date code on them.

Meanwhile, One bay over from keweenaw courtesy of my web/ homesick cam.. lol

I'm apparently awaiting disaster also. my weather checked tires that still hold air, are so old they were made before the date mandate lol. Unsure if a manufactured date is even required on off road equipment tires perhaps a owner of a newer tractor can chime in?

Never looked at bending from wind making it hard to split, for me I believed and still do think the age of the tree and how tight the rings are related to ease of splitting I do think the tighter the rings the longer and hotter it burns.

I've seen a few roadside firewood stands that sell mostly poplar for firewood or I believe it was pople. Also interesting is Usually the first trees to start regrowing a clear cut in my area is poplar

"Drifting" I still have freinds that travel to hunt and spend enormous amounts of money. Imho I'd rather buy tools, equipment for making wood and tractor implements, for my adrenaline fix 😂.

I don't deer hunt anymore but when I did there is a distinctive taste difference in terms of what deer ate up north mostly evergreen boughs, and southern deer that ate mostly field corn. U.P. deer definitely tasted gamier in my experience.

Definitely read and understand the 4 digit code for manufactured date.

Curious as to why maple is worthless? I like burning it, I usually drop a dying one, yellow birch, or beech trees, to burn, seasoned maple seems to burn best though. The key I've found is seasoning the wood. In any case I burn what's available on my property, always trying to find diseased or...

If you plan on using it for just digging northern tool has a slightly smaller one for under 20k. They also sell attachments for the mini they sell. I have researched many minis a few years back ultimately determined a open station JD 26g would be the most beneficial for what I wanted to do...

Yes good points but I was interested in flow rates and pressures ultimately that will be a determining factor for some buyers, what attachments you can run on it Imo.

So it has a yanmar engine, what about the hydraulic system? I tried to find specs on it and couldn't.

However imo it matters how much fuel you have to use to heat the building.

These days I walk out to my shop and wish some of my junk was still working. Lol

But rusty relics and old industrial sights always have and always will peak my interest.

Well without putting my foot in my mouth again. As others have also said I truly enjoy making wood always have, always will. For me anyway the costs invested in equipment to make wood myself has paid for itself in terms of heating cost savings, especially when I can cut down trees in my...

42 k for making 10 cords?? I hope those are full cords 😂. More serious though Imho, by folks "drifting" they are able to share actual experiences and additional knowledge they have, only kind of related to the original subject matter, I'm guilty of doing it sometimes to the extreme, mostly me...

Pretty easy inexpensive hacks for cheaper bandsaws, steel storage, and a homemade brake press add on for a 20 ton press. Catching cutting fluid on a 7x12 band saw, used repurposed aluminium flat stock I'm sure plastic or steel would work also, bent it on my homemade brake press, made from semi...

Where I grew up folks occasionally used to say pank or panking snow no idea how or where that word got discombobulated into a similar meaning equating to shoveling snow?

Anyone ever hear of the "redstar graveyard"? Saw a little bit of this place watching the TV tonight. Wonder if there's a train "graveyard" like that in the US? https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/istvantelek-train-yard

Yep used to bring chains in when I remembered and could, not a few miles or one day turnaround though, From my several weeks of learning and reading about sharpening chains I've experienced it's much easier with better results if you file often instead of waiting til it's dull. I've also...

If you have a fixed mount winch switch and can only operate it from operator station, I'll find a slight incline put the hook on a stationary object slowly spool it out or if your careful and slow free spool it, Engage winch and winch it back turning your wheels side to side running a couple...

For years I'd bring chains in to sharpen for me anyway if and when I do invest in my own electric sharpener I figured I should get the basics down manually using files first.

Zr 13 obd scanner had for several years now, I'm not a mechanic so it does more than what I need it for and capable of but has multiple test parameters on top of scanning/ resetting check engine lights. Anyways it's paid for itself and then some especially when you have intermittent trouble...

Fair point, I' wouldn't normally dispute that but I've seen loaded GL freighters fighting near gales by Jones island where the Milwaukee and KK river meet keeping in mind they were only going fast enough to maintain steerage even equipped with thrusters, they literally had to make a 90...

Those ships have so much windage.

Old Kubotas just keep going, most aren't garage queens and won't win any vintage tractor shows, but that's how I like them.

Nice car, I think I've ate at dockside before, Off topic question can you get to Grand Taverse bay by boat from Torch Lake?

Starting a wood stove fire hack, with instant homemade fire starter (in keeping with thread title, might have a wood stove in in your shop)? My dad taught me this one I'm sure a few know of this, anyways old 12 pack boxes filled with newspapers, kindling and or yard sticks. Light the box...

Thanks for your experience and insight I'm getting pretty proficient at it and understand what I do wrong when it's not cutting good, I also apologize for "topic drift" however I've learned more from drifted topic experiences, knowledge shared by folks than the original topic usually.

I Probably should use a closed container like an ammo box, probably wouldn't lose stuff out of an open canvas bag like I have, I like this little file kit cause it fits anywhere and everything is secure. anyways a bit of sharpening nostalgia humor my grandfather who worked in the woods for a...

Handy saw horses/ table Wood shop hack, So I had a bunch of cheap wooden barstools that were found on side of road, me being me I picked them up, started placing junk on them. Eventually needed another set of sawhorses Lumber prices were high at the time so looking over at my pile of junk...

Anyone ever boat or travel by this lighthouse, it's pretty cool to see In person I believe during WW2 it was used for live fire training exercises on lake Michigan, I also believe it was on a history channel program on abandoned stuff.

Understand, I should have said cutting the main leaders with sawzall when pulling the things out it definitely makes it easier.

When removing stumps or cutting them at or below ground level, I've found a cordless sawzall and demo blade works wonders in my experiences.

I'm learning to freehand without guide. I like the fact it gives you a small portable vise Ive grown a little dependent using vise's for a lot of stuff unfortunately.

Looking for new files for my 4.5 gas and cordless running chainsaws all different pitches, etc. instead bought this entire Oregon kit imo good black Friday deal. Even has a portable stump vise.

I like learning garage/shop hacks and useful contraptions. I'm a diy hacker so revived this older post, Oil funnels, and containers, my wife likes kitchen gadgets, I like tools, I repurposed some of her pitchers and measuring cups as oil dispensers, a old turkey baster as battery...

Perhaps the person running around on shore filming the video should have stayed on the boat operating the vessel idling forward during tractor offloading.

I'm sure the mini vans got upgraded aftermarket heavy duty front disc brakes. Or not

Needless to say I now read warning labels thoroughly.lol

Dumb question but are you sure that's not 30.0 kpa which is around 4.4 psi?

However further investigation of what happened showed it should have had a max 10 psi +- cold. Not 35 and definitely not 44

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I've never seen that before on a sidewall, But I have blown apart a low pressure tire running it at the max bead seating pressure. That's the only reason I commented on this topic.

LoL it follows the words WARNING and Safety on every low pressure tire I own, I guess there was a ignorant time when I had to experience everything myself and didn't read warnings or listen to advice. To be on topic kind of, don't run or operate low pressure tires at the maximum allowable...

Wait one and I'll take a few

Don't ask me how I found this out but be careful not to misread your sidewall. Some of you folks know that Some manufacturers will list the max psi when setting a bead that has nothing to do with the max recommended psi when operating.

Mystic oil was offering these 6gal containers for hydro trans oil, when they went on discontinued clearance at Blain's I bought them out. Ive been using mystic hydro and engine oil for over 5 yrs and in my experience with it both my Kubotas seem to like it. The "go box's" are so nice and my...

Probably these days, a decade or so ago just electric tools were Chinese made. My old table saw, China, Hand tools, wrenches, ratchets, most sockets , nut driver's, screw driver's "forged" in USA anyway.

I like rechargeable battery work lights, another good alternative is this rechargeable led Menards "smart electrician" rebrand had it for a couple years always works, reasonably priced, I believe it has a built in smart usb charger meaning you can plug it in and forget about it when it needs a...

Hobart's like millers equivalent of snapons blue point line imo. I own a few Hobart's never had any problems with any of them.

When I was a lot more serious of getting a multiprocess machine miller seemed the way to go, that was 5 yrs ago.

A friend of mine swears by miller. He's retired and welded professionally as his career for 40 yrs.

Hit box needs to change there logo they place in front of the name lol, is HTP Italian made?

Really like the variable speed option at that price point, you know if that has an induction motor?

Yep same thing here to til I started using a different new to me old Columbia vise the jaws were a bit more aggressive and always marred the steel on the bar. So I started trying to put pieces of wood in between the jaws and bar unfortunately I only have two hands lol. Like I said it works for me.

I came up with the idea of securing it in a vice for a few reasons, its especially handy when I'm trying to dial in a carb when it's running, plus since I've started locking a saw in a vice I've never had one fall off the bench when working on it. For me anyway it's made working on my saws much...

Fastening magnets to pieces of wood is a great idea also. Didn't even think of that.

annoyed with leaving indentations of a vice in my saws bars when servicing, bench testing saws, sharpening chains and annoyed with trying to balance saw/ old scraps of wood and tighten the vise I threw together a "jig"that drops in to vice. Used scraps of wood 1x, a scrap of 1/4" plywood and 5...

In order to make my buddies welder whole again I remember I had to order more than what was needed cause HF only sold it in one piece at the time. I fixed it for him on my dime cause I jacked it up, with him knowing if he needed help welding something ever again he'd have to take it to my place...

Btw when I melted my friends lead in two the replacement lead for the cheap harbor freight welders was almost as much as the hf welder itself. If I remember correctly the lead and gun were integral one piece. Probably part of the reason why I'm so against cheap hf welders.

Well I view it this way and I'm not just implying welders, but if you learned to become a decent welder on a cheap HF welder you can most likely weld profeciently with any welder out there.

When I had a great bend 3pt BH I downloaded the manual for a Bush Hog 3pt BH the models were very similar if not exact clones, I believe they were the company that took over great bend a long time ago.

Here's a 200 amp $hitbox?? 3 in 1 for less than $200 on Amazon with prime.

Whoa some of those 3in 1s on Amazon look to good to be true at that price, haven't looked at welders in quite awhile but if I can't even pronounce the welder manufacturers name I'll pass.

Not saying hf welders can't weld, I was saying you need to treat some of the darn things like fine china. Repeat of a comparison I probably mentioned before. I accidentally ran over the lead to torch on a cheaper Home Depot big box store Lincoln mig with about a 3.5 k forklift to my disbelief...

At least his mini vans something to talk about. Wonder in the RV world if thats considered a class b or super b? Lol

Anyone ever free hand sharpen pilot point cobalt drill bits? If so how? Should I just grind what's left of the point off and try and sharpen it like a regular bit? Thanks

Probably a repeat post/experience but a buddy bought a HF flux core welder a while back, had me come over to help him on his project it involved using his hf flux core welder. The lead for the torch touched some hot steel melted right through it. I was familiar with Lincoln, even higher end...

To me anyway one of the most satisfying things in acquiring older stuff for cheap or free is getting it running, semi reliable, and using it to do tasks/work again, if I fail or it can't be fixed without extensive buying of new parts $$ I usually try and repurpose its parts on something else...

Or depending on what you have available you could make little knick nacks, especially Xmas oriented to sell with minimal cost, logistics, time, and wood available yes people buy these roadside mostly plus it gets the whole family involved. For me anyway it's a great way to utilize limbs, tops...

Focusing on heading of thread, In the Up of Michigan electricity is 25+ cents a kilowatt hr. During my build Electric baseboards were the most economical and reliable means of heating the cabin when not there at 40 degrees, vs running a central high efficiency propane furnace. As for...

Nice they gave the owner of that mini x a brand new one in exchange. To bad they didn't contact me for some classics lol

I guess it would depend where you live and if you had enough population to support a operation like that, wood fireplaces don't seem to be as sought after or wanted. In the early and mid 2000s a construction company I worked for, very few were getting wood fireplaces and never wood stoves in...

I got my spray foam on a new build, did a bit of research and consulted a few more experienced folks before I committed to hiring a spray foam contractor. Noticable gassing was over in a few days and nonexistent when I finished everything and got my occupancy permit about a year later. I used...

Bought a used Porter cable 4x36 use aluminum oxide belts on it, use it or trying to use it for sharpening dull drill bits using the miter gauge, sharpen blades, also nice to round edges and run burrs off steel. Anyways it was about the same price as a new hf one and it's at a completely...

Anybody prime your flue with a little heat from a lit rolled up newspaper, when you initially light your fire in a cold stove? It's worked for me.

The 4x36 belt sanders ok for wood only, was pretty inexpensive a few years ago, it does seem underpowered though.

Unfortunately in my case in order to save a few bucks my steel sheets on addition run horizontal, the gable/ wall of existing barn run traditional/ vertical. I at least planned and researched, enough the peak of roof has a three pitch und tucked/ fit underneath the awning of the old sliding door.

Nice I'll be curious to see the flashing you use about 5 yrs ago I used left over adhesive window flashing as a "temporary" dry in fix around walls and roof, unfortunately it's became semi permanent.

In the u.p. when we're there I use wood in a high efficiency Drolet stove when we're not there electric baseboards set to 40 degrees never winterized the place nothing has ever froze, When we get up there depending on temp I'll turn the mini split on to help get the place comfortable quicker...

That's what my buddy who recommended called it. I have a 50 yr old well, well and casing still looked good so I replaced the submersible pump 10 yrs ago, being a diyr I probably set the pump to low in the well. It's about a 100' well with 8" steel casing. Funny thing I found the pitless adapter...

Question are you planning to join your new building with your existing quonset hut?

at my cabin I roughed in 1 3/4 bathrooms, a kitchen, and utility room with washer and dryer using 1/2 inch PEX I have enough pressure to use both showers at the same time and washer, only restriction is a 40 gallon water heater producing enough hot water. my friend who's an actual plumber...

I hope you post what you figure out/fix, I enjoy reading/learning about problems and subsequent fixes like this.

Check the psi of air in your accumulator/pressure tank also.

Get a sand filter I did when I started having sand problems clogging my Big Blue filter at my cabin eliminated the flow and filter problems for me anyway. I Installed before my filter and pressure tank.

There's a ton of more knowledgeable folks on chainsaws, but I have 4.5 or 5 depending how you classify cordless, saws that still work A Stihl Ms 311 20" hands down amazing saw for bigger stuff, an old lighter craftsman with 18" bar I use for limbing, both are up north used a few times a year...

1st pic is a cement truck used for bulk transport of cement to batch plants 2nd is a older school rear discharge concrete truck, can't imagine the reaction if you ordered a hundred yards of "cement" and the 1st picture showed up to your job site 😲 😂.

So got to use the M 2.0 tonight a little in a couple inches of snow. Stabilizer, and mounting plate rehab worked great, pipe on cutting edge ok, it still picks up a little dirt, gravel and lawn, however no where near what it used to in soft ground when the blowers wheels sunk. I'll better...

I apologize for posting a screenshot meme if that's even the appropriate terminology, but the irony of the statement made me laugh.

This little guy is so handy if you need a small bench vice and need it to be somewhat portable. Had it for less than ten years no problems. On the other hand I bought a 4" hf bench vise over ten years ago it ended up in the scrap yard after the screw bent and a jaw cracked. I'll say it again...

Do you loan or barrow things out? As in I'll barrow you my drill, Vs I'll loan you my drill. I believe both can be made grammatically correct however I can't count how many times I "borrowed" stuff to friends. 😂 🔪

Couple questions having never used pods or owned a tandem rear ATV, #1are the rear differentials locked or open? #2 assuming you have the option to electronically lock the front differential are or can the pods be run with locked differentials on all three axles? What's the steering ability...

For years I sliced, diced and butchered the word "slough" wondering why they put it behind a few signs naming rivers entering lakes in particular. Finally after 40 yrs my dad finally corrected me with proper pronunciation, still laugh and occasionally joke about it.

Per the googler, on magazines and clips which makes more sense to me anyway. What’s The Difference Between Clip And Magazine?. Anyways back to butchering.

Imo I think it's kind of a regional name, always heard any reciprocating saw called a sawzall a few times a demo saw, out west they relate all skill saws, ie a circular saw to a worm drive circular saw, any brand circular saw to me is a skill saw, any brand reciprocating saw to me is a sawzall...

Or calling a magazine a clip? I'll always call it a magazine.

LoL u.p. and most of mi it's pop, southern wi it's soda, some southern states it's Coke all varieties, in my travels.

Good point. But not usually in your normal consumer lingo. Growing up I used to refer to any water heater as a hot water heater.

Saying hot water heater vs water heater, ask yourself why you need to heat hot water🤔? Pet peeve of a few I used to work with.😂

Got this wonder winder as a novelty gift 5 yrs ago I like how well it worked I bought a few more I can store about 100' of 12-3 chord in part it's easy to pull out, put back in, never tangles and take the chord off if it's needed elsewhere. Imo it's not built to be used in higher production...

Question? Compared to the tracks for front axle how much longer is the tracks on the rear tandems?

Snow! Eagerly awaiting to use this week down state like a kid on Xmas Eve 😂 to see if my mods were worthwhile and done to my yooper rigged standards 😂. I figure some folks with similar problems or ideas can learn what to and not do and if buying and moding one of these things is worth your time...

Yay the thread is back! Will it be ok with you guys if I occasionally post snow picks 10 miles as the crow flies from the keweenaw in the up?

Question, do you test your batteries with a conductance tester before replacing? The price of replacing One or two batteries would probably buy one of these had for over 10 yrs now. Can't remember if this older model is capable of testing agms and gel types.

Yep probably 20x better than there cheapest battery, they do have there own brand or rebrand. Anyways learned a bit more about batteries reading this thread, not trying to hi jack it but Ive done a side by side comparison on battery weights for starting batteries with similar CCA and sizes the...

Holy cow I had no idea the vibration resistance was 20x better than a old school flooded lead acid battery at least according to this info sale article. https://www.farmandfleet.com/blog/agm-battery-traditional-flooded-battery/

Perhaps they mount them so far forward cause I believe heat also effects the life of batteries. Anyone know if the discounted interstate batteries you can buy at Costco same qaulity as all interstates? One thing I learned from other more knowledgeable folks is weight has a lot to with...

On both my old Kubotas and various other stuff (rec, lawn care, marine) I have requiring batteries Ive cut and continue to cut out pieces of rubber to set battery on sometimes I'll install scrap rubber or similar around the hold downs all in an effort to dampen vibrations. I also put 2 ring...

The good news is the brake lines appear to be undamaged and holding air however probably should've set the brakes on that overturned truck imo

Not wanting to sound arrogant and not having both sides of the story, but having had a job towing cars before. That video struck a chord with me, and if it is what it looks like the owner of pick up truck deserves the book thrown at him imo.

I've probably posted this before, I apologize, however I really like this one on the "big fitz" growing up the Gordon Lightfoot song was one of my favorites. Still is.

Read somewhere earlier lake freighters didn't have enough hull flex and they'd break up.

Lost since 1952 on a Alaskan. Glacier. 50+ service member's lost and forgotten until recently. Reminded of it this morning on Sunday morning. Operation Colony Glacier: Bringing servicemembers home

I believe the L series of the 80s and early 90s aren't the most durable either in my experience my old 2850 had one previously installed not knowing much about them I almost removed it fortunately read up on them and left it. Pto brake still works on that old tractor I used that tractor for...

Looks like the trucks headache rack did it's job and the guys adrenaline induced strength prevented the car from going on it's roof at least. When I see stuff like that It always makes me wonder how it happened and what were they thinking...

El nino usually causes warmer shorter winters here.

I remember having to use snowmobiles as the only way to get to deer camp in mid November. Definitely not this year, it was 70+ degrees 2 days ago now it's mid 30s and snowing however as others have noted signs of a long harsher winter, from previous yrs I've noted if the great lakes stay...

Yes, in my house sitting on the couch Imo not much beats the nostalgia of a fire in the fireplace watching a football game on a cold, wet, and sleet filled fall day.

Since I'm on a harbor freight kick, the bench top tubing bender is handy had it for over 10:years, it has several dies for radiuses and one to bend flat stock notice cheater bar, I've used it for bending light guards and built a few rear racks using both steel and aluminum tubing.

Notice I have a replacement next to the one I jacked up probably install it tomorrow and yes unfortunately the pto brake on my old 4150 has long been worn to non working status. Surprisingly when the coupler is attached it does not freewheel with or without anything hooked up to it I'm pretty...

In my hurried arrogance I ruined my overrun coupler it failed before the sheer pins on my rotary cutter. Which I replaced previously with bolts that were not grade 2. It basically twisted the splines and trew the pto shaft to the cutter gear box off, So I told myself I guess my overrun coupler...

Only some of it 😂

I have a quite a few battery chargers and maintainers, my best and favorite is the old school transformer type Schumacher farm and ranch model with timer with that being said I believe a diodes out on it awaiting motivation to repair, reason I think that is timer shuts off, amp gauge is still...

RIP shipmate.

Since I'm in my shop today, can't say enough good things about my hf 6" cross slide drill press vise, I believe it may have been discontinued? definitely not precision engineered for all the machinist folks it has some play in it and with spindle runout on my hf drill press I center punch...

I really like mine👍 had it for a long time now was a set of three I believe HF no case though nice you can take arms off interchange components reverse them etc.

Off topic but reminds me of using an old grove crane used to pull boats and docks it had an air leak at a boat yard I worked at had to run 500' of air hose connected to a standalone compressor which was connected to crane down a concrete wharf in order to prevent all the brakes from locking...

The hf central forge fluted extractors are ok I've had this kit for years, drill bits that came with them are garbage, finally broke a extractor I won't discuss the four letter words and drill bits I destroyed in attempting to extract the extractor. Finally a older more knowledgeable person...

I u I use an oversized blow gun it disperses the air enough so it doesn't bend the rad fins, works for me.

Nope it helps it stick on the anvil in my experience until you get a real stubborn bolt and it gets real warm than the grease just melts away like butter lol.

Reminds me of seeing nurse trailers bumper pulled by 3/4, one tons. Some have multiple 1000 gal tanks on them think 28 or most of what's hauled in them needs to be placarded. Interesting thing I learned in MI anyway you don't need to get a DOT physical to get your farm endorsement to drive...

Speaking of giraffes sad but true in incident I remembered hearing about.

Drings are awesome add ons to any trailer, especially if you buy them in quantity they are pretty cheap. I had some lying around awhile back and welded 12 to my single axle trailer, I had the unfortunate benefit of using it for a year before the rings however in doing so I was able to figure out...

In a bad pinch I've run a socket with extension on flywheel bolt it's under the recoil, or if it's easy starting and have decent access the tried and true wrap a rope method works, I use a drill to crank the motor on lowest speed highest torque setting most likely it needs to rotate clockwise...

I still have a lot of those use the hook to hang them in lowlight areas most notably my RVs "basement".they usually work when I need them to plus they Stop working it's so easy to toss free hf stuff.

Put a little grease on it might hold your socket on better if you don't mind getting your hands a little dirty. It makes me feel anyway, like I did something besides sit behind a computer, pushing papers. 😂

I was looking at some of there tractor and mini-x attachments they seem to carry everything folks on this site use including buildings and sawmills.

Did a search on TBN found nothing. TMG Industrial Wondering if anyone has experience with TMG industrial attachments or anything in general from there company? They have a pretty big line of stuff always see there stuff in local auctions usually new. Thoughts or experience, and impressions are...

Well, I meant as the grounding conductor back to the panel? Wouldn't it make more sense instead of running three wires through emt? Isn't that allowed with nec? I'm just curious and want to learn. My pole barn up north was Inspected and passed 8 yrs ago using emt As the grounding conductor. I...

80 bucks for four good ones none have 45s though apparently you can visit the knipex store or jb tools. Unsure what icons are going for and unlike my knipex, can't speak from experience on how good they are.

I believe they had a set where four of the pliars were bigger than that those may be to small imo, anyways a few more 4 letter words, flying lost rings into uncharted depths of your garage, and busted knuckles that 200 bucks will be worth it 😂 in my experience.

For the price you can get them for it has paid for itself many times over in my case I added a few grease fittings as my buddy said I have a problem have a problem with wanting to grease stuff 😂.

From usage I can't say enough good things about either my 20 volt DeWalt chainsaw or the pole saw. Yes there's some negatives but this isn't a cordless saw review thread, more of how impressed and grateful I am with what I learned reading this thread about using a pole saw for cutting limbs on...

I have a bunch of hf black oxide impact ones I used them extensively when I used to build semi custom truss framed floating docks. Drop one in the lake or river not a big deal,at that price, plus as mentioned they'd never break and being 6 point rarely stripped out nuts, bolts, or lags.

I've learned a lot from this thread especially using a pole saw to clear small stuff or limb a tree I cut down, when making wood its such a back saver, I've probably sold more cordless and gas pole saws due to letting friends use mine than all the Stihl, Echo and Husqvarna dealership salesman...

I really like my astro pneumatic 20gal parts washer it's one of the few in that price point the pump can handle petroleum based parts washing fluid, unlike my previous hf version.

To the right is a cheaper cv boot banding tool back of the drawer is a reversible channel lock retaining ring tool with interchangeable tips, good idea bad design imo there's a really cheap hf orange handle retaining ring tool and I think theres still a northern tool brand ring tool pliars, and...

I got most of my ideas to build stuff from my late grandfather when I was a little kid he built me a barn, a train, and about a 1/16th scale iron ore mine headframe with a engine house to raise and lower the ore skips, he used old bicycle wheels for the sheaves on headframe and a old speed...

He was the first person I've ever known to want a pivot irrigation toy for Christmas lol just like his grandfather's real life farm I guess. The year before got him a bruder toy sprayer to pull behind his toy tractors not was not impressed, the boring looking pivot irrigation blew him away and...

The medium/larger sized ones with the tips going at 45 and 90 degrees are used the most/ for both internal and external rings

Sure can't any more I've had them almost a decade, bought from a dedicated tool supply website

I'd be curious to know how well the hf icon line of snap/ retaining ring pliers are? Personally I used to hate removing snap rings had a drawer full of cheap ring pliars best one I had was a cheap long nose needle nose one I ground down and bent it to work I eventually broke it on a L 2850...

The 2 ton Pittsburgh hf cherry picker is good, had it for 4+ yrs no problems I did buy the hf air over hydraulic long arm jack for it, has worked flawless as well.

For awhile my kids random toys went into the fields to parish. It's a toy graveyard.

So with the holidays fast approaching I'm posting stuff I built for my stepson for previous Christmases 5+ yrs ago it's farm related. Hopefully it will give folks some ideas, with adequate time to build stuff, as I wish I could have found some better ideas when I built this stuff. Everything...

If I didn't have left over sil seal lying around I probably would have used pl400 or a urethane based sealant/ caulk. But good question.

Imo I'd be leary of paying 60-70 bucks for it, deals are getting better with the holidays coming up.

(y)That is a great idea using unistrut for a track with a HF hoist system wish I would have thought of something like that for my small old garage when I lived in the city.

Quick question are you planning to put sillseal in between the slab and baseplate? I had some lying around used it and glad I did as of now, really helps keep water out and bugs I presume. However I'm unsure if it will eventually rust and perforate the galvanized baseplate due to moisture being...

Yep, most of the boxes aluminum flex, and fittings I had left over from when I wired my pole barn up north had to buy a few emt sticks though, definitely not a good emt bender so I ran flex to the existing panel in my old barn, Another thing I considered when I used emt Is believe you don't...

What someone asks for something they are privately selling and what they actually get for it are two different things imo.

Yes I've seen that also. Quick experience I had, I was looking for a 7" polisher lady was selling a used working variable speed Makita for around $20 and a brand new in the box hf 7" Chicago electric one for around $100 obviously I bought the Makita, when I brought the price up to her she said...

Fortunately for me most things I do brakes on is old and well broken in.

Imo one things for sure I noticed as cheaper Chinese tools increase in "quality" it's helping bring down and or stabilize the cost of tools associated with high quality brand name stuff. However no one I know searches Cl or auctions for hf tools and expects to pay top dollar for them.

Had about a 20x20 3 sided carport added to my existing barn over the existing slab which used to be a green house. It's now my "wood working area" Ran steel conduit over osb, also ran a small piece of steel flex to the existing breaker box in existing barn they do make conduit benders...

Recently bought the cheaper Pittsburgh hf brake bleeder/ vacuum pump . comes with adapters, hoses, easier to use then trying to find a helper when bleeding brakes, and it works pretty good 👍.

even if your pulling a trailer Folks in snowbelts, imo, should inspect the shanks on the balls, they can and will get pretty corroded from road salt, in my experience.

If you weren't looking to add weight/ traction to pull or use ground engagement stuff it would probably be easier to pull the rear dif apart and lock it imo

here is an old 0-4-2 or 2-4-0?? It has 4 drive wheels anyway, located at Ceder Point Family and I enjoyed riding on it last week. It burns coal and runs on a narrow gauge. ceder point has 4 or 5 of them running on a couple miles of track around the amusement park, they are about a hundred...

I've learned more stuff from either failing or doing hands on stuff with more knowledgeable folks. Anyways it was just an idea I had, no intention of doing it anytime soon nor do I have a need for it, but I do have two old used up mtds lying around doing nothing. Thought it would be a cool idea...

Well that's a pretty thought out impressive use of an old toro hydro. My unthought out idea would be for flatlanders 😂.

No video but I saw something like this before on a picture never on a lawn mower though 😂

But if you used two open differentials you probably would have less to fabricate just stack another pulley on top of first differential to send a belt to the second with the added extension you can devise a way to tension the second belt by sliding the differential forward or backwards on the...

This thread got me thinking of lawn tractors/mowers anyone ever put tandem rear axles on one, not dualies two rear gear driven transaxles. Figure you'd have to extend rear frame, add what you wanted to the extension, double up the drive pulley on 1st transaxle, make a couple linkages so you...

A few minor thoughts from experience, some oil drain plugs have a magnet on the bolt how are you supposed to clean it off? I heard somewhere that some quick change oil places suck it out cause they don't want there minimum wage "service techs" stripping out the drain plugs. Finally when I...

I think imo if you have some defensive driving skills, are comfortable with pulling trailers, and don't speed/ tailgate, you should be fine biggest thing I learned was ability to stop safely. Interesting thing I also learned the 2016 3/4 ton gasser has a max gcwr truck/ trailer of around 21k...

Well you got me interested for future reference. Per my 2016 owners manual the 4wd 6.0 gasser, 4.10 gears, crew cab short box. Fully loaded truck and trailer is 21,100 GCWR lbs. 14k for a fully loaded 5th wheel, I believe.

Apparently way down.

My final 2cents on pressure washers is using these filters in spigots where you hook it up, they arent pricey and seem to work good filtering sand and debris from well water in shop better than the screen on inlet of pressure washer. I also saved the initial bottle of pressure washer winterizer...

problems arose for me when I tried to find correct 8 and 6 blade connectors (the originals were melted) to plug into undamaged wiring harness Agri services mentioned previously above by me and another member did a excellent job on building the entire lower harness with all connections included...

How about all of the above lol I'm a little careful about side loading the bucket pins however you can easily loop a chain through a d-ring probably not OSHA approved. anyway if you weld hooks on make tack it first to make sure the chain links will clear everything.

6 months ago Welded a d-ring to the back of my bucket in the center with 7018 rod, I have used it a lot, works good no apparent problems just go slow when lifting and moving something I'll try and get a picture.

Well the cruise industry on the great lakes seems to be doing pretty good, according to my local news. 2022 a record year for Great Lakes cruise industry

Areas that were inland with some altitude got hammered no snow by my place or downtown Lanse, by the lake I think that's common with lake effect/enhanced snow.

The lake was rocking west of Munising.

Yesterday on way downstate between Baraga and Marquette. county and state plows we're out in full force saw one car in ditch, no cruise control on that trip for me lol. Supposed to get more today.

I buy seafoam by the gallon, add about an ounce or two for every gallon of gas directly to gas tank. My other one was a inexpensive northern tool one Ironton brand I believe, had a sealed pump on a vertical shaft motor, super cheap you get what you pay for.

Seafoam works good for carb problems I also shut fuel off and run it til it dies. The pump is probably going to be your biggest failure point, less expensive pressure washers use cheap pumps in my experience. After my 2nd to last pressure washer I owned for a year, the pump failed again. So I...

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So as I anxiously await the testing in real world conditions on improved Chinese mossimo 2.0 snowblower,atv setup down state made sure my other conventional plow setup is ready to go in the UP. Also started burning wood earlier this year than most up there. Leaving my place in the u.p. tomorrow...