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My father built a house in the 50s with no insulation in the roof. It was just tongue and groove planks with plywood, tarpaper and...

This "roller/tamper" is a back saver. Every DIYer needs one to get himself out of trouble. It pushes the rock down and brings up some...

I wanted to be able to do a second section while the first one was still setting, so the job wouldn't take six days. I had the bags...

Wore out. Been working on pond rake. It will be a rube goldberg contraption, just because I'm trying to repurpose materials that...

Done for today. Weed whacking is over. Maybe for the season. Caught this in my news feeds. Interesting salvage. Tractor love...

On the way up we picked up a new to us (used) 16ft pace journey trailer. We manage to not get any of those e-track attachment rings it...

that's a lot of nice nuts I find Google's AI very helpful, despite the fact it's probably going to take over the world some day... why...

In the meantime crawl around it and look closely at the linkages. I had my B7610 bind up several years ago and was able to squirt some...

Dang, my place in Mississippi is on TVA, ~$20/month plus As of August 1, 2025, $0.11853/KWH. Way up from when we moved in IIRC it was...

Ah, a 2 tractor poster. Welcome to TBN, always glad to see new posters. Any special tractor interests?

Great job! One question pops to mind - Why did you put your first "pour" down at the front and back?

OK, I finally got around to doing this. I decided to divide it into six strips, each strip was 33" wide and 10'6" long. I ripped 4"...

That's pretty much how I did mine, only I didn't notch the side form for the rebar, I drilled a hole. 1st pour (click to enlarge)...

I've done quite a bit of concrete work by myself. I'm not the best at finishing it, but it's one of those things that I can live with...

Working inside of walls doubles the "troubles" of placing, screeding and floating. If I were to do such an area I would do so in...