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on June 29, 2020

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The Shed Remodel Megapost

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ FROM A MISGUIDED TREE PLANTING TO A SIMPLE STICK-BUILT SHED AND A BEAUTIFUL FACELIFT ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Back in 2019, a time which, on looking back, seems a whole different world from what we live in now, I woke one morning and decided it was long past time to refurbish the old garden shed. Somewhere along the way I had a vision for how I wanted to change it - let's take a look back! The Shed Rehab: Finally Doing It! GB Shaw June 26, 2019 Way Past Overdue Originally, the back yard was much more open, but the fence was a thousand years old and we had a plan for what we wanted. Here's a picture of the corner where the shed is now. Early after buying 173, we put in blackberry bushes, but sadly they had to go. And look at that old flag pole. The Moshers had a cross bar at the top, and the clothesline pulleys were mounted on it! Here's a little wider shot. By the time of this picture I had replaced the flag pole and plante...

1948 Pipe Wrench Restoration

Vintage Tools ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ VINTAGE 14" RIGID SUFFICIENT EVIDENCE MADE BY 1948 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ This will be a quick post... quick restoration quick post I suppose. And this was definitely a quick one, probably clocking out at about an hour of work in total. And let's be clear here kids - that hour was spread out over the course of a few weeks! If ya can't laugh at yourself... A Gift from Dad This is one of the tools I inherited from Dad late last summer. I keep thinking I should write about that, but I still can't bring myself to do it. It'll come at the right time. Nonetheless, it was time to clean this beautiful junk of steel! A History Dad's pipe wrench is a Rigid brand wrench. If that sounds familiar it's because Rigid is kinda the house brand at Home Depot. I always thought it was just a name Home Depot made up, but it turns out Rigid long predates Home Depot. From Katy on the Tool...

Cobbled Nut Driver Set!

Salvage, Mergers and Acquisitions For some nearly 25 years now I've had exactly two nut drivers. I've used them fairly regularly, but it never occurred to me that I could just get more sizes. Never occurred to me that is, until a visit to my favorite used tool store, The Tool Box . Every time I went to that ol' place I'd see this big box of nut drivers, but didn't give it much thought 'til my last visit when it finally occurred to me to cobble together a set. I got 6 drivers for a buck twenty! What's a Nut Driver Anyway? This one's pretty simple, let's see how complicated I can make it! Nut drivers look like a screwdriver, but have a socket attached to the end and are used for tightening or loosening nuts and bolts. The socket fits around the entire head of the fastener making for a secure fit. They provide more contact to the bolt head than an open-end wrench, so the socket is less likely to slip off the bolt. That was simple enough!...

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