Recent content by PHPaul

Yeah, I figured that out, thanks. Waiting until the next Amazon billing cycle to order one, this month has been expensive...

Yup, looked there. I'd prefer one that opens for a few seconds when the compressor starts, not really looking for a timer as the compressor spends most of it's time turned off.

@dlsmith Can you provide details/source for that auto drain? Thanks.

I grew up in the 50's and 60's. In 1968 I was a Senior in High School. It was getting towards the end of the school year and graduation. In a fit of derring-do, I decided to skip school after lunch. I'd NEVER done such a thing before. I was walking around town doing this and that, waiting...

That's why I built mine. Not as flexible or nicely finished, but even with the new gearbox and the bearings and belts I had to buy, it's about 1/10th the cost of a commercial unit.

We had a wood stove, wonderful heat, enjoyed doing the work of processing fuel from tree length. Bit of a mess but worth it. Distributing the heat was something of an issue, hot in the living room, cool on the other end of the house but cut WAY down on the oil bill. Stove got old, warped and...

If I hit the Lotto, I'd build one with hydraulic motor drive and a hinge and cylinder arrangement that would allow me to drop the cutter head down over the bank further ─\ The swing-away would be nice but at the speeds I'm moving, not critical. Fortunately, the hydraulic tilt cylinder on the...

How often they need to be changed depends on how often I get them tangled up in fences, rocks or brush. I can do several hundred feet of ditch bank on one set. If I'm careful (and lucky...) I can do all the fence line on 2 or 3 sets. Being New England, the fence line is where rocks go. :D...

Thank you. I built the original about 10 years ago, and the Mark II about 4 years ago. Main changes were a better belt tensioning system and the new right-angle gearbox. The original was a re-purposed Gravely unit that had to be installed upside-down which put all the oil in the wrong end and...

Congratulations to all!

I call those "ignition wrenches" and I have two Crapsman sets, SAE and Metric. Again, used once every other Blue Moon, but just the ticket when I need them.

Okay, I lied... A month or so ago, I agreed to haul off a bunch of scrap for Dale the Builder and some of his minions. Not a game changer, but did put a few shekels in my pocket. Got a call this morning "I have a load of scrap in the dump truck (tonner) with some interesting stuff, do you want...

I bought this Grizzly square column used for $1200 with some tooling - end mills, a full set of R8 collets, drill chuck and a cheesy vise. I've since spent probably half that again for a real vise, ER40 collets, a small rotary table, boring bars and fly cutters. I doubt I've put 10 hours on it...

Why no, I don't have that problem at all...