When my cousin Curt forwarded a virtual copy of the Tool Dictionary, I appreciated the humor and irony in the definitions. In case you haven't seen the list, it takes common tools from the shop and applies twisted definitions to them.
Last week, I picked up my handmade 16-inch, 12 ppi, hybrid-cut cherry handle tenon saw. Mark Harrell, owner of Bad Axe Tools and saw maker extraordinaire, handed it to me and set up a wood scrap so I could try cutting a tenon.
It's been eight years since our son graduated from high school and moved out (for the most part). It's been 7 years and 11 months since my wife first said, "I think it's time to paint his room a different color."
With the rising price of gas, the inevitable news stories will remind us to check our tire pressure to save fuel.
Tractor, ATV or two-wheel walk-behind—the right workhorse for your farm is out there.
Need a sticky solution? Try the website This to That. It offers sticky solutions to any problem. Drop-down menus let you identify the two materials you want to glue together. Click on the button for "Let's Glue!" and up pops the sticky solution.
It must be spring! Over the weekend, I donned protective gear—my heavy-duty boots, chainsaw chaps and helmet with face guard and hearing protectors—and got busy sawing.
Now if you are well organized, your lawn mower was put away last fall with a clean air filter, oil and filter replaced, gas lines and tank drained, and the spark plug removed, cleaned and replaced. If you did all that, all you will likely need to do is fill the tank, choke and start.
Trusted by farmers for more than 50 years, Lamborghini tractors have made their mark on Italian agriculture.
Do you have stacks of magazines filled with great tips for the shop, yard or house? I know I do. The problem is that when I’m ready to start cutting up lumber for a project or prepping walls for painting, I'm not going to go through a stack of magazines for tips to make the job go easier.
To put your framing square to work, you need to know the parts. A typical square has a face (the side with the manufacturer’s logo), a tongue (the shorter and narrower 16- by 1½-inch arm) and a blade (the longer and wider 24- by 2-inch arm). The heel is where the two arms meet.
I picked up a new framing square the other day, as my old one was getting increasingly hard to read due to corrosion. Of course, when you buy a framing square, you get a great deal more than you may ever use, for a framing square is truly a carpenter's computer.
