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That rumble you feel: It’s 36-feet of Craftsman tools, supplies and labor beating the blacktop for the Sears in Moore, Oklahoma. Craftsman’s Make A Difference Tour was diverted from its original route with news of the devastation. It’s loaded with generators, chainsaws, lights and other supplies. Once on site it’ll work with the Red Cross. [...]
“What’s more American than fixing things and inventing things and doing it yourself?” Said Ty Pennington on CNN announcing the Craftsman Make A Difference Truck Tour, which kicks off on National Rebuilding Day in Moonachie, NJ with Rebuilding Together. And Craftsman is teaming up with another iconic American brand—Harley-Davidson—to build some bad a++ tool boxes to do [...]
When I’m on a deck or porch site, the way I usually figure out that a scraggly bush needs to be limbed or removed isn’t by observation and planning. That’d be too smart. Check out more from Mark & Theresa in Professional Deck Builder.
I learned deck building from a production deck builder. While he could build decks quickly, he could have been even faster if he’d used more task-specific tools. For example, he cut 6×6 with a 71/4-inch sidewinder, then finished the cuts with a bone-jarring reciprocating saw. He should have used an 81/4-inch wormdrive like the Skil [...]
If you’re old enough, you remember nailing off decks with fistfuls of hot-dipped-galvanized sixteens. Your bags were loaded with pounds of nails, and your hammer was in your hand for a significant portion of the day. How efficiently you drove a nail mattered. Check out more from Mark & Theresa in Professional Deck Builder.
Miter-saw set-ups can range from just a couple of sawhorses and a truck bed to something so nitpickingly complicated that I would break it in a week. Instead, I’ve come up with a sturdy and efficient alternative: basically a box notched out to accept the miter saw. Though it’s simple, it delivers continuous infeed and [...]
I don’t mean “mad” in the kitchsy love sense. I’m talking about the good-old-upset-kind of mad. See, whether I’m sprucing up old tile (a great way to get a new look and save money) or doing maintenance or repair, I’ve raked off about a pound of skin from my knuckles using various cleaners, scrapers, and—worst [...]
I want everything from my circular saw: a main frame rough-carpentry tool that can handle get-it-done-yesterday muscle-up production cutting and one that’s dialed in enough to deliver smooth clean cuts in trim work. DeWalt’s DWS535 delivers on all counts with big-dog umph and thought-through design features. Power. The DWS535 has it in gobs. Among other [...]
Win big! Enter now. MyFixitUpLife is giving away a tool prize pack valued at $1000 to one lucky fan. Check out the details on how to enter and the list of cool tools we’ve selected as part of the SuperPack Prize. How. Enter to win the Stanley Tools FatMax Super-Pack by filling out the online contest form. Deadline to [...]
I love narrow crown staplers. They’re the fastening tool I use when no other fastening tool will do—or do as well. I go to my narrow crown stapler installing tongue and groove paneling, trim assemblies, on woodworking and shop projects, and installing 1/4 plywood subfloors and plywood backers. Staples hold fast, don’t split the [...]
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