Regular Home Fixated readers by now grown almost as tired as I have of our struggles to beat back nature, or at least achieve a draw on our 80 acre farm. Years of inattention and neglect have allowed opportunistic weed trees and shrubs to shrink our usable space as well as provide harbor for rodents and other pests that have hampered our efforts to harvest sufficient amounts of produce to sustain us through the year. I have featured a number of the DeWalt 20v Max outdoor power tools in previous posts, and the newest addition is the DeWalt 20v Max pole saw that DeWalt sent our way for review. Let’s take a stroll through the farm and see what my new favorite tool can do. Read More
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How to Build a Rustic Woodshed – Cordlessly, With the Milwaukee M18 Fuel 12” Miter Saw
I was fortunate enough to receive one of the new Milwaukee 12” M18 Fuel dual bevel sliding Compound Miter Saws a while back for testing and review. The intent was to highlight it in action while adding a large lean to onto the shop at our sheep farm. Unfortunately the pandemic hit us with a bit of a double shot, help with the project was hard to come by, and the price of building materials skyrocketed as said materials became almost impossible to find. Ultimately, I decided to take on a project much smaller in scale and to enlist the aid of the (very) senior writer here at Home-Fixated, who also happens to be my brother. Join us as we walk you through how to build a rustic woodshed – cordlessly! Read More
