Thread: Show us your shop or work space

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I looked for a thread on here of any of your work spaces or shops, and I didn't come up with anything. After seeing some of the insides of your guys' work areas, let's see some more of them. I had to replace the south soffit on my building this past weekend. I still have to finish it. I'll try to get some pics of the other side and the inside once it's clean. It looks like a junk yard blew up in there right now.

unfortunately my shop serves multiple duties. building tools and supplies, farm equipment etc . hopefully i will get my barn up this year. i did get my build room built . life saver come summer heat .

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"OR LACK OF, Ryan" - - this should make you feel much better LOL

The reason the Fairlane is not pulled forward any more is because of the Cat's Beds.





The Wiffy's Kolanchoe is trying to bloom in January GRRRRR so it has to be put inside. The extension cord and leaf blower is laying everywhere because I need to clean the rain gutters in the back and the ?work table? is cluttered because I haven't gotten around to changing the oil and putting some tools away.





I think I"ll go lie down now.

Em

Shine, very nice! Your paint booth and assembly area would be sweet to have! Are those customers' vettes?

Charlie, very nice.

Emm, I know that isn't much, but it beats nothing. When I was 17 my dad's shop had a tree fall on it and cave it in. It was an old milking parlor back in the day. It had issues before it fell down. Dad got tired of doing side jobs and working 60-80hrs at his day job. The shop just was a semi dry sketchy storage after that. I did everything I could out of an old two car garage, until I got a decent job and started renting a few bays in a shop a friend of mine had. Fast forward a while with the help of my brothers and friends, and I tore dad's old shop down and put up the shop I have now. Now my wife and I are preparing to buy our first house, and I'm hoping the property will have a shop as well. I'd really like to have my shop at home now.

Ryan, being able to walk 30' to the shop is great. I wouldn't want it attached because of the hazards but 30' ain't bad. Had to raise the roof for the hoist and its been added on to twice. Still not big enough.

This is the cleanest spot in my shop. It's the corner I'd throw my steel into. The rest looks like a bomb went off because of building a porch this past fall. The last time I seen that corner was 1993. I decided to start a clean up in that corner & was surprised when I shoveled out about 10 gallons of dirt, rust, grinder wheel gravel, spider webs & whatever other crap was in there. I was amazed how clean the floor actually was. Wished I had a before picture because it was worse then just bad....joe


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That's what's wrong with my shop right now. I decided it was time to clean it. Pretty smart on my part to decide to clean it in December. In being a dip stick, I have been working on customer trucks out in the cold. I really need to get the south bay clean. There is a truck in the north bay, but my brother has been dragging his butt on it. I don't want to have to finish it, but I may have to.

it took me 15 years to talk myself into a lift . it took up a lot of room but i just cant crawl around under them any more .
on the far end of the shop is a 30x40 where my blasting booth is set up.

I've had a 10k lb 2 post hoist sitting under a tarp for 8yrs now. I've never even unbolted it from it's shipping braces. I originally baught it to put it in the shop I was renting. That was until the owner of the building said anything affixed to the floor or walls belonged to the building owner. That was the begining of the end of that shop space. Once we got our shop done, having 2 open bays always seemed better than having to fight a hoist when it wasn't needed. I'm thinking of moving my big heavy racking around behind my south bay, adding a roof and covering the sides, and putting the hoist there. We'll see how far that goes.

I know most here have seen a glimpse of my shop here and there..

So I thought I'd show you some of the "there" also. These 2 were taken at the garage in southern Indiana. I don't have any good pics of the garage in New Mexico but it was essentially the same - basic 2 car garage... When we left Mass for New Mexico, I tied the frame to a wall in the U-Haul rent a truck. When we came back to Mass., I had to rent a bigger truck and a car trailer.

Very nice sir!

I'm a fortunate guy and being an older fella we are on our 3rd house. At each home I have designed and either built myself, or had someone build, a workshop at.

We have a 6 car attached garage, THE reason we bought our house. The attached garage is where the cars that are done reside.



The outbuilding I designed is 30' x 40' and has a divider wall. Half of the shop is for storage and tools, the other half is my workshop. In the workshop I installed a Rotary 2 post lift. In the storage side is a 4 post lift.

When the wife and I got sick of the south Florida "BLOWS" we moved our popcorn stand to north central Florida. Spent a lot of weekends looking for the right place. Finally settled on 15 acres in the horse country north of Ocala, FL.

The FIRST thing built was our shop, 100x60x30. We also had a 900 sq/ft full living quarters apartment built inside the shop. We lived there, almost 2 years, while the wife found the right plans/builder for our house. The "build out" apartment has a good size kitchen, living room a bedroom and bath with shower. I now use it mostly to house my engraving plotter equipment. It's really nice after working all day, go in and take a shower, put on fresh clothes and walk the 100 yards over to the house.

The shop is fully insulated with large roll up doors at both ends. Our builder suggested setting the building a little different to take advantage of prevailing winds in our area. He was right, even on the hottest days, with both doors open I get a really nice breeze through the shop.

Really, I wouldn't want to live anyplace else.
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