Dan Dubeau
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If I shook my clothes out after every shift I'd probably have enough to pour a few yards of it every couple months 😀. I could probably vaccum out my car right now and get a bag easy.
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Show us your shops!
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@Pookapotamus definitely needs our help, he has far to much free space in there
Dan Dubeau
Ultra Member
We can fix that pretty quick.....
Elektrishun
Ultra Member
@Pookapotamus
Thanks for posting the shop pics. Very nice shop!
Appears to be a cat house above the front driver's side tire? I'm getting flashbacks to the movie Vacation with the dog leash tied to the bumper.
Thanks for posting the shop pics. Very nice shop!
Appears to be a cat house above the front driver's side tire? I'm getting flashbacks to the movie Vacation with the dog leash tied to the bumper.
Golem Pens
Michael
My shop before I started to beat up the epoxy floor I laid down this past spring. Presently building a new house / shop and hope to set it up to be more efficient with more flexibility for placing motorcycle lifts and machine tools.
Machine tools support my motorcycle restorations, I am not and never will be a machinist.
Machine tools support my motorcycle restorations, I am not and never will be a machinist.
Dan Dubeau
Ultra Member
Nice shop. I miss having the space to work on a motorcycle. I'm starting to get the itch to get another one and go riding again.
I just wanted to say, what a great thread. In all of the pictures I can see one theme that is apparent. There is no perfect shop for everyone. I do like the range of ideas that I can study and possibly adopt.
A shop to me morph's. What it started out as years ago is far from what it is today. As I look at Dan Gelbart's shop, I realize that as nice and organized that it is, there is no room for a car hoist or to fix a tractor. Shops are personal, and are built to our needs, desires, abilities and most of all our dreams. As stated there is no perfect shop, just an extension of ourselves that works for the individual.
A few pictures of what 42 years of living at the same place as brought about.
TonyK.
Grimsby Ontario Canada.
A shop to me morph's. What it started out as years ago is far from what it is today. As I look at Dan Gelbart's shop, I realize that as nice and organized that it is, there is no room for a car hoist or to fix a tractor. Shops are personal, and are built to our needs, desires, abilities and most of all our dreams. As stated there is no perfect shop, just an extension of ourselves that works for the individual.
A few pictures of what 42 years of living at the same place as brought about.
TonyK.
Grimsby Ontario Canada.
DPittman
Ultra Member
Looks like heaven.
Dan Dubeau
Ultra Member
So much open floor space to build stuff and work on projects. I'd probably never leave. Nice shop Tony. You have a fine collection of machines in there too.
skippyelwell
Ultra Member
Two shops, you suck! A desk that you can sit at, that would be nice.
Beautiful restoration on the shaper.
What are you using to heat the shops?
Beautiful restoration on the shaper.
What are you using to heat the shops?
Heat. Several options. The shop has an 80,000 BTU radiant gas tube heater that is on a Zero to 100 degree F thermostat. I normally set at 45F when not in the shop. I have a brick lined wood stove that I burn firewood, coal and waste oil. Not shown in the pictures due to the height of the shop (12' 6") is also a 18,000 BTU Mini Split AC/Heat Pump. As for a desk, it would only get covered with dust depending on what I am working on. Wood working and body work are the worst for dust so I have covers for all of my metal working machines and keep covered when I am not using them.
TonyK.
Grimsby Ontario Canada
TonyK.
Grimsby Ontario Canada
ChazzC
Ultra Member
Need to have separate "Clean" (metal working) and "Dirty" (wood working, grinding, painting, etc.) shops – like Keith Stewart had (Trustee From The Toolroom).
Elektrishun
Ultra Member
@TonyK
Impressive shops!
So you have 2 beautiful shops with square footage of a house, big windows, but only 1 little plant???
I have 1 little shop and yet there's a plant (wife's plant) that sits on my floor as big as a full grown drill press. It's on wheels so I can move it.🙁
BTW - I noticed a floor drain in the car lift area - nice!
Impressive shops!
So you have 2 beautiful shops with square footage of a house, big windows, but only 1 little plant???
I have 1 little shop and yet there's a plant (wife's plant) that sits on my floor as big as a full grown drill press. It's on wheels so I can move it.🙁
BTW - I noticed a floor drain in the car lift area - nice!
Elektrishun
Ultra Member
I mean seriously....
If this doesn't at least put me in the running for "Husband of the Year" I don't know what will.
(Yes, I even pick those fallen leaves off the floor - everyday)
If this doesn't at least put me in the running for "Husband of the Year" I don't know what will.
(Yes, I even pick those fallen leaves off the floor - everyday)
Well the little plant get's turfed out once the threat of frost is gone on to the back deck. Five more months and waiting.
Thank you for the kind comments. Floor area is 900 Square Feet dedicated to repairs and dreams. My wife rarely comes out there and it is attached to the house.
TonyK.
Grimsby Ontario Canada.
Elektrishun
Ultra Member
I hear ya.
Elektrishun
Ultra Member
A friend of mine who was a pretty good marathon runner back in his youth was out training one day. A guy from his neighborhood was driving by and pulled up along side of him. He asked my friend, "Are you running away from something or towards it?"😉