Building a work shop

[2door]

I've been waiting to do that PhotoShop of Snoopy on the roof of your shop.
Send me a good side view and I'll have some fun with it.
Do you want bullet holes?

Tom

 

[Dan]

So funny, Tom. Was just thinking about that!

Well, hellya! Silly question about the bullet holes! snork.

The album cover they first show was my first album, that I played. (kids, they were like CDs but much bigger and black with grooves)((it was the 60s)) Man, I played that album (LPA) over and over. Probably wore out a needle. They were different times.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sh-J4GSPgAM

 

[Dan]

11 PM and 23:04 hrs and no skeeters. Life is much, much better

 

[Dan]

Was just playin' with a security light. Solar powered, motion activated.

Be a really cool MB headlight.

https://www.google.com/webhp?source...8#q=bunker+hill+36+led+security+light&tbm=vid

 

[Dan]

Started the external window trim. Found a really cool water repellent. Love the way it looks. The floor, urethane did not hold up at all and wood is already molding.

 

[rustycase]

I'm sry Dan, I did not catch that you had planned the plastic floor coating.

1st of all, marine grade plywood would have been advisable for the subflooring in an environment such as yours.

Then, I would have suggested a heavy bodied oil based stain for the floor of a workshop. Some of the exterior fence stain products, blended with others perhaps for a color base. Penofin was a good one, back when.

Only a matter of time before mold grows in between the substrate cellulose and the plastic skin of an acrylic stain, or urethane. Sometimes they even begin to scale off...

An oil based stain can be swabbed on, then touched up at any time.

Question. Do you have plenty of under-floor venting? ...that won't be blocked by snowfall ?

Best
rc

 

[Dan]

Had not thought about floor venting in the snow. Thanks, RC. One corner is only 4" above ground. Opposite corner is about a foot high.

Read back a couple of pages and did not see where I was thinking a plastic coating. So all good, lol.

It still is bare subfloor. Was thinking of just going nuts with the spray gun and making walls & floors white with stain. Bought the rug at a yard sale yrs back and might throw that down. Would almost fit wall to wall.

 

[Dan]

Is pouring down rain here. I am happily sitting in the shop drinking a beer and watching the rain.

A huge skunk comes running up and hides under the solar panels. Being on beer 4, I call out; "it's OK baby" She runs under the shop.

She is a big ol' Momma skunk. Her back is all white, not a stripe.

I love rodents. They really are friendly. Once had a squirrel I called "Momma" She would sit on my lap and eat the peanuts she took from my coat pockets as she chattered at me. Obviously I had no idea what she was saying but always thought she was telling me stories about her kids or close calls with predators.

I called her "Momma" because she was always lactating and never stopped talking! LOL


Man, I miss her. She was fun.

 

[Dan]

Put a bike hoist in today. Just a cheapie from HF but man is it cool. Can work on any part of the bike standing up.

Bolted the pulleys to a 2x4. Then 2, 2x4s cross ways at the ends so it can be shifted a foot in any direction. Then just placed it on the rafters. Like a capital "I". Can be easily moved any where in the shop.

 

[Dan]

Found 2 pcs of veneered particle board. 5'5" X 2 foot, seven inches. Really nice pcs just sitting by a dumpster. I was kinda embarrassed but doubled back and threw em in the trunk.

Heavey as heck and really nice. Dunno what they were from but some sort of high end bar/restaurant, sort of thing.

Soon to be workbenches!

 

[fasteddy]

Nice find and at the right price though they could have taped a $20 to them to help with gas. Perfect work bench tops and easy to clean up as well.

Steve.

 

[Dan]

LOL @ the $20 thing.

Right?!?

 

[Tinsmith]

Great find. I have a big old formica desk top on top of a couple 30 gallon plastic drums for a nice layout and tinker area and then a tall metal work bench for welding, soldering, etc. with an old post vice on it and all the old metal shaping stakes for forming metal by hand. If I need a large open space real quick I can just stand up the formica desk top and set the drums up in top of the barn. That bike hoist looks nice. I'm considering making some type of unit that will clamp in my old workmate that I can run the bike up into to get it up waist high. Shouldn't bee too hard to do.

Nice shop!
Dan

 

[Dan]

Thanks Dan!

I had to look up a post vice; https://www.google.com/search?q=pos...bEoLvoATb8IDIBw&ved=0CB8QsAQ&biw=1024&bih=494 Too cool! I want one just for the looks.

The bike lift is a must have. Really is. And when not in use, lifts and hides away. Wish I had made mine but this works great. could make a much better one with 6 sheaves, 2 or 3 hooks and some rope. This is the one I got; http://www.harborfreight.com/bicycle-lift-95803.html self leveling, too.

Really nice to not have to kneel or bend over to work and the wheel work.

Your shop sounds awesome.

 

[Tinsmith]

I'm sure you will improve the lift to make it suit your situation. I do that kind of thing all the time. My shop isn't what I'd call awesome, but it has just about everything I need to play with metal. I ran my business out of it for about 25 years using hand and foot operated sheet metal fabricating machines some dating back to the 1800's. Even have an old elm stump with different size reliefs carved out to hammer metal into shape just like it was done 200 years ago. That's why the old hands don't work anymore, but I got my money's worth out of them and can still play a little bit. It's insulated well and have a nice little wood stove for heat. All I could ask for

Dan

 

[Dan]

Ayup. sounds awesome Dan.

I texted that picture to Carol with the caption "Larry the love lathe by the moonlight" she just called laughing. A "had to be there moment" but was fun.

8:30 PM here and completely lost track of time.

 

[Russell]

Would never let one of those nut hunting things sit on my lap!

Is pouring down rain here. I am happily sitting in the shop drinking a beer and watching the rain.

A huge skunk comes running up and hides under the solar panels. Being on beer 4, I call out; "it's OK baby" She runs under the shop.

She is a big ol' Momma skunk. Her back is all white, not a stripe.

I love rodents. They really are friendly. Once had a squirrel I called "Momma" She would sit on my lap and eat the peanuts she took from my coat pockets as she chattered at me. Obviously I had no idea what she was saying but always thought she was telling me stories about her kids or close calls with predators.

I called her "Momma" because she was always lactating and never stopped talking! LOL


Man, I miss her. She was fun.

 

[Dan]

LOL Russell. Worse than that, I'm now finding half eaten, rotten apples in the yard. So now I have a bunch of drunk squirrels.

Wuts really odd is we don't have any trees that grow those kinds of apples. So not only are they drunk but they are stealing apples elsewhere and hiding stolen property on my property.

Dang flee bitten varments! Just let me catch a bid for this!

 

[Dan]

One of the pcs had precut holes (2) and works perfect for mounting the arbor press over!


LOL, measured no less than 3 times and still built the bench support to long. Don't look, don't look!


(gonna slide the new wood down and hide the empty space with a shelf)

 

[Dan]

This must be getting dull to see in your inbox but wanted to keep a log of sorts.

Got a motion light up. Second picture is the solar collector.



and still didn't get the window trim up!