Meet in the garage

The tidy corner of my garage...

B+Bogus said:

The tidy corner of my garage...

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...with a very tidy Commando, and we get a tantalising glimpse of something under the tarp behind the Bonnie. A bevel Ducati twin?

Here is how I spent part of my summer.











Than a 1400 mile round trip to move my equipment to the new shop :mrgreen:

this is the front yard.



back yard.



and one of the lawn mowers



you need one of these at the end of the day as you sit back to enjoy the view and the days accomplishments.

Mine is not much different than on this thread post45958.html?hilit=castle#p45958 except now I have no bikes in the garage, too busy with my daughter's projects :cry: To think I would have more time to myself once retired, what a crock :!:

Jean

Ok, I took these pictures this morning (just for this thread)
Please keep in mind that I am only a hobbyist, unlike you pros, so there is really not a whole lot to see!

My Garage - (but seriously folks..... I only use it to park my bikes in when they are not being ridden) -




My little workshop -

Thanks for the oportunity to take a look inside your shop/garage.
Here's a pic of my litthe workshop.'

If nothing else, I am getting some good ideas on how to organize. It is a bit of a hodge podge. I will take some pictures when I am not too embarrassed to show them.

Some very nice arrangements here. I really admire the ones that are well organized and not cluttered. I keep thinking I'll someday manage to get rid of enough stuff that I can have a neat and tidy shop, without boxes and parts sprawled on the floor, and with room to walk around, but I'm starting to think that maybe I'm just untidy by nature. When I first built my shop behind my house some 20+ years ago, it was clean and well organized, and had plenty of extra room. Unfortunately, I just kept accumulating bikes and parts and tools to fill it up with. Still, I'm just grateful to have a place that I can enjoy indulging my addictions in.

Ken

I really try for order and organization. I am mildly successful. Time, money and space always factor in.

A few quick tips,

Put an item away in the correct spot now instead of in a pile to get to later, this will make life easier.

If you want to keep something, make a space for it where it will be easy to find, otherwise you might as well get rid of it.

I have a large collection of labeled bins, general categories, but easy enough I can go to a bin and find what I need.

Example, I have a bin labeled rivets, it holds all my pop and solid rivets along with the tooling.

I have another with small engine parts, another with tye wraps, and many more.

I organize all my light bulbs, fuses and electrical terminal in plano bins.

It all takes some time to setup, but once done it's easy to maintain and use.

I think of it as brain exercise, trying to remember where I last used something, or put it. Then I blame the wife. And you know how that goes.

Dave
69S

Peter R said:

Thanks for the oportunity to take a look inside your shop/garage.
Here's a pic of my litthe workshop.'

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That shop is ridiculously awesome and clean and organised.
I do see there is one wrench missing from it's spot though.
Nice place.

Mine is pretty full when all the bikes are in.

Mostly a woodworking setup, but these days the metal work/motorcycles are taking over:

The first pic is in the old part of the shop. This is a 24 x 48 foot drive shed that was built by in the sixties by the previous owner, a dairy farmer.
In 1982 justvafter my wife and I bought the place, my brother and I walled the building in, insulated the crap out of it, wired it for the machines we had and poured the conrete floor. Funds were short so we hand mixed the concrete to save money. You can see the line between pour one and pour two. We could only manage to mix and place 600 sq. Ft in one very long day, so it was a two or three day affair.



Looking down the length of the old part of the shop, standing about where the motorcycle lift sits:



View of small finishing planer and stored clamps in old part:




100 Ton Hydraulic press with 5 hp power pack and lathe




Kearney and Trecker Hydraulic mill and English Wheel in old area:

By about 1990 we needed more room for some larger equipment, so we built on a 66x68foot addition. I located some greatly overstrength used steel beams for the ridge, so this gave a mounting location for the 25 ton chain hoist and trolley I bought from a shipyard in the seventies. The new part connects to theold part via the insulated plywood doors seen in photo 2 above In cold weather we sometimes heat the very well insulated old part to 70 degrees for glue laminating while the new part is left unheated, or with minimal heat on.



The motorcycles were starting to get in the way and one was tapped by me with the Forklift so it was time to build a motorcycle garage. This gave some good storage above as well. The chain hoist is visible in the photo. This is at one end of the new part.
I drop the green tarps down if dust is an issue, but generally it isnt with the machine tools as the dust extraction system takes it all away. The worst is using small hand held routers and sanders, its hard to control that dust.





View of the Triple Head Oscillating 48"drum sander. This is a great old machine, cusrom built by Yates in 1958. It has five motors and weighs 16,500 pounds. Whoever buys this place when I go had better like it, because I'm not moving it! In the backgrond is an Italian SCM 10' sliding panel saw and off to the left is a Raaimann (German) 14 ' 25 hp line rip wih laser.

worntorn said:

Mostly a woodworking setup, but these days the metal work/motorcycles are taking over

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Very nice place. You could have indoor oval racing in there.

...at least with the tractor!

Worn,
Beautiful, absolutely beautiful, the smell of wood being turned into something functional is heavenly. You have done well my friend.

It started as a way to get out of the winter rain and snow. My brother and I worked completely out in the elements as house framing contractors for ten years. We always dreaded the winter, especially November, during which we get a lot of days of heavy rain below 40 f. That is the worst, I prefer clear and freezing to that wet cold weather.
We were always doing woodwork projects on the side, although without a shop we were pretty limited. At the end of one particularly cold wet November day we rolled into my yard and eyed up the old implement shed. With its open side and dirt floor it was none too appealing, but we had a good incentive to fix it up. It was all about staying warm and dry!

Glen

"Necessity is the mother of invention"

...bike garages are her b@stard children.

Well put

and the bike Garage is my favourite part these days.

Glen