Recent content by drooartz

Me too. Thanks! Good thoughts. Under the loft is for storage. Spare engines, parts, engine hoist, motorcycle lift table. Basically all the cruft that is scattered around the shop now up against the walls and where ever it will fit. Plan is to get all of that underneath the loft and organized...

I thought a bunch about your comments on my original plan. I agree that this flows much better, and should be much simpler to build as well since's it's pretty much just a box with stairs. In addition to the one "fixed" bench I also have a 6' mobile bench, and my primary auto tools are in...

Spent some time yesterday out in the shop rethinking the concept, taking into account the ideas that have popped up here. So the new concept moves the loft over to the same side as the bench and drops the long "balcony". Making the loft area larger should give me adequate storage, and I still...

Thanks for the idea. Stairs are what I've been fighting as I try and think this through.

Thanks for the input, this is just the sort of feedback I was looking for. Yes, the 48" width is intended for a shelf and walkway. Partly for material width, and partly to keep it outside the garage door opening. The main reason for that stair setup was to minimize the length of the stairway...

Now that I've had 3 years or so in my shop, I'm seriously thinking about putting in a loft. It's amazing how quickly thing fill up! I've had this idea since the shop was built, and now I'm getting serious about figuring out what this will take. The shop is a pole barn, 36' wide by 40' deep with...

Up go the trusses And now we move into May 2017 with the raising of the trusses. This is where the Droobarn stopped looking like a forest of poles and turned into a building-shaped object. Here the trusses are joined together and getting ready to be lifted into place. There were two guys...

Getting started: holes in the ground So April of 2017 the barn raising party started. Unfortunately I missed the opening weekend when they laid out the location -- unfortunate, as they put it in the wrong place! Luckily, I caught it before anything was dug into the ground and they moved the...

The last few years have been very crazy. Summer of 2015 My wife and I started looking at remodeling the kitchen in our house, and by the summer of 2016 we were in the middle of construction on a new house on a larger piece of land. 2017 was the year of the new shop! My main consideration for...

We did wind up moving and building a new house. Updates to come when I get a moment. House is on .7 acres with plenty of room for a larger shop -- those plans are currently going through approvals. Plan is for 36' x 40' if all goes well.

Glad this was helpful. We did indeed move a couple months ago, and now we're on .7 ares with room for a much larger shop. That should start getting built soon. I never did do much else to my little barn other than work in it. I had plans for a bunch of folding work benches and some soffit...

Things are suddenly moving a bit faster in our hunt for a new shop -- with attached house as the wife is not that excited to live in my shop. :D We found a lot in a neighborhood we really like, and got it under contract. .7 acres in an area that is setup as horse property. We don't do horses...

Re: My 24x30x8 Garage Project Thanks, that helps. I'm hoping I'll have space to go bigger, but finding land around here that we can afford is nearly impossible.

Re: My 24x30x8 Garage Project Nice space! That's a size I'm considering if we wind up with a new place -- how do you like the size? I'm assuming you're at 24 wide, 30 deep.

We looked at a place today, wasn't bad but wasn't really all that exciting. Had a 3-car garage on the house and a small (18'x22') shop in the back yard. Too many compromises, so we decided to pass. Surprisingly enough, finding a smaller house on a large lot (or with a shop) is not particularly...