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    Best place to plant 2-post lift in large bay?

    So I'm still fooling around with the planning stages of my Santa Fe style garage in the Sonoran Desert, and one thing I can't seem to settle on is the lift placement in my large bay. I laid it out as shown in the pics below so that I can have a work area in front for engine teardown, or...
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    My garage in Mosul, Iraq

    I wouldn't have thought to post pictures of Iraq, but Drylan's thread: My garage in Afghanistan seemed to be very well received, so I'll share some of my pictures from the middle east, too. I came to Mosul in July 2004 and worked as a mechanic until October 2005, when I got an office job and...
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    Concrete formwork in the desert?

    NOTE: not my work here - just looking for comments to help me learn. I'm working in another desert right now that has a climate and landscape very similar to mine at home in Arizona. Yesterday morning this was a cleared piece of dirt, today it looks a little different. I have very little...
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    Planning Santa Fe style build in AZ

    I'm scheduled to close this month on a new (to me) house in Pinal County, just outside of Apache Junction, AZ, at the foot of Superstition Mountain. The house has an attached 3-car garage, but I plan to use that for the daily drivers and the motorcycles. I'd like to put up something along the...
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    Apache Junction, Arizona

    Hello, I've been using this site as a reference and inspiration from time to time, so I finally decided to join. I just finished paying off my first house and I'm getting ready to close on a new (to me) house with enough room for me to put up just about any garage I want. I think I'll be...
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