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The black metal drawers are actually single drawer Intermeadiate tool boxes. The ones that sit on top of a roll around box, yet underneath the uppermost box with the flip open lid. I found the small grey set in a scrap pile and beat it till it opened decently and mounted it like the others...

Thanks for the compliments! I have been dreaming of this garage for..., well since I knew what a garage was. I have been saving used lumber / barnwood for years with this in mind and have recently moved into a house with no shop. So, I had to build one - my way. Darn the luck! Here is a...

For those of you wondering how a man can have his dream shop... First your wife has to be perfect, there's only one perfect wife and I found her first. And attached is the trade-off. I live in my shop, but chose to sleep in my "little house in the holler"... And she is happy living in...

My four corners have... 1.) a sink & the entry door, 2.) floor space between tool boxes to access wall hung brooms and such, 3.) portable bench grinder and vise horses, and 4.) the stove. I kept my work benches from getting into the corners so that the corners themselves would not...

Thought I'd share some pics of my vise-horse. It is not built to handle much cantilevered force like when you have to put a cheater bar on a wrench to break a nut loose or remove a pipe fitting, but rather for most of your metal working and welding needs. The base is an old 289 block, the rest...

Your absolutelty right Amolaver, my mistake! Missed a numeral on the calculator. My pad was more like 50 cuft with the footers. AND I missed that same numeral with my wall calc - it should be more like 42 cuft. Thanks for the checks and balances AND thanks for the vocabulary...

- Is your pooch camped out on your creeper? No, just some cardboard and an old comforter. - Is that a special corrugated tin on the back of the shelf above your 'gun bench'? Not really, special to me maybe, but it's just old corrugated galvanized barn tin. Why do you ask? Now, the tin above...

Thanks for the compliments everyone. I'll get more pics up once the junk on the makeshift tables have been put in their place and you can actually see the workbench tops. I will throw out some before pics now however...

Just thought I'd show off some pics of my recent progress on my new shop. I have been saving barn wood for 15 years now and had just enough to do the walls. I guess the old barn on the property will have to sacrifice it's tin roof to do the ceiling.

My old ratchets where stolen and I am looking to replace them. If anyone has a lead on where to get a new set, I'll jump! I borrowed the pic from an older thread, I hope the OP does not mind, but I am looking for a full set or at least the 3/8's and 1/2" ratchets like this one. I know I can...

Good info folks! You've given me some things to think about. Like most projects, I have a budget that is already pushed it's boundaries. I would really like to go with a "through the wall" unit so that I can have some AC for the remainder of the year, but holding off for a more expensive and...

My builder starts constucting my new shop next week and I will be asking him to put in the appropriate size hole for a "through the wall" AC unit. I feel like I should buy the unit before hand so that he dimensions the hole appropriately, but... I am afraid that years down the road when the AC...

One more, for now... Not really a shop trick, but it does use a shop tool... A cherry picker can make a great deer skinner. After field dressing, cut the hide around the neck and peel torwards the tail enough to get a golfball sized rock tucked into the hide, tie the rock off with some stout...

A couple of saw horses and an interior door make for great temporary tables and don't take up alot of storage space. Using a second boxed end wrench on the open end of the first makes for a great cheater (and knuckle buster). It really warrents a picture if you don't know what I mean. - sorry...

I bought a set of 1/4", 3/8", & 1/2" drivers from Sears that looked like the one that Plombob depicted back around 1990. It did not have the crewline name on it, but it did have the Boxer name. I have to say that I really liked the set. It was not a ratchet that you would want to put a...