BloomingtonMike's 40X64X16

[bloomingtonmike]

Got the Joes moved over with Johnny on Monday and a temp 8" dc drop for it. This spot will be fine till I get the mezzanine built and it goes under there.

 

[mcclaar]

Unique opportunity today. High tesion power poles are getting changed out next door. I let the crews use my access road. They are super happy with me. It was a slow clean up day. Talked to a gal who drives a big huge mountain size loader and she hooked me up with the boss. He had a track hoe guy help me move my mill into the new shed. After that five linemen the size of nfl linemen helped my Egyptian style roll it into place. Next tool to purchase, a real johnson bar like they have!!

They also cleaned out the back of my pond of willows and re terraced my back 4 acres with dirt. I bought the entire 25 man crew lunch. We get along great. Never underestimate the power of just being nice and buying folks a lunch. That pizza lunch saved me thousands of dollars in work today.

Crazy day!!

LOL. Small world! I have been following your build and saw the post with the excavator and the mill and thought my brother is working on a job that is doing something with power lines. So I jokingly sent him a text and asked if he ever moved a mill into a new shop before and he replied: "How do you know about that? I did that for a landowner that let us use his land. Heck of a nice guy he bought all of us pizza." He said your building an awesome shop!

 

[bloomingtonmike]

That is AWESOME. Those guys really helped me out a BUNCH. Tell him thanks again.

 

[bloomingtonmike]

Got my art "alternate router table" table cleaned up and in place and powered today. Couple more dc fittings coming for it this week in the nordfab freight..

 

[bloomingtonmike]

Got the excalibur installed for above blade collection. It is tons nicer than the psi one i used to have. The bracket is awesome. Love the easy pivot feature too.

Collection on 3/4" material is perfect. 2x material is all but perfect.

 

[Mr. D]

Awesome and lost for words on this build. Just spent the last hour or so running through all the pages. Great job!!!!!!

 

[bloomingtonmike]

Tonight's work in my shed. Voice activated bench air filter fan installed. The voice activated powered retracting air line and power outlet line above bench dropped and programmed. All work via Alexa, or phone app, or remote. Also the bench put in place. No power cords or air lines on floor or dragging on bench edge! #Mikiespace

Also put in outfeed table on saw. Can see it behind bench.

 

[Duker]

Tonight's work in my shed. Voice activated bench air filter fan installed. The voice activated powered retracting air line and power outlet line above bench dropped and programmed. All work via Alexa, or phone app, or remote. Also the bench put in place. No power cords or air lines on floor or dragging on bench edge! #Mikiespace



Also put in outfeed table on saw. Can see it behind bench.

And here I thought I was pretty smart for two adding switched plugs for my air filters..... I didn’t even think to tie them into my Eco system. Well played sir....!


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[bloomingtonmike]

Got a few bessey parallels hung up in the new shed. Found a higher density clamp rack I liked and cut the triangles and sides out on cnc. Actually building a couple racks.

 

[bloomingtonmike]

Added F clamps/bessey tradesman clamps on another style clamp holder I drew up. Turns out the space between the parallels was just enough for these. The new racks also have room to store several clamps to drive up clamp density.

 

[xtremek]

HOLY COW!!!!!! That's a ton of clamps. Nice rack.

 

[bloomingtonmike]

Put a ct22 vac and ultimate dust deputy ( tons of dust storage and easy to change from my crazy ladder or the lift) up in the rafters and used a 5m hose (16.5') to drop down over my bench. I then use a shortened 25' flexzilla hose reel as a hose retractor. That reel was $25 last year around Thanksgiving and is lousy as a hose reel but after shortening it by about 5' it works great as a hose retractor. The vac is on a wifi enabled outlet/remote that can be controlled with an echo dot and alexa, with my cell phone, or with the remote. I ran an extension cord along the hose too and it is on a separate circuit from the vac and from the other roboreel electrical reel . It gives me way more than 15' of movable vac hose and can reach the floor at the bench. I love the accessability and getting it up and out of the way when not in use.

 

[bloomingtonmike]

I am taking a machining 101 class at the local cc this semester. Did some homework at home yesterday. Used the metal lathe on some tool steel.

 

[86turbodsl]

Good lord that's a lot of plywood. Shop is looking good though!

 

[bloomingtonmike]

Good lord that's a lot of plywood. Shop is looking good though!

Is, or was, or did you mean on the walls? I started with 1600 sheets sized 32"X48"X3/4". I've sold and traded for items for bunch of them. I've made about 3X the amount I paid for them at least plus got free walls and paid for the paint (not including my labor lol).

 

[bloomingtonmike]

Another movie weekend. Upped the popcorn output game too. 16oz popper and cart purchased with last weeks ebay 15% off coupon code.

 

[bloomingtonmike]

Another movie weekend. Upped the popcorn output game too. 16oz popper and cart purchased with last weeks ebay 15% off coupon code.

 

[pushrod-racing]

I'm sure it's been asked, how many t5ho fixtures do you have total

 

[bloomingtonmike]

18 t5ho 6 bulb lights
4 rows - north to south 5 (south edge), 4(south middle between garage doors), 4 (north center between garage doors), 5 (north edge)
I have them on 4 sets of 3 way switches east to west. East north south edges, east centers, west centers, west north south edges.

 

[pushrod-racing]

My employer just removed a lot of the 6 bulb fixtures to update to led fixtures. I purchased 20 of them for 10.00 each. I had only planned to use 12 in my 40x60x16 but now you have me worried I need more. I do have a 10x20 office/bathroom section although that I will not be hanging them above.

 

[lively1]

Tonight I mounted the boiler and ran the 3/4" pex to it from the panel components. Also ran 1" pex to the 9 loop manifolds that go too and from the floor.

Hey Mike, I wanted to see how your radiant heat system is performing. I am ready to install some heating source for my hydronic heating system but have not decided yet what to get. Debating between electric boiler, propane boiler (have to set a tank), air to water heat pump...
what does it cost to run your boiler in the winter? How warm do you keep it? Are you happy with it? I’m not too far from you and I think our buildings are pretty similar in size - thought it would be a good comparison.


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[Aaron P.]

savage build...what size are the stick frame timbers? how far do they go into the ground?

 

[b-bop]

Spectacular shop. Love all the pics of your girls helping out. My girls, now 30 and 32 have more ability than any guys that they dated or married. It funny to watch sometimes when they are doing all the work and the guys stand there clueless.

 

[GoodStuff]

Just finished the radiant tubing last month and had the flooring installed in my 40x60x16. Power meter was installed last week so I can start the real work of outfitting the shop. Your build has been fun to monitor and model. I modeled the radiant system off of yours and have all the parts necessary to duplicate what you did with yours... couple of questions... I read up on some of your past forum discussions where you mentioned a propane boiler, but then went with the ecosmart water heater. I too have propane available, but chose an electric system - in my way of thinking it will be cheaper to run.

What are your heating bills?

Also, did you end up running glycol in your radiant system? I am torn on this one.

 

[larry4406]

Well I stumbled into this thread trying to find ideas for a table saw outfeed table.

15 minutes later after scrolling thru all 4 pages and OMG is about all I can say!

What an insane and over the top build and toy shop!

Well done sir!

 

[10PreRunner]

Mike awesome job in the slat walls. I'm wanting to do maybe a 4'x 8' section in my much smaller garage. what are the dimensions on the slats and how far did you space them apart? Does that seem to be a good spacing or would you change it if you could? Thanks so much and again, awesome walls and awesome garage.