Between 705 & 1200 SQ/FT "DaBarn"

[Bears Fan]

Some how, I had missed your thread until today. Just read thru the entire thread and really enjoyed it. Your barn is better insulated than my house! I love your taste in garage decorations. I like oil cans, gas pumps, vending machines, etc. So far, the only vending machine I have added to my shop is a 25 cent condom machine that originally came from a tourist attraction on old Route 66 called the Buffalo Ranch (now defunct). Didn't realize you could derust so effectively with apple cider vinegar. I may have to try that on a future project. I do wish you would post a panoramic view of your shop interior - I am dying to know where you hung the urinal!

Jeff

Awesome you could stop by and thanks for the complements...I really enjoy collecting the vintage Petroliana, I think I inherited that gene from my dad. My barn is well insulated, I didn't want to scrimp on it! It gets cold in northern Indiana and I wanted to be able to go out there and hang out in the winter...The apple cider vinegar trick works really well, I use it on the tops and bottoms of old oil cans all the time! I will see if I can get some new photo's up? The urinal is still sitting in my basement, I was asked what was I going to do with that when I drug it home? Everyone that comes over always goes out behind the barn to take a leak, so I tell them I want to just mount it on a 4 x 4 post out behind the barn with absolutely no plumbing on it, so we would have a real place to take a leak

 

[Bears Fan]

Nothing to exciting! But my dad dropped off a Amalie one pound grease can for me, it appeared to be in rough shape, but after rubbing the **** out of it with some cleaner wax for a half hour, it turned out to be in decent shape. My wife told me that I was going to rub the lettering right off of it. Its cool that my dad collects antique telephone and related items, because he goes to flea markets, auctions and antique stores and when he finds something that he thinks I would like he picks it up for me

 

[hoho98925]

i really enjoy reading your thread!
The Gates belt display is awesome.

It would go great with one of these.

 

[Thirdyfivepickup]

I was at an auction this past weekend and saw all sorts of stuff that would have looked great in Da Barn. I rarely gave antiques a second glance before but now I'm beginning to appreciate them more

 

[dlcwent]

BF, lucky to have someone else helping you out with the collection. Grease can looks to be in excellent shape. Another great addition.

 

[shortykorte]

shortykorte

Great plan shorty! but you left out one major point! I'm going with you to check out the 62'

Awesome! Road trip. Get your kicks on Route 66. Just have to get Don in gear.

 

[Bears Fan]

i really enjoy reading your thread!
The Gates belt display is awesome.

It would go great with one of these.

hoho

Oh thanks a lot hoho! now you got me on the hunt for one of those parts washers that's the first time I have ever seen one from Gates! I love your place it is absolutely beautiful... I have followed your thread for a long time

I was at an auction this past weekend and saw all sorts of stuff that would have looked great in Da Barn. I rarely gave antiques a second glance before but now I'm beginning to appreciate them more

Thirdyfivepickup


My dad has been a collector all his life! That's where I got the disease from! It is a hobby for me now and it gives me something to keep my mind occupied on other then the daily BS that you deal with in everyday life

BF, lucky to have someone else helping you out with the collection. Grease can looks to be in excellent shape. Another great addition.

dlcwent

Thanks for the visit! It is cool that dad drops off a cool piece to me once in a while. My dad did get me another cool piece of automobile history, a light bulb removal kit, I will get some photos posted soon

Awesome! Road trip. Get your kicks on Route 66. Just have to get Don in gear.

shortykorte


I already told Don that "The Big Party Garage" has made it onto my bucket list

 

[Bears Fan]

My dad dropped this Lamp Removal Kit off to me. It was used to remove automotive bulbs from their sockets, it has three different size rubber hoses inside for different size bulbs, I don't think this piece is something that ever caught on? I believe it was just a promotional give away piece? Just another interesting automotive item to add to the collection...

 

[bluebolt]

Hey Bears Fan, I found some original new Gates belts that came out of an old auto parts store. No cardboard sleeves though. Can probably get them for free if you want them.

 

[bluebolt]

Here's the belts, got them for $1 each, 7 total. Trying to figure out how to get them in a medium flat rate box LOL.

 

[Bears Fan]

Sounds like a good price send me a PM with a total

 

[dlcwent]

BF, I can't say I ever saw one of those bulb removal kits before. It's a pretty cool addition nonetheless. Good deal on the Gates belts bluebolt found.

 

[PugetDude]

Bears Fan, what happened to one of my favorite threads?

 

[03 PSD]

Awesome shop BF! Really enjoyed finding and reading this thread.

 

[BuffettFan]

Hey BF, Great build, I've just found your thread and read from start to finish over the last 2 days.
I'm on board with the panoramic pics request, it would be cool to see the whole layout.
I'm just starting with a minor refurb in my garage, but I can tell you that the pipe shelf bracket idea and gauge bracket idea has been noted and will be "stolen" for use in my garage.
Hope you are having a great summer, before we know it DaBears will be on and NO CUTLER!! (At least on the field, Gonna have to listen to him. ****. I know, watch the game muted and listen to the radio!) Now we may get to watch football in January again!

 

[jon72vega]

Bears Fan,
Your garage is really cool!
I just caught myself up on your thread.
Any updates?

 

[Bears Fan]

BF, I can't say I ever saw one of those bulb removal kits before. It's a pretty cool addition nonetheless. Good deal on the Gates belts bluebolt found.

dlcwent

I have never seen the bulb replacement kit either till my dad dropped it off, Its cool to see all the automotive advertising pieces from the past...

Bears Fan, what happened to one of my favorite threads?

PugetDude

Sorry for slacking on my posts, no real excuses here! Just got lazy...I have been dealing with a back issue and I always seem to busy with work and life.

I have been keeping up on my favorite threads here on The Garage Journal though

Awesome shop BF! Really enjoyed finding and reading this thread.

PSD

Thanks for checking in and the compliments, I will try to get some new updates posted soon, I do have a few cool thinks to post...

Hey BF, Great build, I've just found your thread and read from start to finish over the last 2 days.
I'm on board with the panoramic pics request, it would be cool to see the whole layout.
I'm just starting with a minor refurb in my garage, but I can tell you that the pipe shelf bracket idea and gauge bracket idea has been noted and will be "stolen" for use in my garage.
Hope you are having a great summer, before we know it DaBears will be on and NO CUTLER!! (At least on the field, Gonna have to listen to him. ****. I know, watch the game muted and listen to the radio!) Now we may get to watch football in January again!

BuffettFan

Thanks for taking the time to check out DaBarn! I will make an effort to get some new pics posted...I'm glad you like the pipe bracket shelves, I take a liking to anything that looks vintage industrial...

As for the Chicago Bears go, I'm really not going to get my hopes up just yet, But it will be really nice to watch a game without Jay Cutler around!!! Eight years of that **** was enough

Bears Fan,
Your garage is really cool!
I just caught myself up on your thread.
Any updates?

jon04

Thanks for the visit and the nice comments, I have been a real slacker lately on updates...I will need to work on that...I like the new blue Lista cabinets in your garage, you deserve a big "You ****" on the price

 

[Bears Fan]

I took a week off work to just hang around the house and do whatever I want, no vacation or work schedule for an entire week! just yard and barn time

I started out with mowing the yard, spraying the driveway with some Roundup and I even trimmed a couple of Hardy Geraniums down that were growing like crazy...

 

[Bears Fan]

I own 2 1/2 acres of land out back. Not much! but it attaches to a neighbors 38 acre field down over the hill, so he just takes care of it for me...It saves a **** ton of mowing...For the past fifteen years he has keep it in hay till this year, he plowed it under and planted beans, they really took off nice. so I thought I would share a couple of recent pics of my beans...

 

[Bears Fan]

I had picked up a old bench a while ago from out in front of someones house that had a pile of stuff with a "FREE" sign on it...I tore it apart and scraped everything but the legs and kept them in storage till recently...My son Cody had mentioned he wanted a reloading table for his reloading equipment to mount on, So I pulled out the legs and made him a little reloading table for his birthday on August 1st...

 

[PugetDude]

I had picked up a old bench a while ago from out in front of someones house that had a pile of stuff with a "FREE" sign on it...I tore it apart and scraped everything but the legs and kept them in storage till recently...My son Cody had mentioned he wanted a reloading table for his reloading equipment to mount on, So I pulled out the legs and made him a little reloading table for his birthday on August 1st...

Nice job! That bench alone should give him 1/2" MOA at 100 .

Did you laminate the top or buy a ready-made section?

 

[Bears Fan]

Nice job! That bench alone should give him 1/2" MOA at 100 .

Did you laminate the top or buy a ready-made section?

No, that's not laminate...It is a piece of solid brown maple that i picked up from a local lumber yards panel shop. I rubbed in three coats of dark walnut stain and then added three coats of poly. Now I just got to get it out of "Dabarn" and into "The Bunker" (Cody's man cave)...

 

[Jeff Ivers]

Man, what a great pair of legs! Oh, and nice job on the bench.

 

[PugetDude]

No, that's not laminate...It is a piece of solid brown maple that i picked up from a local lumber yards panel shop. I rubbed in three coats of dark walnut stain and then added three coats of poly. Now I just got to get it out of "Dabarn" and into "The Bunker" (Cody's man cave)...

I meant laminate, as in gluing individual pieces of wood together; would never accuse you of using Formica on a workbench!

 

[don long]

I wondered the same thing.
That bench looks killer
Hey I went back a few pages to catch up from where I last came on and you were talking (Trade)
I have that can already I have 1 set of doubles I'll take a closeup of it tomorrow and post it for you

Don

 

[BuffettFan]

Great to see you back BF, and 100% hear you regarding da Bears! Great job on the reloading bench and what are the plans for the metal (?) Levi's sign?

 

[Bears Fan]

Man, what a great pair of legs! Oh, and nice job on the bench.

Ivers

Thanks for checking in and the complement...I was happy on how the reloading table turned out and I didn't break the bank doing it

I meant laminate, as in gluing individual pieces of wood together; would never accuse you of using Formica on a workbench!

PugetDude

Sorry I got a good friend working at the local saw mill... it pays to have friends in low places

I wondered the same thing.
That bench looks killer
Hey I went back a few pages to catch up from where I last came on and you were talking (Trade)
I have that can already I have 1 set of doubles I'll take a closeup of it tomorrow and post it for you

Don

Don

Glad to see your up and about, hope your feeling better I picked up the panel already glued, I ripped four inches off it then glued and screwed it on for the back splash...

I would love to do a trade with you, It would be a honor to have a piece from The Big Party Garage in DaBarn

 

[BuffettFan]

BTW, I was guessing walnut on the bottom shelf.
Thinking we need pics of Da Bunker now!

 

[Bears Fan]

Great to see you back BF, and 100% hear you regarding da Bears! Great job on the reloading bench and what are the plans for the metal (?) Levi's sign?

BuffetFan

Thanks for checking in and the complement on the reloading bench. I cleaned up the Levi sign and posted it on craigslist, I had a man stop by and buy it, he said he has a grandson named Levi

 

[BuffettFan]

Sounds like the sign ended up where it needed to be!

 

[Bears Fan]

BTW, I was guessing walnut on the bottom shelf.
Thinking we need pics of Da Bunker now!

Buffettman

I will get some pictures of "The Bunker" once I get the reload table over there and in place

 

[BuffettFan]

I'm guessing it will be pretty dang cool too!

 

[Bears Fan]

I got my old Coleman air compressor swapped out with the new Quincy, The old one severed me well for nineteen years, its going into The Bunker along with the new reloading bench.

I picked up a 1/2" master Rapidair kit and installed three manifolds along the east wall, one by the Quincy, one at my welding bench and the third one by the service door...

I'm really happy with the Quincy, Now I can sandblast something without stopping and waiting for the air to build back up...Its actually quieter then the old one too

 

[shortykorte]

Hey Bear! Hey Bear ( for Alone fans). Nice bench and compressor.


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[Bears Fan]

Hey Bear! Hey Bear ( for Alone fans). Nice bench and compressor.


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Shorty


Thanks for the visit and the comments, Looking forward to watching the Thursday night Chicago Bears game without Jay Cutler on the sideline

 

[Bears Fan]

I was on my way to work a few days back and spotted a couple of Red Foxes playing in a neighbors yard, they stood still long enough for me to get a couple of poor cell phone pics

 

[Bears Fan]

I scored a nice little Gates hose clamp rack to go along with my Gates fan belt rack, Just needed a little cleaning and hung in DaBarn, I even scrounged up some clamps to display on it

 

[PugetDude]

I scored a nice little Gates hose clamp rack to go along with my Gates fan belt rack, Just needed a little cleaning and hung in DaBarn, I even scrounged up some clamps to display on it

Nice rack, Bearsfan! (that sounds kinda weird, huh?)

You would be the easiest GJ Secret Santa to buy for this year...

 

[shortykorte]

That clamp rack is not only period but functional, win-win.
The foxes pretty foxy.


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[BuffettFan]

"Fox on the run" By Sweet, maybe? going back a while.