My temporary home away from home.

[Heavy tech]

We are allowed to "moonlight" at work, so I do. I don't have a garage of my own, so I make house calls. This means I'm working outside most of the time. I'm currently using a 2 door caviler as my "service truck".

I recently took on a job for the municipality, to get the fire department's back up generator running. It's mounted in an old 20' cube truck box, and I must say, it makes a pretty nice little shop.


It's got all the comforts of home, sort of.

24V lights


"Air compressor" if you could call it that


Built in work bench


Inside door latch


And the very biggest bonus of all: HEAT!

It's been around 0*F here all week, and I worked in my little cube with just a t shirt under my coveralls. actually had to shut the heater off for a while.

All in all I'm quite happy with my little set up, especially since the job I turned down to do this was replacing steel lines on a backhoe boom, in a field, with no where to get out of the wind. Burrrrrr.


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[Heavy tech]

Oh, and I even pick up the free wi fi from the municipal building next door


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[e-tek]

Sweet! Maybe you can make them a deal to work in there on your own stuff - but that'd be like double-moonlighting...

 

[Heavy tech]

Actually, the municipality has a garage that is mainly just used for storage, but I'm going to try to make a deal to work on that backhoe in there, if the guy doesn't get someone else to do it first.


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[Mike Miller]

Make sure you have a fresh air source when running that propain torpedo heater, stay safe.

 

[Iron-Iceberg]

Try not to die on us in there with that heater. Lost a friend that way. Get plenty of fresh air.

 

[Heavy tech]

Try not to die on us in there with that heater. Lost a friend that way. Get plenty of fresh air.

Sorry to hear that. Buddy of mine had a very close call last winter with a generator in a shed. The exhaust was plumbed outside, but was coming back in through the floor. Another buddy stopped in to say hello and found him in a heap on the floor.

I thought carbon monoxide was less of a concern with propane? Anyway ,
I'll walk over to the fire hall and borrow their carbon monoxide detector tonight.

FWIW you could throw a cat out through that old box pretty much anywhere


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[NUTTSGT]

While it may not be as comfortable as a home garage, it sure beats standing outside in the windy **** weather.

 

[rburke65]

Maybe you can work out a deal with them?