We are a large dairy farm 750 milking cows plus 600 replacements and 400 steers, also have 1000 acres. we do all of our own fieldwork and all of our own repairs.
The dogs got the boot. they had a doggie door to get in and out but we couldnt get them trained to not tear everthing apart. 2 jack russells and 1 rat terrier.
Ceiling is 16' with a 20' peak IIRC. Front doors are 24x16 and 14x14. side door is 12x14
Here are two pictures of our old shop.
and more of the new shop (built in 2008), its a minor step up.
heres a closeup of the acoustisteel it costs a lot more but is definately worth it. the bottom 8 feet of our walls are covered with 3/4" plywood with a sealer on them. I reccomend this to everybody because if you ever want to build something on the wall you just put it wherever you want unless its really heavy.
The dune buggy was an employees project, its been gone for awhile now. Pulling tractor is sitting back there now.
The lift is a Rotary S10i. The "i" part stands for inbay. Like $400 more but worth every penny. It moves the motor up out of the way and it is suprisingly much quieter. And you have up and down buttons and lower to locks buttons on each side of the lift, plus a 110v plugin on one post and air supply on the other post. Only downside is that you can feather the lift when lowering it, its all or nothing. This lift has something on it 360 days out of the year and we are not an auto repair shop, but i do do a lot of diesel work on the side.
Heating is solely from waste oil. We generate a lot of it and we collect it from our neighbors and relatives. The burner is a 250,000btu Lanair. Heating is accomplished through in floor heat.
The shop is a "WiFi Hotspot" and we put a cell phone repeater in it for excellent reception. Also have a stereo system mounted in the ceiling.
The oil barrel rack is the thing we are working on now. We dont like the one thats there and would like some simple totes. We have soo many fluids to put in them that the 4 barrel rack is pretty useless. 15w40 and hydro are in 110 gallon totes that a filled up by a bulk truck. ATF, Dexcool Antifreeze, Green antifreeze, Windsheild washer fluid, 30w, 10w30, 80w90, and diesel exhaust fluid are all bought by the 55.
We did just buy a 5x9' welding table made out of 1" plate.
A couple of our favorite shop tools and best buys ever have to be the Millermatic 252, Power Probe III, Eaton hosemaker, Rotary lift, and cordless mini impacts.
We are stilll considering pulling everything out of the shop and putting in an epoxy floor covering but we are not sure if we will bite that bullet.
The 110v plugins are spaced every 5' and have 4 plugs each. There are 222 T8 light bulbs, total. Two things we new we needed in a shop we millions of outlets, and lights so bright they blind you. And we accomplished that, at nighttime in the shop we usually turn off half of the lights to tone it down a bit, it gets pretty bright.
