First of all, I love this board. Tons of other people like me, good to know.
Let me start of by saying, not only am I in need of a storage shed out back, but also in need of at least a 30'x30' shop. Shed should be built in a month or two, but the shop out back will have to wait atleast until next year. So, I have been fooling around in my current 1.5 car garage for now.
As you can see its a bit crowded. This is all I can currently fit in here and still complete small projects. All larger projects will have to wait, as I have ALOT more tools and equipment that are all either kept at my job, or in storage.
View from the driveway.
Messy shelf on the left as you walk in. There is so much on this shelf, the naked eye can only see half of it. Most of this needs to be in the future shed, minus the car detail stuff, and the Victor torch which I have never taken out of the case, due to having several at work, and also not having the room for the Oxy and Accet. tanks at the moment.
Here is the workbench and pegboard. Bench is for light duty projects. It is 8'x20", and is achored to the wall studs, and only utilizes two legs so I can fit things under it. Thinking about enclosing the underside to hide things. I have a 500lb. welding table that is in storage for heavy duty projects, however a lighter, mobile version will be built once I get some of this clutter out. The vise is a very nice older unit that was on its last leg, and was nearly culled at work. I disassembled it, sandblasted, cleaned painted it, and lubed it up and it is now as good as new. The dark part of the bench under the vise is a piece of .125" steel that I have screwed to the bench. It gives the vise a little better platform for mounting, as well as a light duty pounding surface. There are also large diameter washers underneath that help when I put leverage on the vise.
Moving on down the wall, you can see I have the famous wall rattlling 33gal oilless crapsman compressor. I love craftsman tools, however I tend to stay away from their electrical items, such as power tools, but it was the right price at the time I bought it. It does work quite well, and I have never had any problems other than blood running out my ears due to the operating noise. The tan cabinet to the right houses most of my power tools, skill saws, jig saws, etc. the red organizer above the compressor has nuts, bolts, electrical terminals, wire nuts, and a few other items.
Here is my drill press, and above is a shelf that mostly has fluids for my dirtbike on it. However the Pennzoil is for the John Deere.
Here is a better pic of the bike. Its a Husqvarna CR 125. Great bike. Behind it, not really in the picture is another little grey cabinet that used to house air tools, but now pretty much just sets there. Also taking up tons of floor space are my Toyota axles. Two of them are fully stuffed with aftermarket goodies, and the other is a spare. They were pulled from my previous rockcrawler, and are awaiting a new home (in another rockcrawler that is not yet purchased,) at the moment. In front of the bike is an antique Montgomery Ward belt sander that I bought of Craigslist last week. Going to fabricate a new pedistal for it, and get rid of the wooden one that was on it when I got it. It works pretty good, If anyone knows anything about the old Mont. Ward Powr-Kraft tools, as far as dates, let me know. I think it is from the 40's.
More stuff.
That is what it looks like when it is clean. I really need the yard stuff out of there before I can continue fixing it up. I still need to set up the torch, bring one of my roll around toolboxes home from work, and also bring home my Mllermatic DVI2 mig machine. Sadly almost all of my tools are at work, as I have to supply my own tools there. Before my current job, all tools were supplied for me. That is the price I pay though for a better job. So I will also be accumilating a second large selection of tools AGAIN for home. Slow but sure, I'm getting there. Thanks for checking it out. Questions, comments, critiscism welcome.
Matt
Let me start of by saying, not only am I in need of a storage shed out back, but also in need of at least a 30'x30' shop. Shed should be built in a month or two, but the shop out back will have to wait atleast until next year. So, I have been fooling around in my current 1.5 car garage for now.
As you can see its a bit crowded. This is all I can currently fit in here and still complete small projects. All larger projects will have to wait, as I have ALOT more tools and equipment that are all either kept at my job, or in storage.
View from the driveway.
Messy shelf on the left as you walk in. There is so much on this shelf, the naked eye can only see half of it. Most of this needs to be in the future shed, minus the car detail stuff, and the Victor torch which I have never taken out of the case, due to having several at work, and also not having the room for the Oxy and Accet. tanks at the moment.
Here is the workbench and pegboard. Bench is for light duty projects. It is 8'x20", and is achored to the wall studs, and only utilizes two legs so I can fit things under it. Thinking about enclosing the underside to hide things. I have a 500lb. welding table that is in storage for heavy duty projects, however a lighter, mobile version will be built once I get some of this clutter out. The vise is a very nice older unit that was on its last leg, and was nearly culled at work. I disassembled it, sandblasted, cleaned painted it, and lubed it up and it is now as good as new. The dark part of the bench under the vise is a piece of .125" steel that I have screwed to the bench. It gives the vise a little better platform for mounting, as well as a light duty pounding surface. There are also large diameter washers underneath that help when I put leverage on the vise.
Moving on down the wall, you can see I have the famous wall rattlling 33gal oilless crapsman compressor. I love craftsman tools, however I tend to stay away from their electrical items, such as power tools, but it was the right price at the time I bought it. It does work quite well, and I have never had any problems other than blood running out my ears due to the operating noise. The tan cabinet to the right houses most of my power tools, skill saws, jig saws, etc. the red organizer above the compressor has nuts, bolts, electrical terminals, wire nuts, and a few other items.
Here is my drill press, and above is a shelf that mostly has fluids for my dirtbike on it. However the Pennzoil is for the John Deere.
Here is a better pic of the bike. Its a Husqvarna CR 125. Great bike. Behind it, not really in the picture is another little grey cabinet that used to house air tools, but now pretty much just sets there. Also taking up tons of floor space are my Toyota axles. Two of them are fully stuffed with aftermarket goodies, and the other is a spare. They were pulled from my previous rockcrawler, and are awaiting a new home (in another rockcrawler that is not yet purchased,) at the moment. In front of the bike is an antique Montgomery Ward belt sander that I bought of Craigslist last week. Going to fabricate a new pedistal for it, and get rid of the wooden one that was on it when I got it. It works pretty good, If anyone knows anything about the old Mont. Ward Powr-Kraft tools, as far as dates, let me know. I think it is from the 40's.
More stuff.
That is what it looks like when it is clean. I really need the yard stuff out of there before I can continue fixing it up. I still need to set up the torch, bring one of my roll around toolboxes home from work, and also bring home my Mllermatic DVI2 mig machine. Sadly almost all of my tools are at work, as I have to supply my own tools there. Before my current job, all tools were supplied for me. That is the price I pay though for a better job. So I will also be accumilating a second large selection of tools AGAIN for home. Slow but sure, I'm getting there. Thanks for checking it out. Questions, comments, critiscism welcome.
Matt