What do you use your garage for?

[Cudajas]

This may have been done before, but there are lots of new guys lately.

So what do you use your garage for.

I am a die hard car guy, so mine is used to park and work on my 74 cuda, or any other car repairs.

Jason

 

[keelan]

No car will ever see the inside of my garage. The big door at the front sure is handy for moving these things around, though:

With a wall across the middle that is coming soon, my garage will be half printing shop (and eventually machine shop), and half woodworking shop.

I'm curious to see what this thread brings out of the woodwork, I feel like I'm the only guy on here that doesn't have a classic car in the garage!

 

[Chris98006]

I've always been a die hard car guy. Then you buy a house and have a kid or two. Then I got involved in home improvements, and some wood working. With my son in cub scouts, I have kids building bird houses, pine wood derby cars, and rain gutter boats. I recently got an 212lb anvil and would like to try some black smithing and metal work. So here's the kicker, I only have a two car garage and my queen, needs to park in the garage. Maximize space!

 

[Streetbu]

The garage has become a catch all, but it only stays that way for a few days as I fix several cars a week out of it and need to be able to work on them. Also my woodworking area when needed though I hate the sawdust. But it works out great for parties! Ask any of my friends about our garage parties! LOL

 

[stanleyoutdoors]

No car will ever see the inside of my garage. The big door at the front sure is handy for moving these things around, though:

With a wall across the middle that is coming soon, my garage will be half printing shop (and eventually machine shop), and half woodworking shop.

I'm curious to see what this thread brings out of the woodwork, I feel like I'm the only guy on here that doesn't have a classic car in the garage!

I'm curious what kind of things you print and wouldn't sawdust really mess that up?

 

[keelan]

stanleyoutdoors,

So far, nothing. The printing press needs new ink rollers ($$). The first Linotype is 96 years old but well maintained. The lead melting pot needs one of its heating elements replaced. The second Linotype is 65 years old, and needs to be completely rewired. It has a 3 phase drive motor as well, so I need to finish up a rotary phase converter to bring that one to life.

Dust will be a problem, and it's the main reason I'm splitting my garage in two with a wall. Dusty woodworking tools in the front, printing equipment, lathe and milling machine in the back.

 

[tdkkart]

My "garage", 2 car, attached to the house actually contains our daily driver cars, and little else. There's an air compressor, a portable air tank, a generator, and a 1/2 cord firewood rack with some amount of firewood in it. Most of the summer my Harley is in there someplace too.
My "shop" space is a seperate 30x40 pole building.

 

[56rpm]

I park the daily driver in the garage. The shop is for the welder, lathe, mill and working on cars.

 

[spotco2]

Attached garage houses the wifes daily driver, 1 classic and a small workshop area for home projects. Detached garage is where a majority of the tools are and where any real work actually happens. It's also sort of a catch all for house overflow storage. Utility building (no power, no insulation) is for more storage of things that do not require climate control. Lean to on detached is for boats, tractor and trailers. Enclosed lean to on utility building is for yard equipment and mowers.