47-55.1 Tips on new garage

[vintovka]

How you work in there?

[mick53]

Originally Posted by vintovka

How you work in there?

It's the camera angle? There are paths and most of what is in there goes on the truck. I'm 3 years into my build and hope to start on the truck in a couple of weeks. I'm building the shelves to make room. I have 54' of shelf 4' wide. I just bought a 12"X 36" PM lathe that I need to make room for. I have been getting professional help for decades but it's not helping.

[vintovka]

paths? ROFL!!

[mick53]

Originally Posted by vintovka

paths? ROFL!!

I don't know what that means but I'm guessing it's not good. Part of the problem is I like to make my own stuff because most of it is one off. So by the time you buy all the equipment like mill, lathe, welders, plasma cutters, tubing benders, rotisserie and such it takes a lot of room. Add to that drive train and axles it eats up a lot of space.

[vintovka]

Means i find it amusing that someone have a shop as cluttered as mine. Hopefully i can new shop in order.

[mick53]

Originally Posted by vintovka

Means i find it amusing that someone have a shop as cluttered as mine. Hopefully i can new shop in order.

I was going to build another shop last summer but I was stuck in Iowa for nine months building a dry ice manufacturing plant so it didn't get done. The whole work thing often gets in the way of my build.

[_Ogre]

if some people had an acre under roof, they'd still run out of room

when i moved out of NC after 16 years, most of what i had upstairs in the shop went to a dumpster or the burn pile. i swore i'd never do that again. shop in MI has a 30x50 hay mow (upstairs for you city slickers). anytime i think something should "go upstairs" i throw it away.

other than my 40 foot ladder, it has half court basketball and a swinging rope in it

[jwhotrod]

i finally found the pictures I wanted. My shop as I said is a Wick building (mfg in Wisconsin) the columns are 3laminated 2x8 on 6'8: centers. The wind load rating on the sidewalls is 90mph. The sidewalls are 19'6" at the trusses. and as I said, it sits on a frost wall so I have a 12" curb in my shop. I couldn't btring myself to let them concrete the posts into the ground, not only because of the rot factor but also this way I don't have any critters in my building.
so here are the pictures.

[jwhotrod]

more photos

[mr48chev]

Where the garage is going to be in Oregon and with your rigs no doubt being pulled in wet a lot the stem walls like we see in JWHotod's posts make a lot of sense. That would keep any wood up several inches off the garage floor and probably help it last far longer. plus making a garden hose garage floor cleanup a non issue. A few more bucks at the start but a lot of added value if an when you go to sell it and a not more convenience for you with keeping it clean without worries about getting the wood walls wet.

Guys if you haven't figured it out Vintovka lives in one place where most of us drive hundreds if not thousands of miles just to see the beauty of the area. He is moving to another spot a few miles up the coast that is right on one of the great salmon fishing rivers on the west coast in a just as beautiful area. Thing is it rains a lot there. It doesn't phase the locals much unless they depend on tourist $$ but you track water and mud in your garage you park your daily in and there isn't much way around it except not parking in the garage.

[mick53]

I live in the middle of a chain of 7 lakes so a floor drain was not a option. I slopped my floor. So easy to clean if I could see it. From what i've seen in the factories I build floor drains are a sick kid. Just my $.02.

[dsraven]

That's why I mentioned to have a slope in the floor that takes everything out the door. Not next to the door or puddling in a low spot in the corner. Out the door.

[mr48chev]

I don't think the concrete finishers will do a garage floor in that area without a bit of slope to it. The are is almost always a beautiful green rather than dried out though.