no shop? post pics of your sorry ass work space

[Booger Weldz]

i dont have a shop, i put an 18x15x6x15x ~8 foot pitched roof on the side of my house to cover my fab area, i dont have a shop, im not rich, ill post pix in the morning. my truck sits in the driveway, i just have to drag the welder/plasma/grinders/chop saw out of my 'designated work area'...

the structure follows the roof linew of the side of the house and is built of 2x6 and 2x4's with a coorigated pvc paneled roof. i have 220, 110 and air, a 4x8 wedling fab table, big fat tool box, beer cooler with unlimited ice amd misters on the roof when the temp hits triple digits. next im doing some flourescent lighting so i can work past 4pm in hte winter...

[Travis Waldher]

how about a gravel and dirt driveway.

No cover.

Do I really need to post pics of that? :laughing:

[Snowbird13]

I have a carport(in AZ which is fun in the summer.) My game room is also where I store my tools. I use my trailer and my recyling bin for cutting and fabbing tables.:laughing: :laughing: :laughing:

[Nordic1]

messy... Welder, work bench, tool box, small drill press... not much

http://www.fototime.com/%7B9D72F9D4-7C5F-4885-8D03-F2CFB91D25D3%7D/picture.JPG

[ironpig70]

how about a gravel and dirt driveway.

No cover.

Do I really need to post pics of that? :laughing:



same thing here except my dirt is at my dads place and its a 4 hour drive each way to his place.

[CTENG]

Thats a big ole space you got there...I just cleaned mine, its like a closet, but hey, it works for the time being! :p
http://board.marlincrawler.com/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=4580.0;attach=6032 8;image

[Gummi Bear]

Gravel driveway, and part of the side yard. It's a royal PITA to work there, but it's what I've got. I have to do my welding at someone elses house, or haul the rig out to my parents farm (125 miles), I'm afraid I'll set my stupid yard on fire. :D

http://classicbroncos.com/photos/data/500/medium/9121P3190036.JPG

[DRM]

Don't feel too bad guys... I have 1200 sq. ft of shop space, and STILL somehow I end up working on the gravel in front of the shop at least half of the time... go figure :shaking:

[vanguard_anon]

Oh, I think this is one that I can win. :)

Notice the rain.

http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e395/dpopsips/10percent-rain.jpg

http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c20/zosimov/IMG_0492.jpg

[Gummi Bear]

Hey vanguard_anon, you have pavement, that automatically disqualifies you. :flipoff2:

[ironpig70]

Hey vanguard_anon, you have pavement, that automatically disqualifies you. :flipoff2:



i have done the gravel/dirt on 3 hours sleep in the rain try to beat that:D

[fivetenben]

i have done the gravel/dirt on 3 hours sleep in the rain try to beat that:D

how about pulling the entire interior out on a dirt driveway. And what you thought was rain for the last few minutes ends up being a big ass flock of birds in the tree leaving black birdshit all over everything.

[stomper4x4]

Use to be the 30'x20' foundation for the house i stayed in till i was 10, it once had a wood and tin roof over it but a typhoon took that out about 8 years ago..Now its a 20'x20' canopy for shelter....

http://highvibesoffroad.com/tools/HPIM0466.jpg

http://highvibesoffroad.com/tools/HPIM0467.jpg

http://highvibesoffroad.com/tools/HPIM0468.jpg

[Gummi Bear]

i have done the gravel/dirt on 3 hours sleep in the rain try to beat that:D

How about 3 nights in a row trying to get junk together for a upcoming trip. BTDT.

I can sympathize with ya piggie, not having a real driveway sucks the big one.

[Static-XJ]

Another gravel driveway. Mine's uncovered. Have to check every couple of days for wasp nests, they like to set up shop in the space between the door and door jamb. :shaking:

I did the whole disc brake setup for my 9" in the laundry/furnace room of my old apt. :flipoff2:
http://steve88xj.com/staticxj/axles/3.jpeg

[ironpig70]

How about 3 nights in a row trying to get junk together for a upcoming trip. BTDT.

I can sympathize with ya piggie, not having a real driveway sucks the big one.


yes it does my new house doesn't have a garage so i'm going to drop about a grand and get a metal rv storage building till i get my shop:D

[Travis Waldher]

Oh, I think this is one that I can win. :)

Notice the rain.


Somewhere I have pics of me doing an SYE in the snow, at 11pm, in sub freezing temps.

[trkklr77]

my place in indy

[Travis Waldher]

I have to do my welding at someone elses house, or I'm afraid I'll set my stupid yard on fire. :D


:emb:

I've actually done that. It's amazing how far a fire can get in 20-30 seconds from one spark.

After that, I welded on a wet lawn. :laughing:

[mudslinger99]

Don't feel too bad guys... I have 1200 sq. ft of shop space, and STILL somehow I end up working on the gravel in front of the shop at least half of the time... go figure :shaking:
A buddy of mine had a 40x40 and he/we spent 1/2 the time working on junk in front of his too :laughing: I guess the extra to pour a concrete pad in front of it was worth it after all :D

[stomper4x4]

:emb:

I've actually done that. It's amazing how far a fire can get in 20-30 seconds from one spark.

After that, I welded on a wet lawn. :laughing:

Ive done that but it was from grinding not welding or torch cutting....

[JeepNut_15]

My winter shop:

http://memimage.cardomain.net/member_images/7/web/703000-703999/703813_82_full.jpg

My summer shop:

http://memimage.cardomain.net/member_images/7/web/703000-703999/703813_151_full.jpg

[SSGTWC]

10' x 12' closet :flipoff2:

http://www.pirate4x4.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=246842&stc=1&d=1148553645


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http://www.pirate4x4.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=246843&stc=1&d=1148553645


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http://www.pirate4x4.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=246844&stc=1&d=1148553875


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http://www.pirate4x4.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=246845&stc=1&d=1148553875

[noflyzone]

And I thought this would be a good place to show off my pile of junk.. You guys are quite the inspiration. I will quit complaining about my skinny one car garage now.

[TEEJ]

Well fawk all of you who even have car ports, or barns, or whatever:flipoff2: . Here is where I've been workin on my shiat for the past 2 years. All my tools are in the shed in the background of the pic, and in a spare room in my house:( . Not for much longer though thank god.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v282/mdurham_02/random%20pics/020_20.jpg

When I do get to barrow some space at my old mans house its like heaven compared to the 'ol driveway.

:D :D :D
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v282/mdurham_02/spring%20cleaning%2006/xmas05151.jpg

[Oxjockey]

I'll have a lot more room after I clean this weekend. I'm a man on a mission!

http://www.dana60.com/images/oside.jpg

(it's cleaner than that now) The realtor had the nerve to call it a two car garage. :rolleyes:

http://www.dana60.com/images/noway.jpg

[TEEJ]

I'll have a lot more room after I clean this weekend. I'm a man on a mission!

http://www.dana60.com/images/oside.jpg

(it's cleaner than that now) The realtor had the nerve to call it a two car garage. :rolleyes:

http://www.dana60.com/images/noway.jpg

Is that a Bassett Hound at the bottom??

[Oxjockey]

Is that a Bassett Hound at the bottom??

Yeah, my in-law's dog. Can you tell he's a PITA from the pic? :shaking:

Edit: You can see where the water rushes in under the door by the stain in the concrete. The whole floor is cracked and pitches down towards the WJ motor about 6"

[TEEJ]

Yeah, my in-law's dog. Can you tell he's a PITA from the pic? :shaking:

Edit: You can see where the water rushes in under the door by the stain in the concrete. The whole floor is cracked and pitches down towards the WJ motor about 6"

:laughing: Yeah I grew up with bassetts as a kid. They follow their own rules.

[xjmark]

A few years ago I used to work out of two steel 10x20 storage unit bays with the center wall taken down. Screamin hot in the summer, friggen cold in the winter. Those two bays cost me more than half of what my mortgage is now, but it was worth it to me to have a place to work out of.

I pulled the light buld socket out, and tapped in to the power so I could run a 110 welder and air compressor.
Built and maintained a championship winning 2 car SCCA racing team for my boss, and started building the xj out of there. Always had beers on ice.

Kinda miss that place sometimes. There weren't as many distractions to keep me from my work, and the tools could only go so far from where you're working. I now spend most of my nights doing laps around the garage looking for the wrenches I just had in my hand.

[TheBanjoman]

Another gravel driveway. Mine's uncovered. Have to check every couple of days for wasp nests, they like to set up shop in the space between the door and door jamb. :shaking:

I did the whole disc brake setup for my 9" in the laundry/furnace room of my old apt. :flipoff2:
http://steve88xj.com/staticxj/axles/3.jpeg

Old broken asbestos tiles with asbestos laden mastic on the floor.. YUM!!!

Wonder what your chest x-ray looks like??

[De Ranged]

Me I'm not to bad, but my old man :shaking: he has a 20 x 60 meter shed, thats 60' x 180' and he works in a 3 x 3 meter area agains the doors at the front... the yard out front is mud becouse we get tomuch rain, if you've got to do something to a wagon you park outside and throw boards down, it got bad enough he made a metal detector so he could find missing nuts and bolts :rolleyes: and the odd tool that got lost in the mud:laughing:
The really fun part about my old mans shed... and the reason I'm so anal about keeping things organised, he is the only one who knows where everything is, this is how things went, growing up
Dad I need a 12mm socket .....
Ok... you'll find the power bar under the passanger seat of the truck, extension is in the tool box of the tractor hmm oh and the socket is propping up the corner of the bench over there
or
Dad I need a 17mm spanner
Can't find it... when did you have it last, never mind... so long as you don't put to much presure on it that 15mm over there has been file'ed out to fit

Cheers Reece

[mazdab2600]

http://bbs.off-road.com/photobb/showphoto.php/photo/112354/cat/500/ppuser/55209
box is done truck gets it tommorow

[Nordic1]

http://bbs.off-road.com/photobb/showphoto.php/photo/112354/cat/500/ppuser/55209
box is done truck gets it tommorow

You canadians crack me up :laughing:





:flipoff2:

[mazdab2600]

You canadians crack me up :laughing:





:flipoff2:


thats not funny this is the paint only cost 10 buck's tremclad poppy red :D

[StinkBug]

Dad I need a 12mm socket .....
Ok... you'll find the power bar under the passanger seat of the truck, extension is in the tool box of the tractor hmm oh and the socket is propping up the corner of the bench over there
or
Dad I need a 17mm spanner
Can't find it... when did you have it last, never mind... so long as you don't put to much presure on it that 15mm over there has been file'ed out to fit

Cheers Reece


:laughing: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing:

[braxton357]

Old basketball court turned into 20x40 "shop" for under $2300.:D

http://img148.imageshack.us/img148/5870/file0724bx.jpg

http://img54.imageshack.us/img54/6277/file0815wo.jpg

The original workspace...

http://img148.imageshack.us/img148/8048/file0482or.jpg

[Urban Wheeler]

This "shop" has seen it's share of work since I moved in.
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y257/Fryloc/17a2bcea.jpg
Right inside the door is the beer fridge, stereo, toolbox, 110 plugs, 220 plug (nice "cart"!) and a small bathroom.
Once I swapped cams in a Chevy half ton, at night, while snowing. The worst part isn't rain (just do something under the truck) or dark, it's picking up all the tools at the end of the day.

[mazdab2600]

http://bbs.off-road.com/photobb/showphoto.php/photo/112354/cat/500/ppuser/55209
box is done truck gets it tommorow

and here's the finished transformation
http://www.cardomain.com/ride/2311787/5

[4x4not]

I went from this when I lived in PA:
http://abusiveoffroad.com/storage/images/projects/cage_and_tire_carrier/shop_full.jpg
(Shop was one full bay wider than the picture shows)

... to this!
[ ]
Yeah, that's nothing. I do my work on the street, and on the back patio (welding, grinding, etc)

I just wish I could take over my parent's garage!
http://abusiveoffroad.com/storage/images2/parents_house/garage_far.jpg
32 x 38'. Not huge, but PLENTY for me!

[Oxjockey]

I just wish I could take over my parent's garage!
http://abusiveoffroad.com/storage/images2/parents_house/garage_far.jpg
32 x 38'. Not huge, but PLENTY for me!

Tell me more about this -- did they build? Looks perfect for my setting

[4x4not]

It is on their property in northern PA. They have 19 acres and their house is 10x as nice as that garage! Anyway, it is 32 feet deep and 38 feet wide, two 7'x 7' doors and a 10' x 10' in the middle, and another 7' x 7' in the back. There is a loft upstairs that is 10' wide and goes the full 32'.

http://abusiveoffroad.com/storage/images2/parents_house/garage_inside.jpg
Here is the inside. They don't even use it for vehicles!!!

Oh yeah... but back on topic now :D

[YamanX]

I've just got a drive way. Always a car parked next to the truck I am working on, I have to watch my feet. They have been run over once but thank god for steel toe.

[dirtytoy]

f#ck you lossers I work in a costco tent:flipoff2:

[AprilzWarrior]

Originally my shop had a dirt floor... I poured the first slab before I had a camera... here is how it had changed over the last few years...

Before lights,lifts and well... everything else.
Left side...
http://fototime.com/B5243D7A8CCAF09/standard.jpg

Right side...
http://fototime.com/2A999FCC0B16E0C/standard.jpg

Left side cleaned and ready for pour, before re-bar installed.
http://fototime.com/E6B0B556AB95BF5/standard.jpg

New slab poured... and old lights setup.
http://fototime.com/1686AD49DA7E1FA/standard.jpg

Current setup... with relocated lights, and lifts.
http://fototime.com/D9652CE74FDC8A7/standard.jpg

Lots of work... and its never ending.

AW

[SirMrManGuy]

Originally my shop had a dirt floor... I poured the first slab before I had a camera... here is how it had changed over the last few years...

Before lights,lifts and well... everything else.
Left side...
http://fototime.com/B5243D7A8CCAF09/standard.jpg

Right side...
http://fototime.com/2A999FCC0B16E0C/standard.jpg

Left side cleaned and ready for pour, before re-bar installed.
http://fototime.com/E6B0B556AB95BF5/standard.jpg

New slab poured... and old lights setup.
http://fototime.com/1686AD49DA7E1FA/standard.jpg

Current setup... with relocated lights, and lifts.
http://fototime.com/D9652CE74FDC8A7/standard.jpg

Lots of work... and its never ending.

AW
That is neither sorry nor ass. Please come back when you are working on a piece of cardboard between two rowhomes. :flipoff2:

[blown4x4]

I agree with the post above. At least it was covered. My first work space was in a grass field. I live in oregon were it rains for 8 months out of the year. Then next work area was in the gravel, with no cover. About a year ago I finally got a shop and its pretty small.

[De Ranged]

Makes ya wonder when he's got a shed with TWO lifters shit loads of space and his truck is parked up out front on the dirt with no front axle:confused:
Maybe after all that work he miss's the feeling of lieing under his truck with that stone you just can't reach digging you in the back, and having to shimmy forward into the oil slick to reach that last bolt.... arhhh happy times:rolleyes:

Cheers Reece

[roverjohn]

f#ck you lossers I work in a costco tent:flipoff2:

Swanky!

[AprilzWarrior]

Makes ya wonder when he's got a shed with TWO lifters shit loads of space and his truck is parked up out front on the dirt with no front axle:confused:
Cheers Reece


Not my truck :laughing:

[Nickm]

http://www.txwheelers.com/modules/gallery2/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=8742&g2_serialNumber=2

http://www.txwheelers.com/modules/gallery2/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=9180&g2_serialNumber=2

[poolville02]

I was happy to get one of these (http://www.gemplers.com/a/shop/product.asp?T1=125890&UID=200606060147236714999034) to replace the feed bags I normally lay on when working on my junk. Beats laying in gravel/mud/stickers.

[Nickm]

I was happy to get one of these (http://www.gemplers.com/a/shop/product.asp?T1=125890&UID=200606060147236714999034) to replace the feed bags I normally lay on when working on my junk. Beats laying in gravel/mud/stickers.

I feel your pain. This same time lst year I was doing the same thing.

[FireZapper]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v15/FireZapper/big%20red%20f250/lift/popslift063.jpg

[Hyenuf]

Well I must say... you guys have inspired me.....


As soon as the renos on my house are done...I'm pouring the slab fro my 12 X 20 "tent"

I needed that.... I was thinking there is NO way I can afford to build a shop after dropping WAY too much on renos


Thanks all
:D

[Kurtuleas]

I think mine is too clean... Vaulted ceilings, 10 Ft Garage door and Racedeck

I also included a pic of my beer cooler. It holds 1 case of beer and does 15 MPH. I store all my junk in the 2 car garage on the left....

http://www.kurtuleas.com/shop1.jpg
http://www.kurtuleas.com/shop2.jpg

[hotwheelsYJ]

More Specs On The Cooler Please!

[Kurtuleas]

It's called a "crusin cooler" I think some guy out your way invented them. There are both gas and electric models, mine is the smaller electric engine. It retails for about $350 with the seat.

I used to own a 94 Dodge Viper rt-10 and that got NOWHERE the amount of attention this cooler gets. Just last night there was a wednesday night street fair in a nearby town and I was rolling it with my 2 year old, I must have got stopped 30 times with people asking me where I bought it.

I bought it from 19thholecarts.com, which is in the town I live in, but if you just google it you could find a place closer.

[TLCObsession]

Is there any room for beverages?

[Kurtuleas]

Yup. it holds 24 beers plus a bag of ice.

I wouldn't have bought it if it did not.

[Napoleon047]

paved, yes. level, hell no.

http://www.missouri.edu/~pje3k5/sas/DSCF0083%20(Small).JPG

it sucks having the floor jack and every loose socket roll down to the fucking street

[james13242]

At least this is a step up from the street I have been wrenching on for the last few years. It's still not much of a real shop though. I need to haul the rest of my crap up there. My next drag project is in there at the moment until I need to pull the jeep back in.

http://www.netexportal.com/coppermine/albums/userpics/normal_DSCF0350.JPG

http://www.netexportal.com/coppermine/albums/userpics/normal_DSCF0353.JPG

http://www.netexportal.com/coppermine/albums/userpics/normal_DSCF0354.JPG

http://www.netexportal.com/coppermine/albums/userpics/normal_DSCF0356.JPG