My workshop is primarily a farm shop.
I do all manner of shop work there but that is the nature of farm shops.
On any given day we might be welding and bending iron, machining a special
part, doing engine work, doing either carpentry work or furniture grade
woodworking. The next job may be electrical wiring in a building or plumbing.
The next day might involve pouring concrete or laying concrete block.
My shop is not very fancy but complete
enough to do about anything we need to do.
The shop is "where I go to work" each
day. It doesn't matter what kind of job on the farm is planned for the
day I still start by going to the shop first then moving on from there.
My shop does have a bad elf problem.
I just about get it to where it is possible to walk through it without
turning sidewise and the those stinking elves come in at night bringing
in all manner of clutter and scattering stuff everywhere.
The shop building itself is an old
barn which is 36' X 50'. It has a drive in bay 36' long with an overhead
door at each end. That area is all concrete floor. There is a wood shop
along the west wall that is on a wood floor. I am in the middle of partitioning
off an area roughly 16' X 18' for the blacksmith and welding shop It will
be fully metal lined on both walls and ceiling to prevent the inherent
sparks from such work ever coming in contact with any wood. Just off of
the drive in bay is my Coats 40-40 tire changer, the balancer and all of
the tire repair supplies. Part of the loft is wood storage and part is
misc. storage. I have a lot of misc.
We have an area at the south end of
the building where we are making plans / dreams of adding a 36' X 36' addition
with a 20' wide X 14' tall door.
All of my life I dreamed of a shop
with lots of cabinets and drawers. Now that I am finally in a position
to do it that way I no longer want them. Some where along the way I got
a lot older. I also got a lot more forgetful. If it isn't hanging up where
it is visible I tend to forget about it.
Updated 5-20-2002