I have a 30 x 40' workshop, with a small living quarters, with full bath. Got a stove, and refrig in the shop. Haven't gotten all my tools, yet. A little bit at a time. I am going back out in April, and hopefully, after my IRS rectal exam, I will have enough to get my table saw, and band saw. I have most of the small tools, routers, planes, etc. Nice Bevan, I wish I could've aforded to extend my shop. I would love to have one 50 or 60. Then I could sneak in a little pistol range, and maybe a bow range also.
But that is not to be. I have a big gas shop heater, or gas eater, suspended above my living quarters in the shop. It keeps the shope quite toasty. If propane goes up any more, I may, buy another wood stove, and put it in the shop. The Quadrafire, I have in my house heats it up very toasty. I have lots of fire wood available.
I have to put in some benches, and build a work table, and put some cabinets, in the benches, and above them, etc. I have a lot of cedar, I used for the decking, and some tongue and groove blue pine, and some cedar siding left over, and some scrap plywood, stored in the shop. I have to build a wood shed for my fire wood, by my house, and I have some roofing metal left over, sooooo, I have a few chores to do when I get out there. Lots of firewood cutting and sawing, and stacking. I have a bunch of trees, that were cut when they started the house, and they are all trimmed up, and waiting to be sawed into proper lengths, and split. Gotta get a log splitter next.
I'm too old, and decrepit to be using a maul and a wedge !
But I hope to have "MY" shop up and running some time soon. You guys are making me antsy.
Timo, start picking up road kill snakes, big rats,and such, and tell the women folk, they better be careful about going in the shop, and show them the critter, you killed in a manly way......
Of course a good coat of saw dust, and laquer spray, might make them think twice about putting girlie stuff in the MAN CAVE ! Bevan, is that a stave vice on the bench, like the one advertised here?
I had planned on putting Grizzley tools, in the shop, but I saw in my wood working magazine, there is a company from Canada, called General International, and have been around for 64 years, and is now in America. I don't know anything about them. I will have to look them up and see what the price range is compared to the Grizzly, and Jet. I am leaning towards Grizzley. My Brother loves his. Anywho, nice shop Bevan, enjoy!
Wayne
