Show us your shed.
capt_slog
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As suggested elsewhere, we're a bunch of mamils, how many of us have a shed?
This is mine,
I took a photo of it because I'd spent a few days trying to clean it out. yes, this is the 'after' shot, you can see bench tops now. In there I make all sorts of stuff. You can see a lathe on the left, there's also a drill press, and a welder under the right-hand bench.
The mass of electrics on the back wall is the control for my renewable energy set-up, home made windmill in the garden and solar panel on the shed roof.
I use my Trax rollers in here, a TV is just above my head in this shot.
This is mine,
I took a photo of it because I'd spent a few days trying to clean it out. yes, this is the 'after' shot, you can see bench tops now. In there I make all sorts of stuff. You can see a lathe on the left, there's also a drill press, and a welder under the right-hand bench.
The mass of electrics on the back wall is the control for my renewable energy set-up, home made windmill in the garden and solar panel on the shed roof.
I use my Trax rollers in here, a TV is just above my head in this shot.
The older I get, the better I was.
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Pinnacle Monzonite
Part of the anti-growth coalition
I wish i had that space. Storage? Look for people chucking out kitchens or offices.
My welder is gasless MIG, (AKA flux core welding). It's not hard to use, but also not easy to get reliable results, and thin metals (car bodywork for instance) you just blow through without massive care and practice. After 3 months and one reel of wire, I'm getting there. Purchase a lowest power unit rather than high if you want to weld thin stuff.
The older I get, the better I was.
I have only used a gas MIG, does anyone know if a flux cored wire and no gas work OK.
Wheelspinner, that is one big shed. I would not like the heating bills in winter!
Pinnacle Monzonite
Part of the anti-growth coalition
I won't post my she'd, it's too embarrassing and just a storage space without any bench tools.
The older I get, the better I was.
No way I’d ever heat this! It’s about 270 m2 floor area.
Winter here not that serious anyway, days average about 10 deg C max so not an issue.
WS, ever considered buying a light aircraft?
We live in an area zoned for light aircraft training flights, and they drone about here on a regular basis. More than once I've googled how-to-make-your-own-surface-to-air-missile...
The guy who owned/built this place was a (professional) abalone diver / fisherman. That's a licence to print money, the licences alone are worth millions these days. The actual season is only about 20 weeks long or something and the rest of the year they do whatever. Most of them have "hobbies"... boats, jet skis, camper vans, motorbikes, cars... stuff.
In this shed he had a Winnebago, two (small) tractors, a truck and trailer, a forklift (!), a half-cabin boat, and a bunch of other stuff. Just beyond the bike in the foreground you can see the mechanics pit in the floor - it's a metre wide and about 6 metres long, about 1.5 metres deep. Did his own maintenance on vehicles for fun. The dodgy steel frame and beam above the bike is what he used to lift motors out of the boat with.
Way way back in the early 90s I had a mate who was an ab diver, owned a license. For the season he worked 20 weeks solid, not a day off. Had a BIG boat with a crew of about 5 I think. They would go out for 3 days at a time, dive and catch the abalone till the boat freezer was full, come back and offload it all, refuel and provision up and go straight back out. The abalone was on a plane out of here the same day, mostly to Japan and Asia.
After he'd paid ALL bills, the boat repayments, the crew wages, the freight bills, the whole lot, every 3 days he still cleared $32,000 on average. So they would do roughly 45 round trips a season, and he'd have made a clear 1.4 million bucks, and have 30 weeks to spend it.
That was 30 years ago. Abalone now was wholesaling at about $100 a kilo (until CV hit!). That and lobster (crayfish) are two of the biggest export revenue earners for Tasmania.
Thing is, the stuff is bl00dy awful. Seriously, you could take the rear mudflap off your car, chuck it in a deep fryer and be hard pressed to tell the difference. 🤢
I was in a posh hotel in Seoul once at the breakfast buffet. There was a dish of stuff that looked like wet concrete in colour and consistency and smelled like a sewerage plant. It was abalone porridge. Locals love it apparently.
I think I got the short straw. The wife hardly ever drinks so it seems like a waste, I could have my turbo in there.
Just.... how?
All those boxes are the new kitchen awaiting a post lockdown fitting
I did finish the bench an oil an wax, it's not amazing an needs a bit of bracing but it works.
Easty commuter
Tripster AT
From a couple of years back,the VW Splitty is a friends,we had bit of a labour trade,I replaced pretty much all the bottom 4" of the side panels on it,and he rewired the house,Wheelspinner I would love somewhere the size of your shed
@step83 Nice bit of bench, is that homemade?
The older I get, the better I was.
Pinnacle Monzonite
Part of the anti-growth coalition
Needs a good tidy and my next two projects are building a fixed bench to replace the wobbly Workmate and a leg vise as the little engineer's vise is no good for woodwork.
I may update later when progress has been made.
Pinnacle Monzonite
Part of the anti-growth coalition