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The ultimate workshop/garage setup

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  1. HDRock

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    That's just one available
    Back in the day I drew my shop out on graph paper, made poster board cut outs of my machinery cabinets Etc, moved things around with my finger instead of a mouse:)
     
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    ....By candle light with a piece of coal on the back of a shovel that was used to shovel the 3' of snow walking uphill to the garage both ways while barefoot.....Did i miss anything? :D
     
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    I guess I'm just old school, I am unable to grasp CAD programs, I get by with my drafting board and the tools that go with it:BrianK:
     
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    Honestly though, whenever 99 lbs has a project (remodel) I usually have to show her some kind of layout of "what it will be like when it's done".


    It's all good.
     
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    Not at all.
     
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  6. HDRock

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    I try to keep up but I still like some rubber Between the Wheels and the road on the vehicles:picard:
     
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    SketchUp. Poor man's CAD. I layed out my shop with it.
     
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    Yeah...how far the water had to be hauled (from the hand drawn well) for the Saturday night bath :D ;) :p :whistle: :rofl: :lol:
     
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    Just melted the snow, I guess!
     
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    Water had to be heated in the Big Tub across two burners on the kitchen stove,, that's not too bad, except when my brother stepped in the way when my dad was carrying the tub to the bathroom and got boiling hot water splash on him, burned the chit out of his side:eek::bug::(
     
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    Wait ,was this thread about:smoke:
     
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    Funny, around here garages aren't the norm. A lot of people convert their garages into additional housing space then bitch about the ice/snow on their cars in winter. Even people with an acre or two usually don't have garages unless they are in a ritzy town.
     
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    same here in cities attached garages converted to living space but most of those had 1 car garages... a different era... ritzy area get 3 or 4 car garages now
     
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    yep filling the wood stove from the out side stacks still bare foot cause no room to store inside.
     
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    up date - won't be home less- offer accepted on a place with 2 acres in the sticks - more land available - work that out later. So the workshop thread is very timely as I will be adding that ( separate building apx 2k sq ft ) after the dust settles on sale and purchase transactions. First things first though, "Stove Shopping" as I had to leave the NC30 behind .
     
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    Congratulations on the new place! Are you going to construct the workshop from the ground up, or modifying/adding on to an existing building? You get all the fun, doing your shop and going stove shopping... x2...one for the workshop and one for the house!:yes:
     
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    Congrats on closing the deal.
    I might be caught in the homeless cusp for a few months. Put up my South Florida house for sale while still wrangling a deal to build on my property in the White Mountains, NH. Four wooded acres on a 5:1 slope adjacent to the national forest.
    Wanting a 2-1/2 car garage, plus small divided workshop. The garage will house one SUV, a compact tractor and its implements, log splitter, plus kayaks & misc toys.
    I've yet to match the budget to the plan. :eek:

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    Budget = catch 22 because no matter what I do Murphy seems to be lurking near by.
     
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    Add a non leaking roof. Couldn't believe the roof was leaking in yesterday's down pour. The roof isn't that old either. Going to have to climb up there and see what's going on
     
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