your farm shop

I am writing a book about how to equip a farm workshop, and if you'd like to have a picture of your shop featured in it, you could e-mail me and I'd inlcude it with your name and location. Digital pics at 300 dpi are OK. Make a good keepsake.

R

I do all of my tractor work on one side of my two car garage at my house in the city. This pic proves you can have a small shop that is effective, but you MUST be organized and stay that way. I now have a large shop light overhead and a large vise on the corner of my small work surface.

My shop at my property I will build when I move out there, and it will be 40 X 80 and 16' high with a large roll up door on both ends offset closer to one side so you will have work "bays" and a walk through security door. It will have 4" thick concrete floors with two large floor drains (one by the mechanics area, and one in the paint area). I will have a workbench that is 20' long and well lit with florescent(sp) lights. I also will need plumbing for a toilet and a large wash basin. Of course - I am still dreaming :-)

Dan

Three sided shed, so no matter how big the project is you just drag it up to the front of the shop, and there's plenty of fresh air so you can weld or spray paint without needing a fan. A dirt floor, so spills just go away (and any snow that blows in eventually melts and runs off). All tools out in plain sight...

A clean, tidy and well groomed bench and shop is totally essential.

However, most of my tractor work simply doesn't get done, inside or out 'cause I spend entirely too much time on this site. :>)

Allan

Let me get a stick and stir the pile. Never know what the stiring action might bring to the top. :>)

The other day, I asked the wife if she had taken my inside caliper. She just looked at me kinda sideways. :>)

Allan

That looks like my work table. Only mine is still sitting in the middle of the floor, where it got pressed into service cause I didn't have time to clear the junk from the wall to make space.... Although, I think I've got a bit more stuff on mine right now. Likewise, here, the main 1/2 acre fabrication/repair bay is now covered in about 1' of white crap. I'd like to consolidate that down to about a 40'x80' building someday, when the money rolls in....I'm dreaming of a white Christmas.....not
Take care,

Rod

Tom

Tim