Shop layout...
 

Just wondering how you guys have your shops laid out for working on Cubs? Bench sizes, storage, lighting, parts washing station, tool storage (roll around box or drawers in bench or nailed to wall, etc). Need to finish up my garage sometime this year and am looking for new ideas that "work". Open to suggestions and off the wall ideas. Have a two car garage now with an L shaped bench in the one corner with shelving underneath for 2/3 of it, doors close things up in the shelves. Everything is hanging off the wall right now and I need to straighten it up and make it look better. Don't have a lot of tools so you won't see an 8 foot Snap On or Mac Tools box rolling in the door anytime soon. Most of my tools could fit into two small red tool boxes that you would have behind your truck seat! :biggrin2.gif:

I have a 16X24 garage I will be converting over to a full workshop off and on this summer. I had pondered about tearing it down because the floor is starting to chunk up and it's about 60yrs old. But I'm planning on a 6x8 spray booth, and a 3x10 workbench. I may add in a seperate vise stand cemented into the floor if I decide to have the existing floor over layed. I'm also planning on wood heat for right now, I'd would like to heat the paint booth SAFELY also but not too sure how..

This is what I have come up with during my brainstorming sessions....???? What you's think?

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From what I can see it looks like a good start, but I cant make out to much
detail. Can you maybe enlarge it a little? My eyes are what they used to be.

They say the eyes a the second thing to go.... I don't remember what the
first thing was!:bigthink::bigthink:

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My opinion. rest of plan looks great!

what kind of heat do you have in your house? Have you thought about some kind of radiant heat for the paint booth?

if you have money and need new concrete put in, you could go with a heated slab with hot water lines run throughout it. Nice warm floor to lay on in the winter. :)

20x26
 

In my 20x26 workshop. I have all my equipment down one side.starting with bolt bins,26" triple stacked tool chest,6'work table,drill press,torch,3x5 welding table.wire welder and plasma cutter.I did it this way so there is plenty of room to work on a car or truck.I am lucky to have a 20x15 storage room on the end of the shop and a 12x16 shed that I store my cub collection in.

I have a 12x16 shed used for storage/working on Cubs. It works ok, holds 3 Cubs and my zero turn among other items.

Don't know if you plan on any electrical changes, but I ran two circuits for the outlets above my bench, every other outlet on a circuit as I go around. Don't have to worry about overloading a circuit if I am running two things. I also have a couple outlets on the ceiling and the retractible extension cord wheels on one of them.

I have replaced a couple of my fluorescent lights with 4' LED's and have been real happy with the brighter lighting.

Did you go with the plug and play LED's or the type that you remove the ballast?

My shed is also 12x16, I have work benches and a parts washer in one half and the other half I can get 4 cubs in but its tight. If I have to do any real work I move the others outside to make space.

Mines about 12' x 22-24' here's some pics, not very clean at the moment. Been working on my leaky oil pan.

Another pic

Oversized 2 bay garage (never actually measured)

One bay has my 2 motorcyles in it with a table at the far end for what ever I need it for, the other bay is for what ever vehicle (Scout, Travelall, F350, Cub, etc) I need to work on.

The back wall has a homemade work bench with 3 way vice, grinder, air hose reel and battery chargers built in with my MIG welder under it on a cart. The wall on the vehicle side has my 2 tier craftsman tool chest, small cabinet for power tools, 2 sets of shelves for hardware and spare parts, parts washer and standup lockable metal cabinet for chemicals, paints, etc.

The stick welder and torch are in the front between the bay doors. Wall on motorcycle side has shelves for parts and collectables.

The tractors live in my 12x20 shed in the back yard.

They were the complete light fixture. Removed the 4 bulb fluorescent fixture and replaced with a 2 strip LED fixture. Just as bright and if I did the math correctly 1/4 the wattage usage.

New one in foreground, old in background, 4 more to replace in the workshop and 4 in the garage. Just waiting for them to go on sale again.

On a morning like this I have to mention that if ya have room for one of these it makes working out there real enjoyable! :biggrin2:

Looks like a cozy warm fire brought to you by burning da'black rocks. Very nice!! Thank a miner!!!:beerchug:

this is a 12'x24' shack. work only in here, I store the runners and runners up in cold storage. there is about 6-8 feet not shown behind the camera.

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if you have a compressor I make a room for it and sound deaded it so you don't have to listen to it when your working.

Nearly finished addition on my garage. Just 24x6, that was the sidewalk to the side of it. It'll be perfect to store attachments and my daughters power toys. Only need to finish the doors on the ends next weekend.

I can only do one picture at a time on my iPhone apparently.

Inside of addition

Pic of the fleet on one side of existing garage

That's a nicely built addition! I just wonder if a set of sliding doors (covered in the same steel siding to blend in) would be handy in the center so you could get things out the side rather than pulling everything out from the ends. Or maybe I'm just taking my own laziness into account on your addition. :biggrin2:

Bill

Hi there, yeah when I got the hair up my rear to do this last weekend I thought about sliding doors. Unfortunately my garden backs up too close and its on an incline backing or pulling into the side. While not ideal the end doors will be manageable. Biggest attachments will be snowblower or tiller. It'll be nice to move around the garage again for a little while til get more stuff I don't need

Looks like a nice addition, now you have plenty of room for more cubs.

Thanks guys, I got the doors done on the ends yesterday. After I transferred all the stuff over to the lean to addition to make it easy to walk around I darn near filled it up. I'd build another building but not sure how much longer gone live there, I like to ramble.

Nothing like the smell of fresh cut lumber!
nice job!

Nice work, I see a floating cart.:biggrin2:

Thanks, yeah that's one of my no 2 cart. That's how bad it was I had to hang stuff from the ceiling joists. It's returned safely to the ground now!