Pics of your shop or garage

[jy211]

Originally Posted by Rybar

Thanks guys, I've been wanting a nice man cave for years and finally was able to do it.

What size ceilings do you have? What did you have to do for your garage door to lift over the second car on top of the lift?

[Rybar]

Originally Posted by jy211

What size ceilings do you have? What did you have to do for your garage door to lift over the second car on top of the lift?

The overall ceiling is just under 12' I think it measured 140"

The garage door I removed the standard motor and low hanging tracks, installed a liftmaster wall mounted motor and spring, and re-routed the tracks up higher to the ceiling. My buddy is on garage journal steady and gave me the idea. The door does not open fully, but it opens about 90%. (The bottom of the door hangs down from the opening about 12") But theres more than enough room to drive a car in. Maybe even an SUV.

[Jack Olsen]

The old workshop or showroom debate will go on forever. I guess everybody's got to hit their own sweet spot in terms of how they want to use the place and how they'd like it to look.

Mine is reasonably well known on the internets. If it's got a virtue, it's that I did a lot with a small space and a small budget. I'm at 20x20 and $3,500. I shop for damaged industrial stuff and then chop and weld from there. I do automotive work in it, and also some carpentry and metal fabrication.

I did everything myself, including setting the tile and digging the pit for the lift. Everything in the place is second-hand, re-purposed or home-made.

I also made a website for it: http://www.12-gaugegarage.com (This is not spam. I don't make any money off of the website and pay for it out of my own pocket.)













Work benches that fold down from the wall:







And it's got its own a video:

The 12-Gauge Garage Video

And yes, a video just about the lift I put in:

My Garage Lift

Is it always this clean? No. Not by a long shot.





But it does go back to clean very quickly -- that's the real accomplishment of it, I think. I finally took the time to work out a place for everything to go when It's not being used.

In practice, it makes a huge difference not having to spend so much time looking for things you've misplaced. I spent years doing that.

[Flash68]

Game Over.

Jack is the

Your RSR is pretty quick too.

[glassman]

Thats fine wine right there!!!! You can just see the experience in there....that lift has got me thinkin....i've only got 8.4' ceilings in my garage and have lift envy....

[waynieZ]

Jack always loved you garage over at GJ. You should post some of your shop tricks in the Handy home shop stuff thread.

[Ketzer]

Originally Posted by Jack Olsen

I did everything myself, including setting the tile and digging the pit for the lift. Everything in the place is second-hand, re-purposed or home-made.

The shop is awesome. ^^THIS^^ is even more awesome!

What is that black thing on the wall to the left of the sink?


Jeff-

[Jack Olsen]

Thanks, guys!

I don't want to promote too much here. But there's a video made by Petrolicious that shows the lift in use. You've got to put up with me yapping and with everything being all cleaned up for the shoot -- oh, and an old German car, too. But aside from all that...



The funny thing about the 'black thing' is: I picked it up second-hand -- it had never been cleaned up or restored. It had just been sitting around... for about 60 years. I plugged it in and was immediately able to dial my cell phone. It made me wonder: what's so great about today's smart phones? Are they going to be able to effortlessly connect to the network 60+ years from now?

The old things were built like tanks. And I never have to wonder where I set the cell phone down when I hear it ringing.

[Twoblackmarks...]

Originally Posted by Jack Olsen

Thanks, guys!

I don't want to promote too much here. But there's a video made by Petrolicious that shows the lift in use. You've got to put up with me yapping and with everything being all cleaned up for the shoot -- oh, and an old German car, too. But aside from all that...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gC5-MoDUuRg

The funny thing about the 'black thing' is: I picked it up second-hand -- it had never been cleaned up or restored. It had just been sitting around... for about 60 years. I plugged it in and was immediately able to dial my cell phone. It made me wonder: what's so great about today's smart phones? Are they going to be able to effortlessly connect to the network 60+ years from now?

The old things were built like tanks. And I never have to wonder where I set the cell phone down when I hear it ringing.

WOW, seriously! What is the chance, I just put up the video of Your car in the open duscussion forum, and then goes here, and here the owner are himself! Putting the same video too.
You have a very cool car, and a very Nice garage

[Twoblackmarks...]

Here is my "real" garage, if you forget the first pic With tiny one

This Place have been used only as a Storage Place for 1-2 years, so excuse the mess for now. Gonna clean it up. So this acts as a contrast to the others Especially With all the mess