Is your shop too small?

[fearofpavement]

Was driving from Atlanta to Harrisburg, PA today for a meeting and we were going by a large trucking terminal. You know, one of those buildings that is about 800 feet long and 250 feet wide with a 30' ceiling...

Well, I said to my wife, that's what I need. Plenty of room in there. She says, "I wonder how long before you had it filled up?"

I was stunned! Do I really collect that much junk? ?What is she thinking?

And then I realized how well she knows me and yes, one day I would say, I need a bigger shop!

 

[Scandy14]

I definitely need a larger shop. Saws all over the place!!

 

[PA Plumber]

Welcome to South Central PA!
I'll be through Harrisburg at least once tomorrow, along with Hershey and a few other places.

I would love to put an addition on the garage some day. I say it for all the kids' stuff. My wife says it's for all of my junk.

I think she's right!

 

[Guido Salvage]

Was driving from Atlanta to Harrisburg, PA today for a meeting and we were going by a large trucking terminal. You know, one of those buildings that is about 800 feet long and 250 feet wide with a 30' ceiling...

While not a trucking terminal, one of my Studebaker buddies was lucky enough to purchase 14 acres immediately behind his real estate office a couple of years ago. It had been a lumber yard (I think 84 Lumber) and had a large metal building with loading docks and an overhanging roof along with a couple of smaller buildings. He divided the building in half and is renting 1/2 and using the other 1/2 for himself.

 

[hanniedog]

Need the neighbors new building close to 100x300 I would guess. Actual heated shop area is 100ft section with in floor heat. They can unfold their 24 row planter with plenty of room to spare.

 

[openloop]

Welcome to South Central PA!
I'll be through Harrisburg at least once tomorrow, along with Hershey and a few other places.

I would love to put an addition on the garage some day. I say it for all the kids' stuff. My wife says it's for all of my junk.

I think she's right!

yeah welcome to south central Pa....where most of the manufacturing facilities are being replaced by warehouses for trucking. Empty warehouses at that!

 

[Aussie Dave]

Was driving from Atlanta to Harrisburg, PA today for a meeting and we were going by a large trucking terminal. You know, one of those buildings that is about 800 feet long and 250 feet wide with a 30' ceiling...

Well, I said to my wife, that's what I need. Plenty of room in there. She says, "I wonder how long before you had it filled up?"

I was stunned! Do I really collect that much junk? ?What is she thinking?

And then I realized how well she knows me and yes, one day I would say, I need a bigger shop!

:hmm3grin2orange: Maybe your wife and mine are related! A few years ago we at a meeting in the Sydney wool storage warehouse...22 Acre building! and she thought i could manage to fill that too
Maybe she had a point!

Cheers Dave

 

[MEATSAW]

Definitely. Reloading and chainsaws are real estate hogs when it comes to work benches!

 

[Myarmistired]

I have not had a shop in a few years. What can i say apartment living is the pits, but I did do a head gasket in the street while I was attending university. The apartment complex had rules about working on cars so moved my "shop" to the street.

I was respectful and clean while doing this job and the quality was better than anything a professional shop would have bothered with. Not only am I cheap, but I can't be bothered with the low quality work repair shops turn out these days.

I did rebuild my Stihl 028 on the kitchen counter two weeks ago.

 

[jbighump]

im working out of a partitioned area in my basement ~12x12 already have it full of saws and saw related items:hmm3grin2orange:

 

[zogger]

Broiler house

I look at the broiler houses here on the farm and think "dang, what I could do with one of these if it wasn't fulla cluckers.."

Indoor shooting range....rebuild/ manufacture vehicles (want to get into like electric trucks and tractors sometime here)....process/store like 50 cord of wood inside....throw in a lot of skylights have a huge year round indoor garden for veggies and like fish tanks, etc... tons of stuff

And still have room for, say, 1000 saws....

 

[Rearden]

It's a combination of the "Two Steps Forward - One Step Back" idiom combined with the "Ideal Gas Laws". In other words... if you build it, they will come. Eventually tools and equipment (toys and junk in wifespeak) will act as a gas, and fill whatever available volume of space that it is given. The stuttering development of mankind has been dependent upon our ability to continue building sheds and storage for our "Stuff" as Mr. Carlin refers to it. That way we have a place to keep it all safe whilst we go out in search of more stuff, or the funds with which to purchase said same. This would have remained a fairly linear and sensible progression were it not for the invention of the community property rule of law, and the man hating practices of the First Wives Cult. :frown:

 

[thomas1]

A few years ago I was building a shop out back, the UPS man stopped by and we chatted in front of the house, which blocks the view of the shop.

UPS: I see you're building a shop.
Me : Yep.
UPS: It's not big enough.
Me : You can't even see it from here to tell how big it is.
UPS: Doesn't matter. Shop's never big enough.

Truer words have never been spoken.

 

[tomsteve]

this is like asking " do you have enough power tools???" never!:hmm3grin2orange:

 

[little possum]

Nope, just too full of junk!

 

[Rearden]

BIL, retired, no real hobbies, just lives out in the country and likes to piddle. In the 15 years he's been where he is; already had a nice barn (about 60 x 120), and a two car attached garage. Built the shop (28 x 36 slab on grade with a 1/2 sized loft). Then a pole barn (40 x 120), and recently an addition to the garage.

Says he's movin' 'cuz the county won't allow him to spread out any more and they have restrictions on him going up.

Somebody stole his garden plow a few weeks ago right out'a the yard. Said he didn't have any place to put it. :msp_sad:

 

[Overclock]

Welcome to South Central PA!
I'll be through Harrisburg at least once tomorrow, along with Hershey and a few other places.

Did they ever get all those holes plugged along the Hershey Highway?

 

[fordf150]

36x48, 30x30, 24x24, 8x24, 8x16 garages and sheds full of good stuff and i need more. that is just the sheds/garages that i have full. still have a bank barn and machinery shed but i wont count those since they just have hay and equipment stored in them. i need another shed at the farm as half my equipment is still sitting outside along with the processor and firewood. we are starting to look into a 60x120 addition to the 36x48 building i have now for the shop. wish i could go bigger but thats all the room i have. no matter what size you build it will never be big enough

 

[cedarshark]

I will be the odd man out here. I just downsized from 30 x 40 to 14 x 32 that is air conditioned and heated. Much more comfortable.

 

[sunfish]

36x48 here, well insulated, AC and wood heat. All the space I need.