New Shop

[Dubbin1]

Originally Posted by njcarting1

Looks you might be able to rent space for storage in the winter months also.

Not a chance in h e double hockey sticks There are plenty of toys to fill it up

[riverbait]

If your single you could add a small space for bedroom etc. and live in that building. Prob a hell of a lot cheaper. Who needs a fancy house!
I wish you much success! I expect all the cars in Ohio to be super clean.

[C. Charles Hahn]

Originally Posted by Dubbin1

Not a chance in h e double hockey sticks There are plenty of toys to fill it up

I'd assume you're going to have it heated so you can still work in the winter, right? Yeah, definitely wouldn't want to fill all your room up with people's stored cars.

[Dubbin1]

Originally Posted by Shiny Lil Detlr

I'd assume you're going to have it heated so you can still work in the winter, right? Yeah, definitely wouldn't want to fill all your room up with people's stored cars.

Heat for the winter and AC for the summer.

This isn't going to be a storage facility boys, its gonna be a MAN CAVE Heck we already have a pizza oven and frig ready to go in the lounge area

[C. Charles Hahn]

Originally Posted by Dubbin1

Heat for the winter and AC for the summer.

This isn't going to be a storage facility boys, its gonna be a MAN CAVE Heck we already have a pizza oven and frig ready to go in the lounge area

Pizza oven? Seriously?

[Dubbin1]

Originally Posted by Shiny Lil Detlr

Pizza oven? Seriously?

Yup no kidding. We love our pizzas

[Dubbin1]

A 3 car garage within a garage

This is the area where the Camaros will be stored. Full bathroom and get away area is whats on the right. 9' garage doors will be added to each bay.

[G.T.Subie]

This is a car guys wet dream.

Nice work

[C. Charles Hahn]

Good idea separating the stored cars area from the work area like that. I'm anxious to see this finished; it looks a lot like the type of setup I plan to build within the next 5 years or so.

[Dubbin1]

Got the lift yesterday and snapped a few pics of where the shop is at now.

First let me say the Greg Smith Equipment was a pleasure to deal with. Greg Smith himself came out and answered all of our questions and took care of us personally. Very honest and super funny guy.

While we were there we picked up a few extras (84" 2 ton tripod stands, hose reals, LED drop light, wheel dollies and an 18 gal upright oil drain).

We went with the Atlas OH9000 2 post lift as it seemed to have all of the features that we were looking for.

Loading it was the easy part, the head scratching came when we were trying to decided how 2 guys were going to unload a 1400lb hunk of metal.







After a lot of thinking and breaking out the cherry picker we had it on the ground. Note we made use of 2 of the wheel dollies.



Now for a few pics of the shop. Still waiting for 10 more of the 8' lights. In all there will be 21 8' lights with 6500k bulbs (very bright).




Bench racing area




Toy area




As you can see there is still a lot more work to do and more equipment to move in including my tool box (big heavy and no fun to move).

The lift will not be installed until we finish the ceiling where the lift is going to be so don't expect to see it up any time soon.
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[Poorboy]

it looks great, but it doesn't seem like there is enough lighting

[Dubbin1]

Originally Posted by Poorboy

it looks great, but it doesn't seem like there is enough lighting

You just looked at the pictures and didn't read it

[jdmser]

Oooh, trench drains. I'm jealous.

[Dtrick.22]

Wow this is nice, can't even begin to imagine how much that cost you. If I had a garage like that, I don't think you could pay me to leave

[spitzshineguy]

gorgeous layout