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Got to treat it well if I wanna get in the shop and start setting it up

Well the temp garage door is on. This is temp until my roll up is built. So much building going on that they are back ordered. So put on a reg garage door inorder to pass final inspection. All thats left is the electrical outlets switches etc lights to be hooked up and call for final

Heres a photo of the door going on. I havent felt like hobbling out to she shop to pull the door down to take a photo.

Notice my new apprentice in the photo, She is over seeing the install shes a sweety a little over 4 mos now and stays with me all day since I cant do much

No photo necessary but the plumber came this morning dug a ditch and ran some pvc from my house to the shop so now .

I have access to water and can start running my drip system and build my raised gardens

Called for grading inspection today

Nice Ron!
I'd kill to have that much room. I'm so cramped I can barely turn around.
My little shop is a 12' X 24' portable sheet metal building.
Zulu

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Zulu I feel yer pain my 4 years in the UK I used 1/2 of a 2 car english garage. It wasnt fun.

But I got only one inspection left and Im done with this and can start moving in. The Roll up door thats back ordered will be done in 3 weeks

Grading passed,

So next is the electricians come do their thing hooking up lights outlets etc then call for final.

So the electrician is coming next week possibly Monday.

Then call for inspection.

Once it passes final, hook up te water line from house to shop and move in not necessarily in that order.

Oh the roll up door is 3 weeks out now.

Has no bearing on getting the cert of occupancy.

Next on to setting up the shop.

Electrician came yesterday hooked everything up. The lights i picked sure lit the shop up last night, came home from the dog park last night and man the inside of the shop was lit up bright.

Looking fwd to finally moving in and setting up.

Definitely very soon

Sounds like a dream shop coming to reality.

Yea its awesome. But now I have a lot of work ahead of me getting it set up.

Now thats gonna be fun

Thought rather than start a new thread on setting up my shop I will keep the original going so in case anyone wants to read about the trials and turmoils of building a shop and then one built setting it up.....

Shop was signed off today, So Im leagal, Me ad my new apprentice started stuff moving in.

I got all my systainers moved 3 MFTs and a bunch of boxes full of CRUD I got to go through.

Should finish all the stuff I can do alone tomorrow.

Sons coming home from the USMC tomorrow so Ill put him to work helping me my rollaways and my Jet Jointer.

So now we'll be working on setting it up.

Photos to come

Moved more stuff in today,

Tomorrow getting help for the rollaways and the jointer

Got everything in today and started reassembling thing. Still got more wiring to run and insulation to put in. But I want to start building cabinets etc to get things off the floor and semi cleaned up to find stuff.

Ron,
So you are going to insulate it. Are you going to have A/C?
Zulu

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Zulu, Yea that the plan. I still owe the contractor the remaining $$ on the shop build and Before I insulate going to run some more out lets. I got to run a about 3 220v outlets. and a few more 110V outlets.

Insulation will come and so will wall covering. But right now Im trying to get stuff off the floor and where I can find it. I wont need insulation till around June when it starts getting how here. Even then I was able to work in our uninsulated garage this passed summer and we set a record for heatsomething like 5 weeks above 110 straight. So unless we have the same thing this coming summer , Ill get it done. I wish I could grow a money treeand pick whatever I need.

But it will get done just a matter when.

I also want to add a split unit thus one of the 220v outlets.

Bought some ply gonna start making cabinets need to get stuff off the floor and outta boxes. This first set is gonna be setting up my miter saw station. One will have a drawer bank, the others will have maybe one drawer then storage. I plan on storing my tools in sustainers on top. as Im not going to have a fence for my miter saw
station only stops. Everthing is based on the saw base anyway.

Im going to make some shelving and maybe get something to hang my wood peckers stuff on the wall.

Looks like my plans are working out. I bought the Festool cutting table that folds up and fits under a MFT., So I can roll it to the door of the shop back my truck up slide the ply directly from the truck to the cutting table then since its the same height as my MFT I can slide the ply once ripped to size to the MFT for cross cutting.

We'll see how it goes today

Pictures to follow

Let me know where you can get that money tree, sure could use one or two.

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Sean

Countin' flowers on the wall,
that don't bother me at all,
smokin' cigarettes and watchin' Captain Kangaroo,
Now don't tell me I've nothin' to do.

Second recipient of the D'oh Award. 4-13-08

You know I will,

Maybe if I bought a lottery ticket I might win

So heres a photo (not very good one) of how I use my STM. I just backed the truck up tail gate down, slide a sheet of ply off onto the STM ripped to width and repeat. Next with the ripped ply (3 sheets) still on the STM I rolled it over to my MFTs where I have the sysvacs and will pick up the ply set it on the vacs using the conturo to edge band trim and set aside for cross cutting to length. Heres the truck to STM photo, the STM to vac sys along with ege banding will be tomorrow

Started building the cabinets today got 3 cabinets cut and ready to be edge banded and the system shelf holes drilled then assembled. One of them is going to be a bank of drawers. The other 2 are gonna be storing stuff to get it off the floor.

Hey Ron,
You're the only one keeping this forum alive but someone is looking at it. This thread has over 6300 hits!
Good job on the shop. I'm jealous. I could sure use some more room myself.
Even if my machine that prints hundred dollar bills was working, which it is not, I still wouldn't have the room to build something like you are doing.
Zulu

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