my workshop thread

[Shox Dr]

Nice. Those telegraph poles won't rot that's for sure

 

[brewdexta]

That's well impressive Bet your well chuffed.

I thought I was doing well with my workshop build but yours takes the biscuit.

I did the foundations, concreting the ground and first floor and all the fitting but I had the fabrication and most of the erection done for me. I got most of the steel from a building demolition for peanuts and the stone was dug out of the ground at a mates farm, site of a barn that had been knocked down years ago. I would show you the guys erecting it but the pole on the end of the JCB loader to reach the high bits and the lack of PPE would make your hair stand on end

 

[mantakev]

Fantastic work, keep the pics coming

 

[the snooper]

that is one nice looking workshop, well done looks well in those surroundings.

what do you intend to use it for business or hobby ?

 

[rtbcomp]

Gotta admire your go-getting approach mate. ...

Me too. I've got a mate like that, he and his wife added a complete storey to their house over a few weeks

 

[DrNik]

Brew that looks great, i thought of using steels to build my workshop, but couldnt find steel at a reasonable price, them poles were the cheapest option

its been a labour of love all done now,Diane had to have a couple of small stables for a pony or two, it was the only way i could keep her interested




its so nice to be in the dry and warm, when the weather is crap outside, and having space is amazing,i worked solid for 15 months to build it and feel very special/happy that it all worked out so well, mind you we are moving in 3 years so i'll have to build another bigger and better

 

[Spot the welders dog]

That's not a workshop - that's a factory you jammy sod.

 

[DrNik]

the neighbour complained so many times that i was building a house, planning came round to get me to stop, kept on building, told them it was a permitted development, its less than 1/2 my garden, its the right distance from my perimeter fence, right distance from the road and less than 4 metres from the highest point of ground, NO PLANNING REQUIRED, they still think its a house, wait till the sky dish goes up lol

 

[DrNik]

every nail,every brick/block/tile, every bit of wood i did never thought i would ever finish it but there is light at the end of the tunnel, just keep plugging away

i'll get some pics of the inside when i get chance,

 

[brewdexta]

I got the steel via my neighbour who is a part time farmer and full time toolmaker in the avaition industry. His works were knocking down an old building to make a new one and I got it at scrap value just before the prices went balistic. I stored it for a couple of years before building the barn (took a while to get planning) and the couple of beams and bits of angle/channel I needed to complete the job (about 10% of the job) cost me more than the rest!

Its a bit bigger than I envisaged, that was my mates fault, typically Lancashire wit, "you can get a little 'un in a big 'un but you can't get a big 'un in a little 'un" was his argument so i built it 5m longer than intended. That bit is now filled with his digger and his donor mk2 disco..............

The downstairs is typical barn use covered in yorkshire boarding, and I've got the brewery in it, upstairs is the workshop, which means its a PITA getting big stuff up. The upstairs is covered in kingspan cored metal sheet then the yorkshire boarding over that (planners again!)

I would definitely do it different if I started again. I wouldn't have used steel unless I got it cheap so would have probably ended up with something completely different. it had to look like a barn when finished so there was some restrictions on design and the site is sloping, had to shift a couple of hundred tonnes of earth to get something approaching flat.

 

[brewdexta]

every nail,every brick/block/tile, every bit of wood i did

thats well impressive. Mine would still be a pile of scrap if I did it that way!

 

[DrNik]

pic this morning


i love my tools


upstairs is already filling up with crap i mean useful items

 

[DrNik]

the view from my homemade flat bar crittal window

 

[DrNik]

and every workshop needs heat, my home made waste oil heater, comprising of junk from local scrapyard, industrial ducting, metal drainpipe,gas cylinder,electric fan, threaded rod,old burner from an oil fired boiler, some bits from an ASDA chicken warmer, some wires and gauges and a glug of old engine oil and then a bit of magic , and i can get the workshop to a healthy 15 degrees in a short time, move over heath robinson im coming through

 

[brewdexta]

I like the milling machine, is it a Milnes?

 

[DrNik]

its a steinel, its a very well made cup of tea stand, only played on it, need some imperial collets for it, got lots of tooling,i have a friend who's a retired machinist, he only has basic kit but turns out fantastic kit, im a gung ho! lets go kinda person

 

[brewdexta]

Couldnt find much about Steinel on lathes.co.uk except they collaborated with Shaublin on one model

 

[DrNik]

quite a rare beast, german company, nice and simple has bed feed, little use so no play in it, got a vice for it to, buy it now on ebay £300, in worcester, had to have it

 

[andy m]

That is a cracking build. A credit to you.

 

[DrNik]

thank you ::::::: taking a bow:::::::: lol