Photos of your garages/shops and what is in them!

[Big Barn]

Sometimes it is nice to have another person around to help.



Heidi from Tool Time comes to mind.....

 

[ovrszd]

Sometimes it is nice to have another person around to help.

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Heidi from Tool Time comes to mind.....

Terry, do you know what Bracket Racing is in the Drag Racing World???

I think you have established your time too fast. Not sure you can repeatedly perform at that level......

 

[EddieWalker]

...If you have insurance I would recommend an inventory of your shop contents. Really surprising how it adds up. I lost $40,000.

Another thing, read the fine print in your insurance policy. A common policy will be at a minimum 30 pages. Could be as large as 70 pages. In all that lawyer talk you will find specific restrictions. For example, unless an additional rider was applied my policy only covered $500 in automotive parts. I got hit hard there.

How many of you have ever read your policy? ...

Thanks for sharing your loss with us. That really makes me want to get a bunch of pictures of what I have. I did that a long time ago with everything in my house, but I haven't kept up with it and really need to.

 

[ovrszd]

After my fire I rebuilt using an all metal VP building. 42x50x10. Vaulted metal beam ceiling. This allowed me to add a four post lift.

Hired the concrete poured, 6" reinforced with bar. Two 12ft wide doorways in the end, one 12ft wide on one side.

Family and friends helped me build it. Had the luxury of a Storm Truck to set the rafters.

Life was picking up.

Wrapped the structure with 6" fiberglass before installing the tin. Made a very tight building that was pretty easy to heat.

And within six months I had a full, cluttered shop again. Happy, happy guy...

Best part about the 4 post lift is it makes an awesome buffet table for gatherings!!!!

 

[Big Barn]

Terry, do you know what Bracket Racing is in the Drag Racing World???

I think you have established your time too fast. Not sure you can repeatedly perform at that level......

I should have started with my DUMBER THAN a BAG of HAMMERS




BTW the Xmas buffet pics are still my fave of your shop

 

[ovrszd]

Thanks for sharing your loss with us. That really makes me want to get a bunch of pictures of what I have. I did that a long time ago with everything in my house, but I haven't kept up with it and really need to.

Eddie pictures would help. The large things you will remember. The little things that aren't in the pictures are what's hard.

I think the biggest benefit to pictures would be on an expensive item that your insurance company might challenge you having.

In my case we picked thru the debris and saved everything we could find. Stacked it all on pallets, sorted into categories such as "Wrenches". Figuring the insurance company would want to see these things. They never once asked or questioned anything I listed. I was excruciatingly honest about everything. That's how I wanted my insurance company to be also. And they were.

An example. I had built a 3pt PTO pump powered hydraulic log splitter. I listed it with a value of $1,500 which was very close to what materials I had purchased to build it. The Insurance Company hired a company to go thru my list and validate the value on each item. He called me and asked me the tonnage rating on my splitter? I said I didn't know but I would get a formula and calculate it. I called him back and said 42 Ton. He called me the next day and said he could only find one Splitter in that category but it was trailer mounted and would I accept that? I said yeah, that's fine. They paid me $6,995 to replace my Splitter. I sent my wife to Northern Tool and she came back with our $7K splitter. I felt like if they paid me I should spend that money for the replacement.

 

[ovrszd]

I should have started with my DUMBER THAN a BAG of HAMMERS

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BTW the Xmas buffet pics are still my fave of your shop

I am very Blessed Terry.

 

[TnAndy]

Man, that boom truck would have been handy setting my trusses. I went to the Rent-all and got a 'duct lift' that would lift 20sum feet....caught a truss under the mid point, hand cranked the lift up, twisted a little to clear the outside walls, twisted again and set it down on the wall real lightly. Climbed a ladder on one side, nailed the truss, then the other side, then climbed up in the middle of the previous set trusses to scab a board on the new one...back to the ground and crank the lift down. Would have been a good time to have had a few extra hands ! Thank goodness it was 25 years ago when I could move a lot better than today.....ahahhaaa.

 

[ArlyA]

Here is a few photos of the shop I get to use. No, its not mine. :confused3:

 

[Blaszer]

Sometimes it is nice to have another person around to help.

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Heidi from Tool Time comes to mind.....

:laughing: