Creating a Workshop & Home

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Here's the door to the house. The AC tube finished off pretty nice, and every thing is ready for my shelves. I'll finish the rest of the wall after I get things put away and organized. I'll also trim out the doors with some scrap down the road.

Eddie
 

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Eddie,
You gonna have a room dedicated for all your taxidermy or is it going to be spread thruout the house?
 
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The "Collection" will stay on the workshop wall until I build my store, then I'll put it all in there. There's still a few crates with small animals and birds that I have stored in one of the empty bathrooms.

The wall that they are hanging on now will be used for laundry when things get going. I plan to have 4 cabins to start, with the space avialable for about 30. All those sheets need a place to be washed everyday.

If anybody's ever been to a Cabela's, then you know exactly where my insperation came from. I've been to the Sydney Nebraska one about 5 times and took Steph to the new one in Ft. Worth, TX for her birthday last month for the first time.

Until the store is built, the safest place for them is on the wall.

Eddie
 
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My metal work table had been sitting outside since the move. It's come in handy while working on the tractors, but today it's time to bring it inside.


Eddie
 

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The table is in place. Next I put my aircompressor under the table in it's new home. I have a wheelbarrow type compressore which has the drain petcocks on the bottom of the twin tanks. I drain them all the time, and realized this would be kind of messy unless I did something.

I put some 4X6 blocks under it so I'd have enough height to get two plastic Folgers coffee cans in there. Now I should be able to drain the water from my tanks and dump it in the sink without making a mess.

That's the plan anyway.

Eddie
 

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The metal bench is what I'm using to base the height of the workbench off of. I need 30 inches for my chopsaw, then I'll go another 8 feet for counter space.

This needs to be the same height as the workbench so that material in my chopsaw will lay flat on either side of the saw.

My workbench designs have evolved over the years from super duper, use as much wood as I could, to this basic design.

I attach the cross members to the ledger board at 12 inch intervals. The I put it on the wall like a ledgerboard at the desired height.

I prefer to use 3 inch screws.

Eddie
 

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Here's the drop for the chop saw. I had to lower it 4 and 11/16's inch below the coutnter height. Don't you love those even numbers? /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif

This is being made from scrap lumber that was either too twisted to use for framing, or short pieces that I had left over.

The posts are also scrap, which explains why one is PT and the other isn't.

Eddie
 

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I built a drop for my chop saw in my last workbench and really liked it. Made life allot easier. The one thing I didn't like was all the sawdust that would pile up behind the saw.

I was at a resturant and noticed that the hole in the counter top to throw paper towels to the garbage below would also work well for my chop saw.

My first plan was to put a 5 gallon bucket underneith to catch the sawdust, but the round edges were making things complicated. I looked around and found this rectangular garbage can piled up in our storage area.

Eddie
 

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View from above.


Eddie
 

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The opening is 5 inches by 12 inches.

The flat side of the garbage can is only 6 inche, then it rounds off to the small sides.

I needed to create an angled, funnel type of box for the sawdust to flow into the garbage can.

This was the simplest solution I could come up with.

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