Thread: Show us ya shed!

Shwish!

The new shed that is, not the Torana (?)

My 2 bob's worth ...

Worth careful layout planning and getting good timber racks in.

Look at another rotary ventilator or better, some big gable vents for cross-flow cooling.

Is that a twin turbo V8 going in that LJ? Or "just" a V6?

Either was, would be a pretty neat machine

Oh, nice garage too!

Cheers,
Dave

Originally Posted by rsser

Shwish!

The new shed that is, not the Torana (?)

My 2 bob's worth ...

Worth careful layout planning and getting good timber racks in.

Look at another rotary ventilator or better, some big gable vents for cross-flow cooling.

Thanks, and good points, i was going to go for the vents when i get a chance.
Any idea on how to construct a mezzanine? I want to basically make it on the back right hand corner of the garage, im having trouble finding a garage company to do it, i assume its a too smaller job for them to bother. I was thinking of using C Purlins, also didnt want to use a post in the middle of the garage to hold up the mezzanine so i guess this means i would have to span a largish C Purlin down the centre of the garage, 5.6m length, from the back upright to the front upright and span smaller C Prulins from that to the right of the garage. Mezzanine should be approx same height as the guttering. Mezzanine floor, 4.2m wide (from centre of garage to right side of garage), X 2.9m deep.
Any ideas on size of Purlins? I was thinking 300-400mm for the Purlin down the centre and 150mm for the purlins to span from the centre to the right of the garage.

Originally Posted by Ozkaban

Is that a twin turbo V8 going in that LJ? Or "just" a V6?

Either was, would be a pretty neat machine

Oh, nice garage too!

Cheers,
Dave

Gday Dave its a Nissan V8, the garage is really a nice home for the Torana
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgBpxv0RB20]YouTube - LJ Torana VH41 twin turbo Start up[/ame]

I have greatly enjoyed this thread, and got some very useful ideas from it. I have been reluctant to post about my own shed because it is used for stuff other than woodworking, and, more importantly, it breaks one of the SHED RULES: i.e. it is big enough for me! Howver, bearing these in mind, here we go:
We have a suburban block in Ocean Grove. It was surveyed in the 1880s, and is therefore one chain by two chains (aka 66 feet by 132 feet). The shed was built before the house, and is across the rear of the block. The shed is 12 metres long by 7.6 metres deep. The walls are 2.7 metres high at the sides, rising to 3.0 metres at the gable.

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The shed has two doors: the roller door , and a normal entry door. Just inside the entry door is a work bench.

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Opposite this bench are storgage shelves and tool kits that have little to do with woodwork!

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At the end of the bench are steel cabinets with a variety of stuff therein:

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On the other side of those cabinets is a four bay compactus, for storing more stuff!

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On the end wall near the compactus is the sink and the fridge:

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Along the rear wall are bays of Dexion-type shelving, about 1.2 metres deep

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In the middle of the shed is a large metalworking bench, with blacksmith's anvil attached. It has fittings at each corner for metalworking stakes, of which I have a full set. The bench also serves as an ideal out-table for the table saw.

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At the end of the steel shelving is the saw bench. There is a dust outlet in the saw cabinet which connects to the extractor.

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In a line are a Dewalt bandsaw, a linisher, a wire wheel, and a Waldown Drilling Machine.

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Near those are a mobile tool rack, and a small jointer, also mobile.

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Also mobile are the Dewalt thicknesser, and the 2hp extractor with Thien seperator)

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On the end wall is a wood rack 4 metres long (and, yes, that is Australian Red Cedar on the second top shelf!)

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There is also a mobile router table with a Woodpeckers plate holding a large Triton router.

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Like most folks, I have a lot of clamps, but the best of them might be the four Veritas panel clamps for which I have made a number of rails in various lengths.

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Other tools are stored in other steel cabinets, or shelves in various places around the shed.

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Finally, the shed does not have 3 phase power, but does have its own dedicated 32a line from the main switchboard. There is another switchboard in the shed, and it controls four circuits, three for power and one for lighting. General lighting is 4 fluro lights each with 3 large tubes therein. There are thirty-two power outlets around the shed, including five overhead. Generally speaking, it is a convenient shed in which to work.

Nice setup Adeben.

Love the compactus.

Nice shed abeden

So GJ isn't that just the way get your shed all sorted and you going to move .........ok bigger shed a bonus

Nice setup mate

Originally Posted by wheelinround

Nice shed abeden

So GJ isn't that just the way get your shed all sorted and you going to move .........ok bigger shed a bonus

Yeah, the same thought ran through my mind. I was wondering, is setting up a LARGE shed just as daunting as setting up a small shed (not that 3 mtr. x 6 mtr. is all that small). Now that I've got 3 phase power I might even get myself a milling machine, lathe and surface grinder when the dust settles.

Originally Posted by Grumpy John

I was wondering, is setting up a LARGE shed just as daunting as setting up a small shed (not that 3 mtr. x 6 mtr. is all that small).

Grumpy, i reckon setting up a small shed is a hundred times harder and more daunting than a large shed. Large shed you can chuck stuff anywhere, small shed every square cm is so valuable. All good fun

Originally Posted by Lignum

Grumpy, i reckon setting up a small shed is a hundred times harder and more daunting than a large shed. Large shed you can chuck stuff anywhere, small shed every square cm is so valuable. All good fun

And somewhere in-between is, of course, bolting a small shed onto the side of a large one.

adeben

Can I move in?
what a great setup - fantastic

I've thought for ages that compactus would be a great storage system for a shed but I don't have a shed big enough to sit a set in

Originally Posted by Skew ChiDAMN!!

And somewhere in-between is, of course, bolting a small shed onto the side of a large one.

Or putting a garden shed out the back so all the non essential shed stuff, eg lawnmower etc, can go in it. I even moved the Triton vice thingy into it the other day!

But have to admit I'm serously looking at storing some timber in the 'garden shed' - but there's a little room left in the cubby house before I have to

Originally Posted by Sawdust Maker

Or putting a garden shed out the back so all the non essential shed stuff, eg lawnmower etc, can go in it. I even moved the Triton vice thingy into it the other day!

But have to admit I'm serously looking at storing some timber in the 'garden shed' - but there's a little room left in the cubby house before I have to

I'll come pick up the wood will give you plenty room Nick