Thread: Show us ya shed!

Moo, I just separated from the love of my life (amicably and my fault). Looking at the contents of your shed (and bearing in mind my upcoming road trip) the trip may terminate at your digs. I could marry you and we could make wonderful things.
Pick me pick me pick me....

Flattered Shedhand!

Originally Posted by Moo73

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Is that a YES, and will I have to toss your old man down the well?

Moo: i just about splurted my coffee when I read that thread title.

However, I can't help but recommend:


Good idea, a forum for the women. Be interesting to see over time if there is such a thing as a feminine style of woodworking.

I may do like Shedhand and lurk here occasionally. . .

Originally Posted by Moo73

I'll have to take some photos of the shed to post.
Machinery-wise, it currently houses:

Walker-Turner 6" planer (?c.mid 1930's)
The dust extractor hasn't been hooked up yet because it needs a 15amp circuit and don't think the xtn cord would like that + other machines running - so very little wood work is happening at the moment.
Another work in progress!

You got a 6" Walker-Turner buzzer! Never mind Shedhand's advances... that is a nice asset! Dusty.... big thick cable..... it'll either go or not. Excusez-moi for wandering into the Ladies...

Originally Posted by Moo73

I'm still in the process of getting power to the shed (long story, we live on 90ac and power to the shed has had a lower priority to fencing!) so for the moment everything runs off an extension cord back to the house!.
The dust extractor hasn't been hooked up yet because it needs a 15amp circuit and don't think the xtn cord would like that + other machines running - so very little wood work is happening at the moment.
Another work in progress!

I too have the extension issue - the 2hp and lathe or other combinations i.e bandsaw, radial mitre saw run happily and don't heat the cord. Put a curcuit breaker in 'just in case'. Getting power to the shed from the house is very expensive.

This is what a 12m x 6 m shed looks like when 30m of Tuart (eucalypt) falls on it!
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Luckily no one and nothing much was damaged inside, but it did cause many months of inconveniece waiting for it to be fixed. We had to build a tarp roof over it, move the hay out etc as it started to rain before rebuild.

JD

oh mate taht would break your heart. I will get mine shed photo this weekend once the floor is finished getting cemented. I am glad that you did not loose anything. Did you get any nice wood from it?
TOni

Surprising as it seems, we were battling to give the wood away. Tuart is a disappearing species and yet no one seemed interested. It was 4.5m around the base. Too much wood for us to handle or do justice to. Eventually it went to a fine furniture maker who promised to make us something from it - judging by the things in his shop (magnificent pieces I might add) we could probably afford a chopping board!

Insurance re built it, slab up! You miight have noticed the edge of the house roof - we were lucky! This was 2 years ago, 6 months after it was extended.

JD

Finally got to download the pics and here 'tis...
First one - outside shed, roughly 9x9m (about half for woodworking, or thats the plan...)
The others are of the very messy interior, will get there eventually...

Nice Set up Nice shed
Toni

Walker-Turner c.1938 6" jointer - gratefully inherited from my uncle Bill (died a few years ago now, daughter recently moved to a smaller place and 'cleaned out the shed').
Works a treat!
Don't think the green was the original colour!

Originally Posted by Moo73

Walker-Turner c.1938 6" jointer - gratefully inherited from my uncle Bill (died a few years ago now, daughter recently moved to a smaller place and 'cleaned out the shed').
Works a treat!
Don't think the green was the original colour!

Dad had one the same - I think he bought it new about 1953-4. It wasn't green-green - more a sort of grey-green I think - and it had a big heavy cast iron guard that liked the view from a high shelf in the workshop - being too cumbersome for its purpose. He traded up to a Wadkin with long, long tables. Brings back memories - thanks for the pic. Nice shed.

Geez Touchwood, losing the shed that way just bites , but it's great to hear that it's been replaced

Very Nice Moo! Looks like you've got plenty of room there to work with.

Toni - hope the cement floor goes down easily and quickly.


My Shed? well, I have a tiny tinny shed I call the Solar Kiln and I work out under the patio roof. Most of the time it's a pretty good place to work, but any extreme weather or rain means I can't get anything done. The good news is that I've ordered my new shed finally!! I'll be starting a New Shed WIP thread soon in the Garden Shed Forum.

Cheers
Wendy

floors all in today but it got a dog prints through it..LOL hubby not happy
Toni