Cool shop.I noticed you have a 4 legged minion under your bench and it probably never leaves your side.
Nope, never. I kept that empty spot for her bed just so she could hang out in the A/C.
Cool shop.I noticed you have a 4 legged minion under your bench and it probably never leaves your side.
Yea this is the latest incident of that. These were not here yesterday
These were not here yesterday
It's the work of harmless black rat snakes. however on the occasion that I come face to face with one I dispatch them humanely with pruning shears. Not because I consider them a threat, as they are not, but because they are not content to keep my shop rat free no they make a habit of indulging in the swallowing of eggs from the chicken coopSorry, can not like that!
You Midwestern fellas lol. I have kin that use snakes for religious purposes. I don't believe in that sort of thing but I've always been around them so they don't scare me. My father in law is scared of em too so I don't blame yaSorry, can not like that!
Im not scared of snakes; i just have a deep down respect for what some of em can do to living tissue! Ill tell ya one thing, they are about the toughest thing to skin. A timber rattler got hit by the car in front of me. I stopped, chopped and buried the head, and took him home to skin. Too bad his rattles were damaged at some prior time. Only a couple left.You Midwestern fellas lol. I have kin that use snakes for religious purposes. I don't believe in that sort of thing but I've always been around them so they don't scare me. My father in law is scared of em too so I don't blame ya
reckon your all set for the winterIm not scared of snakes; i just have a deep down respect for what some of em can do to living tissue! Ill tell ya one thing, they are about the toughest thing to skin. A timber rattler got hit by the car in front of me. I stopped, chopped and buried the head, and took him home to skin. Too bad his rattles were damaged at some prior time. Only a couple left.
My shop just got a big "shipment" of resources...
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Thats a 12x6 trailer, stacked 16 to 18" deep with wood of all kinds: pine, spruce, poplar, willow, ash, birch, cherry, maple, oak, walnut, rosewood, and probably some others. I paid $210 and drove 1200 miles round trip to get it.
Good god no. This is all quality lumber from an violin maker who passed on. Thousands of dollars worth if i were to buy it at a store.reckon your all set for the winter
The image wasn't working I thought you meant split up logs not good lumber. I'd like to have me a couple chunks of that. Been thinking about getting into building Mountain dulcimers like my Appalachian for father's. It was an instrument designed and built to be easily builtGood god no. This is all quality lumber from an violin maker who passed on. Thousands of dollars worth if i were to buy it at a store.
And i dont have a wood burning stove
Wish my shop was wide as yours. I just got two small bay doors. One would have been better as it is a real nail biter trying to squeeze two cars into here. our house was built in the 30's or 40's. Then in the 1970's my wife's great grandfather had it cut in half put on the back of a couple flat beds then hauled out to it's current location to replace the 1 bedroom log cabin he and his wife had raised a family of 7 in. A block foundation deep enough to create a dirt floor basement was constructed before hand and the two pieces of house were lowered into it then re attached. Later in the 1980's the concrete floor was poured and a laundry room (the roof of which is my front porch) was added as previously clothes had been washed in the creek at the bottom of the hill. The house passed from descendent to descendent before the Mrs and I bought it from her cousinIm not scared of snakes; i just have a deep down respect for what some of em can do to living tissue! Ill tell ya one thing, they are about the toughest thing to skin. A timber rattler got hit by the car in front of me. I stopped, chopped and buried the head, and took him home to skin. Too bad his rattles were damaged at some prior time. Only a couple left.
My shop just got a big "shipment" of resources...
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Thats a 12x6 trailer, stacked 16 to 18" deep with wood of all kinds: pine, spruce, poplar, willow, ash, birch, cherry, maple, oak, walnut, rosewood, and probably some others. I paid $210 and drove 1200 miles round trip to get it.
nice to knowMine is a 100x50 metal building with a house taking up about 35x50 of it. And i still dont have enough room for all my crap! Pondering an enclosed lean-to on the back for the tractor and gator and such.
nice to know
I'm not the only one with more work space that living quarters lol. The house upstairs is 900 sq ft the basement more like 1200. You got a sweet set up. What do you do about heating that place in winter?
Okay, I'll be the first brave one.
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My gun shop is also my bicycle shop, archery shop, tobacco shop, and book shop. Plus my wife keeps parking her car in it. After a big project - in this instance, silver brazing a bicycle frame from antique tubing and lugs - it's a complete disaster area.
I like the sound of a tobacco shopOkay, I'll be the first brave one.
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My gun shop is also my bicycle shop, archery shop, tobacco shop, and book shop. Plus my wife keeps parking her car in it. After a big project - in this instance, silver brazing a bicycle frame from antique tubing and lugs - it's a complete disaster area.
I like the sound of a tobacco shop
I see. I had to make the basement non smoking because of all the reloading and black powder making that goes on down there. Plus the wife insisted the smell was coming up through the floorToward the left side of the picture, above one of the lubrisizers, you can just make out the jars of pipe tobacco that I mix. That little hobby got kicked clean out of the house...
I see. I had to make the basement non smoking because of all the reloading and black powder making that goes on down there. Plus the wife insisted the smell was coming up through the floor
Lol I bet it was like when I was using the kitchen scissors to process squirrels for meatI'm with you, pal. I do my mixing surrounded by explosives, and my smoking somewhere else. My wife knew my habits when she married me, but that ring conferred some kind of unholy power. You should have seen it when she found me using her big stainless salad bowl for tobacco...
Man you got a similar situation to me with the low ceiling. I'm studying these pictures to figure how I can get my lighting situation more like yoursHere is my shop pulling double duty as I have been in the middle of a kitchen remodel job. At least now my wife will be happy until she comes up with another project for me. Truth told I had a big hand in planning it out and designing it.View attachment 1093609View attachment 1093610