Not too far in the scheme of things. We're in Granbury, about two hours from you, 45 minutes south west of Ft Worth.

 

I do all my wrenching on a slopped gravel driveway and 3/4" plywood to roll jacks on

 

In here

 

Seems nerve racking....

 

That looked like a shed. How does the front end of an OBS fit in there. Are you just creative?

 

It's 15x25. Door is 9' wide 10' tall. 12' walls

 

In my 25 x 53 4 car garage. It was the ONLY reason I bought my house. But now I have out grown it. I have plans for a 40x50 pole barn. Unfortunately my 35k savings to build it went by by this year doing work on the house

 

No shop here, never have had one. In the snow, gravel, on cardboard whatever. I'm to old now to spend money on a shop. Doing what I've been doing has kept me young! (cough, cough) LOL

 

It's very nerve racking and frustrating at times but the money to buy a shop always ends up in a truck

 

a few places for me and the uncle....

When at home, the back yard is a big portion graveled, which is better then grass, but it gets old kneeling and sitting in it and searching for dropped items in it, but it does the job.
also have a big portion of concrete we work on at the house if the obs will move under its own power

and when working at the house, we work out of the 44' enclosed trailer

and when not at home, the family has a shop not even 3 miles from us with lifts and six garage dorrs and 10 bays, the post lifts although outdated they do the job, its really easy to get spoiled when getting to work out of a fully functioning shop and then going back to the gravel lol especially working out of the big tool box of my uncles down at the shop

only had my 97 in the garage once, and that was the night it came home from paint, before cab lights were put on and 31s....needless to say i do not work on it in there

have used the swingset when poring bed support items for my truck build,

 

in here - 30 x 50 (i think) pole barn - 30 by something for sure as the crew cab doesnt leave much room between the rear bumper and the back wall when on the lift.


this lift...


I moved from NJ to PA for work a few years back and was able to buy a lot more house and a lot more land for the same amount of money as compared to NJ. I really a pond on the property for hockey in the winter time, but I 'settled' for the pole barn instead. best part about it was that it was essentially free - the realtor said that most people have no desire for an 'industrial structure' like that, so it doesn't ad any value to the home. I guess I'm not 'most people.

the only problem was that (as I hear from the neighbors now), the previous owner was running around on his wife when he built the barn, so he put it at the complete other end of the 5 acre property from the house. not a huge deal, but its annoying when I 'borrow' tools from the barn for work in the house, then forget to bring them back down when working on the truck or car.

also - the previous owner had it fully outfitted with a lift, a Bridgeport, a southbend lathe and shop air. I tried to buy all that stuff off of him as well, but didn't have the funds due to buying the house at the same time. he even took the copper lines for the shop air with him - which is in breech of the real estate contract - but I didn't make a stink.

I bucked up and bought a lift - since the concrete anchors were already there - and have jury rigged a shop air setup that works pretty well. the Bridgeport and southbend will have to wait...

 

I'm 23 years old and I own nothing except my trucks and a pretty decent amount of tools that I've bought, so I'm stuck using other peoples shops for all the work I do. I cannot thank any of them enough for allowing me to use their shops and in many cases their tools to get projects done.

This is my step-dad's shop where I do most of my work. It's open on two sides, but it's covered and has an asphalt pad, so it works well for the most part.



This is my friend Jack's shop. I use his shop mostly just when I need his help with something or he needs my help with something. Nice little shop. Has a wood burning stove, so in the winter we can stay somewhat warm.



This is my friend Roy's shop. He and I work on many projects together, so I use his shop quite a bit. It comes in handy b/c he has a TIG and almost any metal fab tool you could need. This pic is from when we built the exhaust on my F-150. All tig welded 304 stainless. We had about 3" in the front and back, so it goes without saying that a long bed truck won't fit inside the shop. lol





This is also Roy's for working on bigger trucks. It's just a covered carport, but the concrete makes it nice to work in the summer. You can pull two trucks in side ways or pull one in long ways from the other side. In this pic I was working on the electric fans on both of my trucks at the same time.



This is where I pretty much built my F-150 from top to bottom. I did all the suspension work, installed the engine, trans, etc all right here under this tree in the dirt. It sucked big time, but I got the job done.



This is Cody's shop. I like to use his shop for anything that needs to stay clean. His shop is kinda small, but I get much more work done in his shop than I do anywhere else and get it done faster because he keeps everything extremely organized. He has an asphalt pad out in front of the shop where we work on the trucks. This pic is of my brother when we were building the 8.8 for my F-150.

 

Organization is definitely key - I feel like I spend the first 20-40 mins of any project cleaning up from the last one. Maybe if every project didn't end with a "when are you coming up to the house to see your family again" call from the wife, I could clean up at the proper time.

...sorry for the venting :-)

 

I've got a 60x120' shop..pretty cool place. Except where my lift is placed it's a pain to get my trucks on it lol

 

back when I had my old OBS trucks I would work on them in my apartment parking lot.....fun times.