Where do you work on your OBS
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Cargo Master
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From: TX
Where do you work on your OBS
So I see all of y'all modifying, up keeping, cussing, and getting down and dirty.
Where do you do it? Do you have a shop? A garage that the truck doesn't even fit into? Gravel driveway or just muddy grass? Are you sheltered or do brave the elements while sipping whiskey.
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Myself, I have a carport with gravel, and a one car cement pad next to it that is not covered. The front of the pad is taken by my old truck that doesn't move. So I park my OBS sideways so the front end is on the cement pad, in between the posts of the carport. It's a tight fit, takes a 12 point turn, mirrors barely clear. Not sheltered from the elements. Last week had to throw it back together by headlamp during a freezing rain/sleet storm.
What lengths do you go through to NOT pay someone else to do it?
Where do you do it? Do you have a shop? A garage that the truck doesn't even fit into? Gravel driveway or just muddy grass? Are you sheltered or do brave the elements while sipping whiskey.
Share!
Myself, I have a carport with gravel, and a one car cement pad next to it that is not covered. The front of the pad is taken by my old truck that doesn't move. So I park my OBS sideways so the front end is on the cement pad, in between the posts of the carport. It's a tight fit, takes a 12 point turn, mirrors barely clear. Not sheltered from the elements. Last week had to throw it back together by headlamp during a freezing rain/sleet storm.
What lengths do you go through to NOT pay someone else to do it?
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From: Orrville, Ohio
Mine is a 24x36' pole building out behind my house that is outfitted as a shop.
It's a little tight with the truck in there because of the asinine way the building was built, but I'm not complaining. After years of sharing a 1 or 2 car garage with the wife's car, the kids' stuff, all our stored items, etc, I am thrilled to have my own space. I'm not gonna lie, there are plenty of things I would change about our house and property if I could, but that shop was a MAJOR selling point in us deciding to buy it.
I have it pretty well outfitted now, with an old dual fuel wood-burning / fuel oil furnace that I have retrofitted to burn waste oil. So now when I get it in my head to get to work on something I can fire up the furnace and have a heated space. 240V electric for welders and air compressor, even has a semi-usable service pit in the floor. It also has a 12x24' loft across the back where I can get things up and out of the way for storage purposes. It's not perfect, but it is mine and I spend a lot of time out there. It if had running water and a bathroom in it I might never come back to the house!
It's really nice to be in and out of the elements.
It's a little tight with the truck in there because of the asinine way the building was built, but I'm not complaining. After years of sharing a 1 or 2 car garage with the wife's car, the kids' stuff, all our stored items, etc, I am thrilled to have my own space. I'm not gonna lie, there are plenty of things I would change about our house and property if I could, but that shop was a MAJOR selling point in us deciding to buy it.
I have it pretty well outfitted now, with an old dual fuel wood-burning / fuel oil furnace that I have retrofitted to burn waste oil. So now when I get it in my head to get to work on something I can fire up the furnace and have a heated space. 240V electric for welders and air compressor, even has a semi-usable service pit in the floor. It also has a 12x24' loft across the back where I can get things up and out of the way for storage purposes. It's not perfect, but it is mine and I spend a lot of time out there. It if had running water and a bathroom in it I might never come back to the house!
It's really nice to be in and out of the elements.
Post Fiend
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From: Orrville, Ohio
That's rough. I've done that kind of stuff before but it's sure a lot nicer to be indoors for that kind of stuff, if for no other reason than to be able to keep everything clean and organized.
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Yea, since the backhoe is being chain powered (dropped a valve) right now we cant get it to my uncles or to my neighbors place (and the way the steering is you cant steer the thing unless the engines running) so we gotta drag up next to the house in front of the garage and rip it apart. I already have the head off (we bought the thing from a neighbor for close to nothing). Now Im waiting on dad to order the parts
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Cargo Master
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Thats a hell of a nice set up Nate!
Harsh winters where you live?
Like Nate said, most times just having a garage or a shop is nice for the pure fact of cleanliness and organization.
Yea, since the backhoe is being chain powered (dropped a valve) right now we cant get it to my uncles or to my neighbors place (and the way the steering is you cant steer the thing unless the engines running) so we gotta drag up next to the house in front of the garage and rip it apart. I already have the head off (we bought the thing from a neighbor for close to nothing). Now Im waiting on dad to order the parts
Like Nate said, most times just having a garage or a shop is nice for the pure fact of cleanliness and organization.
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Cargo Master
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I am one lucky SOB. My uncle has a large farming/trucking operation so when I have done my bigger projects I head 2.5 hours to his shop with the drive over bay, welder, torch, big impacts, big air, and his knowlege. Oh and the radiant heat floor which is around 72*. Mostly it is in my driveway and garage for the little stuff.
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From: New Jersey
Unfortunately, my OBS gets worked on in my driveway which feels like it's a 45-degree angle, but it's actually not. Since my truck is 24 feet long and my house is only 26 feet wide, I don't have a prayer of shoehorning that thing in there to work on it. I'd like to build a garage out back but I don't plan on staying in this state. Plus I tend to sink into the ground in my back yard if it's damp.
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From: Yreka, CA
I work on my truck up at my dads. Most of the time just on the 10x10 concrete slab out front but if it's bad weather I can swing the nose into the garage or the carport, just barely.
My neighbor does have a nice big shop that I can use but I dont like to. I know where all the tools are at my dads.
My neighbor does have a nice big shop that I can use but I dont like to. I know where all the tools are at my dads.
Mountain Pass
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From: Klamath Falls, Oregon
I did the driveway thing, the pickup too long to fit in the garage thing, now I wrench in style in my shop! This was this summer after the wife and I finished installing the lift, we had to test it.
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From: Madison, WI
Gravel driveway, JUST long enough for the two PSDs and the IDI, and an old Saturn way back (hopefully that's still interpreted as the "driveway" and nobody nails us for storing a car in the back yard). Double-wide, but the other half is the neighbor's. So no room to, say, remove the bed. Cardboard comes in real handy for working under the truck. Tight urban neighborhood with narrow lots (38 ft); we're about the only people on the block who work on our own vehicles.
