[QUOTE]I also use a Lincoln Powermig255, this welder had worked great for the first 2 years I used it. I was welding an extension on my welding table one day and something happened to it and now hasen't welded worth a dam for over ayear now. All I can say is that customer support is the last thing on Lincolns mind. [QUOTE]
Go over to the Hobart site, several guys have PM's pm there.
There is also some paint stuff in my user galleries on this forum, some in 1 and at the end of 4

 

Thanks Sberry27, i'll click over there and see whats up.

Yea the paint booth will be the next big thing to build. I'm not going to be painting show cars but would like an efficient and good working booth. I'll look at your gallery, as I said, any and all input appreciated.

Cee ya'll

stumpy

 

I like my booth, its completely out of the way when its not needed.

 

it all depends on what you are doing in it. My new shop is 36x60x12 with a 6:12 roof. I do 2 frame off restorations at the same time, there is 1 2 post lift, 1 4 post lift, 1 paint booth, 1 bathroom, and a loft. The loft is for engine, transmission, & body panel storage. If you're organized this works, but it's tight. Plan it out and draw it to scale.

 

36 is a good width, there is enough room to work on 2 side by side without running into the walls. I have been in a lot of 30's and they are tight. Being long you can probaly get stuff in end to end if you have to without jamming up. There is absolutely no substitute for SQ ft. Mine is 80X80 and while I have enough floor space I wouldnt have minded 100 long just to gain space along the walls for a couple more machine tools and some shelves. I may build a mezanne yet and put some more stuff overhead. I am working to build a new storage which I didnt money up enough for this summer, that will be delayed a year yet. I should have done it a couple yrs ago before steel took a hike. Its likely to cost another 20K due to steel annd concrete costs now. I may even keep an eye on steel prices and borrow if it works out. I was thinking 60x120 to allow for parking on both sides of the drive and a 100 ft length set of shelves for organizing. Some of it for palletizing things too. I want a lean to for firewood storage and sandblasting. Seems when I want to blast it is snowing or raining.

 

I'm just completing my shop. It is 28' by 28' with a 9' ceiling under the loft space with a 10' by 12' "cube" area opened to the 10/12 pitch rafters starting at 15' up (where there is no loft). It has 2- 9' wide by 7'6" garage doors and a 6' metal french type door on the far side.

The loft is 18' wide between the 56" kneewalls and there are 2 7' wide by 5' deep dormers up there. The upstairs is framed with an 8' ceiling, after 1/2" drywall (someday?...)

The loft is for lounge, library, reloading, electronics and weight bench.

The bay open to the rafters is for a future lift, and is the one bay dedicated to restoration. The other bay has a 4 by 8 table topped with 2 layers of 3/4" plywood. That side is for machine work, welding, occasional woodwork, motorcycles, bicycles, and lawn and garden tool work.

There will eventually be a 28' long by 8' wide shed built off the far side (with the 6' french door) that will be for lawn and garden and a separate closet dedicated for the air compressor.

This shop is in addition to my 2 car garage and I hope is sufficiently large for all of my needs!

My current projects lined up are:

'87 Bronco II resto and build
'71 Ranger resto
'83 Jeep CJ 7 build

I always have a motorcycle I'm working on, and I keep my mountain bike and road bike in top repair.

How did I afford this on a decidedly average salary?

No car payments. I drive old trucks.
No credit card payments
I wrench on the side
Did most of the work myself
Paid pros when I could of messed something up real bad.

That last blurb is to inspire someone to realize their dream!

Here's a link to another board where I have pics.

http://www.ar15.com/forums/topic.html?b=1&f=5&t=278139

Yes, I very much need to update the pics!

 

Nice I like the dormers you added not many people add them up hear. It's shaped like my home, replace the garage doors with two large windows and its a match.

 

They also neglet to show the welding sparks landing in a pile of sawdust and the sawdust raining down on an open carb.

 

I am a framing contractor here in sunny SoCal where every now and then we get a client that has more money than is decent. Almost two years ago we did a nice home for this family, but whenever we had visitors to the jobsite, the women loved the house and all the men went ballistic over the garage. It was roughly a rectangle that measured 65 feet wide and about 55 feet deep. The walls were 11 feet high except for the center section which was 15 feet high. There were two 18'X8' garage doors on either side of the center section with a matching pair on the back wall. The center door was 12 feet wide and a little over 13' high, also with a second identical door on the back wall. This allowed them to drive the 42' motor coach in one door and out the other with out having to back anything up. A power and sewer hookup were also installed so that you could live in the coach while it was parked in garage.
The house and garage sit on five pristine acres and is truly a sight to behold. Recently the home owner contacted me about framing an out building to house the "overflow" of stuff that won't go in the garage. Don't you just love it?

 

I am looking at building a 30x30. It will also have a 30x12x6 room upstairs for storage and a 12x30 lean-to on each side for the boat and lawn mower etc. Insulated and air conditioned since I am in Ga.

 

1. It'll never be big enough.

2. Build as big as you can afford.

3. Mine's 40x64x14 and its' too small.

 

When we lived in town my shop was 125 X40 with 14' walls, that was a nice size shop.... a couple of years ago we moved out to the lake.. and built a 80X40 with 14' walls its kind of small, miss the bigger one, but its working out ok. DW says it was time to down size when we moved out to the lake.

 

Geeze, I was proud when I built my two work benches (and one of them wobbles a little). I couldn't imagine tackling a project like this.

 

Heh, my brother expressed a similar sentiment when he compared his todo list: pick up hotdog buns, take clothes to cleaners, etc. to my todo list:
Insulate shop, rebuild transmission, rebuild tractor hydraulics, etc.

 

What would you guys say would be an average price for building about a 24x32 pole barn in the Midwest region?