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Just posted this in another thread but I guess it fits here too. I work in front of my house in my "yard" not much room but I do what I can there as long as the sun holds out. Kids were helping me that day.
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uebe
XS Goober
stuntdouble
Contract Killer
With help from my little biker...
I still don't have a closing date for the house... These things go pretty slow now.. after the realestate market crashed. But here's a couple of pics I took when we had the inspection. We project being able to move in in mid August.Photos/Link required my friend. Make us all jealous and congratulations!
Mister Mellow
Big Dreams, Thin Wallet
Grepper, it looks like the garage has an attached mother-in-law apartment? Office? Very nice, regardless!
I've done the carburetor re-assembly on the kitchen table thing, but the one that sticks in my mind is being kicked out of a very nice apartment because my '72 Triumph Daytona was tucked away along one wall of the living room. I wasn't working on it, I just didn't want it to be stolen. There was zero oil in the crankcase, zero fuel (or fuel odor) in the tank, etc. I could NOT convince my landlady that it was no different than having a bicycle in the apartment, and that it would most certainly have been stolen if moved outside. I was not even allowed the chance to rectify the situation by moving the bike to a storage facility. I was kicked out. No arguing. No appeal. It was a water-view apartment, too. More than 30 years later, I'm still not-so-mellow about that incident.
I've done the carburetor re-assembly on the kitchen table thing, but the one that sticks in my mind is being kicked out of a very nice apartment because my '72 Triumph Daytona was tucked away along one wall of the living room. I wasn't working on it, I just didn't want it to be stolen. There was zero oil in the crankcase, zero fuel (or fuel odor) in the tank, etc. I could NOT convince my landlady that it was no different than having a bicycle in the apartment, and that it would most certainly have been stolen if moved outside. I was not even allowed the chance to rectify the situation by moving the bike to a storage facility. I was kicked out. No arguing. No appeal. It was a water-view apartment, too. More than 30 years later, I'm still not-so-mellow about that incident.
One of the stalls is walled off into an office, with heat and A/C. That will be nice cause in my old work shop, I would stop using it when temps got below 15 or above 95. The nice thing is that it's an additional garage. There's already a two car garage and a garden shed near the house. I'll be able to use power tools at night w/o waking everyone up.
Belle
XS650 Addict
Congrats Grepper, sounds like a real nice place!
Building (?)...man...storage units w/ no electricity (still), 3rd floor apartment (still), basement apartment, flakey girlfriend's garage (trying ta get out of there)...stuff like that.
Building (?)...man...storage units w/ no electricity (still), 3rd floor apartment (still), basement apartment, flakey girlfriend's garage (trying ta get out of there)...stuff like that.
We are finally all moved into our new house, and now I'm setting up my workshop.
I got married just over a year ago. Before that I had a house with a little 10X6 workshop. There I did my first 3 builds/restores. Then I moved in my wife's little larger house, but with only a 1 car garage that had little room to work. Last winter I rebuilt an engine in the corner of the laundry room. Late summer we finally closed on our dream house. A log home on 10 acres. My favorite part was an additional 3 1/2 car garage. 1 1/2 stalls walled off with heat and AC, the other two for storage.
The previous owner used it as an office for a home business.
The counter was not very sturdy, was too high to be a good work bench, and was built with a 4 inch gap behind it. No Good. The first project was to build a dog run on the back of the garden shed.
The boxes are unpacked, pictures hung, and the Red Rocket has a new home.
Now I can get my workshop sorted out. I disassembled the old counters/bench and reused a lot of the material to start building a proper work bench.
First bench almost done, ahh that's a much better work area.
Bench #2
My son came out and I told him he could use the scrap to build whatever. He built a bird house and a chair.
I put doors under the first work bench so my tools could be stored without getting crap all over them. Plus I had the wood.
Now, starting on some overhead shelves.
My wife stopped in to check out my progress and snapped a shot of me working on the shelves.
And now some over bench lighting
I'm keeping the desk in there so I have a nice place to sit and do electrical work.
I have a huge tack board to hang, so I can have a collection of inspiration pictures.
A workshop wouldn't be complete without a mini-fidge full of beer.
Now I just need to bolt in my vice and bench grinders and I'll be ready to start building again. I want to do some rewiring on the Red Rocket, a chopper to finish and I have a CB750 to restore.
Future plans include a much bigger air compressor and wire 220 for a welder.
I got married just over a year ago. Before that I had a house with a little 10X6 workshop. There I did my first 3 builds/restores. Then I moved in my wife's little larger house, but with only a 1 car garage that had little room to work. Last winter I rebuilt an engine in the corner of the laundry room. Late summer we finally closed on our dream house. A log home on 10 acres. My favorite part was an additional 3 1/2 car garage. 1 1/2 stalls walled off with heat and AC, the other two for storage.
The previous owner used it as an office for a home business.
The counter was not very sturdy, was too high to be a good work bench, and was built with a 4 inch gap behind it. No Good. The first project was to build a dog run on the back of the garden shed.
The boxes are unpacked, pictures hung, and the Red Rocket has a new home.
Now I can get my workshop sorted out. I disassembled the old counters/bench and reused a lot of the material to start building a proper work bench.
First bench almost done, ahh that's a much better work area.
Bench #2
My son came out and I told him he could use the scrap to build whatever. He built a bird house and a chair.
I put doors under the first work bench so my tools could be stored without getting crap all over them. Plus I had the wood.
Now, starting on some overhead shelves.
My wife stopped in to check out my progress and snapped a shot of me working on the shelves.
And now some over bench lighting
I'm keeping the desk in there so I have a nice place to sit and do electrical work.
I have a huge tack board to hang, so I can have a collection of inspiration pictures.
A workshop wouldn't be complete without a mini-fidge full of beer.
Now I just need to bolt in my vice and bench grinders and I'll be ready to start building again. I want to do some rewiring on the Red Rocket, a chopper to finish and I have a CB750 to restore.
Future plans include a much bigger air compressor and wire 220 for a welder.
uebe
XS Goober
Very cool Grepper ! Livin the good life.
I'm jealous.
I'm jealous.
Nice, Grepper!
Roughly where in Michigan? I grew up west of St. Johns a ways.
Roughly where in Michigan? I grew up west of St. Johns a ways.
I am Carbon
shade tree mechanic
Grepper,Nice work place 
good helper too
do you have wifi n a cot ?
good helper too
do you have wifi n a cot ?
We are in Lowell, about 40 miles East of St. Johns along M21. Before that was in Ionia, and before that Portland. I keep moving West. St. Johns is nice. There's a fairly new custom motorcycle shop in St. Johns called do you have wifi n a cot ?
[/QUOTE]WiFi Yes, There's an Air Matress with the camping gear
Know the area well, used to cruise downtown Ionia back in the day.
That shop on State Street sounds great! Tentative plan is to take a road trip to Michigan this coming summer, I have a brother in St. Johns, another in the Mt. Pleasant area. I'll have to stop by the shop just for grins.
Fire Up Chips, Graduated from CMU in 92
ProSimex
XS650 Addict
in my back yard, in the rain, with an umbrella stuck in the handlebars while sitting on an ammo box. It was summer though and I was enjoying myself.
hi guys,,,,, a few years ago in orbost ,,,australia,,,, i had my 1980 gs1000e,,,, all in bits and in boxes in the walk in wardrobe ,,,,and it all stayed in there for 6 months ,,, then i put down 2 white double ded sheets in the rear family room and got all the boxed parts out and started building the gs1000e up ,,, it took 3 months but was worth it ,,,then i put some petrol in the tank .got it started and rode it thruogh the front door and around the drive into my huge garage i did have at that time .. while my gs1000e was being built in the family room it did upset people that came to my home,,, rewgards oldbiker
