mark123
Aluminum
- Joined
- Jun 4, 2010
- Location
- Trundle,NSW,Australia
For some time I have wanted to start a thread about building my new workshop. I have documented some of it on an aussie metalworking forum (as some of the australian PM members will know) but now I want to put a shortened version here as a lead in to moving the machinery in. I have some interesting machines which I hope some of the members here will enjoy reading about.
As an introduction I am mostly a farmer and live in a pretty isolated area about 6 hours drive inland from Sydney. It is hot, dry and dusty here which can make for an uncomfortable working environment sometimes. I already have about 2000sft shed but my machinery collection has significantly out grown this. So I decided to add a seperate but connected 3000sft shed alongside to other sheds. I wanted to add a travelling gantry in the shed because I have some big machines and moving things around is getting harder as I get older. But this complicated things a lot. In the end I couldn't find anyone who wanted to help me build it so decided to design, fabricate and erect the shed myself. This has been a huge learning curve but has allowed me to keep the cost down and build it at my own pace. Because I where I live there are no restrictions to what I can build or how I build it.
So in 2016 I started collecting some second hand materials, working on the design and preparing the site. I already had the second hand crane so in some respects the shed was designed around that.
I will try to keep these posts shortish as I hate reading long posts myself and will include a few pictures as I go.
As I am starting in 2016 I have a lot to catchup on so the first posts will come fairly quick.
This a photo of the shed site being clearered
Some second steel for the posts
Thanks
Mark
As an introduction I am mostly a farmer and live in a pretty isolated area about 6 hours drive inland from Sydney. It is hot, dry and dusty here which can make for an uncomfortable working environment sometimes. I already have about 2000sft shed but my machinery collection has significantly out grown this. So I decided to add a seperate but connected 3000sft shed alongside to other sheds. I wanted to add a travelling gantry in the shed because I have some big machines and moving things around is getting harder as I get older. But this complicated things a lot. In the end I couldn't find anyone who wanted to help me build it so decided to design, fabricate and erect the shed myself. This has been a huge learning curve but has allowed me to keep the cost down and build it at my own pace. Because I where I live there are no restrictions to what I can build or how I build it.
So in 2016 I started collecting some second hand materials, working on the design and preparing the site. I already had the second hand crane so in some respects the shed was designed around that.
I will try to keep these posts shortish as I hate reading long posts myself and will include a few pictures as I go.
As I am starting in 2016 I have a lot to catchup on so the first posts will come fairly quick.
This a photo of the shed site being clearered
Some second steel for the posts
Thanks
Mark