Can I see your work benches?

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I built a pole barn over the last year and am still getting it organized. Would love to see examples of other set ups.

I’m particularly interested in storage and organizational ideas.

Here’s my bench pic taken today. It’s 16’ long with bin storage underneath. Always a work in progress for me.

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A charging station I just installed today ….

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Nice looking garage and good-sized bench but I would not sleep a wink till I went down and cleaned it off. I use my garage workbench every day and there is not more than a handful of days that I go to bed with something on my bench. A workbench for me is not a storage shelf. If I have an unfinished project, the parts are stored on a shelf. Had multiple workbenches in my construction career and my men knew they could wrinkle a fender on a truck with fewer repercussions than if they left a screwdriver on the bench. And just to confirm for all that read this, I also can't sleep knowing the money in my wallet is not all facing forward and in order by denominations.
 
Nice looking garage and good-sized bench but I would not sleep a wink till I went down and cleaned it off. I use my garage workbench every day and there is not more than a handful of days that I go to bed with something on my bench. A workbench for me is not a storage shelf. If I have an unfinished project, the parts are stored on a shelf. Had multiple workbenches in my construction career and my men knew they could wrinkle a fender on a truck with fewer repercussions than if they left a screwdriver on the bench. And just to confirm for all that read this, I also can't sleep knowing the money in my wallet is not all facing forward and in order by denominations.


A big part of me agrees with you 1000%. The other part of me knows this is a work in progress. Putzing is a major part of my MO.
 
I'm confused about the word "work."

I have several tables,, none are for "work"

this one is 6X6 feet,,

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This one is 5X5, and to its right is a 4X5

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If those WERE work tables,, this would be my "break area",, it is 16X25

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The roll-up door to my shop was the last step to completion, it is 18 feet wide.

That door cost more than the rest of the building,, I am a frugal shopper,,,

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I built the shop in 1999.
 
Take down the beer sign and put up a couple 4x8 sheets of pegboard longways.........Can hang LOTS of tools and stuff within easy reach.
Also I built a heavy duty 4x4 floating(moveable) table with regular vise and pipe vise. With under storage for my electrical tools. I use this much more than the wall bench.

AND as gig said above. Insulate the walls.
 
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LOL, I get mine just about cleaned up and then start some projects and chaos occurs. I have several benches, they get cleaned up and then messed up as a project that suits them comes along. I have aboutt 2000sqft of shop counting the piece along side that I store pipe and sheet metal in and a small storage room.

The new bay is 38'x 24' has 2 rolling tool boxes a welding table and a mag drill set up to use as a drill press, a roll around gantry crane with 2 1/2 ton chain fall, a shelf for batteries and drills, shelf for bolts nuts screws brackets etc, another for power tools and a welding bench, plus a Miller XMT 350 and a Miller dual wire feed with Mig gun and spool gun. Then there is a 20x20 room that used to be a small apartment with an stove and fridge and attached bathroom, it now has 2 benches for reloading equipment and several shelves full of components and ammo, fishing poles etc.

Then there is a 24x24 room with a lathe, milling machine along one wall, the back wall has a Heat treating oven a tempering oven and odd stuff like an old dentist drill, the other side wall has 2 industrial 2x72 grinders a pedestal with 3 buffers machines and one pedestal with motor that turns a 9" and a 12" discs that sandpaper goes on. The wall between it and new shop has a shelf full of tool still aluminum brass copper various spare power tools and machine attachments. There are 2 double wide benches with dividers it the center int he areas. Near the grinders is a blast cabinet then bench space for grinder attachments, sander disks, with lots of belts hanging over head. The side of that bench near the center has a spot for working on knife handles, dremel tools and attachments, on its left side are drawers full of Damascus, exotic wood ivory horn etc and on shelves of sand paper. On the end of that bench there is a vertical band saw. Then across the isle from that is a spot with a gun rest for working on rifles complete with a bunch of cleaning gear. To the left of that spot there is a mounted Port a Band with a small table that I use to cut small metal parts. A a set of open shelves separate it from where I work on hand guns, there is a granite slab there gun tools small containers for parts, and a small vice with aluminum jaws. to the left is a small bench top drill press and stacks of drill bit. Then a spot that has a larger vise with brass jaws, a small arbor press. There is also a corner with shelves the has trays with S&W parts, ice cream buckets with cylinder and more with barrels, next shelf down has end mills reamers, etc and under that is a bucket with Ed's red container of blue solution and large kettles and propane burners for that.

Just completed my 8 3/8" to 5 3/8" S&W 500 chop job, then made a aluminum trough funnel deal to fill small bags for Masonic lodge brother who chops up beef livers, freeze drys them for dog treats.

The main bay currently has my step daughters International scout plugging it up


I need to go do a basic clean up and take some photos
 
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Some people that don't know me well call me anal because I am neat and organized. However, those that do know me know that I would have to loosen up considerable to get to the anal level. I have gotten out of bed, got buddled up and went to the garage to put a screwdriver away or organize money in my wallet. My kids say I am so far past OCD that I actually have CDO. That is OCD put in the proper alphabetic order.
 
Everyone uses mine as a place to drop/leave stuff on their way to or from the Garage..................my mistake was putting it too close to the shoe and coat racks!!!!!


In the basement "workshop" mine is 30x60" w/ storage underneath and above across the room (about 3') my wife's is 24x72" same storage set up.

At the lake in the garage I sprang for 3 heavy duty (2000lb/shelf) 7x2' shelving units..... each w/5 shelves as we have a 12' ceiling. Giving me 210 sq feet/400 cu ft of storage
All three have heavy duty canvas covers across the front and sides to get a cleaner look. Use totes on the top shelf.
 
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Everyone uses mine as a place to drop/leave stuff on their way to or from the Garage..................my mistake was putting it too close to the shoe and coat racks!!!!!

I used to hate that. When my kids were still at home, all of the stuff they no longer wanted after cleaning their rooms ended up in the garage and/or on my workbench. The workbench stays less cluttered now, but I sort of miss that. The wife, on the other hand still dumps stuff in the garage.
 
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