first pics of my work shop. damn it's cold lol
 

just started to get stuff in to my work shop I know where my casting gear is going. have not worked out area for my gun work area is going to be.

That is going to be real nice Corey. It always is nice to have a special place you can call your own and do what you like in it. I have plans as well.





There is the concrete slab for my future shooting house, wood working shop extension, and gun shop. I want to bring the garage out 12 more feet by 24 feet long, join the two roofs, take out a back wall, add a wood stove, wall mounted air conditioner, and a sliding window that I can shoot across my range from. Then I can shoot rain or shine, hot or cold.

seems like you have enough work shop already lol. i wouldnt neccisarily connect those unless they were all on the same slab. maybe some corridor connectors if you will?
corey..lookin good...is this fer reloading?

you need a heater lol. i just bought a new in-fared red style for the house and they work excellent and are not real expensive to run.. there also portable and assembled.. roll it anywhere you want.

That workshop needs a LOT more clutter. :wink:

Seriously, lay down the law now. My bench seems to collect random household stuff that the wife can't find a better place to put.

Just throw a wood stove in there. I want to get a new ... bigger wood stove for the house. So the current one will heat the wood working shop and most of the garage. I miss a heated garage. And you can never have enough workshop room. I have a lot of other tools I want to get and set up in their own area. I want a laser guided router etching table... that would be so cool.

Corey will discover just how quickly these shops fill up. Tools, parts, paint, hardware, etc.. next thing you know.. you need more room. So when are you moving in Corey?

Hubby is right! Clutter. Every shooter needs clutter to be happy.

But don't worry. If you have empty space, clutter will come.

I have one the small heaters in there right now. going to buy a little better one when they go on sale.

I am not reloading at the moment. for my casting, projects that are coming up (small remodeling projects), and casting.

figure my lead pot should help heat when I am doing it.

my scope mounting and bore sighting will be done in the house more room for my laser bore sighter

the clutter is at the our old home, have not moved it yet.

Cayugad's right. You can never have enough workshop!!!!

Way to go Cory! time will do all you need to be happy and enjoy your new home. Im like Dave, I can shoot out of my shed connected to the house, I just open the window and shoot. But Im not into tons of shooting like a-lot of you, this is just for emergency shooting and sighting in.
Cory dont buy one of them Eden Pure Heaters, the wife and I bought one and sent it right back, the controls on it did'nt work and it SUCKED Electricty, some energy saving heater, yes right! I heat with wood and a wood stove is the way to go. My natural gas is just for the stove and hot water heater, my home is all wood heat. My gas bills here in the north as less than $30 a month and we get lots a cold weather, I love it!
Congrat's on your new home!
(BP)

They sell a box stove at Harbor Freight for around $160 bucks. You can cook on it, and in a small shed it would drive you out in no time. I have a friend with a cabin that put one of them in and he can't fire it hot or he's in that cabin with the doors and windows open. Wood is easy to get if you have state or federal land around and a willingness to work. Some counties allow you to take out trees they cut along the sides of roads.

I was going to get one of them heaters Breechplug was talking about and heard the same thing.. they suck heat. Even one of them little heater buddies throws nice heat. And if you're casting, you have the heater off that too. I am sure you will be fine.

i run my pot are 700 to 750degrees. worked in an room about half that size the room started out at 60. light jacket on. after an hour, I was sweeting

I agree about never seeming to have enough space. Built 2 work benches in my garage and since they looked lonely, I had to buy more stuff to put on them. Now I could use 2 more.

As do I! Going to throw the clutter out of the garage, build a work bench and get in to reloading. Congrats on your new space Cory, every man needs his "cave." I should do the same as you and take some before and after pictures.

Ain't that the truth!

You will enjoy having a dedicated place to work on your different projects.

As for being cold.... without wind chill it was -24.4ºs below zero F. this morning at my place. The neighbor who lives along the river had 28 below. Almost a chip the dogs off the fire hydrant kind of morning.

Dang Cayugad 24 below. Thats cold enough to freeze the nuts off a polar bear. I really dont know how you fellers handle that cold of weather. One morning last winter when I got off work the temp was 3 above, it was miserable. I drove down to where I hunt on in the river bottoms and it was 5 below there, thats the coldest I can remember here.