Okay I posted up the non pipe dream what would you like to do to your shop thread that got dug back up. So let's have a little bit of fun...
What would your pipe dream shop be? Don't go into painful detail, but do give us a rundown of the major stuff, like size, type, major equipment, location, and why you would pick those things? What would you do to make it special? Have fun with it. Think of this as the "If I ever won the Powerball" thread...
For me it would be a gambrel barn. 32 feet x 64 feet and 10 foot ceilings, with the rear 24 feet partitioned off, with side mounted rollup doors to that section and that section would be dedicated to an automotive shop and storage. I would include a twin post lift, brake lathe, rim clamp tire changer, and high speed balancer. If possible an alignment rack would be nice too.
The middle 8 feet would be sectioned off for a mechanical room, 3/4 bath, and a hallway. (The 3/4 bath is so I can get clean before I go into the house.).
The remaining 32x32 feet would be wood shop space with a staircase to the second floor.
The major machines would be, an Oneida 5HP cyclone, SawStop 3HP PCS, I know the whole politics of it, but I do like the saw... a Hitachi dual bevel 12" slider, and a bigger compressor. I am thinking at least a 60 gallon 3+ HP unit. Probably an 80 gallon 5HP model to support spraying, as well as running die grinders, impact wrenches etc... While I would keep my HF band saw, I would grab a 1.5HP motor for it, keep my shop built and hopefully soon done drum sander, keep my HF lathe and maybe add a mustard monster... Not sure about the make / model, but a 12" jointer would be really nice as well. I am not sure I would replace my Ryobi planer for sentimental reasons, but I might put it up as a display piece and grab a DW735. I have no desire for a large cast iron floor model machine. Just too my in my book.
I would have stairs to a second floor which I would set up with a music room (half the size of the second floor) where I would set up for my friends and I to play, complete with kegerator, and the other half would be set up for lumber and misc hardware storage...
Location location location... I would want it on some foothills land on the foothills to the coast range in Oregon just west of the Willamette Valley, probably just west of Salem. I like that area, and we have family and friends there...
Due to the climate, yes it does get somewhat hot in the valley (over 100 but for brief periods, I would have full on central heat and A/C. Multi zoned so that I am not heating / cooling areas I am not using at the time. The good thing is, with the way the climate is there, most of the year I can just throw a window or two open and heat / humidity would be perfect...
So that's my pipe dream. What's yours?
What would your pipe dream shop be? Don't go into painful detail, but do give us a rundown of the major stuff, like size, type, major equipment, location, and why you would pick those things? What would you do to make it special? Have fun with it. Think of this as the "If I ever won the Powerball" thread...
For me it would be a gambrel barn. 32 feet x 64 feet and 10 foot ceilings, with the rear 24 feet partitioned off, with side mounted rollup doors to that section and that section would be dedicated to an automotive shop and storage. I would include a twin post lift, brake lathe, rim clamp tire changer, and high speed balancer. If possible an alignment rack would be nice too.
The middle 8 feet would be sectioned off for a mechanical room, 3/4 bath, and a hallway. (The 3/4 bath is so I can get clean before I go into the house.).
The remaining 32x32 feet would be wood shop space with a staircase to the second floor.
The major machines would be, an Oneida 5HP cyclone, SawStop 3HP PCS, I know the whole politics of it, but I do like the saw... a Hitachi dual bevel 12" slider, and a bigger compressor. I am thinking at least a 60 gallon 3+ HP unit. Probably an 80 gallon 5HP model to support spraying, as well as running die grinders, impact wrenches etc... While I would keep my HF band saw, I would grab a 1.5HP motor for it, keep my shop built and hopefully soon done drum sander, keep my HF lathe and maybe add a mustard monster... Not sure about the make / model, but a 12" jointer would be really nice as well. I am not sure I would replace my Ryobi planer for sentimental reasons, but I might put it up as a display piece and grab a DW735. I have no desire for a large cast iron floor model machine. Just too my in my book.
I would have stairs to a second floor which I would set up with a music room (half the size of the second floor) where I would set up for my friends and I to play, complete with kegerator, and the other half would be set up for lumber and misc hardware storage...
Location location location... I would want it on some foothills land on the foothills to the coast range in Oregon just west of the Willamette Valley, probably just west of Salem. I like that area, and we have family and friends there...
Due to the climate, yes it does get somewhat hot in the valley (over 100 but for brief periods, I would have full on central heat and A/C. Multi zoned so that I am not heating / cooling areas I am not using at the time. The good thing is, with the way the climate is there, most of the year I can just throw a window or two open and heat / humidity would be perfect...
So that's my pipe dream. What's yours?
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