Shop Furniture

[ponytug]

New furniture this week was a 4 x 5 x 20" small equipment repair bench. I can't afford a lift bench, so this is a compromise. I may weld up a light duty gantry over it to pick up a riding mower to work on the deck. It sits against the wall between roll-up doors, but is moveable and can be stood up to clear floor space if I need it. Let's hear it for scrap lumber. It cost nothing but a couple of hours time.

Photo please? Sounds useful. I have to admit to using the FEL and a couple of metal stands in lieu of a lift table.

All the best,

Peter

 

[2LaneCruzer]

I was on a safety committee many years ago at the lab where I worked; you wore your safety glasses all the time. Some of the safety films we saw will make a believer out of you...like the pair of safety glasses with a nail sticking in the lens, and one pair that saved a guy from a grinding wheel that disintegrated. One fellow I worked with was hit full in the face with a blast of molten KOH (Lye) from an exploding glass viscometer; he was badly burned, but the glasses saved his eyes.

As for gloves, I would be very circumspect about using gloves when you are using a drill press. I recall a fellow who injured his hand when it wound up somehow in the bit.

 

[bunyip]

I wear a dust mask when using abrasives for cutting or grinding too. Some woods, like cedar, are nasty to inhale, so sawdust needs a dust mask.

I read an article that said all sawdust is nasty just some worse than others, I bought a heap of camphor laurel then found I couldn't work with it as I got a massive headache despite wearing a respirator, got it for a good price and had to offload it shortly afterwards.
SWMBO was gardening and was weeding around a flax plant, leaned over and the sharp spike went under her glasses and into her eye socket, very lucky to have just missed the eye, I wear a respirator when turning, glasses when drilling and earplugs when on the tractor, rarely wear a mask as I don't think they do much

 

[Larry Caldwell]

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[Xfaxman]

For those that have not seen it, here is My Lumber and Plywood Cart

And someone laid metal on the shelves too.

 

[Xfaxman]

And a picture showing the top shelves:

 

[dstig1]

I made this rolling stand last year (?) as a handy item to keep the most used tools (mostly rulers, squares, pencils, etc) and any plans, documents, notes, etc I need for what I am working on. Rolls around with 4 swivel casters and has 2 locking ones, although I find I never lock them. The pivot for the table top is super overkill, but it was easy to make with the very limited tools I had on hand at the time. A little bit of "machining" and a little bit of welding.

 

[oosik]

My shop is in my log cabin. Long ago I built a work table. Two by twelve oak planks - dowelled and glued together. Built in-place because it ended up being so darn heavy.

Most all my collection of "must have" tools are in this shop.

 

[ponytug]

Wow, that is some grapple @oosik! What does it weigh?

All the best,

Peter

 

[oosik]

Wow, that is some grapple @oosik! What does it weigh?

All the best,

Peter

It's a Land Pride SGC 1560 - 820#. Designed and built for primary use on a skid steer. I mainly lift uber heavy rocks and chunks of pine tree trunk. Never lift anything really heavy very high. Staying low with a load - I can easily lift/move 3000 pounds.

Everybody's shops are so clean. Mine - covered with sawdust most everywhere. One of these days - I'll vacuum.

Around here there is alway the problem with mice and Hantavirus. It is normally a deadly virus - take care with your dust in your shop.

 

[ponytug]

It's a Land Pride SGC 1560 - 820#. Designed and built for primary use on a skid steer. I mainly lift uber heavy rocks and chunks of pine tree trunk. Never lift anything really heavy very high. Staying low with a load - I can easily lift/move 3000 pounds.

Everybody's shops are so clean. Mine - covered with sawdust most everywhere. One of these days - I'll vacuum.

Around here there is alway the problem with mice and Hantavirus. It is normally a deadly virus - take care with your dust in your shop.

Yes, I hate to stir up any dust indoors as a result of hantavirus. For some reason, I'm just not a fan of diseases that aren't curable.

All the best,

Peter

 

[oosik]

Short story. Moss mentions a man getting his hand wrapped up in a drill press. Worked for a company where we used LARGE magnetic based Milwaukee drills. We were cautioned - NEVER wear gloves when using these large drills.

So .... some young smart-a**ed dude knew better. Wore his fancy gloves and got his hand wrapped up around the chuck. You could hear his screams over the entire shop.

Another dude - who was even wiser - knew exactly how to extract the hand and glove. Put the drill in reverse and hit the trigger. Of course, the hand/glove simply wrapped up the other way. Fortunately - the guy passed out. Paramedics were able to administer some type of pain relief.

The hand was never the same.

 

[Larry Caldwell]

It's a Land Pride SGC 1560 - 820#. Designed and built for primary use on a skid steer. I mainly lift uber heavy rocks and chunks of pine tree trunk. Never lift anything really heavy very high. Staying low with a load - I can easily lift/move 3000 pounds.

Everybody's shops are so clean. Mine - covered with sawdust most everywhere. One of these days - I'll vacuum.

Around here there is alway the problem with mice and Hantavirus. It is normally a deadly virus - take care with your dust in your shop.

I know what you mean about keeping the shop clean. I would have to move everything in my shop just to clean anything but the open bays. I do have messy equipment on rollers, and a concrete apron outside, so if I use a cutoff wheel I roll it outside and spew the countryside instead of the interior, but I'm lazy and don't move the band saw.