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Post by bobandjacqui on May 26, 2012 2:43:16 GMT 10
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Post by urkel1965 on May 26, 2012 15:55:09 GMT 10
Hi Folks My 4 car shed has 3 cars and a work area. If I don't keep it reasonably tidy, I can't move in it. After looking at the sheds above, I wonder why I even bother to slide the door open on mine, as there doesn't seem to be any fun stuff inside!!!!
And, Bob and Jacqui, I also apologise for my little muck up (even though I was supposedly under some sort of instruction from the guru).
Cheers Steve
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Post by humpty2 on May 26, 2012 19:14:53 GMT 10
I won the messiest shed competition against Cobber .......but I'm not putting the picture up here!! ;D ;D. I must admit that Bob's shed will take some beating.......I don't think that there was anything that was not in there. I think he likes FORDS.... ;D ;D
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Post by cobber on May 26, 2012 20:07:05 GMT 10
YOU'RE ON HUMPTY !! ............. You post a photo of your shed and I'll post one of mine Cobber.
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Post by humpyboy on May 26, 2012 21:55:51 GMT 10
I love a good shed, I got home from Cowra and decided it was high time that I cleaned up mine, lets see now ? I think I've been home for 3 weeks now and I'm still at it, think I will be for months to come yet but it was in bad need of a clean since it's been neglected since I started STU, oh well back into it tomorrow.
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Post by urkel1965 on May 27, 2012 14:23:21 GMT 10
Hi Rod, Just for you...don't get too excited!! Thats it Steve
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Post by DC3Td on May 27, 2012 16:36:16 GMT 10
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Post by seeshell on May 27, 2012 19:00:54 GMT 10
Hi All I do love seeing the sheds (Kaybee has a particularly well kitted out one!). Gordon, my word you're tidy!I love the bolt organisation...now I don't feel so bad about my own pathological need for things in containers. Cheers Seeshell
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Post by DC3Td on May 27, 2012 19:21:55 GMT 10
Hi Seeshell. Originally a coach builder & last 30 years or so a detailer i want & produce things neat. Kaybees got my vote too - only because he`s got a swag of fabulous cars in there! ha. gordon
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Post by humpty2 on May 27, 2012 19:24:14 GMT 10
RIGHTO COBBER, but don't forget........you got to put some up too!! I should point out that I have put a few things away since ............and i know where everything is ;D, but I still do make the odd 'discovery' This is the work bench..under there somewhere Looking back towards the door....the work bench Some ofthe 'good stuff' ...which continues around. Can't see the rest of the back and the other side.................but there is good stuff there too!! Gordon.......do you ever go in your shed............except to take photographs?
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Post by Cruz on May 27, 2012 20:03:55 GMT 10
::)Can we start a girls shed ?
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Post by DC3Td on May 27, 2012 20:21:14 GMT 10
Gday Humpyty2. To borrow from Jona Louie - you`ll always find me in the 'garage' at parties. Yep, every day i`m in there doing something constructive.Currently restoring antique Hecla heaters.Ferris radios being another between towel rails & breakfast trays! gordon
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Post by humpyboy on May 27, 2012 20:53:10 GMT 10
Thanks humpty2, having seen what your shed looks like I can stop cleaning mine now as it was waaaaaaaaaaay cleaner than that before I started ;D ;D ;D ;D and Gordon do you really get out in that shed? it looks way to clean, by the way it nice to see that I'm not the only one that reuses old electric motors.
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Post by DC3Td on May 27, 2012 21:53:42 GMT 10
Hi Humpyboy. Thanks. Pictures 6/7,8/9,10 & 11/12 are before/afters of machinery i refurbed/redesigned that my late 82 yo mate used for over 60 years & were given me. gordon
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Post by cobber on May 28, 2012 6:52:15 GMT 10
G'day humpty, That's nice mate ...... I like your shed because, it's YOUR SHED ! If somebody else wants to use something in YOUR SHED they have to ask you where it is, and that's the way it should be, well done . Now ….. those photos Gordon showed us, it's like a shop, anybody knows where everything is, even got labels on the draws, I think he's even given us before and after photos showing where he's cleaned and painted some of the equipment...... how disgusting is that …. get a go at the saw bench, it's got a new plywood top on it No offence intended Gordon , I do see a couple of good ideas in there...... plenty of light. I'll try and make time today to take some photos of MY SHED, I hope you'll be impressed humpty...... not sure anybody else will be though but that's OK..... we know what a busy shed should look like ...aye? Girls shed ....... that would be a separate thread wouldn't it..... I mean... like..I didn't think there was such a thing so ….I did a google.. “girls shed”... and all they talk about is shedding their hair . Cobber.
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Post by Roehm3108 on May 28, 2012 8:19:04 GMT 10
G'day humpty, Girls shed ….I did a google.. “girls shed”... and all they talk about is shedding their hair . Cobber. Hey cobber, turn the google filter off - - - - never know what you'll find then ;D ;D ;D Ray
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Post by cruisindoug on May 28, 2012 10:25:06 GMT 10
After the big push to get the van done before Cowra, I came home to my shed looking like this ...... does under the house count as a shed??? Its my Man space anyway! So spent a week sorting stuff, building benches etc etc Even got in and cleaned the FJ ... well what I have of it anyway! Dont worry Cobber its not real messy yet as its only a few weeks old ;D ;D ;D ;D That got me in the mood to do a few extras .... Still a work in progress but getting close now ... Cheers Doug
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Post by cobber on May 28, 2012 12:03:30 GMT 10
That's a very nice messy and tidy space Doug..... and serves the purpose well and would qualify it as a shed only because of the messy bits ...but really...... you shed have a space separate to the house... preferably made of corrugated iron..... or old B&D roller doors, as mine is. A shed is a shed...... anything else is not a shed, you know that . Cobber
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Post by cobber on May 28, 2012 12:07:34 GMT 10
OK humpty... I shed I would post photos of MY SHED if you did so here they are. I notice you have one long work bench..... I have at least five. When my first one got a bit hard to work on I built another..... and then another after the second one got messy.... and then another..... and then another... I think I have another one somewhere but I can't find it. This is my first bench, built in 1970, or there about. Behind the doors underneath the bench is where I keep my power tools that don't work any more, as you can imagine since 1970 I have accumulated quite a collection of them. The phone on the left is wired up to the house so the little woman can ring me when dinner is ready...... saves her walking all the way down to the shed. This next one is my second bench....I call it my “metal work bench” because it is covered with bits of metal. All the draws use to shut but that was before the white ants ate the runners.... but that's good because I can now fill the draws to over flowing. You can see the rego. stickers I have been keeping since 1994 … well, in keeping with true shed philosophy I reckon I bought 'em so I ain't chuckin' 'em.... now that the govnement is chuckin' 'em mine should be worth a quid in the future....aye? My third bench is actually a table for storing stuff on as it doesn't have a vice attached to it..... that is the difference between a work bench and a table, it is in MY SHED anyway. My fourth work bench (you can see the vice on the left hand end of the bench) has got a bit of a forward slope as you can see.... this is not a deliberate design feature but is due to the rabbits burrowing underneath it.... like wise the lean to the left that the shelves behind the bench have is due to the white ants eating the supporting timber.... we have to live with nature. The fifth bench (you can see the vice on the right hand edge of the bench) is located in a different section of the shed to the workshop area so that I can keep it tidier..... I call it “The Motoring Museum and Maintenance area”.... it's where I sit in foul weather to smoke my pipe, and look at my treasures. I apologise for the yellow horizontal surface you see here because it was necessary for me to remove the empty paint tins I had there in order to cut some wood..... it will be covered by stuff pretty soon..... as all horizontal surfaces should be. Against the wall behind it are my nuts..screws... nails...bolts..washers..clips...paint tins ….and miscellaneous pieces of hardware that might be useful one day. I know not everybody will like my shed but..........I DO. Cobber.
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Post by Jennison on May 28, 2012 14:50:51 GMT 10
After seeing cobber and humptys shed I don't feel so bad about mne!
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Post by humpty2 on May 28, 2012 19:23:56 GMT 10
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Post by Deleted on May 28, 2012 21:47:58 GMT 10
A tidy shed is a sign of a sick mind.. How in the hell can ya have a tidy shed and work on projects at the same time?? By the time ya finish packing away the tools that ya have left hanging up on the floor , there is no time left to make progress on your projects or inventions. for years i use to call people with shadow boards that have the silouette of the tool that lives there....wankers. Tool boxes are for storing tools.. and so is the floor.....maybe just one box for wogetric tools and one box for good old AF and whitworth stuff... some suitably modified .. ground away.. or bent for getting at those awkward nuts that car builders insist on fitting in behind other useless bits on the motor. That was until my two sons learnt the art of spanner weilding...and... losing. So.. i resorted to shadowboards and showed them how to replace tools back on the board where the appropriate "shape"was... cool . That way i could tell at a glance just what tools they had lost that week and...... i could go the toolshop and buy replacements to hang back on .. the approriate shape.. it works a treat. Never did get any of the lost tools back.... just helps me replace em quicker..... ;D I have one large shed to work on projects when i feel that way inclined.. that shed is .. "Reddos Shed of Invention"... There is no set "theme in here.. just loads of junk .. old pommy motorbikes.. a half built replica caravan.....2 beer fridges.............mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.. beeeeeerrrrr. missus crappy rav4 .. one FJ yoot and a soon to be departed FB panelvan. A few Holden 6 cyl motors and enough spares to rebuild 236 more...an assortment of blown up english mootorbike motors awaiting refurbishment...tubs upon tubs of mismatched nuts and bolts.... even some with stripped threads that i have trouble throwing out.. duno why.. its just a collector thing i suppose...a wide aray of useless pieces of steel offcuts.. gunna use em all up one day soon.. I have another shed behind that to store projects that .. have "Gone off the boil".....or.. simply wemnt wrong and need a rethink.. some have even got blood on em ..with bits of skin as well... sorta like a cooling off area.. Over on the opposite side of the yard i have 2 garden sheds... One is chockers with old holden spares and swap meet shi......ummmm stuff i no longer require....also store weapons of grass destruction in here too. Second garden shed is my cockroach avairy which doubles as a wood shed. I have a 6m x 6m carport i built to house 2 vintage vans... however the missus moved her A40 ute in there and simply refuses to move it.... This structure nearly got wiped out by a massive stringy bark that collapsed into the yard during the 2007 floods . Sadly i have nothing that even comes remotely close to Cobber and Humpty2s dung mounds.. i feel so inadequate Mess does matter. !!! Reddo
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Post by cobber on May 29, 2012 15:19:39 GMT 10
Thanks humpty.. and I'm also sorry because I know how much you loved your shed, but don't give up, in time it will mature. Shed stuff is like a compost heap, it takes time for it to mature, it will just keep on getting bigger and better. Sorry to notice you do have one of those shadow board things, that is a bad move mate, it will lead you to think tidy and organised is a good thing Reddo ….. you know the rules mate....PHOTOS !.....Have a look at this, the poms are leaving us for dead in this shed culture. Cobber.
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Post by Deleted on May 29, 2012 17:30:45 GMT 10
I'll play ;D I absolutely love this stuff, looking at these photos are unreal and remind me of my favourite show American Pickers, so firstly thanks for all for sharing their pics so far I have 2 sheds, an old 20x30 shed that was on the block when we moved in and my "grand daddy" which I have posted pics of in the past. She's 18m long, 7.5m wide and 3.6 high - 4.1 in the middle. I havn't got real good pics on hand but this is what I do have. My first shed And the grand Daddy Looking forward to getting the big shed concreted in the next week, just waiting for some good weather I've also got a rumpus room with a few goodies in it like some bar ware repro old signs etc. It's all ALOT of fun
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Post by Franklin1 on May 29, 2012 19:35:57 GMT 10
G'day All, I've posted the following photos on the forum before, however it's worth including them in this thread. A few years ago I was given a paperback book for Xmas... The book is a collection of stories about blokes and their indoor sheds... ...and also their outdoor sheds... Seems there are enough worthy sheds shown so far in this thread, for a second edition of the book to be published. If you need any ideas for what to give a bloke for Xmas, Fathers Day, birthdays, I'll give you a "sign" ... ------------------------------------------------ Message to cruisindoug: You orta be banned from posting photos on this forum. The speed at which you get through your projects is Un-Orstrayan! cheers, Al.
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