Poll - Where is your shop located ?

[Glenn]

Where is your shop located?
There were 122 votes

Structure that was converted (Old barn, chicken house etc. in a former life)
38 votes or 31.1%

Building built for that purpose.
33 votes or 27%

Where ever there is room enough for a fire and anvil.
21 votes or 17.2%

Lean-to or shed roof with one or more open sides.
15 votes or 12.3%

Outside no roof ( one set location)
15 votes or 12.3%

[Dutchmancreek]

I built my shop attached to my other work shop, on a poured concrete pad. It has a metal, insulated roof and metal siding. Windows on two sides and wide doors on opposite walls for ventilation.

[julian]

my forge is in a little corner of the backyard adjacent to the garage, where my grinder and other tools are (in a little corner of the garage). all in all a little shop I took the poll on the homepage, too

[FredW]

Mine is a 16' square metal building in my backyard that used to be for storage and lawnmowers. The lawnmower still goes in there but I move it out when forging. A garden shed.
I also have a larger 40x30 shop that has my woodworking and knifemaking tools in it. Grinders and such.

Fred

[Rantalin]

My shop is behind the garage, out of site, as my parents consider it an eyesore and I have no place to put it inside the garage. The forge, a small two burner propane forge, is on top of a gutted propane grill lined with some brick. The "anvil" sits on a sawhorse, which has a lightweight vice bolted onto it. Not the best setup, and I want a permenant shop, but I'll be done with college and moving out in a couple of years, so for now my setup is just fine.

[skunkriv]

Rantalin

Sounds like you're off to a good start. Someday you will own your very own "eyesore" like most of the rest of us!

[JerryCarroll]

I had a 24'x40' pole barn with a 6' overhang the 40' length for a porch before I retired. Walls are 12' high with a 16' peak--no windows for security--10' wide door on the end toward the front of the property and a 36" walk in door bout 2/3 the way back on the porch side. 12" stack is on the backend of the building thru the wall and up 3' above the peak. Floor is 27 tons of fine packed road mix gravel. The barn is behind my garage/woodworking 24'x40' 2 story building. My family calls my place "the Carroll compound".

[dief]

My shop is in the half bay of a 3&1/2 car garage attached to our house. I pull my truck out and have enough room to move around - built a 6 by 20ft rolling gate in it. The power hammer, flypress, anvil, drill press and work bench are lined up against the wall. I wheel my propane forge out to near the garage door. I also have a post vice on a pipe with three feet I can bolt to the flloor when I need a second vice. I have a small coal rivet forge I drag outside when I need to use it. The wall behind the power hammer has a 8in round hole in it so I can work stock longer then three ft. I built the garage before I joined the way of the hammer so the ceiling is only 8ft. If I had to do it over I put in a higher ceiling with supports for a trolley hoist. The garage and most of the house is built of Perform Wall - 10 in thick walls of styrofoam and concrete so the DB doesn't hear me - except when I use the powerhammer. When I get a some spare time (ha) I want to add a power exhaust vent to the ceiling - a bit more covenient then the fan in the window.

[Nick]

Mine started life as a barn. Then it was an airplane hanger (to this day it's called the Hanger as much as the shop). Then it was a storage building. Now it's a blacksmith shop, with a small area for storage.

[matt walker]

Built as shop 2001. Mostly dirt floor. 30X60.
Matt