Super Shop...

big tee

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Didn't want to hy-jack EU560's post about shops but this was in the mag. Top Producer and they were talking about it on Ag-Talk last week. 60 x 120--24 ft. sidewalls and it looks like you could eat off the floor. The shop is 4 yrs old and not a spot on the floor. A lot of people were running it down but my thought is if you don't have to pay for it let it be. It makes mine look like a Dungeon.---Tee
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I'll bet it even smells good.

That man is the polar opposite of me, and I'm not being critical of him.
 
Maybe if shop was as big as his, I could keep it that neat, too. Have to talk to the wife about that.

Hahahahaha...who am I trying to kid. Both the talking to my wife and my keeping it neat.

Fred
 
Reminds me of a place I went to work on a combine one day. Had to move the airplane outside so I could work on the combine.
 

My shop can't hold a candle to the one in the picture, not even close, but I did go for a smooth concrete floor. The contractor power floated it several times. Sure is nice when using a floor jack or an engine hoist, or a creeper.
 
Just reminded me of this shop where there isn't so much wasted space and everything is out where it can be seen/found. :)
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I suppose it would be nice to have something huge like that, but I sure wouldn't trade him my heating bill for his.

I wonder if he ever does anything in it? Besides eating off the floor, that is. lol
 
If it's the same one I saw he does do some manufacturing for himself and for others in that shop. One farmer in my area built a new $250,000 shop that he uses for storing his camper and waxing his new machinery.
 
JMOR I have the twin shop that you posted the pic of . I only have one box fan though and have screw in bulbs for lighting . Mine is I florida --- where are you?
 
If this guy doesnt have a stain on the floor then he doesnt do much. I would hate to admit how many times I have been working on something and had a fitting break or a hose let loose and dump 30-40 gallons of oil in just seconds. Then throw half a skid of oil dry down to catch it. This fella is a perfect example of the BTO complaining there's no money in farming. Might be like the big story run on Stamp Farms. Big flashy story, then 3 months later he files bankruptcy. Cant get much done without dirt n grease. Also wonder when was the last time he was hot n swetty on a open tractor? This kind of story makes some folks think all of us farmers are rich, living off of Gov. payments, living large watching the hired help dp all the work. Al
 
(quoted from post at 13:22:51 01/10/18) If this guy doesnt have a stain on the floor then he doesnt do much. I would hate to admit how many times I have been working on something and had a fitting break or a hose let loose and dump 30-40 gallons of oil in just seconds. Then throw half a skid of oil dry down to catch it. This fella is a perfect example of the BTO complaining there's no money in farming. Might be like the big story run on Stamp Farms. Big flashy story, then 3 months later he files bankruptcy. Cant get much done without dirt n grease. Also wonder when was the last time he was hot n swetty on a open tractor? This kind of story makes some folks think all of us farmers are rich, living off of Gov. payments, living large watching the hired help dp all the work. Al

That hard-surface coating on the floor makes oil spill cleanup a breeze. Had the same kind of coating on the floor in the factory where I used to work. Just mop up those spills and it's like it never happened.
 
(quoted from post at 16:11:33 01/10/18) JMOR I have the twin shop that you posted the pic of . I only have one box fan though and have screw in bulbs for lighting . Mine is I florida --- where are you?
stole the picture off someone's post about 10 years ago. Mine is a building, but about as full and similarly organized. Texas. Doing real work on heavy iron, I would have that guy's floor torn all to h in a few weeks, if not sooner.
 
I'm proud not to be that @na@l about a clean floor. Mine has seen plenty of hydraulic leaks, manure spreader repairs, frozen skid ster buckets brought in to thaw. I wouldn't know where to put the grease gun down in there!
 

I learned to work clean not make a mess and clean up as you go. I can not work on a dirty floor and won't how can folks work knee deep in speedy dry... You can work clean there is no reason to dump your mess on the floor if you do clean it up now not latter...
Speedy dry is banded at my shop I do have a bucket of it hidden just in case of a accident.

I do have a problem keeping a table clean tho :(...
 
If I put all my stuff in there, the picture would be almost the same.
Look how far you would have to walk to get a screwdriver or a pair of pliers.
 
Dumped 3 gallons of diesel and gallon hydraulic on floor this week already! 'Suff' happens, when you are doing things!
 
I do not use a floor polisher on my shop floor but it is swept clean between all jobs. If it really a dirty one I sweep at the end of each day. Used to drive me nuts to see guys working on a multi day job walking on two inches of oily floor dry and tracking it across the entire shop. Then the same fellow complaining he had to take things apart because they leaked or did not work because of dirt in something.


My tools are wiped off and put away every evening or the end of each job too. I have found missing tools dropped inside of things that would have ruined them if it had been ran. IF you have to look for a tool for fifteen minutes do you charge the customer for the "labor'?????
 
Haha. You got it right. Likely crying how much he has to pay for land rent.
No I'm not jealous. I'm realistic.
 
Part of the equation is the efficiency factor. You can bet that all of his tools are back in place so when the next job comes in he knows just where to find them.
 
(quoted from post at 17:16:12 01/10/18) I do not use a floor polisher on my shop floor but it is swept clean between all jobs. If it really a dirty one I sweep at the end of each day. Used to drive me nuts to see guys working on a multi day job walking on two inches of oily floor dry and tracking it across the entire shop. Then the same fellow complaining he had to take things apart because they leaked or did not work because of dirt in something.


My tools are wiped off and put away every evening or the end of each job too. I have found missing tools dropped inside of things that would have ruined them if it had been ran. IF you have to look for a tool for fifteen minutes do you charge the customer for the "labor'?????

Amen! That’s the way I run my shop. I often stop all work in the middle of a project to put tools away and clean up. Then I get back to work. The guys I ran with on the harvest would work the combines over in their shop during the winter. They would be working on the combine with a pile of corn, wheat, cobs, husks on the floor under the combine. If they used the torch they would kick the trash out of the way in the place the sparks would fall. It drove me nuts. If I helped them work on a combine I got out the broom first and cleaned up.
 

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