[TheForge] Setting up shop (more or less)

Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer artgawk at thegrid.net
Thu May 29 03:20:32 EDT 2008


Bob:
I don't know how much slack social pressures offer you, but;
the place that sell garage doors usually have old ones to give away. A 
truck load of those could  be cobbled into a cheap, quick shop...pf

Bob Brashear wrote:
> My shop is outdoors. Don't do much when the temp gets below zero or the 
> occasional tornado roams by. Would use the garage but the wife insists 
> on parking the car in it. The nerve!
> 
> Anyway. just got done setting a 6x6 pressure treated post in the ground 
> for the vise I got from Bob Schade. Poured a couple hundred pounds of 
> concrete. I am about 9 inches below the average frost line. Discovered 
> that I'm sitting on mostly sand. Got about 6 inches of topsoil.
> 
> Have three or four days of rain coming in, so I'll be filing away on the 
> knife I'm working on.
> 
> So much fun!
> 
> Bob Brashear
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