The new "Crashfab"

Bustin Loose · Jan 5, 2015

crash said:
If I can inspire one person--then I am achieving what I set out by sharing.. :awesomework:

Indeed you have! I can hardly wait to get the old shop cut out from all the blackberries that have grown around it especially now that I have a tractor to park under it. I giggled when I saw your grinder because there is one here too but the motor is under it and it runs the grinder belt drive style. I just need to hire an electrician to run power out to it someday. It used to be a small engine repair shop.

crash2 · Jan 6, 2015

Bustin Loose said:
Indeed you have! I can hardly wait to get the old shop cut out from all the blackberries that have grown around it especially now that I have a tractor to park under it. I giggled when I saw your grinder because there is one here too but the motor is under it and it runs the grinder belt drive style. I just need to hire an electrician to run power out to it someday. It used to be a small engine repair shop.

:awesomework::awesomework:

crash2 · Jan 6, 2015

Anthony said:
Looking good. :awesomework:

Thanks Anthony....:awesomework:

crash2 · Jan 6, 2015

Drilled a BUNCH of holes and countersunk every screw below the surface. Pays to have good bits :awesomework:

crash2 · Jan 6, 2015

Spent a good 4 hours grinding and working the metal where I wanted it. The front 8ft long edge was the tricky one. Went thru multiple types of methods with the finish hand filed(ok ya I know :redneck

. But the front edge is absolutely straight and if it wasn't for the little pivots/small dips from the edge of the welds you would have thought it was rolled..

crash2 · Jan 6, 2015

Last piece of the puzzle. I drilled and tapped the bench top and this bitch is VERY secure... :cheer:

notstock · Jan 6, 2015

Nice table :awesomework:
You are so danged anal about everything :haha:

mudmaster · Jan 6, 2015

Nice work!

crash2 · Jan 6, 2015

Thanks--nice to see the hard work and planning paying off..

crash2 · Jan 20, 2015

So this is the last piece of the puzzle--the one thing keeping me from being 100%!!!

Still wading options just need to get some sort of base down but we also need to gravel the whole driveway but thats not a big deal as there is a good base for that part.

Not knowing anything about this stuff is making it tough and $$ is now getting tight.

ish · Jan 20, 2015

Put road fabric down and put the gravel on top, it keeps the fines from coming up through the gravel. Either slope it all away or to one spot with a catch basin and then then pipe it somewhere. Anything less than 2% will collect water...

That's my best guess

zukkev · Jan 20, 2015

Key is slope it AWAY from the shop. Nothing worse than standing water at the doors...

crash2 · Jan 20, 2015

I removed a big problem by moving the downspouts--that helped but it is kinda of a dome slope and for the most part it does slope away from the shop. There is also a good gravel base that extends roughly 8ft out from the shop and with the clay base below the dirt that should help.

I just need to get something because rigs are lining up to get into the shop.

WA-Wheeler · Jan 20, 2015

Yeah. Just needs a good slope. You have a tractor now right? I agree also with putting something down to keep the weeds at bay. Wish I would have done it....but then again using my propane torch is pretty fun lol

crash2 · Jan 20, 2015

Not really worried about weeds--I have bags of caseron(sp) to put down.

ish · Jan 20, 2015

The road fabric isn't for the weeds, its for the silt. Put the roof drains into a pipe, then into a catch basin and then run it a long ways away.

Maverick26 · Jan 20, 2015

ish said:
The road fabric isn't for the weeds, its for the silt. Put the roof drains into a pipe, then into a catch basin and then run it a long ways away.

I wish I would have done this, I just put gravel down over dirt and I have been fighting it for 3 years.. every winter and every car ruins my driveway. The gravel just pushes down into the mud and Im left with the busy in my yard. I can back my trailer to my shop without 4x4. This summer I am renting a hoepack or large roller and then having it paved.