i wish i had that kinda room for stuff, i barely have space for my jeep and car. theres a jeep near me that would be a great buggy build or parts jeep, its pretty beat up but its got triangulated 4 links front and rear with waggy 44s..but oh well

 

Yeah. Technically I DON'T have the room lol. The county has been leaving me love notes on my door to get rid of the thing for over a month. Luckily, they've been nice about giving me extra time to get rid of it, but they won't let me forget I need to get it out of here haha.

My plan was to have it gone and have another vehicle to part out sitting in its place, but that has changed now. Just going to have to wait until we get a house on an acre or two and start doing it then.

 

Come to michigan...where some people like to have garden gnomes michiganders have spare parts vehicles...you should see some of our neighbors yards!

There's a milwaukee equivalent for pretty much anything:



http://www.slideshare.net/Western-Bu...-tools-catalog

 

Oh trust me, I'm no stranger to the Milwaukee. (Matter of fact, my sawzall is a Milwaukee - and I great one at that!) I grew up with Milwaukee, Makita, Bostich, and just about every other high-end brand of power tool in the garage at our house. My dad ran a cabinetry business out of it. All long before DeWalt even made an appearance into the market.

While there's a power tool for everything under the sun, the cost of each tool is pretty substantial as compared to buying an accessory for a compressor. There are certain things I love to have in 18v or 20v, but I like having the compressor and air tools... plus that's less batteries I have to keep charged.

 

Take a 2ND look at the new stuff finally coming out. The old school stuff is in a different league than the new brushless motor and lithium battery stuff. Lithium can be charged way faster, much safer and deliver staggering amounts of current. Paired with a brushless motor they are incredibly efficient and ridiculously powerful. The impact I just bought is my first Milwaukee and we'll see how it does. I had an old skill set I upgraded to a lithium ion battery on and it was night and day(it was still using Ni-CAD...ick). Those wore out so I've started buying Porter cable 20v lithium tools and they're crazy. Even the non brushless impact gun I can't stop breaking the adaptors. I've gotten 3 or 4 sets replaced under lifetime warranty. My air impact can't even break some of the stuff that the 20v one could(it is a cheapy 240 something ft lbs husky though). I asked for a dewalt impact with similar specs for christmas and got a different set of tools, then my friend sent me an eBay link to the Milwaukee on sale and I couldn't pass it up, now that I'm travelling for work and getting travel bonuses and perks. The nearest air powered impact rated as high as the Milwaukee is an IR that's just as expensive and much less convenient. I have 2 chargers, a couple 1.5ah batteries(nice and light) and even using my sawzall and anglegrinder basically constantly I never have been without power. I've bought a 4ah for when I travel now I can substitute the sawzall with a pruning blade for my gas chainsaw. It's great stuff that I hope Tesla can bring to the auto market soon! Crap...why do I always get on long spiels on your thread? sorry...lol

Edit: and you gotta shop the sales! Lol

 

lol... little long-winded, but no biggie. And I do shop the sales lol.... I just bought a top-branded impact gun and air ratchet for 55 bucks total! Albeit, they're used, but the impact alone is almost 300 bucks brand new! And yeah, I'm quite familiar with the brushless motors and lovely lithium power... been in the RC world quite a long time meself. It's just a LOT OF BATTERIES to keep charged up.

I've got 4 outlets in my garage. 1 220v for the dryer. 1 110v/20a for the washer. 1 2-gang 110v/15a for literally everything else. I have an ill-advised 6-gang wall adapter in that outlet which has the tv, the ROKU, 2 battery chargers (I have 3 already), an extension cord for whatever I may need to plug in from 50' away, and a 3-gang extension cord that's about 25' long that allows me to run the workbench light, the shop fan, and the compressor - in order to run a cell-phone charger or a work light (or anything else) I have to unplug something else. It's already sketchy enough lol. I'd LIKE to run more power in there, but it's a rental home. So whatever monetary investment I make into running power, I lose.

I get your point man, battery powered tools are great. Air tools are great. AC tools are great too. I like to keep a mix of all 3 rather than putting all my eggs into the basket of any single one of the 3. If I had the money to do it... well... let's just say I'd have a garage that mechanic's shops would envy, and my friends' wives would be calling and complaining because their husbands never come home.

 

this.

i actually have a mad plan to build a garage-house, i got the idea from my work, my job site is prmarily at our storage/operations facility, which is a 40x 80x16 mueller steel building thats half shop and half 2 story house with central air, my scheme is to do something similar with a slightly taller building.

kicker is my boss has about 80k in the whole building minus the 10 ish acres of property

 

NICE! That's a lot of property for that amount of money. Wish I could do something similar. My wife wouldn't have it though lol.

I do plan on building my own shop apart from the house on whatever property we end up with though.

 

the property isnt part of the price, thats just the what the building/ finish-out was, i have know idea what the property was, its a shame to since it stores several shipping containers of explosives there hardly anything else that can be done with it

i hear ya man, i need a shop space where i dont have to worry about heat, noise, or light. i currently rent a room in a house, and the garage and its not exactly ideal. between all the screaming kids and the distance from work, once the jeeps "finished" ill be saving every penny i have to buy a house, assuming my boss doesnt push me off the edge

 

Stick it out man, it will all be worth it later on. I wish I would have done that before I got married and had kids. The goal is still there, just takes longer. MUCH longer.

 

haha! one of the first houses we looked at had a military style quonset hut in the back with an industrial LP furnace set up! The house and property were ~20k asking price but the house needed quite a bit of work and the wife said no...I will never forget it. We could have paid cash, rented out the extra room in the quonset hut to some college kids, had tons of room for my 3 Jeeps and probably could have had a decent steady storage rental income...but no...lol!

 

Awwwww maaaannnn... I hate it when the wife says no to stuff like that.

I found a WJ with some front-end damage. Only needed the front clip replaced and the driver's side door. They were asking 550. Still ran and drove without problem. Found a front clip for 200 bucks. She wants a WJ, so it's not like I'm trying to talk her into a vehicle she didn't want, ya know? So total investment would be 700 bucks plus a door and the cost to have it repainted. No more than 1500 bucks TOPS in the whole thing once all is said and done.

Wife said no. Not just no, "God no".

 

Both our rigs have come a long way brother. Almost ready for a weekend trip up there once the weather cools off.

 

Heck yeah that have man! We definitely need to plan a ride!

 

I'll be up there for Jeeptoberfest. Maybe we could all ride then!