Looks good, you can make toast now off the heat from the fence wire coils. Two questions I have.
What is that motorcycle I see the rear end of? It looks quite old.
Why do you have a roll of toilet paper in the toolbox? are you one of those spoiled types that have a bog right in the workshop? If so, I'm tres jealous!
RC
I am spoiled. I waited all my life for this fine place to work. Before this place I worked out of an insulated transport trailer and a school bus in the yard. My shop has it`s own lew with running water supply from the house well pressure system, flush toilet, sink in counter and cupboard cabinet, mirror, hot water tank (heaters turned off now for many years to save $$$) exhaust fan and a door that closes so when I am alone I can be even moreso.
It is serviced by its own septic tank that is twice as large as the one connected to my house. I bought this property because it had a nice 3,500 sq.ft. commercial building and gravel parking lot with its own entrance being used at the time as a kitchen cabinet manufacturing factory as a neighbor to the nice brick bungalow house with its own separate driveway.
I find it useful to have rolls of paper towels at convenient grab places scattered throughout the shop.
I use those recycled 5 gallon steel paint and solvent pails all over as trash cans and put the MDF cutout from making a speaker cabinet on top of one so I would have a low stool to sit on working around the generator. It is no more sinister than that.
The `motorcycle` is my shiny new red bicycle! This was my big project at the beginning of last summer but I never quite finished it in time to ride it. This started as an `84 Honda 360 twin with the engine removed, engine compartment stretched 12 inches and now fuelled by four 105 AH. 100 lb each AGM lead acid batteries, DIY PWM motor speed control and 28 volt aircraft surplus generator used as a motor. It has foot pedals with directional sprag and chain drive for human propulsion so it qualifies under the `no liscence, no insurance` rules allowing electric assist bicycles. It will only go the 20 MPH max legal speed limit for this class of vehicle. The rims and spokes were a bit rusty so I sandblasted them and painted red with the rest of the frame. It will get a generously sized carrier basket behind the seat so I can use it to go into town to fetch groceries. It weighs fully as much as 1/2 the weight of many small cars with me on it. I`m not going to wipe out when I hit a pebble on the road, and I will leave a costly imprint on the grille of any careless motorist who tries to bounce me into the bushes! In addition to the legally required bicycle bell on the handlebars....bringggg bringggg, it is going to get powerful 12 volt automotive air horns, wireless keychain transmitter automotive anti theft, motion sensing siren alarm, a school bus quality amber conspicuity strobelight and powerful tail and headlamps for visibility. This additional safety equipment already purchased. The heavy blue starter motor cables from the big Changfa in one of the pictures are running to my bicycle for power!
I would like to build a diesel powered motorcycle based on the 1.6 litre turbo engine from a VW Jetta. That however will require that I find a much larger, stronger bike as a suitable rolling chassis for a good price and would have to wait until my more immediately mission critical projects can be completed, like the homepower wind turbine and ground source heat pump. It is highly unlikely that this bike would ever get built since I am running out of the physical ability to build things pretty fast.
