Show your work bench

[KyDeerSteward]

presently my work bench is a drafting table which just takes too much space. Thinking about building a new one. How about some pics of your workshop benches for ideas?

 

[Mennoniteman]

Here are two of my workbenches; 2X8 southern yellow pine planks flat on 2X6 framework and 4X6 treated posts makes an easy to build strong workbench.

 

[Mennoniteman]

1/8" steel bent by local steel shop, 20' long painted gray. This thing is indestructible.

 

[KyDeerSteward]

Nice! Those both look very sturdy!


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[Chainsaw]

With hunting clothing, boots, cameras, habitat tools and equipment on the rise all the time I'm finding less and less space for my work room. Today all of my wood working equipment like drill press, shaper, table saw, etc.are on wheels except for the workbench. I too am considering a new work bench and here are two improvements I'd like to include.

1. make the work bench in two or three separate sections and on wheels. In normal conditions they would be in their designated place beside each other and function as one continuous table. When space is needed for drying lumber or whatever they could be rolled into a corner.
2. Underneath my current workbench it gets very dusty despite having a pretty good functioning dust collection system. To combat that I want to build enclosed cabinets underneath and part of the workbench to hold major tools like compressors, skil saws, saws-alls, and such.

Further there is so much stuff related to everything habitat and hunting and fishing that it is difficult to keep it all organized. Thus I am building standing cabinets(on wheels) to hold each category of stuff so they can stay clean and so I can begin to find stuff quickly. In the old days this space problem didn't exist. To go fishing we grabbed our one fish pole, hooks and split shot and off we went. To go hunting we took our old single shot 22 off the wall and grabbed a handful of 22's and we were good to go. Today there is a special thing for everything, heck even to plant a tree we have a special shovel and then to pull a tree over we have a special hook or two and on and on it goes. Sorry got off the work table subject a little.

 

[Mennoniteman]

With hunting clothing, boots, cameras, habitat tools and equipment on the rise all the time I'm finding less and less space for my work room. Today all of my wood working equipment like drill press, shaper, table saw, etc.are on wheels except for the workbench. I too am considering a new work bench and here are two improvements I'd like to include.

1. make the work bench in two or three separate sections and on wheels. In normal conditions they would be in their designated place beside each other and function as one continuous table. When space is needed for drying lumber or whatever they could be rolled into a corner.
2. Underneath my current workbench it gets very dusty despite having a pretty good functioning dust collection system. To combat that I want to build enclosed cabinets underneath and part of the workbench to hold major tools like compressors, skil saws, saws-alls, and such.

Further there is so much stuff related to everything habitat and hunting and fishing that it is difficult to keep it all organized. Thus I am building standing cabinets(on wheels) to hold each category of stuff so they can stay clean and so I can begin to find stuff quickly. In the old days this space problem didn't exist. To go fishing we grabbed our one fish pole, hooks and split shot and off we went. To go hunting we took our old single shot 22 off the wall and grabbed a handful of 22's and we were good to go. Today there is a special thing for everything, heck even to plant a tree we have a special shovel and then to pull a tree over we have a special hook or two and on and on it goes. Sorry got off the work table subject a little.

I agree, the average American has a lot more stuff nowadays. I see this in the building business, we are building bigger buildings for people with the same needs than we used to, because their stuff keeps getting bigger. If you notice I have repurposed office file cabinets under my steel workbench above, and I get a lot of stuff in 20' of them. More cabinets is a good idea. I like your idea of moveable workbench and cabinets.

 

[Chainsaw]

Twenty feet of file cabinets under the workbench is an excellent use of space. They must hold a lot of stuff organized for sure. I had not noticed the file cabinets in the picture, glad you pointed that out.. That is a home run. A new workbench with cabinets underneath is planned for a next winter project here.

Currently on rain days I'm working on building storage cabinets to store and organize my tools and hunting/fishing/habitat improvement stuff.

 

[Blizzard Ridge]

If I could find my work bench under all the crap I would post a picture.

 

[Chainsaw]

If I could find my work bench under all the crap I would post a picture.

I am still laughing, it took me WEEKS to clear the table saw, planer, jointer, drill press, shaper, sander and chop saw table surfaces to say nothing of the surrounding floor areas just to even think of beginning the project of building cabinets to organize my stuff. And then the full bags of sawdust from the last project of building more tree stands than i would admit to had to be emptied from the vacuum system also.

 

[KyDeerSteward]

With hunting clothing, boots, cameras, habitat tools and equipment on the rise all the time I'm finding less and less space for my work room. Today all of my wood working equipment like drill press, shaper, table saw, etc.are on wheels except for the workbench. I too am considering a new work bench and here are two improvements I'd like to include.

1. make the work bench in two or three separate sections and on wheels. In normal conditions they would be in their designated place beside each other and function as one continuous table. When space is needed for drying lumber or whatever they could be rolled into a corner.
2. Underneath my current workbench it gets very dusty despite having a pretty good functioning dust collection system. To combat that I want to build enclosed cabinets underneath and part of the workbench to hold major tools like compressors, skil saws, saws-alls, and such.

Further there is so much stuff related to everything habitat and hunting and fishing that it is difficult to keep it all organized. Thus I am building standing cabinets(on wheels) to hold each category of stuff so they can stay clean and so I can begin to find stuff quickly. In the old days this space problem didn't exist. To go fishing we grabbed our one fish pole, hooks and split shot and off we went. To go hunting we took our old single shot 22 off the wall and grabbed a handful of 22's and we were good to go. Today there is a special thing for everything, heck even to plant a tree we have a special shovel and then to pull a tree over we have a special hook or two and on and on it goes. Sorry got off the work table subject a little.

Great ideas!

 

[Triple C]

Here's the work bench in the shop area behind our living area in the cabin. Posts are small cedar logs cut from the farm. Top is left over 1x4 rough sawn pine that was used inside the cabin. Pano view makes it look a little weird. Makes for a convenient place to work on small stuff.

 

[Mennoniteman]

I did a small workbench project today. 3' high x 32" deep, 10' long, 2x12 yellow pine top on 2x6 frame, screwed it all together with 5/16x4 GRK structural screws, coated with minwax polyacrylic clear.

 

[Mennoniteman]

I did a small workbench project today. 3' high x 32" deep, 10' long, 2x12 yellow pine top on 2x6 frame, screwed it all together with 5/16x4 GRK structural screws, coated with minwax polyacrylic clear.View attachment 7838 View attachment 7839

I added some shelves above my recent work bench project. 1X12 white pine with a 1/4" Luan back