Building a Workbench Skatepark in my Garage

My last workshop only took a few days to complete with a

workbench

, some bike storage, a tall wall and all the little things that made it unique. But to be honest, these new

garage

s are a little overwhelming to start with, so we'll have to split up. This project is divided into three videos. Starting today with the

workbench

and compartment one, I think we only need half a compartment for this, which gives us plenty of breathing room to be creative. Clearance in particular opens up a lot of options. You see, this

garage

has high ceilings designed to accommodate car lifts and it would be nice to take advantage of some of that vertical space.

So I'm thinking we can use the workbench as a walkway and hang bikes high on the wall where we normally can't reach. Getting on the work table to load the bikes may require some stairs or perhaps a ramp. For fear of this turning into a garage skate park, I'm making a concerted effort to maintain a level of practicality here. If we left the back of the ramps open, they could be used to store large, unsightly things like lumber, my tent, and tarps. This little bit of functionality will give us full license to waste half of this.

Don't forget something absurd either. This ends up being a great idea for a costly and time-consuming mistake. I guess there's only one way to know. First things first, what are the workbenches, of which there will be two. The first will be three feet wide and three feet deep with a shelf underneath like my last bench. Since we will be walking and even writing on these benches, I am tightening the stands more than would be necessary for general bike maintenance. Maintaining this bench will be a total of six legs, each with a Dubai to run the entire height of the bench and a set of carefully spaced locks to support the outside frames of the bench.

They say you should measure twice and cut once. I tend to Measure the Wrong Twice and Cut It Once, but if it weren't for mistakes, we wouldn't be here doing any of this. In fact, with enough mistakes, you can achieve anything. One down, one to go. So we can store large items under the ramps. I'm going to leave this bench open without a shelf, so I'm willing to add some details to the legs to stiffen them up once this bench is in position. You should have a nice L-shaped workspace with plenty of room for a bike rack and plenty of beans underneath.

But we won't get into any of that until next week. For now we have some ramps to build. I will refer to this ramp as a wedge and with a dual purpose: the first is to transport bikes to and from the storage location and the second is for landing. For that reason, I'm trying to strike a balance between being gentle enough to walk up and down with a steep enough slope to act as a functional landing. The rise is three feet, as is the workbench, so I decided on a ten foot rise. If this ramp was in a public skate park, it would probably use heavier wood and more plies.

But for our purposes, three-quarter inch plywood and a bunch of two. four will be more than enough. I'm more concerned about the dry wall on the left that will need to be armored at some point, but as we discuss the slope of this ramp in my choice of materials in my choice of Materials you're probably thinking where the hell would you launch from to land on they? Before putting my pencil to graph paper, NKevin and I stood in the garage for hours contemplating what would be left here. In fact, we seriously considered the idea of ​​a telephone pit the size of this entire bay.

But after consulting with Phil about the matter, I decided it wasn't a smart use of space. Instead, we decided on a four-foot quarter pipe. To draw the transition, we made a six-foot radius from the base of the RAM and only four feet of height per quarter of people is rarely, if ever, an actual quarter of pipe. It's more like a fifth of a place, but that's enough for Steve to send you straight into the air, which is exactly what we want this to do. If you're having a hard time understanding how we plan to set this up, you're probably not alone.

But first I will show you that we have to build a bicycle rack. Given my limited height, the Rat can only be mounted as high as it can reach, but it's still enough room to work on the bench. The construction is simple and the five books in two are mounted on the wall beams. That would be enough to hang bicycles on its own, but I am also mounting two more, by force so that the wheels rest on each other. Having the bags on the wall looks really cool in one of the styles, it's a great size to accommodate my fatter bike that still runs on baby oil in the brakes.

Like I said, we have a lot of work to do here to get this store. operational, but this is the overall layout complete with storage and plenty of bench space. All my tools are still in boxes. My trail bike is still packed up from the trip to Whistler, but before I unpack any of this stuff, it's time to give it a proper shape. test It's time for us to know that that will be the case from the beginning, but that hasn't stopped, since in the past I had a dream about it. None of these guys have written much about gay couples, so this quarter wedge is quite a novelty.

Whether you're on a BMX, a dirt jump bike, or anything in between ramps, writing ramps is always about a session. Like in seance, there's one thing about being creative and exhausting all the different ways you can write it as your skills improve, so do your options, but skill is less important than you might think When you watch someone pound the pavement repeatedly for forty minutes It's hard not to share their excitement when they finally emerge victorious I don't care if they're attempting a triple backflip for a rabbit house like a puppy learning to climb stairs Something relatively basic can be exciting when you witness the struggle that led to it.

So tonight my twenty-four inch red line I'm chasing a wing of its own. These three sixties have been on my mind since before we finished this. go a little faster. I've only been a little more. If it was a mistake to dedicate half of your boot or bench, then it's a mistake I'd love to make again. The storage underneath will come in handy and there's still a huge work area behind it that we still have to build. I hope you enjoyed this video because we'll be spending a lot of time here over the next few weeks.

We still have to move all my stuff in here and build all the little things that make it work as a workshop Maybe during that time I'll try to find forty this thing until then hang in there thanks for coming with me today and I'll see you next time What's the first spot? What's wrong with Mike? There are compensations