Workshop bench.

fermerboy

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Location
Banffshire
This winter I plan to build a new 22ft long bench to replace the exsisting hodge podge I have.

I'm after inspiration really, not sure what to use to build it, angle or box section?
Probably wooden topped most of the way, with a plate at one end for welding on.
Ideally I'd like doors along the front so that underneath could be used for tidy storage, part with shelves part not so I could roll in a toolbox and close doors.
Also what height and width would be the best.

Any ideas/tips/recommendations/pictures??
Any advice welcome.
 

BuskhillFarm

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Arable Farmer
This is mine. eBay legs painted blue. Kitchen worktop from b and q. Racking from big dug. Just needing to make a big steel table on castors for welding now.
 

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fermerboy

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Location
Banffshire
This is mine. eBay legs painted blue. Kitchen worktop from b and q. Racking from big dug. Just needing to make a big steel table on castors for welding now.
Good stuff, looks like a nice insulated shed you have there.
I was thinking to have a backing board with a shelf, and some extra lights.

Maybe I've been watching too much Larson farms on youtube, their workshop is brilliant.
 

bitwrx

Member
Why not a 6 or 8 ft bench, and 14 or 16 ft of racking next to it?
If you have a 22 ft bench, it'll just get covered up with 20ft of junk, with 2 ft clear by the vice. With an 8ft bench you have the same 2ft of clear bench space, only 6ft of junk, and 14ft times 4 or 5 shelves for actual storage.

(Built mine out of 70*70*10 angle. Good and heavy. Didn't need bolting to floor, but it was only really for car stuff.
Topped with green oak sleepers. Bad idea. Do not copy.)
 

Ffermer Bach

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Livestock Farmer
Why not a 6 or 8 ft bench, and 14 or 16 ft of racking next to it?
If you have a 22 ft bench, it'll just get covered up with 20ft of junk, with 2 ft clear by the vice. With an 8ft bench you have the same 2ft of clear bench space, only 6ft of junk, and 14ft times 4 or 5 shelves for actual storage.

(Built mine out of 70*70*10 angle. Good and heavy. Didn't need bolting to floor, but it was only really for car stuff.
Topped with green oak sleepers. Bad idea. Do not copy.)
why was it a bad idea?
 

bitwrx

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why was it a bad idea?
I spent ages planing three rough cut sleepers straight so they butted up against each other, then planing them flat on top, only for them to warp and shrink after a few months in the garage. Ended up with an uneven top with gaps in it.

Hard as feck, and perfectly usable. Just not optimal. I'm hopefully moving house soon. In the new garage it'll probably have 3 layers of 3/4" ply on top, with a bit of sacrificial something on top.
 
In my experience you need 2 benches some distance apart. A "clean" bench which has spanners and other tools on the wall behind it and the "dirty" one where welding and grinding take place. My welding bench was left behind by someone who used to rent my building. It has adjusting bolts on each of the 6 legs which I found a godsend when I moved all my kit into my current building, a former silage barn with a sloping floor.
 

BuskhillFarm

Member
Arable Farmer
Good stuff, looks like a nice insulated shed you have there.
I was thinking to have a backing board with a shelf, and some extra lights.

Maybe I've been watching too much Larson farms on youtube, their workshop is brilliant.
I have a pile of wee parts bins up now too and the place is an even bigger mess from that picture.

Is that a part cleaner to the left of the pic 😁
no it’s for my Cattery (diversification) don’t want cat hairs all over our own cloths!!
 

Tomr10

Member
22ft take some moving I'd have it in 2 Half's. Got a heavy sleeper one for a bench but could do with a top on it as it's uneven. With steel and wood cost high for new check places like Facebook out
 

Turnip

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Mixed Farmer
Location
Aberdeenshire
Sockets sockets and more sockets underneath the worktop. Combine them with compressed air outlets. Underneath the bench put drawers in, much better than shelves in my opinion.
 

Bobthebuilder

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Mixed Farmer
Location
northumberland
Basically it depends how tall you are, no point having a bench 4ft high if your a short ar5e or vice-versa also not too wide as you need to stretch over it, extra strength plates where vice is maybe a couple of holes for clamping pegs if you use wood for top put an angle iron edge on it to keep square
 

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