Finally Had It!

[gandog56]

Mama constantly complaining about me reloading in the house. So I just got back from Lowe's, after I ordered me a new shed kit. I am going to build me a little reloading room/man cave out in the back yard. I am planning to run electricy out to it, Build a bench, lighting, air conditioning, probably a little space heater. My brother is a general contractor and decided to give me a family rate. We figure everything is going to cost somewhere about $2500, his labor included. I will store all my reloaded ammo out there so she won't always be screaming what happens if the house catches on fire. The thing will be two stories insulated with a whole lot of storage upstairs. Trying to figure out if my laptop will connect to the house wireless network out there. If not I will also run an ethernet cable out to it.

[Pacomdiver]

good for you, I moved my reloading stuff out to my garage after I got bitched at for a primer going off while seating ( a 223 crimped pocket I missed) . now she has to come outside to bitch at me, which reduces the amount I now have to endure

better reinforce that upstairs for all that brass you horde, LOL

[gandog56]

Well maybe the day she sucked a primer up the vacuum and it went bang caused it all.;)

[mogunner]

I've got a good wife, she rarely goes into my office/reloading room. She vacuumed once, after about the third spent primer she sucked up said heck with it, now it's up to me to clean in there which is fine with me.

[gandog56]

This will be my MAN cave. She ain't allowed in it!

[packnrat]

i guess i am lucky.

no wife to give me problems..... but i do have my mom who stops by. :-)


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[LEP]

This will be my MAN cave. She ain't allowed in it!

Good luck with that:D

[GRUMPA]

Here I thought I may be the only one whos wife doesn't gripe about what I do. My stuff is in 5 different locations, my room, family room, shop, patio, and my lead is piled up on the back 40 and never a peep.

[gandog56]

You should see the closet space she takes up with HER shoes!

[rbuck351]

My wife doesn't even want to go in my gun room. If she thinks she need anything from there she just tells me to bring it to her.

[Pacomdiver]

funny me wife only vacuumed the back room reloading area one, it sounded like a slot machine hitting the jackpot ( my one shotshell press bridged and burped a bunch of 7 shot) and you know its impossible to pick it all up in carpet

[Mbaker78]

My reloading area is in the basement, with a bare concrete floor. Back when I was spraying lube onto brass the floor got kind of sticky, but otherwise I just clean it with a normal broom.

[DukeInFlorida]

don't let the wife vacuum POWDER. Enough powder, and it's a bomb inside the vacuum cleaner.

[gandog56]

Shed kit was supposed to be delivered today. Called Lowe's, they said salesman got the number wrong, it never got ordered. I say I ordered this Dec. 17th, you guys had my phone number and never bothered to call me about it while I was patiently waiting never bugging you about it? Anyways now the kit is supposed to arrive the 11th and they gave me back 100 bucks store credit for their screw up.

[WarEagleEd]

At least you got some sort of concession from them.

[gandog56]

Here's the walls starting to go up.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v196/Gandog56/GEDC0114_zps6ltm17th.jpg

And here's the wallls all up and the plyewood panel roof put on.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v196/Gandog56/GEDC0003_zpswz8c7efm.jpg

The loft about 3/4's done.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v196/Gandog56/GEDC0004_zpseqc2e7tt.jpg

Now need to shingle it, put the door on it, drywall it, wire her up, put in lighting and temp control stuff, and paint it.

[gandog56]

Got the wiring started, internal junction/fuse box, going to have like 5 outlets and a light switch installed. Also bought a used bench with its own lights, a power strip, a shelf, a drawer, and he even threw in the vice he had mounted on it.
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[gandog56]

Was putting up drywall until we ran out of drywall. Looks like I'll need another 6-7 panels to finish. Then it's taping and slathering the mud around to prepare for painting.

[Pacomdiver]

you know that's not big enough to hold your brass, should be at least double that size. LOL

[gandog56]

Brass heck, my already reloaded ammo!

[gandog56]

Well, my little brother who is the main builder of this thing finally got done with a roofing job he spent all week on, and we finished up the drywal. We started to prep the drywalls for painting but finally we got too tired and quit. I found a window air conditioner at a yard sale for $45 so we stuck that in, and it does work. Finish up the drywall prep, paint the interioir, put in a floor, and paint the exterior and it should be done.
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[gandog56]

Saw a new mini fridge at Kmart for $129, door has room for a couple 2 liter bottles of soda, and an ice making section. Can have a cool one as I work. but I think I will go out yard saling tomorrow and see if anybody has a cheap used one that works first. The Kmart one should be there at that price for a while.

[gandog56]

Well, little bro is supposed to show up sometime today, and he told me last night we should be painting the inside by the end of the day.

[gandog56]

Interior painting done, next step, flooring and molding.

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[WarEagleEd]

That looks good!

[gandog56]

Carpeted the loft, finished up the flooring, got about 2/3 of the baseboard done. Assembled my bench about 2" higher. Next steps, start looking for some shelving. Plan to have shelves on both sides of the bench. One for the loaded ammo, one for the brass and bullets waiting for reloading. Loft will be storage. The back of the bench will hold all my reloading dies, the top shelf will hold all my powders and primers. Put a UPS on the bench so if the power goes out at night I will still have lights. Got me an air purifier/ionizer. The air conditioner works good. I have the little ceramic heater unit that kept us warm last night.
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[Point-Man]

That looks really nice. You have a great little brother. All you need now is a TV and a recliner .

[gandog56]

He also says to put a TV in there, but it is too much of a pain to do it. Besides, I already have two big screens in the house. Anyways we finished up all the baseboard, and made the widow and door all fancy looking. I had an old set of 2.1 amplified speakers from before I changed my desktop computer into a 5.1 sound card. So today I hauled my laptop to the shed, cued up some MP3 music, and them old speakers really made that shack rock. Also made sure the laptop ran on the house wireless OK. Set up a stone pathway from the patio to the shed so I would not track mud and grass on my new floor. Bought the exterior paint for the outside. Figured out what size bolts I need to mount my two presses on my bench. Speaking of my bench, I priced out what a new model of that bench costs. With the second shelf, florescent lamps, drawer, power strip, and lower parts bin rail options, it was well over 1200 bucks. And I picked it up on Craigslist for $160.

[gandog56]

Finally finished up the exterior today. Now I need to figure out what kind of shelving I want to put in, and start hauling all my reloading stuff in. Was too dark when we finished to take a picture, but here's one of when we first started doing it this yesterday morning.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v196/Gandog56/GEDC0041_zpsudyc7b4h.jpg

[WarEagleEd]

I think standing on the top platform of a ladder is an OSHA violation. :eek: ;)

[gandog56]

Yeah, but that ain't me. Say hello to my little brother. Doing an 8 foot ladder job with a 6 foot ladder.

[gandog56]

Painting all done, starting to transfer my junk.

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[Happyguy]

Looking good.

[gandog56]

Got two shelves in, but it's one of thosw jobs where you need like 3 sets of hands to do. Waiting for my little bro to get some time to come over and help me install them. Once that happens, I will have to drag out all my reloaded ammo and reloading supllies out to it and I will be done.

[gandog56]

Finally I am pretty much done building this thing. At about 10:30 PM I mounted my Lee auto-indexing turret press on the bench after I got done assembling two set of metal shelves. Now comes the hard part, humping all my already reloaded ammo and bullets and cases to the shed. Was way too tired to take pictures tonight, so I will post a couple tomorrow.

[gandog56]

Pics as promised.

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[Pacomdiver]

looking good, so when are you gonna build the second one to store all that brass you've been hoarding?

[gandog56]

Started humping ammo out last night. Whew I had a lot stashed. Pretty much went until I got all the pistol ammo done and was too too tired to continue. Supposed to go fishing today, my brother is down from Milwaukee, need to get him out in the gulf for the BIG ones! So rifle ammo will have to wait a bit. Found a spam can of Russian still in the box, I never even opened it yet. Must have been on sale from AIM.

[gandog56]

Got all the old guncases stashed up in the loft. About all I need to do is haul out all my brass and lead, but I think I will need to build one more rack of shelves for the lead. After I get the little plastic shelves holdig all the brass in today need to measure the space I have agianst the last wall and figure out what kind and size of shelves I can fit in there. Gonna have to be sturdy ones, I have a LOT of lead bullets.

Then, I will be done, may even see if I would have any kind of space left for a little mini fridge in there. Then, I will need to christen this new bench and press and whip out a few rounds.

[gandog56]

Built one more set of shelves, then started humping out the lead bullets and cases. Now I just need to straighten out everything and start making ammo again.

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[gandog56]

Finished up yesterday. I got out all my primers on the shelves to finally end this job. So I also ran some .303 Brit brass and 8mm Mauser brass through the tumbler last night, I am FINALLY reloading in my new wonder shed!

[WarEagleEd]

I am FINALLY reloading in my new wonder shed!

Congrats on the newly finished reloading shed.

[gandog56]

As big as it is, and even with an upper loft, I need to figure out something better on gun storage. I keep looking for one of them 20 gun Mosin Nagant shipping crates. Since I have 19 Mosin Nagants that would be a good thing to store them in.

Of course that would ALSO mean if I got one, I would need ANOTHER Mosin Nagant to completely fill it!

[woodbutcher]

:D Hi Gandog.Good looking shed.Just a suggestion.With it looking to be pretty close to the fence,would be a good idea to put a good alarm system in also.Would be pretty easy to loosen a board or two and then gain entry to your shed.Something that would turn some lights on and set off a really loud alarm.
Good luck.Have fun.Be safe.
Leo

[Mbaker78]

Back when I worked at a home improvement store, I had a customer try to buy JUST a motion sensor for a floodlight. Naturally curious, I asked him if he was replacing a damaged one?

He told me that he had a ~140dB siren that he was going to hook up to it INSIDE his shed with a switch accessible only from inside the house. Anyone trying to break into the shed would be at least temporarily deaf and the entire neighborhood would know someone was breaking in ;)

[gandog56]

I have a motion sensor pointing at the shed, the alarm is in my bedroom. Also have a motion sensor light above the door of the shed.

[woodbutcher]

:D Hi Gandog.What you have so far is a start.You need to have the whole area around the shed covered by motion sensors and really bright lights.
Good luck.Have fun.Be safe.
Leo

[gandog56]

Actually I think I only need to cover the front. The only egress is the front door (dead bolt metal door) or through the window , also in the front. He would have to use a buzzsaw or something to come in through the three other sides. I am sure the sound of sawing would wake me up. Also the motion detect with the alarm pretty much covers the front and the left side.

[Mbaker78]

Automated machine gun turrets?

[Happyguy]

Like the tail guns in B 52s, oh yeah.

[HARDSHOOTER]

PENTAGON SAFE IS WHAT I HAVE, THE DEFENDER. GREAT SAFE AND HeAvY.





:D Hi Gandog.Good looking shed.Just a suggestion.With it looking to be pretty close to the fence,would be a good idea to put a good alarm system in also.Would be pretty easy to loosen a board or two and then gain entry to your shed.Something that would turn some lights on and set off a really loud alarm.
Good luck.Have fun.Be safe.
Leo