“Tractor Bunker” ...Big Move

MiSimpleTractor

MiSimpleTractor

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After 6 years at our place, the wife and I decided we needed a long term place for the kids. Mostly, a school district change and increased space for the boys.

The old house had a 24x32 second garage which I litterally stuffed and stacked my collection into. It worked but was snug. The new place has slightly more room and I am also purging items to free up space. A separate workshop will house anything non-tractor related, larger tools, etc that I had to store in the tractor shed before.

I will keep about 200 sq ft open for a workspace in what my wife calls the “Tractor Bunker”. It is a lower-level, second garage, below a 3-stall upper level garage where my dedicated working tractor (Simplicity Legacy) will reside.

The bunker isnt done yet. I still have to bring in my attachments, memorabilia, workbench, ceiling hoist and some more accessories and parts. With ducting built in for piping in heat or AC, I am glad to have a workspace and clean up my storage/display area.

Pictures show empty and now about 2/3 full. It has access from outdoors, the basement rec room and via stairway from the upper level garage. It has water, drain, 220 and of course the climate control
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I have wverything ‘home’ now. Whew. So much work and mid 90’s to boot!

I will snap some pictures of what is inside, what is outsode and what will be for sale. Great opportunity to purge! Putting up shelving and organizing tools and parts is the next task.

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Looks good...a question though...
Being that it is under the house, are you not concerned about fumes?
Reason I ask, is that my shop is on the far end of an attached garage and my wife complains about it when I work on my tractors in there. I try and do that stuff outside as much as I can and store them in a separate shed.
 
poncho62 said:
Looks good...a question though...
Being that it is under the house, are you not concerned about fumes?
Reason I ask, is that my shop is on the far end of an attached garage and my wife complains about it when I work on my tractors in there. I try and do that stuff outside as much as I can and store them in a separate shed.
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This was actually my only concern when we were looking at the house, and I tested it. The previous owner had a zero turn in there, and told my realtor to have me fire it up and let it run in there while we were looking through the house. It was a bit odd feeling, but we noticed no smell in the home.

Now that I have had plenty of time there, much of which has been running my little forklift tractor in and out moving stuff, I have noticed Fumes will only enter the basement if the door to the rec room is left open, or is opened up if there is still exhaust hanging around in there. The heat/AC vents are baffled so as only to move air into the garage, and there is also means to close them off completely if you do not want to pump house air in. There is no other way for air to move from the garage to the house. It's entirely sealed off with a tremendous amount of reinforced concrete. They even foam sealed the holes where wiring and gas was run through the concrete wall.

The garage actually has amazing airflow if the upper level garage and door to the connecting staircase is open, along with the lower service door or overhead door. It's odd...I can smell my car or truck exhaust inside the house if they are running the upper garage, but can let my diesel garden tractor run in the basement garage and not smell a thing indoors. Obviously, it's not enjoyable to be inside the garage with too much fumes from anything, but that's no different than my old un-attached shop. I actually think the lower ceiling helps the fumes evacuate quicker vs open rafters.
 
All that dryness from a few weeks ago has passed. Things are green and growing fast now! We had over 5" rain this week, and more before that. nice to be high and dry. Our last place was soggy every time it so much as drizzled.
 
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