I have always felt your backyard garage/workshop is the absolute pinnacle of a home garage. The use of space is just so well thought out as well considering how much equipment is in there!
I’m in the process of getting a shed built and I’ve designed it so I will have a 7m x 3.5m dirty room. I just found this channel which looks like gold.
You're an actual legend man! These videos are beyond awesome. So much detail, and very clear explanation along with the B-roll over the top to visually show the viewer what you are talking about is 10/10. I've subscribed to your course and am really enjoying catching up on a few videos each evening. The UA-cam channel seems to be a more of a chill vibe whilst the course is the learning area! Keep them coming :) You've got so much style man. The video production, workshop, projects and everything else really makes your work unique.
Usually people only have one little window in their grinding/mess room but with windows all round is such a better idea i think, cheers for the inspiration sir.
Thank you. Yes I used to have only one small window but I do a lot of fabrication course filming so it needed to be more visible as I spend a lot of time in there.
Stoked to have been linked to your channel, I didn't know you had one, Nigel! Can't wait to watch more. You are, without question, one of my greatest sources of inspiration.
@@Engineeredtoslide One of my videos has me showing how I sorted nuts and bolts. As I watched it I thought I was really pushing on the boring meter. But seeing you value organization means I'm on the right track
Incredible video, Nigel! Your talent never ceases to amaze. You can do it all. Building cars, designing/outfitting your workshop, building tools(!), creating top quality content, driving, etc… you’re what the automotive world needs. Keep going!
I can’t even fathom how clean your shed is and the amount you have invested into the best shed ever we’ll done mate ! You would probably pass out if you saw my shed
So many good ideas! Place doesn't look like a repurposed dumpster and yet it's very functional and reasonably easy to keep tidy. Great stuff. Ps. Shout out to whoever makes those caster's that is under the Finger brake. Good heavens.
I have the magazine where you were welding up your shelves etc and first fitting out your shed and working on the Hilux, was impressed with the welding, good to see your still Raging along, 🤘 big Hello from kiwiland
Very nice work shop, liken the cleanness and the versatility it offers in the space it has, the floor is exceptional and adds a nice tone/mood to the rest of the garage, yes the welding table of fitting, as a welder/fitter, the precision you can get into with laser/plasma cut pieces to join with machining, allows for a lot of focus, and specialty in building, as an sigma INFJ two thumbs up!
You are the man Nigel! Your attention to detail and organization is second to none! Even better is your willing to help others and explain what has worked. On behalf of many, thanks for just being an awesome guy who’s willing to help! I’m a huge fan!
Wow! THE KING OF SPACE UTILISATION! Haha. This is so interesting. Its been amazing to watch your home garage develop over the years. I love the idea of the “mess room”, it just makes so much sense to have a place where mess is contained. All the very best to you man.
I’m currently building a 10’x14’ shed in my mother in laws backyard to start fabricating parts for cars and motorcycles as a side gig and you are a huge inspiration man! Keep up the great content!
It's insane to me that you only have ~24k subscribers. Your craftsmanship and design philosophies are out of this world. I hope this channel continues to grow and also serves funnel people into your skills courses. Thanks for the great vids.
That's amazing! I've been admiring your work since you had the S13 hatch and couple stacked on top of each other and had a blog haha. Glad to see you continuously expanding your work and workshop!
Awesome garage tour video man. I've Been following you ever since the early days of the ETS hilux and the two tone S13 build always been an inspiration to me to get in the garage and get fabricating, Love all your ETS videos/blogs and the Motorsport fundamentals/fabrication courses, Cant get enough of the ETS/EARNEST gear i've purchased such quality gear and love the SWS alumtig 200 as well such a awesome machine. Cant wait to see the hilux or S13 in person if your ever at an event at Queensland raceway.
Very nice setup! Definitely gotten a few ideas from this, especially those small mezanine floors overhead! Soon to extend my current 12x6 workspace another 6m so i can have a space to build a project car. Keeping the roller doors between so i can keep the sections separate as required.
Epic setup Nigel and great refinements from the pervious layouts. Also props for the presentation and edit, many channels struggle to minimise repetition and overlaps between cuts, this is clean and concise How do you find ventilation in the mess room, especially when you had the welders in there? My metal shop tucks into my garage in a similar way, it's 2.5m tall walls on castors so I can change the size depending on the project. Even with an open top and one wall being the roller door I end up with a cloud of metal fume in the whole shed if I'm welding large sections or doing heavy grinding.
Awesome shop setup!! I noticed you do a lot of welding over the epoxy flooring. I have epoxy flooring in my garage shop and one complaint I have is the slag and sparks burn little marks in the flooring. How have you kept the epoxy floors from this kind of damage? It looks like most of your welding is TIG so maybe your welding is just much cleaner than my MIG welding??
Such an awesome video!! We are have just started to build our new workshop space/shed and this has given me some great inspiration!!! Keep the excellent videos coming! 👌🏼
Your first shop tour is my dream home garage. It seems more aimed toward fabrication now, it looks great ! However, i am a bit curious of what you have done storage wise. You had a lot of clear tubs back then.
Thanks Lucas. Most of them are up above the mess room and I had a big cleanup of stuff I didn’t use. The cabinets hold a lot of what used to be in the tubs. Shoot for the stars mate. I too dreamt about a shop like this and little by little it’s happened 🙌🏻
It’s a MAXJAX hoist and you can visit there website for more details on the fitting and application of it. It gets bolted into the floor before use. Thanks
Awesome workshop setup has given me idea's for the future and form n function are always a big thing to get right. One day ill sort myself a tube bender and good to know where some good plans are if i decide to go pro DIY so thanks. Now if only steel wasn't so expensive trade price or not and blast those people who manage to get it from scrap places haha. Thanks for the video was nice on a friday night
May I ask what and where you got the car stands from? The ones you use to do wheel alignments on. I made my own out of wood offcuts but they don't let the tyre slip and it binds when I do my alignments. Metal ones would be ideal. Thanks for sharing mate.
The bandsaw table is facebook.com/marketplace/item/611273669516319/ and the bandsaw is www.amazon.com.au/DEWALT-DCS374B-Deep-Band-Baretool/dp/B00VEA2904
These cabinet's I sourced second hand but they are made locally and feature sound absorption matting behind the perforated doors. Really any sliding cabinet will do the job, cheers
Been looking forward to this video and did not disappoint. Such a great use of space, keen to see the new course material shot in here. With regards to the string alignment, do you put slip plates/turn plates on top of those stands so you can measure and adjust without having to lift the car?
I don’t use slip plates or lift the car when aligning, I simply give the wheel a little wobble in between adjustments and correct the center. I would suggest putting slip plates (just a sheet of steel with grease) but I’m usually pressed for time during alignment and the car always feels great after doing them so I don’t think it’s far off.
I'm a bit late to the commenting party here, but I have a question. I notice you have a few 3 phase tools/machines in this shop. Do you have 3 phase power in the shop, or are you running them by other means? such as a VFD etc..
Loved this video, a lot of inspiration and great information to take from this! The Max Jack seems to be a great alternative for small space garages, such as mine. Did you make the arms for the lift yourself, or is it an option to have lower profile arms?
I love the mess room idea so much I have extended it to the whole of my shop
Severely underrated comment.
I have always felt your backyard garage/workshop is the absolute pinnacle of a home garage. The use of space is just so well thought out as well considering how much equipment is in there!
Thank you Matt, I spent a lot of time and energy getting it to the point it's at so I appreciate the comment mate.
I’m in the process of getting a shed built and I’ve designed it so I will have a 7m x 3.5m dirty room. I just found this channel which looks like gold.
You're an actual legend man! These videos are beyond awesome. So much detail, and very clear explanation along with the B-roll over the top to visually show the viewer what you are talking about is 10/10. I've subscribed to your course and am really enjoying catching up on a few videos each evening. The UA-cam channel seems to be a more of a chill vibe whilst the course is the learning area! Keep them coming :) You've got so much style man. The video production, workshop, projects and everything else really makes your work unique.
I appreciate the comment a lot mate, you get it, thats exactly what I am trying to achieve. Cheers!
oooo broken silvia is here
Usually people only have one little window in their grinding/mess room but with windows all round is such a better idea i think, cheers for the inspiration sir.
Thank you. Yes I used to have only one small window but I do a lot of fabrication course filming so it needed to be more visible as I spend a lot of time in there.
@@Engineeredtoslide necessity is the mother of invention
Stoked to have been linked to your channel, I didn't know you had one, Nigel! Can't wait to watch more. You are, without question, one of my greatest sources of inspiration.
Awesome Mike, thanks for swinging by and taking a look.
geez i wish i lock you 2 blokes in my shed and just deliver pizza and car parts every day until you got my fleet sorted
Impressed with your calling attention to the nuts and bolts, and highlighting how they need to be stored well.
Great tour, tHanks for taking us along!
My pleasure, thanks for watching and noticing the details.
@@Engineeredtoslide One of my videos has me showing how I sorted nuts and bolts. As I watched it I thought I was really pushing on the boring meter. But seeing you value organization means I'm on the right track
A garage (and skills) a majority of us dream of, thanks for showing us around, very cool!
Incredible video, Nigel! Your talent never ceases to amaze. You can do it all. Building cars, designing/outfitting your workshop, building tools(!), creating top quality content, driving, etc… you’re what the automotive world needs. Keep going!
Thanks Kyle, appreciate it mate, trying to juggle all aspects at the moment but thoroughly enjoying it all.
Wow, such a great space. Thanks for the walk thru, very interesting!
Thanks Jared, my pleasure mate.
I can’t even fathom how clean your shed is and the amount you have invested into the best shed ever we’ll done mate ! You would probably pass out if you saw my shed
Thanks mate, it's a great place to be.
From 0:59 to 1:50 is great for anyone just starting out. This kind of shop just does not happen overnight, Great work.
Thats what youtube usually doesn't tell people ULTIMATE GARAGE IN JUST MINUTES haha
So many good ideas! Place doesn't look like a repurposed dumpster and yet it's very functional and reasonably easy to keep tidy. Great stuff. Ps. Shout out to whoever makes those caster's that is under the Finger brake. Good heavens.
Cheers mate, well they are the same casters under the lathe so they do alright :)
Feels like there is an entire workshop within a workshop, amazing use of space, clean, spacious and ridiculously well equipped
I have the magazine where you were welding up your shelves etc and first fitting out your shed and working on the Hilux, was impressed with the welding, good to see your still Raging along, 🤘 big Hello from kiwiland
Cheers Shane. NZPC issue I believe, always great support from those guys 🤙🏻
Love seeing my old S13! Glad to see you still have it mate.
Cheers mate, good to be driving again.
Great work on the setup! I miss this shed, you always remember your first! Really like the enclosing in of the outdoor storage too. Enjoy it now mate!
Cheers mate. What can I say, it has good bones 🙌🏻
As a new shop owner I really enjoy this video Thanks for posting
Very nice work shop, liken the cleanness and the versatility it offers in the space it has, the floor is exceptional and adds a nice tone/mood to the rest of the garage, yes the welding table of fitting, as a welder/fitter, the precision you can get into with laser/plasma cut pieces to join with machining, allows for a lot of focus, and specialty in building, as an sigma INFJ two thumbs up!
Thanks Rodney
You have impressed me sir! Well….. damn. Your shop space is gorgeous to say the least.
Thank you, it’s a great place to work from.
woww... got some really nice and workable space, tools and machine
Glad to see you back in that shop Nigel. I've been off social media for a long bit now, so I'm happy to find you on here!
Glad to hear it and happy to be back.
I just ran across your channel, your craftsmanship is amazing, great work 😎
You are the man Nigel! Your attention to detail and organization is second to none! Even better is your willing to help others and explain what has worked. On behalf of many, thanks for just being an awesome guy who’s willing to help! I’m a huge fan!
Very nicely thought out and equipped shop.
Thanks for the tour.
Mike
Cheers mike, appreciate the comment 🤙🏻
Excellent! Came for the hoist details and picked up heaps of great ideas.
Keep it up, loved the video!
Good to hear. Happy to have helped
Wow! THE KING OF SPACE UTILISATION! Haha. This is so interesting. Its been amazing to watch your home garage develop over the years. I love the idea of the “mess room”, it just makes so much sense to have a place where mess is contained. All the very best to you man.
Thank you Nate, appreciate it mate. It’s a great space to work in.
Awesome video mate fantastic information
It definitely inspired me to set up my own. Wisely used of space and as always, very detailed. I like it. Thank you for the tour...
Thanks for the feedback and I am happy you could get some inspo from this.
@@Engineeredtoslide You did give me inspiration. Very wise use of small space. Keep it up
I just completed a slightly bigger home shop, and this video gives me so many good ideas. Awesome.
So well thought out, and immaculate!
I’m currently building a 10’x14’ shed in my mother in laws backyard to start fabricating parts for cars and motorcycles as a side gig and you are a huge inspiration man! Keep up the great content!
Thanks Matt and cheers for the comment, if you need any further help don't be afraid to reach out mate, all the best for the future.
Your shop is so clean it looks like an operating rm in the hospital, really a nice work space.
It's insane to me that you only have ~24k subscribers. Your craftsmanship and design philosophies are out of this world. I hope this channel continues to grow and also serves funnel people into your skills courses. Thanks for the great vids.
Thanks mate, always building on it.
I love your welder cart! Great shop brother
Thanks mate, I have the plans for it on my website if you are interested.
That's amazing! I've been admiring your work since you had the S13 hatch and couple stacked on top of each other and had a blog haha. Glad to see you continuously expanding your work and workshop!
Thank you, always looking for new ways to expand in the same space, cheers mate.
Good set-up mate
That is an incredible space. You should be very proud! 👏
Thank you, I am :)
Thanks for the video... you inspired my next workshop plans!
Where did you get the cabinets in the mezzanine, above the drop-saw?
Beautiful garage space. Very well organized!
Thank you
Thanks for sharing Nigel! It gives me some ideas on where I can improve. Now to get motivated....
Hope it was the motivation you need! Just spend time in your shop, inspiration will come 🙌🏻
Detail in the garage is amazing.
Thanks Jun, cheers mate.
Mate thats super impressive! Thanks for the tour!!
My pleasure
Good content, inspirational
Keep em coming 👍
Cheers Ray
absolute dream shop. love it!
keep the content coming, can’t get enough.
Thanks Isaac, will do mate.
Very nice setup
Awesome garage tour video man. I've Been following you ever since the early days of the ETS hilux and the two tone S13 build always been an inspiration to me to get in the garage and get fabricating, Love all your ETS videos/blogs and the Motorsport fundamentals/fabrication courses, Cant get enough of the ETS/EARNEST gear i've purchased such quality gear and love the SWS alumtig 200 as well such a awesome machine. Cant wait to see the hilux or S13 in person if your ever at an event at Queensland raceway.
Very nice setup! Definitely gotten a few ideas from this, especially those small mezanine floors overhead! Soon to extend my current 12x6 workspace another 6m so i can have a space to build a project car. Keeping the roller doors between so i can keep the sections separate as required.
Sounds like a great plan.
Outstanding use of space. 😎🏆👍
Thank you
Hi Nigel, could you please tell me what profile (dimension) you used on the skeleton of the garage? Garage looks awesome. Thanks
That's a very nice shop. You did a great job on the video. Thanks.
Thank you, I appreciate the comment.
The Zen Shed. Great stuff.
Love the mess room . Definitely need to build one of those
Epic setup Nigel and great refinements from the pervious layouts. Also props for the presentation and edit, many channels struggle to minimise repetition and overlaps between cuts, this is clean and concise
How do you find ventilation in the mess room, especially when you had the welders in there? My metal shop tucks into my garage in a similar way, it's 2.5m tall walls on castors so I can change the size depending on the project. Even with an open top and one wall being the roller door I end up with a cloud of metal fume in the whole shed if I'm welding large sections or doing heavy grinding.
Awesome shop
Thank you
Hands down one of the best well thought out home spaces around. Wish you covered the car mounts you made to stack your cars :(
Thanks, I did cover them in an older video but I have a full run down with plans over on my site.
Awesome work Nigel, love the tour! I've been following for a long time and it's always a pleasure watching the progression of you and your workspaces.
Thanks mate, I appreciate it, all the best!
Love this tour bro! Seems the evolution of the man shed is an eternal one haha.
I love seeing a well dialed workplace.
Thanks mate, cheers for the comment.
Awesome shop setup!! I noticed you do a lot of welding over the epoxy flooring. I have epoxy flooring in my garage shop and one complaint I have is the slag and sparks burn little marks in the flooring. How have you kept the epoxy floors from this kind of damage? It looks like most of your welding is TIG so maybe your welding is just much cleaner than my MIG welding??
Such an awesome video!! We are have just started to build our new workshop space/shed and this has given me some great inspiration!!! Keep the excellent videos coming! 👌🏼
Thanks and all the best with the shop fitout, its a lot of work but well worth it when you can comfortably get the jobs done in there.
Great space and a really great explanation. Thank you. 🙏
Thank you
Decent setup! 👌🏽
very interesting, your channel is going great, love it !!!
Thanks Finlay, appreciate it.
Your first shop tour is my dream home garage. It seems more aimed toward fabrication now, it looks great ! However, i am a bit curious of what you have done storage wise. You had a lot of clear tubs back then.
Thanks Lucas. Most of them are up above the mess room and I had a big cleanup of stuff I didn’t use. The cabinets hold a lot of what used to be in the tubs. Shoot for the stars mate. I too dreamt about a shop like this and little by little it’s happened 🙌🏻
can you run thru the hoist set up a bit more please? does it mount or get bolted down when in use etc and what was the name of it again plz?
It’s a MAXJAX hoist and you can visit there website for more details on the fitting and application of it. It gets bolted into the floor before use. Thanks
I Love those wheel stands? Where are they from again?
Check them out at Slipvehiclewheelstands cheers mate.
well organised ,loved it
Glad you liked it
Wow just Wow.
Great space, great work and great video! Just ordered one of those Stanley Swivel vices
Awesome to hear, really handy little thing.
Awesome workshop setup has given me idea's for the future and form n function are always a big thing to get right. One day ill sort myself a tube bender and good to know where some good plans are if i decide to go pro DIY so thanks.
Now if only steel wasn't so expensive trade price or not and blast those people who manage to get it from scrap places haha.
Thanks for the video was nice on a friday night
Haha, I know the pain, it's only going to go up unfortunately. Thanks for the comment.
You currently own my dream shop 🤙💯👍 I really want a lathe 💯
Keep working towards it, once you have one you will appreciate the hell out of it 🙌🏻
What a dream garage
Bloody unreal
Thanks mate, I love it.
Excellent Nige!!! fantastic!!!
Thank you.
Great video. Really enjoyed meeting you at world time attack this year.
Thanks mate, and great to meet you too, awesome event, cant wait to get back there and drive again.
@@Engineeredtoslide looking forward to seeing more amazing projects and videos. Keep up the awesome work.
May I ask what and where you got the car stands from? The ones you use to do wheel alignments on.
I made my own out of wood offcuts but they don't let the tyre slip and it binds when I do my alignments. Metal ones would be ideal.
Thanks for sharing mate.
Checkout Slipvehiclewheelstands much better than timber. Thanks
Your mess room is the size of my complete shop🤣 Great workspace you've got!
It used to be the size of my complete shop too, very happy to have moved in here.
Hey mate, such a great setup! I just had a similar size shed built and wondering what you used for lighting?
Can you please help me sort my workplace workshop out lol. I froth over your approach and I'm decent but you're next level!
So nice I had to comment twice haha, So epic thank you for sharing your ideas and approaches!
This is so sick. I would mess this shop up in less time than it took you to tour !
Haha, yes I am sure you could
Awesome video! Have you got a link for the Dewalt Cordless Band Saw and Pro Cut table?
The bandsaw table is facebook.com/marketplace/item/611273669516319/ and the bandsaw is www.amazon.com.au/DEWALT-DCS374B-Deep-Band-Baretool/dp/B00VEA2904
Great shop love it 👍🇦🇺
Cheers mate!
Marvelous
Good on you. I'm almost envies . Infinite thumbs up 👍
Where did you source your sliding doors and tracks from as they keep the work space extremely neat and finish the storage space off.
These cabinet's I sourced second hand but they are made locally and feature sound absorption matting behind the perforated doors. Really any sliding cabinet will do the job, cheers
Been looking forward to this video and did not disappoint. Such a great use of space, keen to see the new course material shot in here. With regards to the string alignment, do you put slip plates/turn plates on top of those stands so you can measure and adjust without having to lift the car?
I don’t use slip plates or lift the car when aligning, I simply give the wheel a little wobble in between adjustments and correct the center. I would suggest putting slip plates (just a sheet of steel with grease) but I’m usually pressed for time during alignment and the car always feels great after doing them so I don’t think it’s far off.
@@Engineeredtoslide awesome, thankyou!
Very nice. 🙂
Very impressive use of space, and it’s cleaner than my office desk 😂
Thanks Ian, I like to keep a clean space thats for sure.
I'm a bit late to the commenting party here, but I have a question. I notice you have a few 3 phase tools/machines in this shop. Do you have 3 phase power in the shop, or are you running them by other means? such as a VFD etc..
Where do you get decent casta wheels from
Good video
How did you go about building the mess room, I'd like to do a similar setup?
I used 50x50mm tube and then lined it with 10mm MDF sheets, the windows are acrylic and are stuck on 20x20mm steel tube frames.
nice@!
What are those cabinets with the sliding doors? I'm having a hard time finding them
They are from a Melbourne company, I cant remember the name sorry, I bought them second hand at an office supplies auction house.
*_Vehicles are parked in a garage. A shop is a work space for working on or machining on or welding on etc etc...._*
Inspirational
clean 👍
Loved this video, a lot of inspiration and great information to take from this! The Max Jack seems to be a great alternative for small space garages, such as mine. Did you make the arms for the lift yourself, or is it an option to have lower profile arms?
The hoist is basically stock, I took the locks off it as it was in the way but apart from that its been flawless. Thanks for the comment.
Is your garage square tubing frame or C & H beam build & how thick is the create?
The concrete is 100mm thick and the garage is made from C section, thanks
@@Engineeredtoslide Thank you. That's good to know cause I'm thinking order a building kit too.
Hey mate love your work! Just wondering what you used for the mess room windows? It looks like perspexs but I though the sparks might melt into that?
Your right it’s the cheapest Perspex I could find and measures 5mm thick. Sparks don’t harm it, in fact it’s more resistant than glass in that regard.
@@Engineeredtoslide awesome thanks for the info!! love your work