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So I thought this might be a nice one to share....

This is my "Man Cave". Built it about a year ago and are still adding as I go. I spend a lot of time here to get my thoughts back on track. I do anything from metal to wood and enjoy keeping my hands busy. Bench Grinder is an old English Electric unit that I refurbished. Has a bit of history attached to it! Obviously the Man-Fridge is positioned so minimal effort has to be dispensed with to replace the Man-Beverage Please feel free to add your own stories.....

Very very nice! And even a "Girl" coke in the fridge! Very metromale from you!

Very nice Man Cave!

I smaak it stukkend. Wish that was my cave

Goodness.

I had no idea I could be envious of a Man Cave.

Very nice!. I got to work smarter...

huuuuu those Castle lites

Amazingly I was allowed to get away with it (from the wife)

Had to ride the wave before first born arrives in December

Because I work with tools on a daily basis...i want to avoid the garage when its chill time. Here is my "Man Cave".
Here SWambo have almost no say and only sports are alowed to be shown on this tv. Soapies and cartoons are only watched in the living room.

Hierdie is my Man Cave...
My garage lyk nogi so facy dat ek wil fotos hier opgooi nie
Panorama van lings voor die swembad: Panorama van regs voor: Daar is nog heelwat werk oor maar dit kom aan!

Ek oortuig myself, ons is oppie regte pad!

Bliksem!

EK moet dalk nie foto's van my grot plaas nie - of moet ek dan kan julle sien hoe lyk dit as daar gewerk word in 'n grot!

For most of us this seems to be the popular one.......

Aangesien almal wys hoe hulle "man cave" lyk, en die een ou s'n lyk beter as die ander ou s'n, laat ek maar met myne spog!

Hier is myne soos belowe! Die laaste een het ek gegaan vir dans lesse!

Damn thats a nice cave, the sky lights really make it better, it irritates me how dark mine gets

BenRich wrote:So I thought this might be a nice one to share....

This is my "Man Cave". Built it about a year ago and are still adding as I go. I spend a lot of time here to get my thoughts back on track. I do anything from metal to wood and enjoy keeping my hands busy.

Please feel free to add your own stories.....

Jis dis nice... Wont mind to have my own... Floors tiled and all..!!

Bevange man caves ouens !! Toemaar eendag .....

JacoBredenkamp wrote:Bevange man caves ouens !! Toemaar eendag .....

Jip, al wat ek kan se is ek soek ook een. My grot is 'n grot, maar eendag sal dit so lyk

My small resting room.

Mine is still being built, though I guess the simple fact that it is being worked on already qualifies it as cave because while you are working on it you are not in the house.
Few years ago added a garage to the house, went double volume but at the time did not have $$$ for a slab floor, so this is what I am busy with, off and on. Loft above garage. Another 2-3 years, maybe I'll get there...

When I grow up, me also wants. Very envious gentlemen

Very Nice Gentleman, keep them coming!

Roger, I like the Braai in the cave. Awesome addition! Just the sharks flag above......mmmm?

Oupa, You clearly understand the concept! Enjoy the journey!

Tx, hard work, I did all the welding with an old oilcooled Tonco which weighs a tonne and all the cutting with a 115mm grinder.... You know, the hard way. Have since invested in a 200a inverter welder and big grinder, but a bit too late to help with the building of this floor construction. Has since been primed and sprayed, but no further... Time is few...

Looks good Mickey, with a floor that strong one could get a lot of cases of Captain up there.

Ok, the long promised pics of my mess:

Now I'm not feeling so bad about my garage

Thabogrobler wrote:Ok, the long promised pics of my mess:

That bicycle just looks like its gathering dust there

Thunder02 wrote:Now I'm not feeling so bad about my garage

C'mon now, it's not that bad!

Mikie wrote:

Thabogrobler wrote:Ok, the long promised pics of my mess:

That bicycle just looks like its gathering dust there

Jip, must be about 10-12 years old, virtually scratch free and have maybe covered 500km - but most likely way less.

En die LR kardoes?

Bwa hahaha! Love the substitution for Afrikaans "box"!

I will take it off your hands if you want to get rid of it

Nah, I must get this fat arse into shape very soon!

packing that garage right might just get it into shape :evil: :evil:

You Gonna pick up big flack about the Landy box or did you Photoshop it in just for the reaction?

At least LR makes proper strong spares boxes!

Restored my old work bench this weekend. I can remember as far back as when I was 7 years old, my Dad already had this bench, we just moved into our first house and him and me were building the burglar proofing on this bench. Many more steel work happened on this bench and many engines were overhauled on this bench.

I will sand and repaint the drawers some time in the future as I am not happy with them yet.
Unfortunately I took the before picture only after I started to take it apart.

Here is my Man Cave where I spend a lot of my free time doing various projects.
Yes the two Toyota's sleep behind each other in here and I can still move about them and open both tailgates fully with the doors closed.

The cave is not finished yet but we are getting there slowly.

Pieter daai Workbench lyk nou baie mooi!!! Ek kan sien daai het n hele storie om te vertel op sy eie. Kosbare stukkie geskiedenis daarso in jou Mancave.

Johan, dis lekker om spasie te hê, as ek iets in my garage wil doen moet ek die voertuie eers uittrek.

Mine is really in a state of turmoil, quite ashamed to post pics here. I am hiding the more untidy parts, you only get to see the "not so untidy" parts. I rudely disturbed the sleeping Toys a few minutes ago to snap these cell-phone pics.

And then my "Hobby Room" part of it, where I mess around with restoring vintage hi-fi amps. The one shown is a vintage Sansui AU-999 undergoing restoration, as soon as I finish with the Technics SE-A5 (in another workshop).

-F_D

Wow

So that is what the batcave looks like

Fortunately I haven't seen any bats in it yet... nor would I want to - don't like blind squirmy fings wot fly at night!


-F_D

Oom Eric, if you call that untidy, then you do not want to see my garage. Nice to see so many well kept hilux's in one garage.
Now the question is, which one is your favorite?

There are no favorites, they are like kids, you love them all the same although they are totally different

I have another double garage in front of the house where Hound Dog and the C180 sleep. Until I built the new garage, the C180 was always the car that stood outside whereas "my children" were all safely tucked in! ;)

People could not understand my logic, but then, "they just don't get it!"

Neil, this is the pic in the open area next to Bulldog that I was not going to show you, but since you mentioned it... :whistler:

-F_D

Eric it seems to me that you only managed to move Bull Dog and White fang forward since I has been there a 2 years ago....
You would have to swop them around on bi-daily basis or you can just let me run them on a week and weekend basis to keep the motors well oiled..

Family_Dog wrote:I have another double garage in front of the house where Hound Dog and the C180 sleep. Until I built the new garage, the C180 was always the car that stood outside whereas "my children" were all safely tucked in! ;)

People could not understand my logic, but then, "they just don't get it!"

-F_D

Eric it is logic as very few people would steal the C180 as opposed to your children that will be gone in a flash. But then the people that doesn't understand never owned these highly collectible brand of vehicles.

Hey madala is that my pinball machine you are hiding in the back ?
when can I come fetch the sweetest off sweet ps3 ?

Sa'bona, Blom. Yes, that is a Pinball machine. I was asked to store it for a friend's sister about 15 years ago, I was in the process of restoring it when he said his sis wanted to come fetch it, so I stopped. That was now about fiver years ago and she still has not done so. I need the balls for it, otherwise as far as i remember it is complete. Used to love these things when I was but a piccanin!

I have boxes of old magazines (Car, SA4x4 etc) lying in cardboard boxes on the floor, cant bring myself to simply throw them out so if any takers are interested, they're yours - basella! But you will need to collect, magazines are heavy.

What do you do if you do not have space for posters on your garage wall? Some more pics

Pieter... jy moet daai kas deur oop maak voor jy die tools insit... hehe

Love those old tools! I still have some that get used from time to time. Is that an old Miller Falls drill behind the jack?

The electric drill behind the jack is a Wolf

Ahhh .... thanks. I remember that brand as well.

Jou gaatjie lyk goed, Pieter.
Was self tuis die vakansie, het dus bietjie kans gekry om nog goedjies te doen in my loft.
Vloer in en vas (gewone shutterply)
Plafon - Radenshieldin met vrek groot overlaps, amper dubbel, aangesien die sinkdak vrek warm bak in die son en in die winter weer vrek koud gaan wees. Toe sommer dik gestop met Isotherm.
Plafon is reeds in, ek het nognie kiekies daarvan nie.
Alles hier is LETTERLIK alleen gedoen - my vrou het my met een ceilingboard probeer help, toe jinter sy van die leer af. so die res het ek self ingesit. Maar ek het dit sien kom, so ek het voorsiening gemaak daarvoor deur die kleinste moontlike borde te gebruik sodat hulle (met moeite) hanteerbaar is vir een ou.

Volgende stap is om die badkamer se mure op te sit en die warm/koue water aan te lê vir stort/wasbak. Daarvoor sal ek loodgieter inkry, maar die waste pype het ek self gedoen. Hoop hulle lek nie...

Sal later nog kiekies plaas soos mens nou actually vordering sien....

Shoe, dit vat 'n man op 'n perd om 'n plaffon self te slaan.
Jou helper lyk nog jonk.

Daai is Mia. 2.5 jaar oud. Gee mooi tools aan, maar like die geluid van krag gereedskap niks.
Ek het nogals gesweet met daai plafon, en nie net omdat ek hom ingesit het gedurende die heatwave nie, maar ook omdat daai vertrek lekker bak in die son. Maar die helling van die plafon help, het props ingesit teen die lae muur waarop die plafon gerus het terwyl ek die hoë kante vassit. Lang arms help, maar maer arms raak moeg. Sal môre aand kiekies neem.

Ek het nognie 'n "man cave" van my eie nie. Maar ek werk daar aan.

Ek het die bar fridge gekry en so bitjie herstel. Nou net 'n plekkie kry vir dit