Paulk Workbench II

[Lucky Dawg]

Check the video:http://youtu.be/KnNi6Tpp-ac

A "Wow" collapsible workbench! Plans are just $10 - http://www.paulkhomes.com/order-plans.html

Wonder if he sells plans for the inside of his panel truck. I have no use for it, but it is pretty dang impressive.

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[Lucky Dawg]

a view of the mobile woodshop

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[ebb]

THANKS DAWG !

Ron Paulk is amazing. Watching the video on the workbench, you know immediately
- the two box sections and how they ride on the horses - you're witnessing genius.
It's beautiful.
'He doesn't miss a lick.'

His website and videos are generous resources. Lota secrets.

Simple well thought, versatile ideas that generate his mobile shop will obviously work for a
garage - or your living room.

If there is an award that recognizes the psychological liberation, the sanity,
of freeing electric & battery tools from their universally stupid and horrible plastic coffins:
Paulk deserves it. It's named after him!

Check out the shop-van video.
You'll be liberated.

His advice is priceless. $38 for the skinny on all his benches is the deal of a lifetime.
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:DLater EDIT: Internet activity shows Paulk has enlightened and gotten feedback from a bunch
of folks. None have yet to mention The PAFLOPT Mug.
(PaulkAwardFortheLiberationOfPowerTools)
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I can see clearly now the rain is gone. I can see all obstacles in my way.
Gone are the dark clouds that had me blind.
It's gonna be a bright sunshiny day. Jimmy Cliff

[Lucky Dawg]

Ebb - To quote my 10yo daughter "yeahIknowright?" I'll check out the truck vid - didn't see that.

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I came across that link out of the blue - Tim Urban (blogger, not musician) would not call it "out of the blue", but rather "the dark playground" - the various places you and your brain go (with or without the internet) when procrastinating around something you should be doing.

If you don't know his work, he is terrific. He writes about darn near everything

This is how I was introduced to him - a brilliant piece on procrastination (and the dark playground). http://waitbutwhy.com/2013/10/why-procrastinators-procrastinate.html

You can check the archives ( http://waitbutwhy.com/archive ) yourself, but here are a couple of my favorites:

A comparison of death tolls: http://waitbutwhy.com/2013/08/the-death-toll-comparison-breakdown.html

Your life in weeks: http://waitbutwhy.com/2014/05/life-weeks.html

Why people worry about what people think of them: http://waitbutwhy.com/2014/06/taming-mammoth-let-peoples-opinions-run-life.html

Putting time in perspective http://waitbutwhy.com/2013/08/putting-time-in-perspective.html

etc....

[ebb]

KYLE
(Had another post here that was too far from sailing and sails and sailtrim.
Tim, who is not yet an Ariel or Commander owner, so far as I know...
has things to say that open you mind on a broad reach....)

Tim Urban's website should be a feature in class rooms around the world.
He's one of the few, maybe the only one, who can trace his ancestors back to the BigBang.
Besides being entertaining, he's probably a journalist who writes for the NewYorker.
Besides being a thinker he is also almost politically (meaning also religiously) neutral.
(I put it like this for now, because on any subject he can kindle a fire in the brain.)

To one of his posts (Ancestors) on Comments: Ros responds:
"Your brain is protecting you Tim; if you started each post knowing how EPIC and
UNSTOPPABLE it was going to become, you'd never start.
Thank you for a great read and for making my brain hurt again."
Tim has another amazing post on Procrastination. Something I should have read 60 years ago.

You have to go there yourself,
wait, but why? - for your self.

[Bill]

We do need to keep a neutral stance. Maybe you could edit some of that post?

[ebb]

No idea, but
It's my observation that there are ALWAYS on line here, day and night,
in this Discussion corridor, some where between 15 and 45 - with a likely
count of 20 to 30 users - every calendar day...

Averaged at 25 users for a convenient average stay of 5 minutes...
that means (5mins in 60) 12 x 25 viewers that change out and renew every hour = 300...
which becomes 300 x 24hrs = 7,200 visitors each day.
99% are guests and do not post.

ANSWER. The numbers suggest visits to the Ariel Association at 2,628,000 per year.

[Lucky Dawg]

I suspect 92% are google/yahoo infoScavenger crawlerBots

[ebb]

.08% - of 2,628,000 - leaves us 210,240 meatBalls......not bad at all!:D

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So 241 sailors get turned on by the Paulk Portable Workbench....
And 52% of them go over to Urban's WhyNotWait site to pick up
on Tim's Procrastination post to get themselves recharged....
or at least a T-shirt.

Definitely, Post Positive.
Kyle, thanks for sharing these guys here.
Boats are about Air. Clearing the air, fresh air, fair winds. Both these
fellows think clearly, have something helpful to give, have the
ability to banish confusion, free imagination, and brighten the day.
Family.
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Responding here to Carbonzoup's triumphant
NEXT post...
so as not to have another ebb in the 'last post' column on the Forum page.
That's a nice airy set up TOO!!. Great idea getting a 'work around' bench
into a cubby, out of the way, and still have it usable. Perfect for a garage.
Great photos, great system, you must be a genius as well ! ! !

[carbonsoup]

A great man and a very nice work bench. It seems to coincide very nicely with the design of small boat restoration by enthusiasts like us, simple, to the point and efficient. I came up with something last year when putting my new workshop together. Not as niffty and portable, but cheap, movable, can carry a lot of weight and has storage.

http://i1354.photobucket.com/albums/q692/a97triumph/Ariel/table1_zps5d34e8ce.jpg (http://s1354.photobucket.com/user/a97triumph/media/Ariel/table1_zps5d34e8ce.jpg.html)

http://i1354.photobucket.com/albums/q692/a97triumph/Ariel/table2_zps2f1498ff.jpg (http://s1354.photobucket.com/user/a97triumph/media/Ariel/table2_zps2f1498ff.jpg.html)

[Lucky Dawg]

I'm kicking myself for not thinking of this rollout design for my workshop. I think I can retrofit. A rolling workbench maybe with locking wheels would be an easy addition. Nicely done!!

[ebb]

L o n g ago built massive 4x8 workbenches for the vineyard shop,
that have stood the test of time....
Tied the legs on the short side together at the bottom and mounted two HD rollers on a sturdy board for each end of the bench.
Piano hinged the board with the rollers so that they could be flipped inward
allowing the bench to sit down on its legs, without rollers.
The roller board is attached to what might be called a stretcher or joist:D inset between the legs on the short sides.
Allowing the workbench to drop, after flipping the rollers, no more than 1/2".

It's just a matter, after positioning the bench, to lift an end - hinged board separates -
and you toe push the rollers inward far enough to allow the bench to set down on its legs.
360 rollers on the four corners allow easy positioning. All rollers have wheel locks.....
It isn't always necessary to deactivate the rollers - because of the weight of these elephants.
Long shelf stores seldom used corded tools, so the benches became rather ponderous.
Hardly moved anymore.

And the shop space over time filled with other floor tools and tables....
including a huge sturdy 8x8 dead level 'make-up' platform originally constructed to assemble a large teak day bed, lay-out pipe-clamps
and glue large M&T sections. Workbench in its own right, about 16" off the floor - kneel, crawl, walk and sit on it, access from all sides.
But to this day, no regrets, it still robs space, because full sized plans can be spread out, or drawn with rafter squares & straight edges,
long battens can be sprung to make curves, large circles or ovals layed out. Smaller projects can be placed on it to dry, or set up....or wait.


The short side framing on the 4x8 rolling worktables became the 'joists' for a long open shelf that is also structural framing.
Enough height to get the vac under.
Whole 'front' of the benches are fitted with two large 5" deep drawers on 150#(?) full extension runners.
The top was let to overhang a couple inches, allowing easy hand clamping around the edge.
And a full-sized 1/4" replaceable hardboard sheet screwed on top with brass flatheads. Renewed a number of times.
Benches were made before Festool was born.
Don't know that Paulk holes over the whole surface seen in the first photo above are necessary... for a shop worktable.
I would honor the whole Paulk concept if I were building the portable - and probably do it with Meranti.