We are wanting to put a service pit in my shop, we are converting an older barn over into a shop and was wondering if anyone had any good ideas how to go about it and what to put in it.
We are thinking about 50 ft long and about five feet deep, we have discussed putting pylasters [cement butress's] on the insides and outsides of the pit walls and to make the bottom inside width about 6 ft and the top opening width 3 ft. We have discussed putting H beams 12 inch by 12 inch along the top running lengthwise so we'd end up with a 4 ft wide opening and have a place to slide roller trays and also a strong place to put jacks and such and also be able to pull those beams out if I needed to drop in something wider into the pit for any reason.
We are planning on having in floor heat in the pit floor, venalation with a small fan that comes on with the lights, lights, air hose pressure, waste oil evac system to blow waste oil out and into a storage tank outside, basic tools and wrenches down in the pit, steps on both ends and pvc lines buried under the cement if we think of anything later we need to run to it. We've tossed around the idea of hose reels with meters to dispense oils and lubes but haven't made any definate plans on that yet. Any other ideas or designs. I am tired of trying to crawl under trucks and trailers to service and do repair and also service dozers and change oil and have wanted a pit for decades now and even though some have tried to discourage me from doing it it's going to happen, if anybody has any other things we missed or need to put in that are handy or have saved them grief let me know, I'm open to any idea possible, also if anyone has any idea for a jack that would lower and raise with rollers on it so we can put in and take transmissions out of trucks I'd like to hear about those as well, I need to take out a few transmissions and put in new ones after this is done, we need to be able to lift it up to the transmission, hold it, lower it down low enough into the pit and roll it out from under the truck and reverse the process to put in new again, it needs to work for belly pans on dozers as well. Thanks in advance for any imput
We are thinking about 50 ft long and about five feet deep, we have discussed putting pylasters [cement butress's] on the insides and outsides of the pit walls and to make the bottom inside width about 6 ft and the top opening width 3 ft. We have discussed putting H beams 12 inch by 12 inch along the top running lengthwise so we'd end up with a 4 ft wide opening and have a place to slide roller trays and also a strong place to put jacks and such and also be able to pull those beams out if I needed to drop in something wider into the pit for any reason.
We are planning on having in floor heat in the pit floor, venalation with a small fan that comes on with the lights, lights, air hose pressure, waste oil evac system to blow waste oil out and into a storage tank outside, basic tools and wrenches down in the pit, steps on both ends and pvc lines buried under the cement if we think of anything later we need to run to it. We've tossed around the idea of hose reels with meters to dispense oils and lubes but haven't made any definate plans on that yet. Any other ideas or designs. I am tired of trying to crawl under trucks and trailers to service and do repair and also service dozers and change oil and have wanted a pit for decades now and even though some have tried to discourage me from doing it it's going to happen, if anybody has any other things we missed or need to put in that are handy or have saved them grief let me know, I'm open to any idea possible, also if anyone has any idea for a jack that would lower and raise with rollers on it so we can put in and take transmissions out of trucks I'd like to hear about those as well, I need to take out a few transmissions and put in new ones after this is done, we need to be able to lift it up to the transmission, hold it, lower it down low enough into the pit and roll it out from under the truck and reverse the process to put in new again, it needs to work for belly pans on dozers as well. Thanks in advance for any imput
