Tomorrow is a milestone. How many years later? I dont know I have lost track, but I still do not have electric in my new barn/shop. Power company is scheduled to upgrade my service 9 am tomorrow. After which time we (my electrician with my son and myself doing the lions share of the work) can trench in the new power supply to the barn, and I will finally have REAL electric in there. I have had an extension cord temp. doing the job, so needless to say anything requiring more than 110 on a 100' line is out of the question. I am pretty much only running lights. All of the power has been through battery operated tools.
The main reason behind the behemoth garage to begin with was to relocate my woodworking shop which is about 30%-40% of my day job. We do our share of custom cabinetry, architectural millwork, custom doors, windows, etc. My current wood shop is 16' x 32' so it will finally be nice to 'set up shop' in our new space. Look out Norm, here we come! Once I get my woodworking stuff in the new space I am going to remodel the small shop with new ceiling, paint on the walls and maybe something on the floor. I am planning on making that my car shop to store all of my parts, restore small stuff etc. Right now I kinda have stuff mixed around, it will be so nice to have wood stuff in one place, car stuff in another.