I am making progress on the shop redo but it is going slow. I am only working on it when I get home at night so it is about 6:30 to 7:00 when I get into the shop. To make things worse, it has been raining here everyday so I couldn't move anything outside while we moved things around. I have moved somethings at least a dozen times just to get to where I needed to be. I was never good at rubik's cube but that what this feels like.

 

I know you can't tell much about what is going on but we are getting things close to where the tools will be located. This layout is giving me more room about the tools and more open space in the shop. My shop is a two car garage separate from the house and is 24' x 32'

 

 

So here in this picture you are looking toward to back and across the shop. I moved my table saw to the opposite end of the shop where it had been and moved the sanding table that was in the middle of the shop to a place behind where I am standing in the picture.

 

So now I can bring in lumber and cut it to size at the chop saw and them move right over to the table saw and the jointer is at the right end of the table saw. So without moving all around the shop all of those actions can take place right within a few feet.

 

 

I have moved my Grizzly Planner to the middle of the room and it has it's own DC on it now. The Drum Sander has also been moved to this end of the shop and I have removed the rolling legs that came with it and I am building a rolling cabinet that takes up less room and has storage to sit under it.

 

 

I am still working on where I am going to move the router table to.

 

With better weather expected the next two days, I am hoping we can get everything not needed out of the shop and have room then to actually sit things down and see how the work flow will work. It is a huge mess, but I am really enjoying looking at how we work and making the flow hopefully a lot better and give more open space in the shop. Since I don't have to share it with anything else I am not too concerned with having to move the machines very far. Several of them are on mobile bases so I can move them if I need to.

 

More update as we get there.

 

 

Looks like fun, John. 

Almost exactly the size of my shop. Sometimes it's hard to get around in mine. Thank goodness for casters! And, for Shopsmiths. 

I'd show you my mess, but I can't figure out how to insert a picture.

Looks like it is coming along.  Got a completion date?

Hey John, you done yet!

Hey John, you done yet!

 

 

No, but we made a lot of progress yesterday. I am hoping to finish over the weekend. It was a bigger mess than even I could believe.

 

Here is what it looked like when I walked out last night before the ballgame.

 

It looks pretty good John, I think you have put a dent in the mess.

How soon do you think production will happen again?

It looks pretty good John, I think you have put a dent in the mess.

How soon do you think production will happen again?

 

 

I am hoping to have everything finished this weekend and back up and going. I have a table to finish but we were so tight on space I didn't have enough room to set it up and work on it.

John

After seeing the photos of your shop, I am jealous.mine looks like a scattered lumber yard. Re-organizing a shop is a major under-taking. I have tools, and wood scattered. I could really use help in this one. Too many UN-answered questions. Plus trying to keep work going out the door just adds to the chaos.