Edward Teach
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I'm not saying my workshop is full up or anything,
But,
There is still unused floor space in yours
But,
There is still unused floor space in yours
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James1979
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That’s the key I think, shape. I have had a few workshops over the years. My last unit was good, a nice big square with a high roof. Door was huge and bang in the middle of one side.I know where most things are when a mess, when tidy I can't find anything.
I have too much in a workshop that is the wrong shape and if I stack everything up to get it tidy then I find I spend much longer lifting boxes of stuff off of each other to get to the thing I want then spend as long putting it all back and that wastes time. Much easier for me just to go to a pile and haul something out from the pile
First unit was the same floor space as above, but an L shape with a ramp down to a door which was in a stupid place in relation to the building and the rest Of the yard.
Current one is thin (8m) but the door is the whole width of that, but the building is about 3 times as long as wide. It’s a pain in the hole. 8m sounds a lot but if you want to maintain a thoroughfare you can’t use the whole width. It’s like an oversized container, really
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I have several of them...... do you still have that cnc shelf.....
Aye, mine is totally the wrong shape for the things I have in it, just a narrow passage down the length and machines either side. That limits wall space as well as the machines are along the walls so can't utelise the wall space behind them.
My workshop is 15m long but only 4m wide, My CNC Lathe is 2.3m wide and opposite is 1.2m manual so only 500mm gap between.
View from back door.
View from front door.
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Having been to @Pete. I aspire to a workshop like his. I have two Citroen DS in mine, one in pieces. I'm having to build another shed just for the DS parts. The mezzanine is full of panels, as is the roof space over the cart shed, still I can't move for wheels, tyres, engines and gearboxes.I would have that straightened up in literally 15 minutes
I like my workshop to be fairly tidy. Anyone who has visited me will tell you it's like the Tardis, lots of stuff in a small space but also plenty of bench space. It gets awfully messy from time to time but I soon enough straighten it out. I can put my hand on most any tool or material then and it doesn't distract me from what I'm doing.
Should have those plywood sheets tied up to 3 pitbulls who haven't been fed for 2 days
12 brand new sheets of 12mm ply bought just because I heard the price was going up back last March..oddly every visitor walks past the cool stuff in their and spots the ply right away!Just over 2 years ago that was me..working under a tarp on the driveway with a buzz box welder and Argos grinder! 3 phase was something to dream about! First “workshop” had no mains 20 Mile from home and was just the end 2 bays of a old cow shed really!Its beautiful in there.
Imagine the poor guy who dreams of just having a shed. Puts it all into perspective.
But ime getting their slowly
the guy before me had a 2 berth caravan in the back behind a wagon curtain. Well and truly lived in caused by a messy divorceIts the 'Lived In' look
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Reminds me of a Blacksmith friend of mine overseas, same situation. I framed in a small bedroom for him in his shop.the guy before me had a 2 berth caravan in the back behind a wagon curtain. Well and truly lived in caused by a messy divorce
yeh i tend to have a mad week or two (often working round various silage/slurry runs as i do a lot of my work for 2 contractors then spend half a day cleaning up tools back in draws re stocking consumables sweep up and sort thru the off cuts for keep or scrap.I understand completely how continuous long shifts of work gets in the way of a good tidy up... but personally I can't work like that... I have to keep things tidy
My brother's end of the workshop often looks like that though
It's certainly a different kettle of fish though, from someone pottering in their shed at nights/weekends, to having a workshop/operating base used for 60-80 hour weeks...!
this years plan is get a small forklift and sell them 2 welding tables you can see and keep the good one you cant, and have floor to ceiling pallet racking all along the back wall what i can get the forklift to. that way the quad and sheet material can get up out the way. and rarely used tools, re-free up space designated for "lathe" and "folder"
There is no way on earth that my workshop would get tidied and organised in a week let alone a day.
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My first workshop did that. You’ll get there I’m sure.
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Thats tidy, plenty of space. It could be a lot worse! I have so much stuff krammed into the smallest 2m x 0.8m shed 
At the moment I dont have space to kneel down to find something I dropped (m3.5 insert screw and 0.98mm hss blank, for 1 wure measuring, are currently missing!). The benefit is, items cant bouce so far!
My problem is odd offcuts,particually sheet and bars. Cant throw them, but theres no neat way to store in such a limited space.
At the moment I dont have space to kneel down to find something I dropped (m3.5 insert screw and 0.98mm hss blank, for 1 wure measuring, are currently missing!). The benefit is, items cant bouce so far!
My problem is odd offcuts,particually sheet and bars. Cant throw them, but theres no neat way to store in such a limited space.
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Thats tidy, plenty of space. It could be a lot worse! I have so much stuff krammed into the smallest 2m x 0.8m shed
At the moment I dont have space to kneel down to find something I dropped (m3.5 insert screw and 0.98mm hss blank, for 1 wure measuring, are currently missing!). The benefit is, items cant bouce so far!
My problem is odd offcuts,particually sheet and bars. Cant throw them, but theres no neat way to store in such a limited space.
I know someone who is giving away a complete sectional concrete garage, if you want it.
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I've no land to erect one, although I rent one from the council for the bikes, that is over full. The parents have another which houses the broken car they gifted me, but neither have power and a pain other than storage.
One day I will move, have unlimited space and a dry outside area to work!
I learnt from my bosses 30 yrs ago, you can't keep everything, every off-cut, every bar end - you soon end up paying with unuseable floor space, bench space, rack space, for the real paying work stuff.
Regular clear outs to keep space free, working area safe, being able to work easily, not step over and around stuff. Not having to shift crap that will come in handy one day, sometime, never, just to get to a machine, or even get to a machine to service it, maintain it.
The day you trip over that odd bit of stock on the floor, carrying something heavy/expensive/sharp and end up off work with serious injury is a day too late . . .
Regular clear outs to keep space free, working area safe, being able to work easily, not step over and around stuff. Not having to shift crap that will come in handy one day, sometime, never, just to get to a machine, or even get to a machine to service it, maintain it.
The day you trip over that odd bit of stock on the floor, carrying something heavy/expensive/sharp and end up off work with serious injury is a day too late . . .
