OK, we've all read about drawing out our shop then cutting out little squares to represent our machines and do all our arranging on paper BEFORE we start moving stuff. How many of you have done that? C'mon, raise your hands and be counted. Just like I thought, the MAJORITY would rather get out in the shop and horse stuff around in an effort to make it all fit. Well, I USED to be like that. I have changed my shop around so many times, I spend more time arranging than I do building. PART of my problem, now that I can see it on paper, is entirely too much stuff for the space! If you have 285 square foot of floor space and a total equipment foot print of 265 square feet, you have too much stuff. It doesn't matter how you arrange it, you will always have a shop that you can LOOK into but not WORK in. Putting this all down on paper kept me from dragging everything out into the driveway then slowly put it all back into the shop and still have little better than controlled chaos. I can assure you, I have now realized, I have entirely too much stuff. I can also state with absolute certainty, I cannot get a bigger shop. The dilemma, how to work in my shop with the tools I have, and not get rid of too much of my good stuff?
For me, my biggest offender is my woodpile. It continues to spread out and grow and is eating up about a 40 square foot footprint for the big stack and another 20 or so in minor piles. THIS is my worst square footage eater. My only possible solution is to try and go up, not out. OK, so I have a target to begin with, I need a BETTER, more EFFICIENT way to store wood. At least I have a starting point.
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