Here’s pictures of my ‘shop’.
Again… I’m trying to cram everything into 1/4th of a 2 car garage. I found this is a lot easier if the first step you take is buy the wife the smallest car you can find that will fit the whole family.
Looking through the pictures, you will see I have tools everywhere. When I actually do ‘real’ work, I have to spend the first half hour setting up all the tools. I back the wife’s car down to the end of the driveway, which gives me the rest of the garage and the top half of the driveway for setting up shop.
I wheel the table saw out to the driveway. Then I pull out bench-top tools as needed. Most of the bench top tools I end up using on the ground. Some of them I set on top of the table saw.
Right now if I need the table saw, then I set up two saw horses and have the wife help me lift the CNC machine over onto them.
If you look closely, you’ll see my old lathe laying on it’s side behind the table saw. I built the wooden mount so that it slots in to the grooves on the top of my saw horses. It’s a heavy beast, but I can just manage to move it around and get it setup by myself.
What you can’t see is that the table saw stand has two doors on the front. All my hand sanders and my circ saw live there, as well as a box I built for converting my drill press into a drum sander.
I’m a big fan of older tools. The lathe is a Craftsman from the 1950’s. There’s a large jointer/table saw combo made by Delta in the middle of the shop from the 1950’s as well. I still need to get new belts for it and finish refurbishing it.
Whenever we get around to it, we plan on building a storage shed in the backyard for all the yard stuff and bicycles. That will free up the rest of the wall for me to finish building out the workbench. The plan is to build another rolling cart for all the bench top tools with T-track to clamp them down. Somewhere along that wall, I’ll build an enclosure to mount the MPCNC into. I’ll probably make it big enough to wheel the table saw up under it when not in use like it is now.
I’ve thought about hanging the lathe from the ceiling when not in use. I still haven’t found a good place to try and do that.
I have a larger compressor by the garage door on the otherside… another one of those ‘older than I am’ tools that I have in my shop.