In article ,
Frank Boettcher wrote:

On Fri, 10 Aug 2007 05:11:27 GMT, "Ivan Vegvary"
wrote:

I need to isolate my woodworking from my other hobbies. I have a 60'x60'
shop of which 40'x60' still has some flexibility left. I would like to
partition some of it for woodworking. What would be a reasonable size? I
own the following woodworking tools: Table saw, radial arm saw, jointer,
molder, lathe, dust collector (haven't used it yet) and bench.

I would like to keep the size somewhat to a minimum. It is not my primary
hobby. My other interests are machining, welding and auto restoration.
Woodworking is an occasional repair job, and someday I would like to build a
few cabinets.

Presently, when I need to rip a single 2"x6"x8' for a onetime use,
everything I own throughout the whole 60 feet of shop gets covered with a
fine dust. My solution has been to drag my table saw out to the driveway
for that occasional cut. Not too uncomfortable except here in the NW we
don't have dry weather very often.

I would like to know what room sizes you all are enjoying.

Thanks,

Ivan Vegvary



Measure your tool footprints, add dotted lines for required infeed and
outfeed, make paper cuttouts to scale, and fit them to the space with
required walk around room and stock storage. Do it on CAD if you are
capable and so equipped. I found the paper cuttouts quicker to move
around.

Frank

My shop is 20 by 27, I took one 20 foot wall and made 2-10 foot wide
swinging doors of the wall with heavy rollers on the bottom and a well
made commercial gasket system. That left the rest of my barn for other
things (cars, flowers, storage, etc). 99% of the time I can do
everything in the shop with the doors closed and latched - meaning no
sawdust in the rest of the barn. Because I only heat and cool the shop,
the walls are 9 inches thick (Michigan summers and winters) and fully
insulated - including the doors - the rollers were needed to support the
weight of the doors. I have had the barn setup this way for 10 years -
it takes about 2 minutes to swing the doors open, once everything is
clear. The doors open smoothly enough that I can hang tools on them. The
key for me was to make the ceiling 12 feet, which greatly improves the
ability to handle long materials.

Doug