re: Workshop Tour

Thanks for your comments guys.

Steve, yes, it has taken us many years to make that much mess! This shop was built about 20 years ago.

Ianwater, we’ve gone through a couple of stacks like that. I don’t post a lot because of dial-up, but we’ve made several large projects that have used a considerable amount of wood. The reason for all the lumber is two-fold: we have oak wilt in the area so our forest is dying. We burn the bad stuff and mill the not-quite-so-bad stuff. Also, we had a major windstorm in 2011 which took down many of our trees that didn’t have oak wilt so we sawed up the better ones of those as well.

Jeff, the downstairs shop is just 18′ × 40′ and that includes what is taken up by the utility room (about 7′ × 12′) and the stairway. It’s only about 600 square feet downstairs. The area between the stairway and utility room gets pretty narrow (less than 8’). We thought we were building enough space but it is shared with too many other activities.