Now that the extraction is basically sorted in the garage, there's a new problem to be addressed. There never seems to be enough space to DO anything when you want to, because theres so much stuff, and it's typically badly organised from years of being put away in a hurry to do something else 'now'.
After getting a new and somewhat larger band saw, things came to a head when the old one had to move to make room for the new one. The problem being that the old small band saw stood on a table which was later made into a wood store for all different types of wood, and as the collection of bits increased it just got worse.
This is all of the wood which isn't a large sheet piece and was under the benches in various piles. There's Oak, Mahogany, Ash, Walnut, some plywood and chipboard of various thicknesses and coverings to name only the more common ones.
The old band saw stand was also one of the supports for the main bench top down that side of the garage, not especially helpful when it needs to be removed.
Because the legs themselves were perfectly serviceable, and also held up the shelf that the thicknesser was on, making a new set seemed a bit annoying. Making a filler block and end cap instead to make up the gap was far easier and still did the job. A little hacky, but if it's stupid and it works, it's not stupid.
In a spree of efficiency I also decided to start clearing out ALL of the tools on the other side and reoganising them so they actually worked in a sensible manner. Because of the speed of doing things and trying to finish as much as possible in a short space of time, picture taking fell a little by the wayside while problems were overcome.
On the left of the picture, just visible are some metal shelves, which when they were installed were sufficient as there were fewer tools overall. With the number of tools increasing and 1/3 of this are being taken up by a router table and the shelves being removed, everything was crammed down.
For years the intent has been to make a sliding shelf, and now the time had come, basically because I got sick of moving the rails around the garage and saying "these should be used..."
So, a shelf was made to carry all of the Festool boxes since the stack and lift so well, underneath went the router, the thicknesser and the biscuit jointer.
Behind the Festool as the shelf is roughly 24" deep goes the nail gun, the hammer drill and mains screwdriver, circular saw, and an exact-saw, which is pretty handy plus a case of bits.
The space to the left has also been redone, but i'll put up photos of that another time, once i've taken them.
