Shop Layout advice

[Eddie Howard]

I'm about to move to a new shop (gloat). Moving from 350 to 750 sq.ft. of space. Here is what I'm thinking and would welcome your advice or thoughts on tool placement and such. Items numbered are:

1) 12' of wood storage
2) 2 1/2 ft of vertical Ply storage
3) 12" SCMS on Ridged mobile stand
4) Jointer Griz 490
5) Griz 1023 table saw w/ 5' x 8' table around saw
6) Griz 453 planer
7) 5' X 8' Work Assembly / Out feed table
8) chip Separator & Griz 1029 DC in Closet
9) Air Compressor ( thinking about putting it in upper space of DC closet
10) Upper and lower cabinets for storage
11) (not place yet) 22" X 44" Preformax drum sander
12) (not place yet) Drill press
13) (not place yet) Griz 513 Band-saw
The dotted line at the bottom is the boundary line and the jagged line at the lower left is a 10' overhead door.

Any advice/thoughts are welcome.

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[Brad Thompson]

Hi Eddie,
Congrats on the new shop.

Have you tried using the free online shop layout tools/software on either Grizzly's or Delta's websites? Fast, easy to use and lets you play with various ideas.

You could also use SketchUp once you get the final layout worked out.

Brad

[glenn bradley]

Congrats! Not sure if the dotted line is a garage door but, I have tried two set ups; outfeed towards the garage door for dealing with long pieces, infeed towards garage door for same. My current shop is deeper than wide so I am in the infeed towards garage door configuration. Minor thing but oh-so handy on the occaision that I need to rip long stock. I can comfortably feed 4' material with the door closed and open it for anything longer. Enjoy!

[Greg Hairston]

Eddie,
One thing I would look at is your placement of the Jointer and Planer. You currently have the planer on the other side of the saw from the jointer. Look at how you process material. I normally go from jointer to planer then to saw. The less you have to carry material back and forth the better.
You may want your jointer and planer together near your chop saw. set up work triangles that work for you.

Just my $.02

Greg

[Doyle Alley]

I would make sure that planer is on a mobile base. After a heavy rain, you'll probably get some drops from the garage door when it is opened. If your planer (and everything else under the door) is mobile, you can slide it out of harm's way when you need to open the door to bring in materials.

[Eddie Howard]

Thanks for the input -- the dotted line at the bottom of the picture is an imaginary boundary line that just marks the center line of the building. The idea to move the planer to the same side of the saw as the jointer is wise and I can move the table saw toward the boundary line to accomplish the needed room. I am thinking about putting the A.Compressor above the DC in the closet.

Right now I don't have an answer to DC pipe to table saw with out it being on the floor -- don't like that.

Eddie

[Eddie Howard]

Thanks for the input -- the dotted line at the bottom of the picture is an imaginary boundary line that just marks the center line of the building. The idea to move the planer to the same side of the saw as the jointer is wise and I can move the table saw toward the boundary line to accomplish the needed room. I am thinking about putting the A.Compressor above the DC in the closet.

Right now I don't have an answer to DC pipe to table saw with out it being on the floor -- don't like that.

Eddie

[Eddie Howard]

Here's the update -- Better?

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[Jim Becker]

Put that planer and jointer "together" so you can share a DC drop and power drop. 'Saves a little space, too...