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    I recently moved, and lost my old shop space.

    The old granary on the farm I grew up on was being used for storage. I was able to work a deal to use the granary as a shop, but I had to clean it out first.
    It took me about three days of moving junk, and another day of sweeping and vacuuming mouse excrement.

    I didn't have the budget to put in new workbenches, etc. but there was a lot of scrap lumber laying around, and I found an old bathroom vanity in one of the sheds, and an old kitchen cabinet in another shed.

    I still have quite a bit of cleaning to do, but it's starting to come together pretty well:

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    I'm not used to working with this small of a space. I kind of like it, but I still need more room for bullet casting, and I need a place to set up my bow press. There is another small room in the granary, so I think that stuff will probably go in there.

    I also need to add another 20 amp breaker, and some outlets in there.

    This is the first time I've ever had a workshop that was its own shop - usually I've always had all of my machine tools, car repair, and woodworking stuff together.
    Here, the woodworking, and reloading stuff are sharing a space, but most of the machine tools (other than the small mill) and the auto-repair stuff are in a different garage.

    Any good ideas for space management here?
    Other ideas that would be helpful?
    Last edited by HNSB; 07-06-2013 at 11:15 PM.

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