These threads always give me a bit of a chuckle, especially when someone mentions the size of their shop (or, rather the size they THINK it is) in anything but absolute numbers. Regardless of how small you think your space is, there's always someone who thinks you have a massive place compared to theirs.
I've often thought of mine as small, as it's a couple of workbenches on one wall of my 2 car garage, until I bought my mill. I thought we were going to have to call in a few well built circus midgets to get that mill out of the dude's tiny little shed shack. There was BARELY enough room to slide sideways through the place....I have no clue how he managed to get anything at all done in there.
In my case, while I technically have considerably more space than what I utilize for the machining operations, I'm absolutely not willing to put my '62 International outside permanently to make more usable space. Then when you take into account my 2 welders, horizontal bandsaw, engine hoist, scores of old car parts that again I don't want to leave outside, my home's brain dead builders that put the washer and dryer in the garage...the space really does get small fast, lol.
I've often thought of mine as small, as it's a couple of workbenches on one wall of my 2 car garage, until I bought my mill. I thought we were going to have to call in a few well built circus midgets to get that mill out of the dude's tiny little shed shack. There was BARELY enough room to slide sideways through the place....I have no clue how he managed to get anything at all done in there.
In my case, while I technically have considerably more space than what I utilize for the machining operations, I'm absolutely not willing to put my '62 International outside permanently to make more usable space. Then when you take into account my 2 welders, horizontal bandsaw, engine hoist, scores of old car parts that again I don't want to leave outside, my home's brain dead builders that put the washer and dryer in the garage...the space really does get small fast, lol.