Quite possibly the dumbest thing I've ever done....

[rustystoes]

Knottys:
I built a low assembly table on casters with space for 4 sys 4s under. It's about 20" tall, just right for working on assembled cabinets + there is enough space when it is nested under my MFT to stack panels and parts on.

 

[Tinker]

My house has no appropriate space for a shop.  There's no garage, no shed or outbuilding, no basement, and no spare activity room.  The MFT/3 gives me freedom inside and outside.  Usually, mine lives folded up under the bed on my side where it can slide out easily.  If my wife is out with the kids for a couple of hours, I can set up in the next room in 5 minutes, beaver away at a project, and clean everything up before they get back.  The "next room" is a stone-floored living room, so (shhh, don't tell) I've done all kinds of otherwise-forbidden woodworking tasks a couple of feet from our couch.  Or, if the weather is nice, I can carry it out on our north-side deck.  If I need a place to write, to set up a racquet-stringing machine... the list goes on and on.

Freedom isn't free, but it's worth it!

Sorry guys, but here comes another boring story.
I have a small business that is nonconforming to my local zoning codes.  By being a good neighbor and with very careful landscape screening, i had kept under the radar (and still under after over 45 years in same neighborhood).  I wanted to further my screening by building a small barn to hide some of my rolling equipment and some of the lighter weight components identifiable to my trade (a mason contractor in those days/ a landscaper today/ a woodworker tomorrow).  I had an odd shaped lot and had figured out how i could fit the barn into a portion of the area and still be within the code restrictions.  I had drawn up plans with a roof line to be as inconspicuous to my neighbors as possible.  I had CMA by showing my plans to the two neighbors on either side and received letters of approval from each. Upon application, my Planning & Zoning did not approve and so I had to go to Zoning Appeals Board.  Those guys were not only far more understanding, being more personally involved first hand with real construction problems, I knew all of them on the board, either first hand, or had worked with some of their fathers.  When I was called to the stand, i was asked all of the normally expected questions about desighn and construction.  I was asked about external materials, shingles, siding, foundation height and etc.  Finally, one of the board members asked me why I wanted to build the barn. 

Up until that time, nobody had asked that question.  I had not given it much consideration other than I knew i could not tell them I needed to hide my construction equipment.  I would have been out of there instantly and looking for a commercial property.  My instant reply, hitherto not even thought of was, "I am a woodworking hobbiest.  I have no room to store or set up anytools in my house.  I have a very small bandsaw that my wife is getting very tired of me storing under the bed."  The entire board, as well as people in the audience, burst out laughing and i was out of there with hardly another word.  I had my permit.

Oh! the OP had a comment about MFT.  I have a 1080, a 800 and no room in my shop.  What am I doing about floor space?  The first step is that I am about to get a MFT/3.  I just can not stand finding space to walk around in my shop  [eek]  Isn't there a saying about he who dies with the most tools (toys) wins.  I cannot afford to have the most tools(toys) so my competion is to have the least remaining work space.  [doh]
Tinker

 

[spikfot]

+1 for Ridgefield Connecticut.

 

[rxe]

I've just got myself an mft/3 as well.  Like the OP, I don't know why I didn't get one earlier.  Actually...I do know why: £500 for a #%€$|{!! worktable?    I've been mucking about with a couple of black and decker workmates for far too long, and trimming a load of floorboards over the last few days has been a pleasure rather than a fear filled session of hoping that the damn thing hasn't slipped during the cut.  I'm about to press the button on the cms attachment so I can run the TS 75 as a table saw.

Now to PM Qwas and get some dogs sent over the Atlantic.

Hint to Festool sales people.  All of the mft pictures in the catalogues look like it is really flimsy and small - and thus outrageous for so much money.  When you see one "in the flesh" you realise that it is very substantial.

 

[sancho57]

Ah yes the CMS table saw. I heard a nasty rumour about it being released in the states next year. I was going to sell my table saw and do my work using festools w/o a table saw.

After thinking about it and getting frustrated and watching Guidos Hemms videos many times the light went on.

You actually do need a table saw for cutting small hardwood pieces like face frames etc and a router table which is why the cms has a router table attachment.

That is why festool makes the cms.

I'll hold on to my saw and make a router table to set in between 2 MFTs.

I might make one out of a mft top rout the plate into the top when one side gets thrashed or buy a kapex mft top and rout the router plate into it.

Maybe make a top routing the 20mm holes in it using the LR32 system.

Ill figure something out but I want to get rid of my stationary table to make more room in the shop and make me more mobile.