Workshop sooner?!

When I have a 'full day' (ie not filming) in the workshop and am sorting out rough sawn oak and so on I usually produce enough offcuts and other rejects to keep our woodburner going for the evening. I am not suggesting that anyone buys extra timber to achieve this! By the time you take out the bad knotty bits and the end and edge trimmings there can be quite a pile.

You can always think about a ground source or air source heat pump. If you do, make sure that it is set up correctly or it will not save you any money at all.

Peter
 
Main thing with insulation is not to have loads but to do it well. No good having 400mm of insulation done badly. Like alan said link the insulations too like the cavity insulation should link to the rafter insulation if not these are cold spots. Dont have spotlights either if it requires cutting massive holes in insulation, always pointless in my mind
 
Using a panel saw to rip 8' or 10' sheets is a lot lot quicker than on a Cnc. I would always do the tips on a panel saw rather than a cnc.
My top 6 would be
Cnc,
Panel saw,
Jointer,
Thicknesser,
Spindle moulder,
Extraction.

Are you placing your extraction outside where is can end up in a skip or trailor? Defo get a seperate fan for the cnc and a seperate fan for everything else.
 
galwaydude18 said:
Using a panel saw to rip 8' or 10' sheets is a lot lot quicker than on a Cnc. I would always do the tips on a panel saw rather than a cnc.
My top 6 would be
Cnc,
Panel saw,
Jo
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Not sure wa ur other top 4 are or even wa ur Jo is lol  but yes I agree that a CNC isnt the quickest to just cut sheets up  but I have TS55 and TS75 which will do me for now with a 2.7m rail and I have a few short rails.

JMB
 
Sorry jmb I pressed post by accident doing it on the iPhone. List is updated now.

For a production workshop environment as great as the TS 55 and 75 is with a 2700 rail is it would be far to slow compared to a panel.

If I was you I'd get a combo planer/thicknesser and use the savings for a panel saw
 
Deansocial said:
Main thing with insulation is not to have loads but to do it well. No good having 400mm of insulation done badly. Like alan said link the insulations too like the cavity insulation should link to the rafter insulation if not these are cold spots. Dont have spotlights either if it requires cutting massive holes in insulation, always pointless in my mind
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that the thing . dean hit the nail on the head. do those jobs yourself. tie it all together and even over do the thickness on corners where it has a greater heat loss.

john. im not sure i agree about the panel saw. iv used an altendorf panel saw and found it slow. you need two people to move the sheet onto it without scratching it,then alighn it up ,then unlock the carage (locked to stop you shoving the sheet into the blade ) and cut  and repeat .
a track saw is way faster. i use my walko workbench on 2 tresels. in the garage there is a bench that is the same height. when i bring in the sheets i put them up on edge on top of the bench. then i flip down the sheet onto the walko ,mark ,pop on the rail and cut.

now if he bought a beam saw then he would be really quick.

i find the panel saw great for small repeditive cuts
 
Genie Alan I used an altendorf and a robland saw on a regular basis and hav never ever had to lock the carriage on any panel saw to get it on it and align it either and have always done it by myself as well. I have even regularly cut two sheets at the same time on a panel saw. It's about having a sheet rack close enough to the saw to get the sheet onto the saw and not interfere with you or the use of the saw.
 
galwaydude18 said:
Sorry jmb I pressed post by accident doing it on the iPhone. List is updated now.

For a production workshop environment as great as the TS 55 and 75 is with a 2700 rail is it would be far to slow compared to a panel.

If I was you I'd get a combo planer/thicknesser and use the savings for a panel saw
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I will be looking at getting a more efficient method of cutting sheet goods down but for the time being the TS will do. 

I would never wanna get a planer/thicknesser to save money because I know i will in the future want it separate so might a swell do it from the start.

Mainly because I am planning on having some one working with me and having  them separate will be far more productive as two people can carry on working.

JMB
 
deffo get them seperate. i have a combination planer thicknesser but i only use it as a hobby mostly.
i would hate to hate to use it like that for production. 2 machines is way nicer. you can be planing away and have someone else thickneesing. or if you spot a defect in a board when thicknessing you can nip back to the planer and start another piece  and continue at the thickneser without changing theset up.
they do use more space thow.

the altendorff we used used to always mark the sheets if you did it on your own. sometimes small scratchs,other times dark lines from the aluminium carrage. total nightmare  to remove adn really only show up properly when sprayed
 
Jesus that's extremely weird! There must have been a manufacturing defect with that carriage. I have never come across anything like that in all the years iv used panel saws.
 
we checked for sharp edges and dents etc but found nothing to scratch the  sheets. the dark marks were from the aluminium. the carrage should be anodised to stop that. we had a beam saw so no problem but it was annoying
 
God that would drive me insane a defect on a high quality altendorf panel saw. I personally wouldn't have put up with it and would have sent it back
 
Only Joking!   Got you lot all worried didnt I!    Haaahaaaa!

Its my temporary  storage area when I start knocking down the stables.  [big grin]

JMB
 
[size=10pt]Day 3

Took some pictures this morning there was some more progress at end of the day but got a bit to dark and COLD!

Well I have been playing on the Digger!  Digging the footings and getting them concreted and levelled up.
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So the bricklayers could start to lay bricks the fallowing day!
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I carried on digging out part of the Pond area and dig for another footing so the wall can run through.  
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Then I started ripping down the old walls and decided to start digging around the building to find their is no proper retaining wall to retain the drive which is annoying!
You can see I hit the roof with the Digger oops! lol  and I might of clipped the gutter with the digger bucket [embarassed]
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So decided  to rip part of the building down which I have already started just not taken pictures yet. Also had to clear out part of the building first which was full of stuff took ages to clear out!

Then ill make some shuttering and fill with concrete to retain the ground.

 
odd looking site
congrates on the start.
are you shure you trust a builder with a full face baliclava
 
Alan m said:
odd looking site
congrates on the start.
are you shure you trust a builder with a full face baliclava
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Why is it odd?

You mean messy? LoL I kno it's abit messy only been 2 and half days I'll get it all sorted in a few days
Jmb
 
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