Thread: Organising your timber collection ...

Originally Posted by Pat

Let's see, 1 x 3x3m shed almost full, flat stuff and turning blanks. Turning blanks under two benches in the shed, the lean to beside the garden shed. It took me half a day to fit in a pack of shorts into the wood shed. Now I have to find room for the Purpleheart lenght . . .

Should not have told me this Pat means I'll have to keep all that macadamia and English oak for myself

When you pick up your goop I can take it off you and store it Pat being a mate and all i promise I won't use much of it

Originally Posted by wheelinround

Should not have told me this Pat means I'll have to keep all that macadamia and English oak for myself

Ray, I always have room for more timber

I have a little space under two small benches free for the Macca and Oak

Originally Posted by gonty

Waldo,

Those racks that look to be big dowels in 4x2 uprights seem a great idea. Are the dowels horizontal or angled up slightly?

Gonty, the dowels are angled very slightly.

Here's my latest attempt at organising my wood pile. There's still slabs and other pieces on the other side of the garage though. Overall, I'm pretty happy with it. Let's see how long it lasts!

heres how i organise my timber, am going to build a small shed off back to house it all one of these days..bob

I feel a lot better after reading this, knowing I am not the only one who keeps all the small offcuts. I am starting to have a problem now that I dont have the wood fire to free up some space. Should never have started on pens. I only do one or two now and then but any offcut large enough to have a blank in it gets hoarded somewhere.
Regards
John

I built this for all the offcuts I can't throw away.

Beaut idea.

a bloody great idea, consider it copied

Glad you like it. A couple of important details if you do make one:

The sloping part is divided into about 5 compartments and the compartments have a flat bottom. I found that without the flat bottom, the lengths all wanted to slide to the deep end and it was a pain to load up.

Originally Posted by silentC

The sloping part is divided into about 5 compartments and the compartments have a flat bottom. I found that without the flat bottom, the lengths all wanted to slide to the deep end and it was a pain to load up.

Nice design, I wish I had the room for one. What is the purpose of the shelf/bench in front?

This might help:

Ahh, an LS1012/3? I have the same one and while it is a good tool it makes a heck of a mess. It seems pretty clean behind it, have you got a secret to catching the sawdust? I have just started using bicycle inner tube to join the mak vac port to my shop vac. It helps give a better seal. My shop vac hose and the mak port are the same size so the bike tube is a perfect joiner piece.

It's an LS1013.

Regarding the sawdust, my method comprises a gap between the box it's sitting on and the wall behind it. The dust falls down there and once in a blue moon I suck it out with the dusty. My daughter calls it "feeding the elephant"