Thanks for the replies.
Yes I think I'll have room for a few play toys... lol
I am using the shop planner on the Grizzly's web site. It is helping, but not sure how much room to allow for each machine. (in feed and out feed).
At the present time all we have are a few hand tools, a 10" miter saw and a 14" bandsaw.
My wish list is to add a cabin table saw, 12" compound miter, lathe, planner, jointer, and radial arm saw. And later on, a comb belt/disc sander, oscillating spindle sander, and a drum sander. And a few workbenches and few moving assembly tables.
The floor will be concrete so what ever tool(s) I place in the middle of the floor I will have to add dust collection tubing and an electrical conduit for each machine running under the floor. I thing some of them can be set against the wall, and pulled out when being used, hooked up to a flex hose for the dust collection from over head.
How far about from the dust collector I can have the machines? Once I put the ducting in the concrete floor, I can't change it.
At one end of the shop I was going to build a closet big enough to house the dust collector, air compressor, and heating/cooling heat pump.
I hope I'm making sense with all this. I can rattle on at times.
When we build the barn/shop and sometime in a year or two, the house, we will have to clear some of the trees. The property sits in center Illinois just south of the Kaskaskia River. The property that we have has just under 40 acres of trees. I don't want to waste any of them.
I would like to use the downed trees for cabinets, shelving, trim, and even some furniture for the house. Shoot, even the workbenches and assembly tables for the shop could come from the trees.
The barn will have a loft, and I was hoping to use it to air dry and if possible, set up a kiln to dry the lumber, as well as be the storage area for all of the lumber.
I can't see piling up the downed trees and just burning them. If the tree is to small or not of good working wood, then I'll turn it into either mulch or firewood, or even a tree house for the kids.
Thanks,
Rick