Spring cleaning the Machine-shop Van

[Frank S]

Last fall when we started packing up the shop van to get it moved it became near impossible to do much of anything in it.
Too much stuff to haul and too few trailers to haul things in so the shop van became a storage unit/ catch all.
After I moved it to our diggs we have been gradually unloading and relocating much of the materials that did not belong.
Finally yesterday we pretty much reached our goal of having 1 area strictly set up as a tool room and sheet metal processing work area
Right after the move

After a lot cleaning and rearranging

I can now get to each and every drawer in all of the tool boxes use the blast cabinet the Roper Whitney punch the English wheel and the hydraulic press without having to drag or move anything out of my way first The upper area seamed to be the best place to locate those things plus Ihave a couple of 2 ft deep shelves in the very end and a Mezzanine storage area overhead.
Also not shown in the pictures is a designated area for the Vertical American Knee mill and the small La Blond 16 by 40 lathe
There is still some arranging to do in the back end of the trailer in order for me to be able to rotate my Cleereman 30" index drill/ jig bore machine My 3 HP Enco bench mill and table is still slightly burred but there are only so many weather days which otherwise prevent us from working outside.