Right, well I have pretty much run out of wall space in my workshop and I never have a lot of plywood kicking around - but when I do it's a hassle - I am constantly shuffling it from leaning against one thing or another. On the weekend I had a bit of a brainstorm and realized that there is one 9 foot wide stretch of the "wall" that still exists and it's recessed a bit as well - the roll up door.
My workshop is a room built on the back of my attached garage on the house. The roll up door to get into the workshop is on the back wall of the car garage, and it rolls up into the garage, not the workshop. So standing in the workshop and looking at the roll up door is like standing outside a house and looking at the garage door - there's a recess on the wall and it rolls away from you, not into the room.
Here's what I came up with - a plywood box of sorts with one side cut open. A big hinge on one end fashioned from some 2x8's and pipes that's fastened into the opening of the door, and a couple of big honkin fixed casters underneath. This should allow the thing to swing out and back very easily.
The only thing I can think of as to why this contraption might cause problems is if the floor is real uneven and the whole thing ends up reefing on the door opening should the wheels try to come off the floor in part of the arc, but I'll check the floor carefully before spending any time (and money) on this project. Perhaps if the hinge had a bit of slop in it, it would take care of any small pertubations anyway.
I like it in general - it will hold 6 or 7 sheets of plywood (a massive amount for me) at a time, and it takes up no space in the workshop. By placing the full side of the "box" on the room side, I might even be able to hang some stuff on it such as clamps or larger jigs and fixtures.
Anyone seen something like this in use before and/or have any comments like "uh oh - better think about....".
I don't use the roll up door often as there is a man door to get into the shop, so the torment of pushing it out of the way when entering the shop via the roll up door should not be an issue for me.
Cheers,
Lewis