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[Schmaven]

I've noticed in my forts that dwarves tend to choose the nearest boulder for a crafting / masonry / mechanic job based on proximity to themselves at the time they take on the job.  When hauling stone boulders, the weaker dwarves will sometimes happen to choose a boulder 100+ tiles away from the workshop when there are available boulders within 3 tiles from the shop.  This results in some serious delays in production.  Perhaps it would be better if the dwarves selected the closest boulder to the workshop instead? 

If boulder carrying speed could be determined by dwarven strength, then a more complicated method of choosing the boulder that would result in the shortest time to get to the workshop, boulder in hand, could be chosen. 

[Starver]

Just had DejaVu about this subject, with a very recent discussion...

Aha! Have a look here. I'm sure there's things not already said, or that you just want to go over again, but FYI.

Hang on. You were there. NVM.

[Ziusudra]

Have a stockpile next to the workshop that gives to that workshop and have that stockpile use wheelbarrows. Then the WS workers can only take stone from that SP and whoever hauls the stone to the SP will use a wheelbarrow which means the weight of the stone won't slow them down. This also allows you to easily limit which stone types that WS can use. And with dfhack you can have the SP use up to one wheelbarrow per SP tile.

[Schmaven]

That's usually how I work around it.  But when carving out large areas, sometimes I just pop a mason's workshop down in the middle of all the fresh boulders and queue up some doors or whatever without bothering to set up stockpiles and wheelbarrows.  It's those non-micro-managed instances where this becomes an issue mostly.