How Neat Is Your Shop?

Devil505 · Post by **Devil505** » Fri. Sep. 26, 2008 4:36 pm

No matter how many times I clean it up, all I have to do is hang a picture & this is the way I leave it!

ken · Post by **ken** » Fri. Sep. 26, 2008 5:00 pm

looks like it's time for a garage sale. get rid of some stuff so you can work and move around. when I had my shop in the basement , everything had a place to be. now after 4 years the place is a disaster , can't find anything. good thing I've only been down there couple times. make me want to

seeing how people treat my tools when there done. just throw it anywhere.

Rick 386 · Post by **Rick 386** » Fri. Sep. 26, 2008 5:01 pm

Devil,

I see the problem in the first pic.

If you would just put those 2 jugs of Atomic Fireballs on a shelf and hang that roll of shipping tape, you would have a 12" x 12" area on the workbench. That's all the room you need. Everything else can stay as it is.

Didn't George Carlin have some material about having too much "stuff?"

And no I will not post a picture showing my shop or desk !!!
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Rick

VigIIPeaBurner · Post by **VigIIPeaBurner** » Fri. Sep. 26, 2008 5:35 pm

I hear y'all loud and clear! 10 years ago I moved and left behind a bank barn I built and had to toss and consolidate 1400 ft. of goodies. That's sq. ft - I won't let on to the volume

I had it under control after the move until the kids started yo-yoing in and out of the house with their stuff. Like ken said, everything had a be in its place and now I'm glad if it has a place to be in more than on time. At lease I can get to the old Massey and Gravely stuff. Life is good

Devil505 · Post by **Devil505** » Fri. Sep. 26, 2008 5:49 pm

Every few months I get tired of having no space & clean the whole place out......Then.....Like I said.....it seems that all I have to do is hang a picture & it looks like that again! When (*& if

) I ever clean it out again, I'll post pics of that too.
Let's see your shops.

CoalHeat · Post by **CoalHeat** » Fri. Sep. 26, 2008 7:49 pm

C'mon Devil...clean that place up. Apparently you are spending too much time on this forum.

tsb · Post by **tsb** » Fri. Sep. 26, 2008 8:43 pm

My wife and I have lived in an old grist mill for almost forty years. It has four floors 40 x 50 each. On the 9 acres outside there are 3 sheds. If I need to find a tool, the search pattern could be about a mile and a half walk, with 26 steps and an elevator ride to the attic. You'd think I'd get organized and start to stick stuff in glass jars. Maybe set up a database with GPS maps and such. Not a chance! Clutter is the sign of a great thinker. And besides, if I can't find the tool I'm looking for, I can always go to ACE Hardware and get another, then I'll have three.

TSB

Post by **Richard S.** » Fri. Sep. 26, 2008 9:04 pm

I'll quote what my first boss told me... "if you're shop is perfectly clean and organized that means you aren't making any money..."

Matthaus · Post by **Matthaus** » Sat. Sep. 27, 2008 12:30 am

The garage was supposed to be for working on cars, oh well the coal burner rehab clinic has taken over!

Post by **Richard S.** » Sat. Sep. 27, 2008 12:54 am

The solution to that problem is of course to build another garage.

ken · Post by **ken** » Sat. Sep. 27, 2008 1:01 am

"I have to change oil in the driveway! sheesh why did I even put in a lift". that would piss me off.

Matthaus · Post by **Matthaus** » Sat. Sep. 27, 2008 3:39 am

Richard S. wrote:The solution to that problem is of course to build another garage.

Well here is where the coal refurb activity is moving, as soon as I get a chance to finish it of course.

I also have a spot for MC work that will free up some garage space... so perhaps by winter I will be showing a picture that looks more like the one below.

CoalHeat · Post by **CoalHeat** » Sat. Sep. 27, 2008 7:40 am

Where's the VW??

TimV · Post by **TimV** » Sat. Sep. 27, 2008 7:49 am

Thanks Devil
I don't feel so alone now

If a shop looks like nobody works in it...its probably so!!!
Mine really has that "worked in look"....

And I would never dare post a pic of it...Now if I could get the little women to help straighten up just a bit....

Matthaus · Post by **Matthaus** » Sat. Sep. 27, 2008 9:15 am

Wood'nCoal wrote:Where's the VW??

Sold it in the spring, thought I would free up some space!

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