OOOOOHHHH!!!

johnlobb

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I have been in the process of cleaning up my work bench in the pole barn. I can't believe how long this is taking! Thousands of decisions!
 
Cleaned up and threw away 4 weeks ago. Can not find a thing and now have a use for every thing I threw away.
 
I have a corner in my new(er) shed that I want to store stuff in. I got some nice wood rack from a implement dealer sale, and other shelving. Of course first I started throwing stuff in that corner, until I get around to it.

Boy. I've tackled that corner 3 times in the past 3 years, but dang the junk pile wins each time. I just can't clear out enough space to set the rack down where I want it so I can start putting the junk on it. Too many other things in the way to get there.

I think it would take a 12 step program, and I don't have the willpower alone.....

Paul
 
(quoted from post at 13:06:21 08/14/18) My Dad always said a work bench should only be 2 foot square as that is all the room you end up with anyway.
ow! Two feet! I'm down to scratching for two inches square. :(
 
I'm better than I used to be. If I can't of an immediate use for it. It goes bye bye. Then again moving as many times as I have probably did the most to cure me of a pack ratting. Reminds me I need to clean the garage one of these days...........
Sod Buster
 
I have a 12 step program in my shop. Its about 12 steps to the door, then go on back to the house. Will tackle it another day. Maybe a cooler day, or maybe a warmer day. Just not today.
 
I figured out a fool proof method to keep a bench clean!!!

It would take some work but..........I haven't got around to it yet. I can't get the bench cleaned off to do it!!!

First you make a second top for your bench about three inches above the original one. Then you take the web chain out of an old manure spreader and mount the sprockets on each end of the new bench top with a shaft going across between them like it was in the spreader. Take off all the slats except 2, one at each end of the bench. Mount a roller chain sprocket on the end of one shaft. Mount a gear reduction motor with a very slow rotation under the bench with a sprocket and hook it to the web. Next get a timer and hook it to the motor so it runs once every 24 hours, just long enough to run one slat to the other end of the bench. Put a dumpster at the end of the bench, and WALLA! a clean bench every day.
Genius huh?? Thank you, thank you very much! LOL

Irv
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Oh, and I forgot to add, you can always dig yesterdays project out of the dumpster and work on it some more. Gives you a lot of motivation to get it done that day and not leave it for tomorrow!!!

Irv :lol:
 
Oh, and I forgot to add, you can always dig yesterdays project out of the dumpster and work on it some more. Gives you a lot of motivation to get it done that day and not leave it for tomorrow!!!

Irv :lol:
 

I go through a pile or a drawer every now and then and throw out a lot of stuff that has been of no use for the last thirty years.
 
My uncle has a small workshop (approx.: 12' x 30). You can't drive anything bigger than a garden tractor inside. The amount of work done in (and just outside) his shop over the years is unbelievable. Wood working, steel fabrication, painting, repairs of all kinds, butchering, beer drinking parties, electrical, plumbing, mechanical, etc..... You name it, it's been done in his shop. Or should I say; not much hasn't been done in his shop. The bench is always clean, floor swept, and everything in its place. I don't know how he does it.
 
I usually clean and organize my son's shop and workbench when I go to Wi. and stay a week. Last month, first time in 3 years we had been out, I worked on it almost every day we were out there. Didn't finish the job. My other son lives 20 miles away and I go down there every couple of weeks, and clean and organize his work benches He has 6 or 8 work benches and restores antique cars and I don't even know what half the stuff is on the benches so I just put if back neatly as close as I can where I found it. My grandson just bought a place with a nice shop, He asked me when I was going to go up and clean up his workbench. I have 3 in my small shop that get cleaned and tools put away every other day.
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