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my friend needs a bigger barn,,
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he needs to get another workbench,,he has no more room
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,,,if he needs something,,he always finds it,,and he can fix anything,,so his system does work,,and he is a really great friend

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His barn is huge,,and it is full
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He said go ahead,,show the tractor site,,Im sure there are many guys like me,,,I said there is,,they can fix just about anything,,just like you ,,you would like to meet them,and they would like to meet you for sure.
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Personally, I'm very impressed, as you said he knows where everything is, and the system works for him, my hat is off to him. Let the games began!!!!!
 
There are people who would say that is a MASSIVE s$$$$ pile. Someday if
someone has to auction it, most all will go to scrap. My basement is not that
bad. I AM on the way but haven't reached those proportions yet. Wow that is a
lot of stuff. Grin.
 
My mess would look like that if I had more room. The wife has chastised me about what she is going to do with all of it upon my
demise and I will be working on cleaning it all up starting last month.
I told her to just call the scrap man and she knows better but I will be either donating, selling or throwing away.
Time for this stuff to go. Retired last July at 60 and time to play with all my projects and thin the herd.
 
I have a basement support post that is not in use. I think I will take the threaded end and adapt it to be used in my homemade press. The idea came to me when I saw a press in one of you pictures.
 
Dave's shop was about half that "
bad". Lucky we are good friends
and while they were packing to
move to Idaho we got trailer loads
of stuff!! Now my shop looks like
that! Lol. At one point my wife
and I were digging through the
trailer of trash at Dave's. They
were just trying to get stuff
done. 15 years on the farm they
had some good stuff!
 

The old saying "if a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what does an empty desk indicate?" applies here.
 
STUFF
After deciding not to build a pole barn, I made $140
at recyclers getting rid of stuff in my 4 garages
and garden shed. I used a 20 year rule. If I haven't
needed this STUFF, it time to go.

My garages looked like your pics. It really feels
good to walk in my garages now. I don't worry about
tripping of STUFF on the floor. Your friend is
definitely a hoarder.
I decided if I need something I pitched, I'll go to
town and buy it.
I also feel I did my kids a favor by getting rid of
my junk so someday they won't have too.

Not to worry, I didn't get rid of any of my
tractors.
 
I agree with Geo. on this one that guy needs to find a hoe in that pile and hoe out. My wife and I had the pleasure of cleaning out her dads barn, house, shed and garage that was not nearly that bad but still he kept everything and tossed little out. After the family took what they wanted we had a 3 day barn sale then had an outfit come and take most of what didn't sell, the rest took me 6 full pickup loads to the dump. Now I am looking at my stuff and slowly starting to clean out what I once thought I had to have.
 
My 60x24 polebarn looked like that when I had the farm. Was mostly antiques that I was going to sell out of. Never materialized and since I left the farm I don't attend any farm auctions. Not as cluttered now days.
 
Our local automotive electric/radiator
shop looks like that. I have been going
there as did my dad forever. The second
generation owners are getting old or
gone. I talked the last owner about
staying open an he said he would keep
going just to take care of his customers
that kept them in business all those
years. They could fix anything and still
have an inventory of obsolete parts. One
that passed away several years ago said
there is a truck body out back full of
NOS radiators. There is quite a bit of
money in scrap motors, starters,
generators ECT piled under, on top of the
workbenches. One guy I know went in for a
hard to find electrical part for his
antique Harley, they has six, he tried to
buy them all, they said nope we will keep
them for the next time someone needs one.
 
A long-time gunshow buddy died in November 2017. He left behind a widow, four grown children and a garage and shed full of "stuff." His children wanted little of it, threw a lot into 20-yard dumpsters and told me to take anything I wanted. Among the "stuff" I gleaned were probably a dozen small to large hammers, scores of screwdrivers, many pliers, hand wrenches, an antique wall-mounted drill press, three electric drills (including an old 1/2-inch Sioux monster), an 8-inch Delta bench grinder, a Columbia bench vise, two smaller vises, C-clamps, garden hoses, dozens of jars of nuts, bolts and screws, hand saws, power saws, punches, chisels, knives, a functioning weed whip, a good B&S push mower, maybe 20 gun-cleaning rods, antique sporting goods, 40 feet of 2-inch brass pipe.... The list could go on. Now I have even worse piles of "stuff" than I had before. But I couldn't bear to see it all go to the landfill, where it was headed.
 
My dad was the same.

Like that Miami sign and the eagle... both
would look good in my hippie guest room.
LOL
 
There used to be an old lifelong bachelor in my home town who had a shop like that. He tore down old cars and sold parts, dealt in old iron, etc. He was a genius with a lathe.

One winter day when there was about 4" of snow on the ground, I needed a 5' piece of 1 1/2" angle iron for something I was working on. I went to his shop and told him what I needed.

He replied, "I don't have any 1 1/2", but I have some 2 inch". For what I was working on, 2" worked as well a 1 1/2" so I told him, "OK".

He walked out to one back corner of his lot, kicked in the snow with his toe, and pulled up a piece of 2" angle iron. He dug a tape out of his pants pocket and measured it. 64".

It was unbelievable. There were three things you didn't do when dealing with him. You didn't try to hurry him, you didn't try to talk him into doing something he didn't want to, and you didn't try to talk him down on his prices. He could want $5 for something in the corner of his shop, and if you said it was too much, well, "There's the door". You could walk into his shop 5 years later, and the same thing would be in the same corner of the shop, and he still wanted $5 for it.

He dealt strictly in cash. Local people always wondered how much he reported. When he was about 60-65 years old, he got married, sold his shop, and retired. He passed away several years later. It was the end of an era.
 
just yesterday tall kid said to me dad we need to get rid of that mess in the barn I said which one? he said the one that takes up about a third of the barn.
darn kid!
 
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