Stuff build up.......

Super Trucker · Apr 15, 2012

I just spent the weekend cleaning up my 16x21 garage and have one question . HOW THE HE!! CAN I HAVE SO MUCH CRAP IN THIS SMALL SPACE? The garbage man is not going to be happy this week.Found STUFF I knew I had and couldn't find and STUFF I never knew I had. The most alarming question was WHY THE HE!! DID I KEEP THIS.

But all in all I did make room for my new to me resto HART PARR 70 and the new garden tractor puller project for the boy. Next weekend project is working on the pulsing monster called the rollie cart for tools. Last measurment was 2ft above the sides.

I will have to work hard to keep this under control because next year is a long overdo pole barn. If it gets this bad I'll just set fire to it and call the insurance man.

Anonymous-0 · Apr 15, 2012

(quoted from post at 15:34:36 04/15/12) I just spent the weekend cleaning up my 16x21 garage and have one question . HOW THE HE!! CAN I HAVE SO MUCH CRAP IN THIS SMALL SPACE? The garbage man is not going to be happy this week.Found STUFF I knew I had and couldn't find and STUFF I never knew I had. The most alarming question was WHY THE HE!! DID I KEEP THIS.

But all in all I did make room for my new to me resto HART PARR 70 and the new garden tractor puller project for the boy. Next weekend project is working on the pulsing monster called the rollie cart for tools. Last measurment was 2ft above the sides.

I will have to work hard to keep this under control because next year is a long overdo pole barn. If it gets this bad I'll just set fire to it and call the insurance man.

I've got 4 weeks...... Going on vacation for 9 days and wife says if my shop ain't clean (some sort of order) and another "storage area" that she'll have a container and crew empty it all out while I'm gone....
Guess I gotta get on it to keep her from making a deadly mistake.....

rrlund · Apr 15, 2012

I'll bet if I was to completely clean off my bench,it would be a 30 year time capsule. If not longer than that. The only way I'll ever have room in there will be add on. Better yet,build a new one and nail the door shut on the old one.

blunosr · Apr 15, 2012

Oh Thank God! I thought I was the only one! Thanks for the companionship you guys!

When I retire, I'm moving... not looking forward to that part.

Bye for now,

Troy

hardscrabble · Apr 15, 2012

I beleive it was in "Reader"s Digest" I read "If you haven"t looked at it in 2 years or more, THROW IT OUT!". I"m still in the process of doing just that.

JDseller · Apr 15, 2012

Had a friend that just had this little 14 x 15 foot shed that he kept all of his tools in. It just had a small walk door in the shed. He had a slab of concrete out side to work on. Then he built a new 32 x 48 shop right next to the old shed. It took him a month of evenings/weekends to clean that old shed out and sort the stuff out of it. He found things in there that his Dad had boughten and forgotten about. What makes that funny is that his Dad passed on in 1954. He built the new shop in 1998. So there was stuff that had been in there that had been lost for over forty years.

My kids all tell me that they are just going to auction my stuff off like they do the storage places. Just stand at the door and make a bid on the whole lot. LMAO I will admit I am a pack rat. I keep the work shop clean an organized. The storage sheds are a different matter. I know there are things in them that I will never remember.

When my Grand Dad died and I bought this place I tore down six little wood sheds he had filled to the roof with things. I always swore I would not do the same thing. I have broken that vow many times over. I have much bigger sheds full of stuff.

504 · Apr 15, 2012

I have a 40X60, and in twenty min. I can make
enough room to get my pickup inside.(you couldn t
open the doors but it will fit)LOL

JRSutton · Apr 15, 2012

That's a very good rule, and one I stick to religiously.

Except I use 20 years, not 2. : )

Anonymous-0 · Apr 15, 2012

I have found if I do throw something away, I need it the next week. It has become very hard to throw away anything. I went from a 24 x 30 garage to a 48x60 barn 4years ago and almost didn't find room in the barn for everything in the garage

Adrian Billheimer · Apr 15, 2012

Ya, I know what you mean, I have one cement floored stall in my pole barn and I have to get it cleaned off tomorrow so I can work on my pickup on Tuesday.
That floor just got poured late last fall!

bill mart · Apr 15, 2012

keep us informed on the hart parr 70 restore.I have an unrestored one sitting in my barn.(80x50 have to walk sideways through it its so full ). Bill

horsepoor · Apr 15, 2012

(quoted from post at 23:34:36 04/15/12) I just spent the weekend cleaning up my 16x21 garage and have one question . HOW THE HE!! CAN I HAVE SO MUCH CRAP IN THIS SMALL SPACE? The garbage man is not going to be happy this week.Found STUFF I knew I had and couldn't find and STUFF I never knew I had. The most alarming question was WHY THE HE!! DID I KEEP THIS.

But all in all I did make room for my new to me resto HART PARR 70 and the new garden tractor puller project for the boy. Next weekend project is working on the pulsing monster called the rollie cart for tools. Last measurment was 2ft above the sides.

I will have to work hard to keep this under control because next year is a long overdo pole barn. If it gets this bad I'll just set fire to it and call the insurance man.

The wife and I started out 20+ years ago with an apartment and small storage space. Progressed to a small house with a tool shed. Added a 18' x 24' garage, then moved to a house with acreage, a dairy barn with 6 horse stalls, 2 lean-tos a feed building and 3 car garage. It is all full of junk and you can't get a car under any of the roof space. I will have to eventually throw something out as well. A process we all dread.

RayP(MI) · Apr 15, 2012

Worst thing is, an hour after the garbage man leaves, you"ll discover a need for several of the irreplacable things you threw out!

fixerupper · Apr 15, 2012

My son has been reminding me to clean out before I die so he doesn't have to do it. He doesn't quite have the same feeling for that stuff as I do. For the first thirty years of my farming career I kept every little scrap I could scrounge up to make something useful out of because there was no way I could afford to buy anything.But now I've decided I'm at the point where I don't need to build anything big and complicated anymore so most of the junk has left and has gone to the land of Chinese trinkets. Now I can start re-stocking, to my son's chagrin LOL. Jim

Super Trucker · Apr 15, 2012

My 70 has been fully restored by the previous owner. The only change made was to pull the rear steel off ...um use dynamite to get off! But I have purchased another set. As I look at it is still my friends tractor I just bought the rights to take care of it. He is in his 80's and still pulls but couldn't take the pounding of the steel anymore.

Larry NEIL · Apr 15, 2012

I got a 42 X 62 plus another 30 X 14. Got too much Oliver stuff....25 tractors and another one just followed me home.
I just finished installing an 80 gal. tank air compressor system that I piped with shed. 40 pvc.
cut it down at the tank from 155 lbs to 110 throught the pvc. Always wanted a "air system" so it has give me the inituative to "clean up"!!

Anonymous-0 · Apr 15, 2012

How much space does the wife occupy?

bison · Apr 15, 2012

Funny how some people keep all their useless junk under roof and let their vehicles and such sit out in the weather,..i got 3 neighbors like that. :shock:

37chief · Apr 15, 2012

I know what throwing things away is all about. I had a ford fuel pump filter hanging in my garage above my work bench for probably 20 years. I threw it away a few months ago. Guess what, my Dad's 63 f 100 I am getting running uses the same thing. I could have saved 5 bucks. Stan

Rick Kr · Apr 15, 2012

Very funny post.

I have a 40x60. Swore I was going to keep it clean. Last summer I hauled 2000lbs of steel to the scrap yard. All from inside the barn. Then I hauled another full truck load to the burn pile. That was good start.

Just bought a new backhoe and need to get it inside. I figure if I can get two more loads of all my pack rat savings out of there I can get the hoe inside.

All my buddies agree... There is some wierd unexplanable law somewhere. If your shop has bare concrete somehow something will appear to fill up that space. Every time I clean the shop I try not to go anywhere near an auction!

Rick

DeanOlson · Apr 15, 2012

My problem is I can't find it when I want it or forget I have it. Nothing more aggravating than spending time looking for something you know you have, can't find it, go buy a new one, then come across it digging through the junk looking for something else later.

Maybe I need more storage space with shelving so I can walk down the isles and see what I have.

Anybody have a good inventory system?

Anonymous-0 · Apr 15, 2012

(quoted from post at 21:22:11 04/15/12) My problem is I can't find it when I want it or forget I have it. Nothing more aggravating than spending time looking for something you know you have, can't find it, go buy a new one, then come across it digging through the junk looking for something else later.

Maybe I need more storage space with shelving so I can walk down the isles and see what I have.

Anybody have a good inventory system?

BB stores have the best inventory system.... Some reason I can't find it at home, but can walk right to it in the store :roll:

Wheat Farmer · Apr 16, 2012

I moved and still working on my new shop but have shop layed out with numbers and areas. Then make an excel file on the laptop of what is in each area/box/shelf. Then I can sort by items, or area. Will post photo when completed.

641Dave · Apr 16, 2012

I came real close to not doing anything but clean and organize this weekend. ...but didn't. lol

I got up early Sunday morning to watch the storms pass through. Figured as I drank some coffee I'd clean up the 641's head some. There's a work bench in there somewhere. :?

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