pack-rat rant

Bob Bancroft · Dec 25, 2012

Remember the little square box that hung on the milkhouse wall for holding the filters for the milk can strainer/funnel? I limit my left over o-rings, carb kits, valve kits, various seals and small gaskets to that. I don't know why.
Yesterday I took advantage of mild weather to pressure wash off two of my antique tractors. A quick coupler on the washer hose got to leaking so bad at the end that pressure dropped. I just bothered to dig through my collection. I don't know why. It's more nostalgia that anything. There are left over transmission shims/etc. from before I had a shop when I laid out in the cold rebuilding a truck trans.
Tomorrow I'll go to the local auto supply and look through their assortment. This o-ring looks more like the "fatter" generic o-ring anyway!

S.Crum · Dec 25, 2012

Been here you'da probably found transmission parts and maybe a tool or 2 still in the driveway after all these years. Dad was the ultimate supreme pack rat, took me almost a week steady cleaning out his polebarn.

da.bees · Dec 25, 2012

As bad as I hate to admit it,I'm getting worse since I started "recycling" and "repurposing"and generaly trying to get out front of the green movement.
Cardboard boxes and paper from Christmas are tied in a bundel waiting to go through chipper with tree prunings for compost in January.
That stuff doesn't make me look near as bad as all the bargins I've found but never got around to useing.

Dr. Walt · Dec 26, 2012

I understand your Dad completely, I'm the same way.

Better to have it & not need it, than to need it & not have it!

Doc

showcrop · Dec 26, 2012

(quoted from post at 09:27:32 12/26/12) I understand your Dad completely, I'm the same way.

Better to have it & not need it, than to need it & not have it!

Doc

Which turns into "Need it, have it, looked for two hours, can't find it, One hour to go to town and get another.

Dr. Walt · Dec 26, 2012

But then look at all the "spares" you have!

ihman73 · Dec 26, 2012

I have got to clean up and organize the work area around our benches and shelving where we keep parts and misc., Ok more misc. than parts. The fun part will be ID'ing the bearings and belts that I don't remember what they belong to. I hope someday to build a shop but for now I have to be content with working out of a corner of the machine shed. Dad says we have to "age" stuff for an undetermined period of time before we get rid of it. But we are at the stage now of "we have it around here somewhere..." but I guess that is the fun of farming. I used to think of a farmer as someone who grows things, I have come to realize a farmer is actually a mechanic who happens to grow things lol!

Dalet · Dec 26, 2012

(quoted from post at 11:30:21 12/26/12)

(quoted from post at 09:27:32 12/26/12) I understand your Dad completely, I'm the same way.

Better to have it & not need it, than to need it & not have it!

Doc

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Which turns into "Need it, have it, looked for two hours, can't find it, One hour to go to town and get another.

If you spend a day or two organizing once a decade it pays off.. :lol:

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