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2510Paul

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I continue to work at better organizing my shop. I am looking for good I ideas. I used Rubbermaid totes to organize many of my JD parts. The totes are labeled according to the table of contents in a Parts Book for the 20 series. I also have a totes for my New Idea Picker parts, one for my 7000 Planter parts, a couple for general electrical parts for wiring outlets, lights, etc.

Do others have shop organizing ideas they care to share?

Paul
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Can I hire you to come and organize my shop???? LOL You have a good start at getting things to where you can find them. I use the smaller stackable Tupperware containers for smaller parts and fasteners.
 
Working on getting mine organized for about the hundredth time. Until I reach that point again, it's a matter of any flat spot is fair game and if it's not where you thought you put it, keep looking, and it will always be in the last place you look.
 
Download one of the free Excel inventory spread sheets and
inventory each box with an exclusive name. All you have to do
then is look at your inventory without going through the boxes.
 
As you go along,store seldom used parts in must inconvenuent shelves and those used often on most easily reached shelves. Along the lines of what you are doing with different machines,makes and models,color codeing shelves is good especially if you sometimes have different helpers.
Now if only I'd go organize my own.
 
Looks good. I use the PHD system. Pile high,and deep. I have made several attempts to be organized though. It's like Christmas when I go through cabinets. Just today I found a rebuilt fuel regulator, and throttle body, from when I was running a couple tractors on propane. Stan
 
No.no.no...I pile stuff up till the pile falls down. Then I have to reorganize the pile a little to get it out of the alley way.
 
Wife and kids consume lots of peanut butter, I use the clear plastic jars for storage. We have an endless supply.
 
Or stop looking for it and it'll turn up. My favorite is to buy another one and when you come home it's sitting out in the open.
 
I am like most here and go with the pile method. I keep a lot of small parts and fasteners in the large coffee cans, had them sitting everywhere. I made a rack that holds them on a slight angle so they are easy to see in. Worked out real good just need more wall space for more. When I put it up it blocked four drawers on a cabinet that was already there, I wander what is in those drawers .
 
Have often thought that offering a service to clean and organize shops might be a good retirement job, but I would have to do my own first and that is about as far as that thought goes. I did get a chance to get some nice metal cabinets from where I work a few years ago (over 40 linear feet) that has helped to have space to put things. Will I ever become organized, I doubt it. Like your wide sturdy shelves.
 
Organization in a building will never happen here. I do believe all benches and counter tops should have a 45 degree slope for the top of them. They would always be clear then.
 
The shelving units are those you find at Menards. They are great and not too expensive when on sale. I use boards I cut and milled from my own woods. The ones you see in the picture are 30" deep, but in hindsight I would get those 24 inches deep. There is too much unused or hidden space behind the front items on a 30" shelf.

Paul
 
My problem is I don't have any more wall space left for more shelves. Every time I take something apart and it turns out to be junk, I find some of it to be salvageable. Then I have to find a place for this "junk". The older I get, the less I do, so maybe I will find a sweet spot soon (that is if I can figure out how to stay away from estate sales and junk picking).
 
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Oh, it seems like a good idea, and I get excited and enthusiastic about it when I see what others can do, and the shelf or tub sale comes to Menards......

And then I walk in the shop and reality hits and.....

Sigh.......

Paul
 
I'd have 100 totes with parts I'd never use anymore, or forgot I had and buy new ones.
 
LOL, yes any horizontal surface is fair game here too. Well my bays are kept open because something is parked in each, well except one and that's a stash to be gone through. I've learned that if I don't need a heavy work bench for something, a fold up table will work fine for tools and supplies, when I am done the tools go back to the box and the table is folded up! When I left it up, it immediately attracts and gathers all sorts of things, then is in the way, must be some law of physics they never told us about !
 
so many rattle cans. Got tired of taking up so much shelf space and never being able to see that's in the back. I use plastic milk crates laid on the side. Space the front up with a 1" strip of wood so the cans don't drift out. I can stack the crate full of rattle cans. The cap colors are visible, any one can be pulled, and replacements put on the top row. I stack several crates on top for more room. Freed up lots of shelf space.
 
I worked for a car dealer, started collecting license plates in about 1980, everybody in the place was giving me plates. I had them piled high on about a 10 foot shelf in a corner over my snowmobile. Went in there a couple years ago and the back third of the snowmobile was buried in lic. plates and my sneaky old cat had been locked in, that was the time to reorganize.
 
Seems I am not the only one who can't get rid of the clutter. Tried many times over years and always failed. My dad had a box he called the hundred year box. When he passed I got the box. Now I have two
 
mine is all listed on the computers by the part number. example 6110 deck belt (AA-10)this where you find it. its all in quickbooks i have modified. every grease zerk to large mower units.
 
I just hope to get the doors shut without throwing out more "parts". I would be a hoarder if this stuff wasn't useful
 
Not for parts but for supplies. I picked up a set of cheap bins at Harbor, and mounted them over my work bench, and put a lot of frequently used supply type things that I used to have to hunt for in them. Helps a lot so far.
 
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