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David G

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I am taking a week of PTO. My first goal is to clean and organize shop. I got a pile of boxes and three big bags of trash out today. I almost have one bench cleaned off that has been cluttered for at least 5 years, only three more benches to go. I am going to have some extra equipment in my shop this winter as neighbors have lost storage due to the storm, so am helping out.

My winter projects will be to fabricate a paper air filter housing for MH44 EFI and finally get on the log splitter retrofits. The LI is pretty much done except for final sanding and painting.
 
Good luck,I cleaned on mine all summer and it doesn't look like I ever touched it :) I found cleaning one bench just clutters two more.
 
My shop is governed by the law of "flat space". " If there is an open flat space, an object will soon fill the space". joe
 
Dieseltech and Old-9 covered mine well, chronological toss it back from the path and flat areas occupied.

But there is a road paved with good intentions.
 
I would have to imagine, at least to me, it is somewhat relaxing to get some "old growth" off ones benches. To me it is, finally got caught up on a good portion of that last spring. Just completed a week of "pto", 9 straight days, worked on some other things, time off is always precious!

The new to me, well built, little shop, added on to an adjacent property in the 50's, which I acquired back in June, I've kept sparsely populated so far, we'll see how that goes lol ! I knew the original owner, was a well regarded GE employee in during WWII.
He kept the place meticulously clean and organized with some really cool old engines on display, one an actual GE gas gen-set for an old draw bridge across the Hudson river. He used to display hit/miss engines at the local fair, one with a sheller, really enjoyed him as a neighbor. He sold Maytag, Benjamin Moore paint and operated a small engine/repair shop out of this place. Anything brought into this shop was thoroughly cleaned first. I'll do my best to keep it in a similar fashion, while enjoying the added indoor work space.
 
Even when I clean out my shop, neighbors and kids always bring me stuff to fix. Wife's golf cart needs electrical work and a new winter cover, son's have a Ford Edge needing new CV joints and seals, and a Kawasaki Mule blowing 30amp fuses. Just the nature of knowing how to fix things. When I proposed to my wife I unfortunately told her I could fix anything...words I've regretted. Still on my first wife as she is a keeper.
 
I met my wife that way, she had a friend that knew I worked on cars, was having carburetor problems on her turbo mustang.

I grew up with father as a mechanic, worked for him through high school. I worked for two years after that as electronic technician as draftsman, then worked as a mechanic for first two years of college in that town.

I am following in my dads footsteps, everyone told him you need to do wood working when retired. He bought all the equipment and collected the native lumber, did that for a couple years then went back to fabricating metal equipment. I love designing and fabricating, so that is my entertainment.
 
In my career as a machinist I kept my work benches and tool boxes neat and organized, time is money you know. Now that i am home all the time I can't find any thing when i want it and that takes longer to do anything. But that's ok because i am retired.
 
Someone asked me, many moons ago, how I organized a parts room.
Told him "Reverse random sort with miscellaneous on the ends and in the middle".
 
I neighbor my dads age told me tha any bench over a 3x5 would just collect junk. I think he is correct.
 

I spent quite a bit of time cleaning my shop the last few days. I'm finally giving in and putting in a furnace. I can't take the cold anymore. Finding a place for everything is the problem. I took stuff to the dump yesterday that I'd had on hand for years. I have other stuff that is going to have to find a new home and I have to establish a new storage space for my electrical test equipment. I have one ancient tool cabinet that was a wreck when I got it 40 years ago that will likely get tossed or maybe moved to somewhere else. It's a bear to try and make stuff fit in a space that simply too small for what I have.

The old wood cookstove I'd intended to use for heat is getting moved too. Just gonna have to admit some ideas don't work out.
 
I have been cleaning the shed for the last several weeks. It still only has a few paths through it. I have the car trailer 3/4 full and more added daily. What ever goes on the trailer is stuff that has no possible use and cannot be recycled. I still need to make room for three more tractors and an ATV. My wife says she can see an improvement.
 
Last week I rearranged the tractors in the barn and made some room. I moved my one Jacobsen lawn tractor out of the shop and did some rearranging in the shop. That was enough work for 2 hours. To be continued...maybe.
Working in basement now trying to "tidy" it up aa bit. May, repeat may, move some of my Ford restoration parts to the barn. Well...
 
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