[AT] shop cleaning

[Michael Miller]

Farmer,

If you need to free up some shed space you can store you Super MTA and that 
green moldy thing(4010?) at my dads house.  We'll even keep the oil stirred 
up for ya!

Mike


>From: "Francis Robinson" <robinson at svs.net>
>Reply-To: Antique tractor email discussion group 
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>To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
>Subject: Re: [AT] shop cleaning
>Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 02:04:41 -0500
>
>----- Original Message -----
>
> >I to have a rule about storing too much in my shop.
>
>
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>
>     Hi Greg:
>     When you were in my shop some years ago it was semi-clean compared to
>the last several years. It is cleaning up fairly fast now as I move "stuff"
>out. I still have a shoe sole stitching machine (600 pounds) to move out 
>and
>two or three Shopsmiths that get moved to one of the grain bins. An open
>drive-in bay is a constant invitation to sit something in there "just for
>now"...   ;-)   "Now" is a period of time that has no set length.   :-)   I
>also have two kitchen stoves that sneaked in there when I was not looking
>and I just moved the John Deere lawn tractor out about a week or so ago. It
>still has a 22 HP Yardman lawn tractor sitting in there. I need to move a
>wagon load of hay out of the east barn and move a couple of pallets of hay
>from an area there so I can store both lawn tractors there over the winter.
>The kitchen stoves will sit in one of the grain bins "just for now"   ;-)
>until I can sell them. I really need to empty one of the bins by next 
>summer
>so I can keep a little hay in there over the winter next year. That saves
>driving down the road to the west barn when some one stops in to buy 3 
>bales
>to bed a dog or cat.
>     You and your family sat in the old family room (that is now the wood
>shop) when you were here. It was always a bit crude for a family room (but
>served us well) but is pretty nice for a shop.   :-)   We have never
>considered "fancy" to be very important. Diana and I both are about as
>formal as a sack of old shop rags. We do however like a lot of space and
>will always trade fancy for more open space even if it is a little rough
>around the edges. Our living room (20' X 36') in this house is a little
>smaller (but fancier) than that old family room was but the rest of the
>house is large (approx. 5,000 sq. ft. total) so I don't feel too confined. 
>I
>can wander around a lot. We do miss putting up 12' Christmas trees every
>year but Diana won't let me saw a hole in the ceiling here.   :-)
>     I have a 43' X 30' concrete block building over in the next county 
>that
>I would absolutely kill to have sitting here on this farm but that is not
>going to happen. It has one overhead door and a lot of big old factory type
>windows. It is "full of stuff", most of which I need to make go away...
>:-)
>     Too much "stuff"... Way too much stuff...
>     Simplify, simplify, simplify...
>     Did I mention that I have 3 haylofts that are full of stuff too...
>
>
>
>--
>"farmer"
>
>When you reach the end of your rope
>  tie a knot and hang on...
>
>Francis Robinson
>Central Indiana, USA
>robinson at svs.net
>
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