[AT] Cleaning the shop (or not)

Mike meulenms at gmx.com
Mon Mar 10 18:49:29 PDT 2014


Greg, if you figure it out, please let the rest of us know. Generally a 
project that takes me 3 hours consists of 30 minutes of me actually 
wrenching, and 2-1/2 hours of me looking for tools.

Mike M

On 3/10/2014 9:20 PM, Greg Hass wrote:
> The last couple of days have gotten to a little over 40 degrees which
> feels like summer. Unfortunately, Wednesday is supposed to get to a
> record low of 5 below zero; terrible for the middle of March. Anyway,
> with the better weather, the last two nights I have "looked" into the
> shop. It is such a mess I don't know where to start (a lot of people say
> start at the beginning) but I'm not sure where that is. Everything is
> where I threw it last November when this weather started. Last night I
> put away 2 wrenches and tonight I put away 2 wrenches and 2 hand
> grinders. The rest of the time I spent staring at the mess and trying to
> come up with a plan. I think some of the problem is I have too much
> "stuff". Some of it I might only use once a year, but a lot of it should
> stay in a heating building or it will be damaged by cold and moisture.
> Before going further, I should say my shop is 24 x24 and 10 feet high. I
> realize this isn't big but its better than any thing I've had before. I
> do have a couple of outbuildings to store things like plow parts,
> combine parts and tillage parts that some rust on them wouldn't hurt. I
> have run out of wall space and always said I would not build shelves up
> in the air to where I needed a ladder to reach them, but maybe I should
> reconsider. My biggest problem is where to put things so I can find
> them. Bolts I have in plastic drawers labeled by size so that works
> great. I have sets of plastic drawers, cheap tractor supply type,
> totaling 200 or so drawers. One drawer has set screws, another grease
> fittings, another square keys; and the list goes on and on. Many times I
> spent almost a half an hour opening drawers before I find what I'm
> looking for. I can't really label in alphabetical order because
> different sets have different size drawers and I fill them according to
> the size of the items. Any hints you guys have on how to organize or
> things you do to make things more efficient  and less  stressful while
> still being somewhat convenient and easy to do?
>      Greg Hass
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