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Readying for the KW

Spud_Monkey

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Yep, winter is arriving. Have heat on one side of workshop(Tools side), may invest in a portable heat source for the truck bay side.
I got one of those Mr. Heater triple burners, warmed my last garage I rented 24 x 24 uninsulated no problem. Turned it on high and heated up in 30 minutes or so then maintained on low one burner with it mounted on 100 lb. tank. Works even outdoors and under a rig, mount mine on a ammo can full of sockets and holds it up no problem under a rig. It would eat a 100 lb tank in two weeks.
 

DMiller

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Got busy on the Cleaning Up part. So tired of the mess around mill and lathe, had my old shop box sitting at center of bay, waste of space.

So box to furthest corner, started loading out junk and crap, SIX Forty Gallon Trash bags (No 6 in center of floor) and a mountain of metals going to Scrap Monday. First day of process first to last photo,

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Three buckets of Junk fasteners from the 7G and misc other steel scrap. Tank Sprayer in foreground going back to barn, small sprayer to the mower shed.
Will end up all my welders and gas powered tools in here, the head pallet in large bay where truck will be. Hope done by Wednesday.
 

colson04

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Got busy on the Cleaning Up part. So tired of the mess around mill and lathe, had my old shop box sitting at center of bay, waste of space.

So box to furthest corner, started loading out junk and crap, SIX Forty Gallon Trash bags (No 6 in center of floor) and a mountain of metals going to Scrap Monday. First day of process first to last photo,

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Three buckets of Junk fasteners from the 7G and misc other steel scrap. Tank Sprayer in foreground going back to barn, small sprayer to the mower shed.
Will end up all my welders and gas powered tools in here, the head pallet in large bay where truck will be. Hope done by Wednesday.

I'm finally getting around to sorting out my garage/workshop space today as well.
 

colson04

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I have been wanting to do a big clean up of the shop all year. Theres to many things that shouldnt be saved but i hate to get rid of.

I know that feeling. I'm looking at piles of parts, miscellaneous hardware, construction materials that all "could have a use someday" and the saver in me wants to hold on to it for that "someday". I need to cut the emotional tie and junk it all. I'll feel sour the day I do, but I know I will feel better the next day. That said, nothing in my stash is old, antique or family heirloom. It could all be replaced tomorrow with a trip to town.
 

old-iron-habit

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The only good thing about Covid is that last spring when the world shut down I spent a month in the garage. I built cabinets and shelves and got it organized. It is a little cluttered now but at least things have a place. Sure makes it easier to clean up. Just today I needed my longest magnet when I started dropping things into the belly of my Cat 931 while replacing an ugly to get at hose. I knew right where it was for the first time ever.
 

Willie B

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Me being in the junk business i find alot of stuff that i could use someday. I made the mistake of pushing the wheelborrow in the shop.View attachment 228828Last month i was going to do somthing that i may have needed it and i hunted all over out side for it.


It is a sickness!
Dad salvaged all he could from the farm when war forced a sale in early 1942. Where he stored it all those years, I don't know.
My entire youth, three buildings were filled to the roof with the smalls from the farm that didn't sell.
As I grew up I understood that the only way to move a precious item under roof was to build on.
We added on for the Farmall Cub, then for the Jeep. By age 16 I built a 16 X 26 one bay garage so I would have a place to work on automobiles. Storage invaded even it. I now have six buildings full. Not sure I'd know how to empty them.
 

DMiller

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When my Grandfather passed we had to clean out his little workshop and from beneath their house trailer. Two old Clinton Chain saws, rusting and useless, boxes and tins of bent nails, stripped head screws, mounds to boxes of small lumber cutoffs and eventually Box upon Box of rags, used them for wipes to throw away when checked oil or had greasy hands, Moving boxes FULL. We burned trash for two days then got to the under workbench stuff, five one gallon pickle jars with oily appearing goo inside. Little brother tried to assist where he dropped the first one!! Was quite evident what was in the remainder as Rotted Shad Guts and pieces spread out and stank to high heaven, my brother puked in the mess instantly adding to the odor. Grandpa used them to coat his Cottonseed Cakes for Trot Line Fishing. FIVE GALLONS of that, went to the FURTHEST Ditch away to be dumped.

Rafters were full, barely had room for a car in a one car wide garage, three deep freezes full of fish catches up to seven years old along with bags of day old breads they bought and froze that were dried out from being frozen. Dad was shocked by the wiring mess to run the freezers, in that had not caught fire.
 

colson04

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Not sure I'd know how to empty them.

Easy - have a 'fire sale'!


Eight years ago, my father in law's barn caught fire when a battery on a charger exploded onto some oily rags. Fifteen minutes later, 3600 sq ft of tools, equipment, and stored items were all incinerated to ash or blobs of their former selves. Today, he jokes about having a fire sale, but he wasn't much for joking back when he found out how badly he was underinsured against a total loss.
 

Truck Shop

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A friend of mine-Steve-has semi trailers and containers full of old 2 stroke detroit, cummins, cat, old gear box parts, flat head ford, you name it it's there. Scads of old logging equipment,
A collection of 50's KW's that might make one good one, wore out logging trucks and just stacks of scrap steel. When scrap priced ever increase he is planning on dumping 80% of the hoard.
He's had enough.
 
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