Shop cleaning
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Topic: Shop cleaning
Posted By: HD6GTOM
Subject: Shop cleaning
Date Posted: 02 Nov 2020 at 9:43pm
Been gonna start on it for 2 years, its amazing what you can find from 20+ years of hording stuff. Started yesterday, I spent 4 hours straightening up my lumber stash. Found stuff that went missing years ago. Old gal accused me of loosing them. I knew that wasn't right. Told her she just hadnt looked in the right place. Turned out I was right. 
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Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 02 Nov 2020 at 9:55pm
| i had been hunting for any of my hammers all last week, couldn't find any of them, the old lady....ooooops....i mean the loving wife has a habit of using them, then leaving them lay. of course she denies it and shrugs her shoulders when i ask. sooooooooo....Sat**day stopped at HF and bought another hammer. $4.96. was also cleaning and putting stuff away for winter, found 3 well weathered hammers laying outside in various places. handles are really rusted or rotted. guess i'll hafta use the locks on my new tool boxes! |
Posted By: DMiller
Date Posted: 03 Nov 2020 at 6:02am
| Did a little cleaning in my workshop, getting ready for that next project, amazing what will find hidden in plain sight!!! |
Posted By: Sugarmaker
Date Posted: 03 Nov 2020 at 7:16am
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Tom, Good subject! I need to do better! I make a mess and walk away and leave it. Humm, and no one cleans it up! Dang! We need you to get us on track for a clean up day. Once a week or at least once a month. A big dumpster would help! Regards, Chris ------------- D17 1958 (NFE), WD45 1954 (NFE), WD 1952 (NFE), WD 1950 (WFE), Allis F-40 forklift, Allis CA, Allis D14, Ford Jubilee, Many IH Cub Cadets, 32 Ford Dump, 65 Comet. |
Posted By: Hubert (Ga)engine7
Date Posted: 03 Nov 2020 at 8:17am
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Shop cleaning?............What's that? Oh, that is what I have been meaning to do for the past 10 years. Daughter said she would come clean up my shop for me, I told her stay out of my shop. There is one tool I can't find called a roundtuit. I have several projects in there I need to finish, just have to get around to it. ------------- Just an old country boy saved by the grace of God. |
Posted By: TimCNY
Date Posted: 03 Nov 2020 at 8:39am
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Good for you to have a daughter willing to come and clean, Hubert - mine says when I leave this world she's just burning everything to the ground because no one can deal with the sorting-out. ------------- I need more than 200 characters for my "signature." I'd love to see that changed to 250! |
Posted By: steve(ill)
Date Posted: 03 Nov 2020 at 8:58am
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Father in law died 5 years ago... I cleaned out the garage / barn / and behind it... Piled 3.5 TONS of steel in the driveway to haul to the dump.. 300 bags/ bottles/ cups/ boxes of misc screws and bolts... Seperated them into 5 trays of small, medium, large, screw, hardware... About 15 pounds in each tray !... Took all the spray cans of paint, WD40, polish, bug killer, etc that were broken or 90% EMPTY and dumped in the barrel and BURNED it all... Had 3- 2.5 gallons of gear lube...OLD removed from the D17 probably 20 years ago !! ....Had 16 hammers , 14 with broken handles ! 2 dozen pair of pliers, half rusted so they were hard to work... lots of wire brushing, soaking, painting to make 50% of it usable.......... Today we have a nice garage with work shop and storage, and a BIG 3 bay barn... NOTHING laying on the ground " out back".
------------- Like them all, but love the "B"s. |
Posted By: Hubert (Ga)engine7
Date Posted: 03 Nov 2020 at 7:19pm
I told mine that when I croak she can have one helluva yard sale. But the granddaughter likes a lot of grandpa's things so she is thinning some of it out already. A good western straw hat, a bolo tie and a back pack went home with her a few weeks ago. She already has a pretty decent set of tools for home repair. She cleaned and rearranged the kitchen pantry at the farm house a couple of months ago and I am just now able to find anything in there.
------------- Just an old country boy saved by the grace of God. |
TimCNY wrote:Posted By: Ray54
Date Posted: 04 Nov 2020 at 9:32am
 A supper clean shop with nothing out of place is just plain WRONG.  The same as a farm or ranch with out junk piles somewhere. Removing every last bit of junk is like removing all history. Nothing more depressing to me than seeing a old farm stead and every bit not needed today, removed. Darn old citydots that don't know what valuable.Now O'l DJ or Shameless's place I could be right at home in the mess out back of the barn or garage. I mean even the neat freaks ,not junk ever crowd, would not want me to send the 4 parts HD 5's to China would you. Cause I have 2 to make run again if I live to about 150. I keep hoping my grandkids will all turn into mechanics and fix all my forgotten project's. If your counting 6 total, and I have even more Cat D 6's. |
Posted By: Coke
Date Posted: 04 Nov 2020 at 10:43am
 It can get out of hand tho'
------------- 1957 D17 Diesel w/ M&W Pistons |
Posted By: DMiller
Date Posted: 04 Nov 2020 at 10:52am
| Really glad I have started cleaning house in my little shop. Was going to have a nice winter project, that may be called to start sales proceedings to get into position to ride out what is coming January. |
Posted By: Ray54
Date Posted: 04 Nov 2020 at 10:54am
Why looks like a nice place plenty of room to walk between machines and check "inventory".
And room to add more "inventory". |
Posted By: Coke
Date Posted: 04 Nov 2020 at 1:46pm
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There should be. It's the local parts guys place ------------- 1957 D17 Diesel w/ M&W Pistons |
Posted By: Thomasrive
Date Posted: 21 Apr 2021 at 6:49am
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Cleaning is really an important and necessary aspect of the life of each of us. I personally admit that I don't like to do this and I always avoid and load myself with everything possible only to not have time to clean on my own. In this way, I make an excuse to turn to special companies that deal with a professional cleaning and in this way, I get rid of all the hard work. In the last period, I always turn to niftytilecleaning.com and they solve everything. The last time I needed http://niftytilecleaning.com.au/" rel="nofollow - carpet restoration and they have special appliances and detergents that solve everything quickly. |
Posted By: darrel in ND
Date Posted: 21 Apr 2021 at 7:13am
| Ray 54, you would feel so at home at my place, that I probably couldn't get rid of you. Darrel |
Posted By: Dakota Dave
Date Posted: 21 Apr 2021 at 8:32am
| I hate having a dirty shop. After every project gets complete it goes outside the shop gets swept and moped. I spent 26 years in the military as a aircraft mechanic it bothers me to not put tools away I've left tools out because the job wasn't done. Got out of bed at 0200 went out and put the tools away I couldn't sleep. My work bench is a mess when it get so cluttered stuff falls off the scrap barrel gets filled. The days I work at the farm I usually spend my first hour walking around picking up tools and putting away. I finally have two other guys that usually return tools to the rack at the end of the day.the boss usually leaves them in a bucket I can't live with that I just grab the bucket and put away. |
Posted By: Ray54
Date Posted: 21 Apr 2021 at 11:14am
I will keep that in mind when it gets so bad I have to leave sunny warm Californy. If the real-estate has any value left by then I can afford to bring all the HD 5 stuff so we can make your loader go again. |
Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 22 Apr 2021 at 12:31am
| yep...i loves my place! the stockholders don't, which makes me love it even more! |
Posted By: HD6GTOM
Date Posted: 22 Apr 2021 at 1:04am
| Now I gotta start all over again. Been sawing lumber, changing oil etc. Darn place gotta have a darn good sweep up. Still got a lotta stuff laying around waiting on getting fixed up. Can't haul crap till I gets a new floor put in the old Case spreader. And the list goes on and on. Somebody will probably find me "passed on" laying on that dang cement floor with a ratchet in my hand. |
Posted By: plummerscarin
Date Posted: 22 Apr 2021 at 6:50am
| I'd rather be found there than other scenarios. My FIL was similar. Worked all day, went in collapsed, all she wrote. And yes the projects pile up faster than can be finished. Actually had a 2ft square area cleared off the bench....for about a week |
Posted By: Sugarmaker
Date Posted: 22 Apr 2021 at 7:26am
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Folks, The clean bench/ shop idea is just a concept in my mind. I believe we either have the gene to clean or not! Me I did not get it. My kids are all neat folks, so not sure where that came from? Oldest son has every tool with the words stamped on the tool up, and headed all in same direction! Very strange concept compared to his Dad who is comfortable with an assorted pile of mixed tools on a bench along with many other things that need canned! Regards, Chris ------------- D17 1958 (NFE), WD45 1954 (NFE), WD 1952 (NFE), WD 1950 (WFE), Allis F-40 forklift, Allis CA, Allis D14, Ford Jubilee, Many IH Cub Cadets, 32 Ford Dump, 65 Comet. |
Posted By: tadams(OH)
Date Posted: 22 Apr 2021 at 7:40am
| Yes, I have a son the same way, and mine is all laying in the drawer where dropped. |
Posted By: steve(ill)
Date Posted: 22 Apr 2021 at 9:24am
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My 10 year old grandson is an ORDERLY freak... If i switch positions of the car and truck in the driveway, he is all questions and wants to know WHY the truck is parked in GRANDMAS SPOT !
and he has 50 HOT WHEEL cars on a board setup in the rec room... Dont even THINK about moving one an inch when he is not around !!
------------- Like them all, but love the "B"s. |
Posted By: Sugarmaker
Date Posted: 22 Apr 2021 at 10:16am
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I just dont think life should be that organized! Think of the fun we have searching for the same tools over and over. Sometimes getting creative and using another tool to do the job of the missing one too. Spent the morning in the shop with Great grandson and he has a tool problem at 3 years old! Cooper loading the bottom of the new sink with tools in order.  Regards, Chris ------------- D17 1958 (NFE), WD45 1954 (NFE), WD 1952 (NFE), WD 1950 (WFE), Allis F-40 forklift, Allis CA, Allis D14, Ford Jubilee, Many IH Cub Cadets, 32 Ford Dump, 65 Comet. |
Posted By: GARY(OH/IN)
Date Posted: 22 Apr 2021 at 9:57pm
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Thanks Steve for mentioning gear lube. I gotta run out and check the truck to make sure I have some for tomorrow. I never have things real neat and clean but I like to be organized. I work off a pickup truck with the bed my work bench and the cab my office. Have had rentals as in mobile home parks for many years. Nothing I hate worse than pulling up to a small job and spend time looking all over the truck for the tool I need, and while searching some whiner tenant comes over complaining about absolutely anything that pops into their rarely used mind. |
Posted By: AC720Man
Date Posted: 22 Apr 2021 at 10:38pm
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Looks like a well organized field assortment of Allis Stuff....no need to straighten that up. I’m good with it...leave my dirty shop alone!!! Lol ------------- 1968 B-208, 1976 720 (2 of them)Danco brush hog, single bottom plow,52" snow thrower, belly mower,rear tine tiller, rear blade, front blade, 57"sickle bar,1983 917 hydro, 1968 7hp sno-bee, 1968 190XTD |
Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 22 Apr 2021 at 11:51pm
| when i move/build a new area for tools and supplies, it's fun putting everything in their places, but after a week or so...it'll start looking like Coke describes. |
Posted By: Dirt Farmer
Date Posted: 23 Apr 2021 at 12:33am
| When I get around to cleaning my shop and I find that missing wrench or tape measure that can't stay with the herd, it's like catching up with an old friend you aint seen in a long time and wonder how have I managed with out that "friend". Feels good when the shop is cleaned up but shure takes alot of time. |
Posted By: HD6GTOM
Date Posted: 23 Apr 2021 at 12:34am
| Dads farm usta look like that till a couple of bums loaded it all up and stole it all. Yours Looks good though. |
Posted By: Steve A
Date Posted: 25 Apr 2021 at 5:53am
| My dad worked/ran body shops for 40 years. I worked with him in high school and college. Usually had his tools scattered between multiple cars. He told me when he started in the early '50s he was working at a Ford dealer; one night they had a break in. The thieves took all the tool chests/boxes but he didn't lose nearly as much as the other guys because they didn't bother to pick up tools that were here and there. |
Posted By: ac hunter
Date Posted: 25 Apr 2021 at 7:59am
| Steve, that's it. That isn't a mess in the shop it's a theft deterrent. I like your logic. |
Posted By: FloydKS
Date Posted: 25 Apr 2021 at 11:12am
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my logic too... ... ...if thieves came into my shop they would think, nothing here, the place has already been ransacked. ------------- Holding a grudge is like taking poison and expecting the other person to die |
Posted By: Ray54
Date Posted: 25 Apr 2021 at 5:10pm
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Steve I second your fathers thoughts. I think the tank of gas they filled there ride with may have saved me money too. Was always rather careful to lock the gas tank, as my kids played around it. I hauled something for a friend and had them mind the hose as the Chey C 60 filled. They did not lock the valve on tank. The tool box that was taken was more parts storage and specialized tools. As they filled their gas tank went through the tool box and pitched all sorts of things not tools. Was most of a year finding things as they throw some a long ways. Was working on a pickup rear end. Tools all over under there, all they took there was the jack.
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Posted By: CTuckerNWIL
Date Posted: 25 Apr 2021 at 7:33pm
Sounds like my shop. I used to know where everything was. It got out of hand real fast when I couldn't get out there for a time, and others used things, that may or may not have gotten put back where they found them. Last yer I started cleaning and tossing, and I found a large flat surface I used to call my welding table. I post a pic on facebook, said it had been covered for a decade and somebody commented "How did it get that way." I said, "I made it flat when I built it!" The welding table is now nearly covered again, but I did more cleaning in the west half this spring, where the CA sits in a pile. I now have room to get to the engine stand to start work on it, as soon as I find that "roundtuit" tool that Hubert mentioned. Maybe after the neighbors corn is put in, I can finish the "She Shed" and move all my garden tools out there, giving me another 10 feet of wall space to use. I'll bet SHE will notice it though and may complain. ------------- http://www.ae-ta.com" rel="nofollow - http://www.ae-ta.com Lena 1935 WC12xxx, Willie 1951 CA6xx Dad bought new, 1954WD45 PS, 1960 D17 NF |
Posted By: Ted J
Date Posted: 25 Apr 2021 at 10:00pm
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GREAT thread!! I HAD a work bench in the small barn, I can't find it right now though. It COULD be under all that ......... My daughter sent me a pic with a guy whose yard is full of farm stuff and it says; "Boomer parents: One day this will all be yours. Grown children: Nooooo!" and my daughter wrote; "Sorry, not sorry!  "I guess that means she wants me to clean it all up before I pass.... I (almost) always put the tools away, but the parts and pile that I'm working on just sits and IF I can find a place on the workbench....well, that's where it'll be. To wife; "NO, it is NOT a mess, I know where everything is!"........until I forgot. ------------- "Allis-Express" 19?? WC / 1941 C / 1952 CA / 1956 WD45 / 1957 WD45 / 1958 D-17 |
Posted By: Sugarmaker
Date Posted: 26 Apr 2021 at 6:19am
Floyd, That is perfect! Regards, Chris ------------- D17 1958 (NFE), WD45 1954 (NFE), WD 1952 (NFE), WD 1950 (WFE), Allis F-40 forklift, Allis CA, Allis D14, Ford Jubilee, Many IH Cub Cadets, 32 Ford Dump, 65 Comet. |
Posted By: Steve in NJ
Date Posted: 26 Apr 2021 at 8:09am
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I had great intensions to go out and do a super cleanup of the barn this past Winter. Then I remembered, there's no heat in the barn. Looked at the thermometer- +20 Nah, never mind!! This thread came just at the right time. This past weekend I started the super cleanup! Tools under the 620, tools on the model T's running boards, tools under the Nova wagon. Found the cutting pliers I was lookin' for on the seat of the Victoria. No wonder I couldn't find anything. Sheesh, I had crap everywhere but where it belonged! Steve@B&B ------------- 39'RC, 43'WC, 48'B, 49'G, 50'WF, 65 Big 10, 67'B-110, 75'716H, 2-620's, & a Motorhead wife |
Posted By: Amymac
Date Posted: 16 Sep 2021 at 6:28am
| Haha, guys, are you talking about how, after cleaning, you find things you thought you lost? How many times has this happened to me! I was even in trouble when I noticed that my wedding ring was lost. I knew my wife would terrorize me because of inattention. Do you know what idea came to me? I decided to call a cleaning agency. I knew that if I searched the house alone, I had no chance to find anything. So I requested the cleaning service from https://endoftenancycleaningnearme.co.uk/end-of-lease-cleaning/" rel="nofollow - https://endoftenancycleaningnearme.co.uk/end-of-lease-cleaning/ , and they found my wedding ring. |
Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 16 Sep 2021 at 1:16pm
| Darrell...you gits your quonset cleaned out yets? |
Posted By: FloydKS
Date Posted: 16 Sep 2021 at 1:58pm
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Update since my last post...it was posted before retirement... As of July one I am now doing what I want to do...which means I do have time to work on cleaning the shed. I have a long way to go cause I clean by piddling , finding things to take my mind off of cleaning. And I have fixed a few bicycles that needed some minor work. They are ol' junkers that i have when people come for a get together. Now I need to work on some of the kiddy size ones. I was able to play a little the other day with the WD-45 and Oxnard blade with extensions. smoothing out rough ground in the yard. Peace... ------------- Holding a grudge is like taking poison and expecting the other person to die |