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NEVER ENOUGH ROOM IN A SHOP

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MAGMAN

06-16-2006 12:15:43




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HI good Folks of the board. I have a question for all or some? I have run out of room in my shop 24x40 pole barn. One end H I rebuilt last year still waiting on one tire and a few small leakes to take care of and such. The other side about 20 different mag tools of the trade,Bead blat cabinet,Parts washer,three benches,Lathe, Welding bench, Then theres the work bench or should I say the storage bench, lol Then in the front you have, Cub, Cub Cadet Mower, Old lawn mower,Old 4 wheeler, stick welder, Mig Welder,2 tractor cranes for motors, Corn sheller, Shop Vac, OK NOW can someone olease tell me how to arange this stuff or what some of you have done in the past as far as shelving, Or anything to rearange this mess. Oh I forgot the table saw, and Torches,and air compressor,as you can probly tell not much room to work any more. That darn harbor freight keeps making buy more and more stuff every week when they send all those neat 1/2 off sales,. But on the other hand its not to hard to hide stuff from the wife any more, So much good stuff. He He He. I really want a cement floor this year I am tired of loosing all those little byjeepers there goes another one little parts on the gravel floor. SO PLEASE IF ANY ONE HAS HAD THIS PROBLEM AND CAME UP WITH AN ANSWER ON STORAGE OR A BETTER WAY OF STACKING I WOULD LOVE TO HEAR FROM YOU PICS ALSO. MAGMAN

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Tom Windsor

06-17-2006 22:21:14




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 Re: NEVER ENOUGH ROOM IN A SHOP in reply to MAGMAN, 06-16-2006 12:15:43  
Well....

3 years ago, I put up a 30 x 70 foot metal building with concrete floor. I was fortunate to salvage the building from client who wanted it gone....my only cost was the concrete and my labor...and then, it filled up...2 years ago, I took the saw mill and sawed me some 16 foot 2 x4s and made me an extension off one side of 16 X 70 feet...one year later, there is a stack of lumber under the addition, along with a mercedes, cub farmall, chipper, generator, son's jeep, H farmall and B John Deer...the attachment is full!!!

In the main shop building, I have shelving and cabinets along 2 70 foot sides and along far end. Cabinets and shelving full of tractor parts, general junk that "I will use sometime" antique law books that will never be used again and I just cannot send to the dump...and then there is the drill press, Joiner, 3 table saws, paint shaker, torch, lathe, milling machine, permanent and mobile air compressors, 2 refurbished 2 G allis Chalmers tractors, an H farmall in restoration, a 27 Regular in restoration, an A John Deer in restoration,tool cabinets, peg board on walls with everything on earth I need and dont need, grandsons bycycles, bed frames in rafters, cultivators in rafters, 2 gravely tractors in restoration, 1 IH 3-5 HP engine...another one in restoration, a John Deere A, and a work bench with every carb piece imaginable...and sometimes I get the tractor parts mixed up...and I am sure the finished thing will look like that car that Johnny Cash stole from detroit piece by piece! ( Oh, I forgot the welder, the the shaper, band saw, metal band saw and the stack of pine lumber drying out)

Now, on the other hand, I was up at my friends shop last week...same size as mine, it was so clean and neat you could actually walk around and have dinner on the floor....He is a specialist...he only rebuilds fordsons...so, I think the answer is "Specialize"

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Deerely B Parted

06-17-2006 12:39:30




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 Re: NEVER ENOUGH ROOM IN A SHOP in reply to MAGMAN, 06-16-2006 12:15:43  
I don't know if Guinness (sp?) has a catagory for the most information conveyed in a single sentence but if they do, surely a viable candidate for that prize would be the tractor vet for his posting below, do any of you know where you'd go to get that much information in one sentence? How funny!!! The only place he came up short was his failure to include a wood burning stove with lots of split hardwood and lighter-knot near the "barley soda" facility. DBP

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the tractor vet

06-17-2006 14:58:58




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 Re: NEVER ENOUGH ROOM IN A SHOP in reply to Deerely B Parted, 06-17-2006 12:39:30  
To heck with the wood burner , radiant heat gas fired . Cutting wood spliting wood to much work. And i did not know we got graded on or writing here and ya know what i realy don't give a shoot . I am to old grouchy and mean to care.



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Randy in Pa

06-17-2006 06:10:34




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 Re: NEVER ENOUGH ROOM IN A SHOP in reply to MAGMAN, 06-16-2006 12:15:43  
I went and bought two old office trailers for a small fee, gutted them installed new floors and simple wiring. One I moved all my wood and metal equipment in to and the other is just storage for things I will never need but keep anyway. I found there is enought room in the trailer for most of the things I need the power equipment for. The only thing in my main shop is my tool chests and a few odds and ends and the current project. Way way better. And way way cleaner with out all the dust making equipment. I dont weld in the trailers however. I stick outside and mig in the main shop.

Randy in PA

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F-Dean

06-17-2006 04:44:31




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 Re: NEVER ENOUGH ROOM IN A SHOP in reply to MAGMAN, 06-16-2006 12:15:43  
Rule #1: You NEVER have enough tractors.
Rule #2: You NEVER have enough room. If you do, see Rule #1!



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Dan in Ore

06-17-2006 04:42:45




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 Re: NEVER ENOUGH ROOM IN A SHOP in reply to MAGMAN, 06-16-2006 12:15:43  
My problem is that I never put anything back. When I use it, the floor catches it. Then when I need it I can't find it so I have to replace it.

If I just weren't so sloppy, it might be alright. Also I have an RED tractor that has been in there for almost 5 years now and just don't have the ambition to finish it (or the money right now).

I guess a little self-discipline would be better for all of us that don't have enough space in the shop.

Don't let my wife read this.

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Loren

06-17-2006 07:52:24




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 Re: NEVER ENOUGH ROOM IN A SHOP in reply to Dan in Ore, 06-17-2006 04:42:45  
I blame the weather for that Dan. :>( Constant gloom and dampness just gets me down. I'm working with the concrete guy now about my floor. That'll help a lot. I'll be working with extension cord power for a while....



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ET

06-17-2006 04:41:27




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 Re: NEVER ENOUGH ROOM IN A SHOP in reply to MAGMAN, 06-16-2006 12:15:43  
As a friend of mine once said "The bigger the bench, The bigger the pile".



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Hugh MacKay

06-17-2006 03:33:13




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 Re: NEVER ENOUGH ROOM IN A SHOP in reply to MAGMAN, 06-16-2006 12:15:43  
Jon: Running out of building space is the sign of an industrious man. It really doesn't matter whether it's a shop, barn, house, chicken coup, etc. About the only one that may change as you age is the house. It will empty out in time.



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856 puller

06-16-2006 19:05:50




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 Re: NEVER ENOUGH ROOM IN A SHOP in reply to MAGMAN, 06-16-2006 12:15:43  
we had a real nice shop and cold storage 80x144 and even that gets full fast. but its a good idea not to have them together. our next shop will not be hooked to the shed if you have a fire there hopefully wont be as mutch loss



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lee

06-16-2006 18:20:39




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 Re: NEVER ENOUGH ROOM IN A SHOP in reply to MAGMAN, 06-16-2006 12:15:43  
I like industrial steel shelving or pallet rack.
It's expensive to buy new but you can find it cheap enough if you look hard and long. UYou have to get stuff off the floor and up on shelves or racks.



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the tractor vet

06-16-2006 17:20:19




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 Re: NEVER ENOUGH ROOM IN A SHOP in reply to MAGMAN, 06-16-2006 12:15:43  
The perfect one man shop is some where around 80 x 120 x 15 with overhead crane outlets ever 4 feet with air drops next to the outlets hot and cold water every ten feet and atleast 4 barley pop stations with chairs and lounges in all corners and a locking door from the inside no phone and atleast a half mile from the house with a attached garage with door and no winders to hide your truck and of course climate control so ya don't have to have the doors open that way ya can hide .

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DennyF

06-16-2006 15:57:57




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 Re: NEVER ENOUGH ROOM IN A SHOP in reply to MAGMAN, 06-16-2006 12:15:43  
Here's my "secret": About every 10 years or so I actually throw something out, whether it needs done or not.

Don't do a d*mn thing for solving the problem of too much stuff, but it do make me proud of myself for about two or three seconds.

When I sold my old place after 25 years there, filled up about three dump truck loads of stuff from my shop, but it was only an F350. My son and a stepson had to pull me off'n the dump truck bed a time or two, told me to just let it go. Kids ain't got no idea what some stuff is worth, sniffle.

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John in Ct

06-16-2006 15:12:16




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 Re: NEVER ENOUGH ROOM IN A SHOP in reply to MAGMAN, 06-16-2006 12:15:43  
A shop is a shop and storage is for storage. Once you put something in your shop for storage it just fills up to the point that you can hardly work. I use my shop for storage too and I have been moving stuff around to gain a few square feet here and there. Some stuff that I would never consider leaving my heated shop a few years ago are now in my metal shed.



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RustyFarmall

06-16-2006 14:47:24




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 Re: NEVER ENOUGH ROOM IN A SHOP in reply to MAGMAN, 06-16-2006 12:15:43  
I just went through the same thing, don't have it solved yet. I do have another shed that I wanted to store my plow and one of the Hs in waiting, but the other shed was full of partial plows, plow parts, and assorted iron. I decided that the partial plows would never again be plows, so I stripped off the useable parts, took the torch to the unuseable parts, and called the scrap iron buyer. I now have my good plow, and the H in waiting, in the other shed, wich made room for the cherry picker that I bought last Saturday. Well, I had extra room for awhile.

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Dan Bear Kelley

06-16-2006 13:08:21




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 Re: NEVER ENOUGH ROOM IN A SHOP in reply to MAGMAN, 06-16-2006 12:15:43  
10 years ago, when I moved from Arlington, Tx to Colorado Springs, CO, I promised myself that (since I had to move all my stuff) I would build "The ultimate shop." My wife sniggered. Four years ago, with the help of my wife, we started construction of a 50'x75' steel building. "C'mon hon! It's like a big erector set!" Found out my wife is better at driving a fork lift than I am. (I am SO proud of her!!) Two years ago, we actually enclosed it and got the building permit signed off. This last fall, I finally got a breaker box in it. No floor in it yet. Concrete is too expensive.

Gee, I wish I had a shop!

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Illinois Boy

06-16-2006 12:34:16




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 Re: NEVER ENOUGH ROOM IN A SHOP in reply to MAGMAN, 06-16-2006 12:15:43  
Magman,
Let me store some of that stuff for ya'... Where you at and I'll pick it up?

Thanks,
Bill - I mean... Jake, I mean... Bob...



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