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my multi purpose shop

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mike a. tenn.

03-04-2007 07:28:12




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i love my shop. in it we do all the usual work...tractor/implement repair or refurbishing. we work on our own trucks and cars there, and some of the local kids around here (friends of my son) bring their vehicles down to repair or customize them since i can heat it up in there and i have a pretty good selection of tools. (which they all respect and put back where they found them, or never come back) and we enjoy these activities.

lately, i've caught myself doing some pretty "unusual" stuff in there tho. last month i welded up a "balcony" for a float in the local mardis gras parade my wife rides on every year, and today i'll be "fabricating" a repair part for my boy's in-line hockey skate!! i know what i want to make, but now i have to go down there and sort thru my many boxes of "parts and pieces", "odd nuts and bolts" to make it. this may take some time as i'm one of those guys that never throws ANYTHING away, so i have several of these boxes of odds and ends...but i'm getting to the age that i can't remember what is in what!!! it's always and adventure tho. i usually end up finding several things that i forgot i had or catch myself saying..."THERE that darn thing is!! i knew i had one of those" or even more often..."what the heck is THIS and why did i save it!!??"

have a good day, mike

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1941 farmall a boy

03-04-2007 22:04:43




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 Re: my multi purpose shop in reply to mike a. tenn., 03-04-2007 07:28:12  
Hi mike can you email me plz if you want to Thanks and by the way im sorry if i made you mad or anything I do feel bad about this hole thing on the form"s just plz email me thanks



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Oldmax

03-04-2007 12:08:49




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 Re: my multi purpose shop in reply to mike a. tenn., 03-04-2007 07:28:12  
I also do a little Fabricating of parts and rebuilding Used parts & implements . And I also have a asortment of Metal Scrap laying around "just in case I need it for somthing". But to my Wife it is Junk. But listen to her Scream when you try ot get rid of somthing of hers like the two extra gas cook stoves & a wood cook stove that are stored the out building . "Case Closed".



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omahagreg

03-04-2007 11:57:57




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 Re: my multi purpose shop in reply to mike a. tenn., 03-04-2007 07:28:12  
I built a 20' x 30' garage in town 2 summers ago. The 9'x7' overhead door is offset to the side in the 20' side-so it is close to a 1 1/2 wide. I have my carpentry tools set up almost permanent on that 1/2 side. I can still run a vehicle in the other side. Put a self storing ladder to the attic when new, was thinking I could not do anything else in there-WRONG. I now suspended an 8'x8' HO scale train table above my truck. I use a boat winch to bring it down, then winch it back up when thru. NOW, I think I have used every inch for something. Greg

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Tom in Central Pa

03-04-2007 08:04:21




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 Re: my multi purpose shop in reply to mike a. tenn., 03-04-2007 07:28:12  
In the middle of paragraph 2, your post, parts and pieces, odd nuts and bolts, In the Taler Dictionary reads, I believe it reads INACTIVE MATERIALS INVENTORY. BTDT, When I prepped my FIL"s inactive materials inventory for an Estate Auction. I would find misc. tools in with the IMI, Why? I now find myself dropping the associated tool in the container with the hardware, to be sorted out later. Yeah, right. it may be discovered eons from now, when my heirs are going thru this IMI.

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37 chief

03-04-2007 08:03:15




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 Re: my multi purpose shop in reply to mike a. tenn., 03-04-2007 07:28:12  
Mike I am like you, I enjoy fabricating different things myself. I also don't throw much away, and have a scrap metal pile behind the barn for that special piece of iron. I know what you mean about opening a box, and finding things you put away years ago, it's a little like Christmas. Stan



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mike a. tenn.

03-04-2007 08:15:30




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 Re: my multi purpose shop in reply to 37 chief, 03-04-2007 08:03:15  
chief....i also have a spot on the other side of the fence kinda under and behind some trees where i store larger "can't bring myself to throw away" stuff. it also contains odds and ends of scrap metal, some of it more rust than metal now. where some people including my nuptual queen refer to it as my junk pile, i choose to call it my "materials depot"

my wife has stopped calling it a junk pile of late, since i have found scraps and odds and ends in there that i've used to fix some of HER "junk" with. i guess it's all in the personal value as to what a person labels things.

-mike

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Turke bros. Farms

03-04-2007 07:55:37




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 Re: my multi purpose shop in reply to mike a. tenn., 03-04-2007 07:28:12  
Im the same way, recently my freinds boy came by and helped him customize his bumper in his Dakota. Put in 3 round 3in l.e.d. running lights per side in the bumper and painted it body color. Looks great. Never throw out too many things... a extra wheel seal sealed up a cylinder on another friends dump truck last week. That was weird but worked great. But wish I could work in the shop today instead of painting the living room!

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