Smart Shop tips!

[dieselscout80]

Thanks!!!

 

[buck12]

Some of these shop pictures make me realize I need to clean up. I have always put my tools away when I am finished with a job but I tend to leave parts, materials, papers, etc scattered.

 

[fried1765]

Some of these shop pictures make me realize I need to clean up. I have always put my tools away when I am finished with a job but I tend to leave parts, materials, papers, etc scattered.

I am a VERY BAD ...cleaner upper!
On to the next task!

 

[Citydude]

I am a VERY BAD ...cleaner upper!
On to the next task!

The most un glamorous part of finishing a project: cleanup

 

[the old grind]

Four out of five projects begin as clean-ups, but then something should have been fixed vs tossing out & I'm hiding in manual labor vs making decisions and tidying up.

 

[JethroB]

The most un glamorous part of finishing a project: cleanup

Particularly cutting trees or brush. The cutting is the satisfying & fun part, the cleanup not so much.

Painting is the reverse. Prep prep prep...then the fun of painting.

 

[buck12]

Particularly cutting trees or brush. The cutting is the satisfying & fun part, the cleanup not so much.

Painting is the reverse. Prep prep prep...then the fun of painting.

No feeling quite like thirty minutes with the pole saw until you turn around and realize there is two hours of cleanup. Buying a grapple has reduced this time considerably.

 

[pmsmechanic]

Particularly cutting trees or brush. The cutting is the satisfying & fun part, the cleanup not so much.

Actually I'm quite lazy. I don't clean up until after the lawn mower has gone over the branches. here's a lot less to clean up that way. Now I realize that some people have different standards when it comes to appearances but this works for me.

 

[pmsmechanic]

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Did that drill press not come crank to raise and lower the bed? I like your upgrade!

 

[ededic]

My Brother grabbed the wash boiler from the family estate to pile Time, Hemmings Motor News, and Road & Track magazines into. Copper on the outside is ~80% intact.

(I don't know how they get their linens clean. )

I'm, still looking for a wringer washer. I see 'em in yards rusting away with weeds growing around them.

I'd rather stumble onto one before it's put out as yard art.

We still have one of those up on our farm.

 

[Sberry]

My favorite part is cleaning up. It's a challenge to get every last piece off the bench. It is tedious at times as we have so much that it is too easy to get so many items out, even extra fasteners add up. The salvation is I intentionally made it as easy to put away as drop it where it's used, it takes a little disciplined and if I am working with others tend to be mostly put away by the time the job is finished if I am paying attn.

 

[Gem99ultra]

I remember going to the Ice House with my Dad as a small boy in Texas.

Then I bet you also remember the Ice Man coming by twice a week to deliver a block of ice or two for the ice box? The Ice Man always had a big square leather pad over his back.
He and the mail man and the milk man definitely had a hard life.

Back then the Ice House wasn't a shack where one stopped for a beer or ten. That was where we'd go sometimes on weekends if we were going to make ice cream. It took a lot of ice to crank out a batch of ice cream.

 

[BackRoad]

Guess that's why we only made ice cream in the winter...

I was the go-fer. Go fer more icicles hanging off the roofs.

With the lack of insulation back then, the icicles were more the size of a leg than a carrot.

 

[dieselscout80]

Did that drill press not come crank to raise and lower the bed? I like your upgrade!

I know my Delta press drill like that does not it only has a clamp the movement is just by sliding it up or down.

 

[fried1765]

My favorite part is cleaning up. It's a challenge to get every last piece off the bench. It is tedious at times as we have so much that it is too easy to get so many items out, even extra fasteners add up. The salvation is I intentionally made it as easy to put away as drop it where it's used, it takes a little disciplined and if I am working with others tend to be mostly put away by the time the job is finished if I am paying attn.

You would work well with my honey.
I put the tool down....she puts it away!
Then.....I wonder where it went, because I immediately need it again.

 

[the old grind]

You would work well with my neighbor (... or hired hand)
I put the tool down....they put it away!
Then.....I wonder where it went, because I immediately need it again.

btw, when the neighbor uses stuff or gets out too much for one tool he piles them at his feet and stands on 'em while leaning under a hood.

(He may be part goat, but I'm not.)

 

[Big Barn]

Did that drill press not come crank to raise and lower the bed? I like your upgrade!

Correct! And thanks, Ernie.

I know my Delta press drill like that does not it only has a clamp the movement is just by sliding it up or down.

Not having a geared table lift is “okay” until you have a heavy drill press vise and workpiece clamped on it. LOL.

 

[fried1765]

Correct! And thanks, Ernie.





Not having a geared table lift is “okay” until you have a heavy drill press vise and workpiece clamped on it. LOL.

My Clausing is a fine piece of machinery, but unfortunately the table is not geared.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Guess that's why we only made ice cream in the winter...

I was the go-fer. Go fer more icicles hanging off the roofs.

With the lack of insulation back then, the icicles were more the size of a leg than a carrot.

Yep, we did the same

 

[dragoneggs]

My favorite part is cleaning up. It's a challenge to get every last piece off the bench. It is tedious at times as we have so much that it is too easy to get so many items out, even extra fasteners add up. The salvation is I intentionally made it as easy to put away as drop it where it's used, it takes a little disciplined and if I am working with others tend to be mostly put away by the time the job is finished if I am paying attn.

Me too... because it means I finished the project. My problem is completely finishing projects. Seems that last few details take me the longest to complete and as such all the tools, hardware, scraps, and stuff are all over the place and I don't have a place to set any more 'stuff' on my workbench.