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jhoff310 · Dec 26, 2011

So I got this genius idea it was time to clean and organize the garage/dump/workshop. It all started with a new toolbox for my birthday last month. I have been at it now for about 3 weeks, an hour her and few hours there etc.. I will let the pics tell the story

Jeff

jhoff310 · Dec 26, 2011

here we are today....I have made progress but I still have ALOT of work in front of me

EatenByLimestone · Dec 26, 2011

jhoff310 said:
here we are today....I have made progress but I still have ALOT of work in front of me

I really need to do that. Thank you for the inspiration.

Matt

wetwood · Dec 26, 2011

Just because you clean up the garage doesn't mean you through out the blond!

jhoff310 · Dec 26, 2011

the blond is safe and sound....I just got another calendar which will be going up next with...she's in it with a few of her friends

Jeff

woodmiser · Dec 26, 2011

The problem now is you won't be able to find anything.

I have the exact same tool box. Love it.

oldspark · Dec 26, 2011

woodmiser said:
The problem now is you won't be able to find anything.

I have the exact same tool box. Love it.

Me too, good job, tool box well worth the money.

Danno77 · Dec 26, 2011

LoL, BTDT. I can almost see a workspace.

Backwoods Savage · Dec 26, 2011

On that toolbox, I just bought one very close to what you have. Paid $100 for it. The kicker is that it was full of tools! Some still in the package too. Yes, I was smiling over that find.

jhoff310 · Dec 28, 2011

i thought long and hard before I laid out the cabbage for the toolbox. I read review after review. I thought if I was gonna shell out a grand for a toolbox I should educate myself. I LOVE IT, well built. I have it loaded full of tools and it works like a charm.
As far as not being able to find anything, thats the reason for taking on this job. I was tired of not being able to find anything. Hopefully when I am done I will have everything labeled and organized.

Jeff

smokinj · Dec 28, 2011

Looks Perfect to me!

Jags · Dec 28, 2011

I find that I need to go through this process about 3 times per year. I call it "finding the top of the work bench". Actually two benches. One is the welding bench and the other is more of the "work" bench (by bench I mean two pieces of 14" wide channel iron welded together to make a 28" x 60" long indestructible surface. :lol: ).

I have to admit - I like a nice clean bench area to throw my latest project on. It just doesn't seem to happen all that often.

fredarm · Dec 28, 2011

Looks like the utility room in my basement. I need to find the top of my workbench too.

Catspaw · Dec 28, 2011

The key to organization in my opinion is to make sure you create a place for everything. You should be able to pick up anything off of your workbench an know exactly where it should go. Of course you need to include several misc. places for all of the odds and ends - I have one for misc. bits of metal, one for misc. rubber/wood/plastic, one for misc. wood/sheetmetal screws etc.

- Rich

Stephen in SoKY · Dec 28, 2011

It's a great time to catalog at least the high dollar items and keep the list somewhere other than home. God forbid a fire, or even a major burglary, and you'd be suprised how many things that slip your mind when trying to create a list for an insurance claim. Even with the list, there will still be things you'll realize are gone far too late to include on a claim.

DanCorcoran · Dec 28, 2011

Stephen in SoKY said:
It's a great time to catalog at least the high dollar items and keep the list somewhere other than home. God forbid a fire, or even a major burglary, and you'd be suprised how many things that slip your mind when trying to create a list for an insurance claim. Even with the list, there will still be things you'll realize are gone far too late to include on a claim.

No need to catalog. Just take 30-40 closeup photos of workbench surface, open tool drawers, wall hangings, etc., with a digital camera. I do that occasionally, just to have an inventory if I need it. THEN, store the digital photos offsite/online.

jhoff310 · Dec 30, 2011

Stephen in SoKY said:
It's a great time to catalog at least the high dollar items and keep the list somewhere other than home. God forbid a fire, or even a major burglary, and you'd be suprised how many things that slip your mind when trying to create a list for an insurance claim. Even with the list, there will still be things you'll realize are gone far too late to include on a claim.

Thats something I have been meaning to do for a few years now and haven't done it. I do take pics occasionally but they aren't detailed enough. I have a good list in my head and I have a buddy who spends ALOT of time in my garage and knows it almost as well as I do. Its still no excuse as to why I dont have a list or pics to prove what I have.

More pics to come this weekend

Jeff

amellefson · Jan 3, 2012

Very true about the list. I am an electrician by trade. Had my hand tools stolen right out of the back of the pickup a few years ago. Made a list from memory, priced it out. 1200 dollars !!!

!! Company ins paid, thank God, I could not believe good tools add up that fast. Make a list.

bears12th · Jan 3, 2012

Please tell me that drawer in the 2nd post (I think the pic on the right) is labeled "Goops". I need to get me some tape and label a drawer goops. That is awesome. Just hit my funny bone at 1:30 am. Ha, never thought of having a goops drawer, always left em on top - ingenious man, simply, ingenious.

Thanks !!!

!

jhoff310 · Jan 4, 2012

yes, it's labeled "goops". I have everything from small tubes of silicone, tubes of dielectric grease, small cans of grease, some tubes of adhesive....you know goopy stuff

I know I promised more pics this past weekend, I hit a small roadblock..trying to decide where to put some other shelving at to store other tools (compound miter saw, drill press, box of electrial parts, box of plumbing parts) etc..

Jeff

aussiedog3 · Jan 4, 2012

I hope there is a beer can or two buried in there and maybe the assorted jeep part, it is Toledo after all.

MasterMech · Jan 4, 2012

QuadForLife said:
Very true about the list. I am an electrician by trade. Had my hand tools stolen right out of the back of the pickup a few years ago. Made a list from memory, priced it out. 1200 dollars!! Company ins paid, thank God, I could not believe good tools add up that fast. Make a list.

1200 dollars !!!

lol I wish 1200 bucks would cover my entire collection. I've never priced it all out (that would be a HUGE undertaking) but I know I've got more into tools than I paid for my wife's new car. I'm guessing it would cost north of $30K to replace my inventory.

mecreature · Jan 4, 2012

I need to do this exact thing. thanks for the reminder.

oldspark · Jan 5, 2012

I was in Lowe's today and they had a large Kolbalt tool box with a ref. built in, I thought that was over the top.

Whitepine2 · Jan 5, 2012

jhoff310 said:
yes, it's labeled "goops". I have everything from small tubes of silicone, tubes of dielectric grease, small cans of grease, some tubes of adhesive....you know goopy stuff

I know I promised more pics this past weekend, I hit a small roadblock..trying to decide where to put some other shelving at to store other tools (compound miter saw, drill press, box of electrial parts, box of plumbing parts) etc..

Jeff

I didn't know what you ment by goop but now I get ya. I call stuff like that guizzy gunk,silicone,pipe dope ect. when working on something I always say guizzy it up
and who ever is around gets a kick out of this saying. I like goop also!

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