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274839 Darrell <larchmont479@g...> 2021‑11‑30 Shop cleanup
Galoots

My shop is a mess.

I usually have my Galoot BBQ events twice a year. That always forces me to
actually clean up the shop. You know, put away tools, shovel up the
shavings, sort offcuts into Burn It or Save It, sweep, vacuum, and all that.

But with covid and all, there hasn't been any reason to clean, because no
guests and, uh, lazy Galoot.

Next week I am having a shop guest. We're going to be making some side
rounds. So now I have to clean the shop. After 2 years of messing about and
piling stuff everywhere. It's a good thing I'm retired now, otherwise it
might not get done in time.

Darrell
Who packed up a galootaclaus package tonight


-- wood hoarder, blade sharpener, and occasional tool user
274841 galoot@l... 2021‑11‑30 Re: Shop cleanup
Quoting Darrell :

> Galoots
>
> My shop is a mess.
> Snip....
>
> Next week I am having a shop guest. We're going to be making some side
> rounds. So now I have to clean the shop. After 2 years of messing about and
> piling stuff everywhere. It's a good thing I'm retired now, otherwise it
> might not get done in time.

As the southern guest in question I have the same problem, a two year  
cleanup of the car before I cross the border.  Don't want to give the  
border police any reason to inspect me ;-)

Esther
274842 Stager, Scott P. <StagerS@m...> 2021‑11‑30 Re: Shop cleanup
On Nov 30, 2021, at 8:14 AM, galoot via groups.io<http://groups.io>
mailto:galoot=localnet.com@g...>> wrote:

a two year
cleanup of the car

So very glad to hear that I am not the only one to have that problem.  I missed
Missouri to Minnesota Christmas trip last year due to Covid.  I still have stuff
from 2019 trip in the car.  Some tool stuff, and lots of Hmmm, what’s in that
box.

Scott (the one in Missouri).
274843 scottg <scottg@s...> 2021‑11‑30 Re: Shop cleanup
I have cleaned my shop every day this week. Every day.
  But even if I showed you before and after pix you'd barely notice.

The good part is, lots of things have been repaired, rehandled, 
refinished, resharpened, rearranged, sorted....

   I did sweep up one measly bag of floor mess, doh  haahaahah
   yours scott
  wishin I had Esther coming

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274844 Don Schwartz <dks@t...> 2021‑11‑30 Re: Shop cleanup
We recently had both cars 'detailed' by our dealer. MLW's car had the 
remains of several bales of hay scattered throughout its interior, 
brought home from the garden centre in spring of 2019, as well as a bin 
of miscellany. Nice having them clean again. Workshop ---not so much!

Don

On 2021-11-30 9:04 a.m., Stager, Scott P. wrote:
>
> On Nov 30, 2021, at 8:14 AM, galoot via groups.io<http://groups.io>
mailto:galoot=localnet.com@g...>> wrote:
>
> a two year
> cleanup of the car
>
> So very glad to hear that I am not the only one to have that problem.  I
missed Missouri to Minnesota Christmas trip last year due to Covid.  I still
have stuff from 2019 trip in the car.  Some tool stuff, and lots of Hmmm, what’s
in that box.
>
> Scott (the one in Missouri).
>
>
>
>
> 
>
>

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274845 Tony Seo 2021‑11‑30 Re: Shop cleanup
On 11/30/2021 9:14 AM, galoot@l... wrote:
> Quoting Darrell :
>
>> Galoots
>>
>> My shop is a mess.
>> Snip....
>>
>> Next week I am having a shop guest. We're going to be making some side
>> rounds. So now I have to clean the shop. After 2 years of messing
>> about and
>> piling stuff everywhere. It's a good thing I'm retired now, otherwise it
>> might not get done in time.
>
> As the southern guest in question I have the same problem, a two year
> cleanup of the car before I cross the border.  Don't want to give the
> border police any reason to inspect me ;-)

Yeah, I cleaned off about 3 ft of the bench prior to heading up to
Madison-Bouchville this past August and it's back to being 3 flats deep
at that end.  And the truck, well that is kind of my secondary storage
for stuff, since I don't have much in the way of uncluttered space in here.

There is a young guy down in Virginia that sells tools (he used to live
up in New York) that has been hauling some of my less desirable
accumulations out of here (to the tune of at least 10 12x12x8 Post
Office boxes full, plus a number of larger sized boxes) and it's barely
made a dent in the piles...

But I keep on keeping on.

Tony (where it's been a right miserable day here weather wise...snow and
rain and just raw)

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274846 gtgrouch@r... 2021‑12‑01 Re: Shop cleanup
I have a lot of stuff that I have accumulated in what is actually a
fairly short time. 

I just keep thinking that my estate sale will make a lot of people
happy! Not that I've got anything planned - I'm still in the
accumulation phase.

Gary Katsanis
Albion New York, USA

	-----------------------------------------From: "Tony Seo via
groups.io" 
To: "Darrell"
Cc: oldtools@g...
Sent: Tuesday November 30 2021 3:42:38PM
Subject: Re: [oldtools] Shop cleanup

 On 11/30/2021 9:14 AM, galoot@l... wrote:
 > Quoting Darrell :
 >
 >> Galoots
 >>
 >> My shop is a mess.
 >> Snip....
 >>
 >> Next week I am having a shop guest. We're going to be making some
side
 >> rounds. So now I have to clean the shop. After 2 years of messing
 >> about and
 >> piling stuff everywhere. It's a good thing I'm retired now,
otherwise it
 >> might not get done in time.
 >
 > As the southern guest in question I have the same problem, a two
year
 > cleanup of the car before I cross the border. Don't want to give
the
 > border police any reason to inspect me ;-)

 Yeah, I cleaned off about 3 ft of the bench prior to heading up to
 Madison-Bouchville this past August and it's back to being 3 flats
deep
 at that end. And the truck, well that is kind of my secondary storage
 for stuff, since I don't have much in the way of uncluttered space in
here.

 There is a young guy down in Virginia that sells tools (he used to
live
 up in New York) that has been hauling some of my less desirable
 accumulations out of here (to the tune of at least 10 12x12x8 Post
 Office boxes full, plus a number of larger sized boxes) and it's
barely
 made a dent in the piles...

 But I keep on keeping on.

 Tony (where it's been a right miserable day here weather wise...snow
and
 rain and just raw)

 --

 Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/tonyseomusic
 /> Old River Hard Goods
 http://oldetoolshop.com/
 />

 



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274847 Mark van Roojen <mvr1@e...> 2021‑12‑01 Re: Shop cleanup
On Tue, Nov 30, 2021 at 08:14 AM,  wrote:

>
> Quoting Darrell :
> 
> > Next week I am having a shop guest. We're going to be making some side
> > rounds. So now I have to clean the shop. After 2 years of messing about and
> > piling stuff everywhere. It's a good thing I'm retired now, otherwise it
> > might not get done in time.
> 
> As the southern guest in question I have the same problem, a two year  
> cleanup of the car before I cross the border.  Don't want to give the  
> border police any reason to inspect me ;-)
> 
> Esther
> 
In my misspent youth a bunch of friends and I were going to take my friend
Chris's car the straight route from Detroit to Boston. Since his car had been
used by his stoner friends to smoke dope we vacuumed and cleaned it all up for
the border crossing. Unfortunately we/I missed a small empty but dusty film
canister that someone had dropped. It made for an interesting afternoon near
Niagra Falls. They did let us proceed eventually but not before disassembling
all of our luggage. There's a longer version of this story that is pretty funny
but off topic.

As for cleaning the shop, I've rented a couple of storage lockers in preparation
for foundation replacement that will get me more shop space where there is
presently a crawl space.  The metalworking machinery will go into that new
space, leaving a room for Jenny to put more of her stuff and a less crowded
garage shop where the tailed dustmakers live.  But in order to give them room to
work I'm having to sort through a lot of stuff and put it in boxes and tubs to
take to the lockers.  It is amazing the amount of things I have no particular
place for. 3 months til the work starts and we'll be working pretty hard to get
it all moved!
- Mark
274849 Don Schwartz <dks@t...> 2021‑12‑01 Re: Shop cleanup
This sounds so familiar. A few years ago I decided I wanted more light 
in the cave, and that the thing for me to do was to shift my shop from 
one end of the basement to t'other, where the windows are more numerous. 
In the process, I had to shift all of the stuff we had in storage both 
for ourselves and our daughter. Many, many hours of boxing, shifting, 
dragging and carrying later, I then had to start the process of unboxing 
and organizing. I'm not sure I could bring myself to do it again...

Don


On 2021-12-01 6:45 a.m., Mark van Roojen wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 30, 2021 at 08:14 AM,  wrote:
>
>> Quoting Darrell :
>>
>>> Next week I am having a shop guest. We're going to be making some side
>>> rounds. So now I have to clean the shop. After 2 years of messing about and
>>> piling stuff everywhere. It's a good thing I'm retired now, otherwise it
>>> might not get done in time.
>> As the southern guest in question I have the same problem, a two year
>> cleanup of the car before I cross the border.  Don't want to give the
>> border police any reason to inspect me ;-)
>>
>> Esther
>>
> In my misspent youth a bunch of friends and I were going to take my friend
Chris's car the straight route from Detroit to Boston. Since his car had been
used by his stoner friends to smoke dope we vacuumed and cleaned it all up for
the border crossing. Unfortunately we/I missed a small empty but dusty film
canister that someone had dropped. It made for an interesting afternoon near
Niagra Falls. They did let us proceed eventually but not before disassembling
all of our luggage. There's a longer version of this story that is pretty funny
but off topic.
>
> As for cleaning the shop, I've rented a couple of storage lockers in
preparation for foundation replacement that will get me more shop space where
there is presently a crawl space.  The metalworking machinery will go into that
new space, leaving a room for Jenny to put more of her stuff and a less crowded
garage shop where the tailed dustmakers live.  But in order to give them room to
work I'm having to sort through a lot of stuff and put it in boxes and tubs to
take to the lockers.  It is amazing the amount of things I have no particular
place for. 3 months til the work starts and we'll be working pretty hard to get
it all moved!
> - Mark
>
>
> 
>
>

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Buy less. Buy Canadian.

“Everyone knows the river will swell, but they always find money for floods” ––
Joan Baez

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