[sixball]

I came back to this old post to start some updates. I have a new to me table saw & a better router that came from a friend's estate. I also got a bunch of clamps and other space eating stuff. The chassis table we built being part of it. These things and the normal accumulation of parts along with the wood finished filling all space in the shop. With no place to work I have no choice but to totally clean & reorganize. Past attempts have failed but I'm thinking of it very differently after having helped the families of 5 friends struggle through junk piles in the last couple of years. I'm sorting, tossing, rethinking and maybe selling some of my stash to make space for the roadster build. So far I've cleared about 20' of work bench and the walls behind it. I ripped some 2x4s to make furring strips for hanging pegboard and have most of the strips up. I put new stones on my bench grinder, fixed a magnifying work light, and cut & installed a piece of glass that has had a sign covering it for years. The pegboard will make better use of wall space and a lot of what is hanging now is junk that I'll never use. I need to find new homes for some of the good stuff.

[TFoch]

Looking good!

[EDNY]

What type of "car door" is in your plans...sturdy floor?

[sixball]

The shop has been done for a log time. It has a good slab floor and a 12'x 8 1/2" roll up car door. The door is heavy but I can still do it.  The shop is 2x6 construction and fully insulated. A small propane heater on low keeps it comfortable. It is only 24'x24' so space is critical. There is a 24'x 36' machine shed attached and a 16'x 24' "studio" above with a 8'x16' Shooting deck. The studio & the shed need this same treatment.    Too much stuff.    Note the Desert Bighorn ram in the shadow near the back of the shop.

[EDNY]

Living the GOOD LIFE!

[sixball]

Sometimes I wish I had put a big door on both ends of the shop. Then I could just drive the tractor through and push everything out and just bring back the good stuff.
The rest of the job.

[EDNY]

Sell everything in there for a $1 each..and you could build a new building

[sixball]

It's 4 miles off the highway, two of it on a dirt & boulder road. I'd have to give people gas money to come.  But a $1 sale is a good idea even though some of it is worth $1.50. 

[EDNY]

I shouldn't sling arrows...I'm in the same boat!

[sixball]

Didn't have a lot of shop time today but I got the first piece of pegboard up and changed my plan. I was only going to go to the top of the windows but when I was testing it out I was shocked how fast the space disappeared. So now I'm going the ceiling on all walls. The first need is to reduce the amount of stuff but everything that stays has to have a place off of the floor and hopefully where I can find it when someone shows up with a dollar. 

[sixball]

Got some more pegboard up and a few things hung to test it. Thinking of moving the cabinets to put pegboard on that wall. While thinking of that I started sorting the contents of 8 little chests with 160 plastic drawers full of stuff. My bench disappeared again. Hoping to cut it down to 3 or 4 chests.

[sixball]

I got everything cleared from another wall today. Tomorrow I'll pull old nails used for hanging stuff and start pitting up furring strips for pegboard. I found 2 half sheets of pegboard in the corner behind the blast cabinet. I also uncovered the rest of my transmission. For the first time in years I can walk around the shop. Still weeks of work to do but much progress. When this wall is done a LOT of stuff will have a place till needed.

[TFoch]

Progress! 

[sixball]

Getting ready to head out and continue the battle. I had to struggle to get a near full 4x8 sheet of pegboard up to the top of the wall. I used jack stands to help hold it until I could git a couple of nails in so I could start with screws.  Doing this in the ladder/scaffold is dicey. I'll change my method. If I start at the bottom with lighter full sheets that have window cut outs I'll only have 2' wide strips to lift to the top. I did get some parts hung. Some had been on that wall before but some came from other places in the shop. I raised the shelf under the window so now I can open the parts washer without moving it out from the wall.

Today I want to rehang some cabinets and start organizing books & manuals in them. I made this harder than it should have been. All try to get the 2x6 pegboard piece up by the roll up door.

[62131]

Looking good