Before clean up on old shop

[threeputt]

I have a few picture before I cleaned up my 56 year old shop. I hope to upload how clean how got it in the next few days.

This old Butler Building (70x50 ) has held up great since my Dad moved in 56 years ago this week. I was in the 9th grade when he started working there. That was in 1961 and I remember the day like it was yesterday.

My Dad passed away almost 30 years ago . I try and honor him by keeping what he worked a lifetime to own.

After I am gone not sure my 41 year old son will keep it but that will be up to him. I will at least have it in good shape for him
Cheers, and updated picture coming soon

 

[slip knot]

that's a nice space. it already looks cleaner than mine.

 

[threeputt]

All this mess like wood is now gone. I let it get out of hand for the last 20 years. Now I can see the rats lol

 

[Whitey1]

What kind of uses has it been for over the course of its life?

 

[Miss the Pontiacs]

That is a great work space. Your son is a lucky fellow, 3 generations will/have enjoyed the space.

 

[threeputt]

It was a auto and truck repair shop. My Dad was also a Homelite chainsaw dealer . Back then there were many loggers who did business with him.

My brother was the ace on the chainsaws back then. He was killed in an auto accident in Jan of 1976 . My dad and Mom had a very hard time after the death of my brother so they sold the business to me in 1979 and my dad retired. My mother passed away the next year and my Dad in 1988.

When I owned it I worked on 99 % Fleet trucks as the saw business had seen its better day then.

In early 1997 I closed the shop at age 50 and took a job with the city golf course. I retired there in Feb 2012 and now I use this shop mostly for hanging out lol

Got to have a place to go so now I am in the last phase of cleaning it up

 

[threeputt]

My son never learned the trade . He has told me he would never sell this shop as he also likes to come visit me when he has the time. I am sure he will find something to do with this shop when I am gone to make money .

He makes much more money than I did and loves his job. Maybe when he retires he will also spend his days here like I do . He has a daughter so three generations is probably all for this old shop

I sort of doubt my granddaughter will turn wrenches for living when she gets out of school .

 

[Miss the Pontiacs]

Don’t count your grand daughter out of the picture. My youngest daughter almost went into furniture making. When we left her in Toronto as we were heading out (lots of tears going on) she said she could come back home and take carpentry. In high school grade 12 she took home the bursary $s in IA for future education. She took IA for fun. She is now a journalist and doing fine. All that said she has the keys for my work shop, not my garage but my work area.
Remember your grand daughter might find a spouse with the aptitude for needing shop space. The two of them just might make it a 4th generation effort.