Goals and aspirations

[Blazinzuk]

I start this to keep track of my progress in a goal I have made for myself.

To keep my garage clean.

Now bit of history. We moved in 2014. We had lived 15 years in the place we moved from. A 950 sq ft garage/shop was given up with high hopes.

We moved into a tiny rental. Like 450 sq ft tiny. But rent was cheap and it was one of the only houses we found for rent. Well much of my old shop got tossed or given away or scrapped. Much more got put into storage and I packed up the minimum I thought I would need to maintain cars and we moved.

Found a house for a screaming deal about 6 months later. 40x30 pole barn that needed finished out back and a 600 sq ft garage, 22 deep and 28 wide.

I started getting some fab jobs and since the pole barn had no power or floor or front wall I did them out of the garage.

I had never planned on doing anything fab wise until the shop was done.

Anyway I have always had a hard time keeping organized. It's something I need to work on.

So pic of my garage at by far it's worst. I know it's bad


I cleaned most of the day today and finally broke down and put several totes in the pole barn. I haven't put much in there so it will be easier when the time comes to finish it

What I got accomplished today.


Much more cleaning and organizing to come. I'm not sure how long it will be before I can finish the pole barn.

 

[koditten]

Looking forward to progress pictures. Looks like you have a healthy start.

 

[Cyberbear]

What I see from the photos is a strong need for storage space and racks to hold it. The time spent organizing your space will be well spent rather than enduring the frustration and wasted time trying to work in a cluttered environment. Try to adopt a habit of straightening out an area after each use, or at least once a week, in order to keep things organized, other wise you run the risk of becoming an OCD hoarder.

 

[MrBalll]

Off to a good start. Just be sure to keep at it.

 

[pancho400cid]

Reminds me of my work space after a busy period - though my work is pure hobby / home handy-man. I too vowed to keep better organized a couple of years back. I've had "fair" success. As we all know, developing that discipline to spend the time (10 minutes to an hour depending on what you are doing) to clean at the end of the day - when you are mentally and physically beat - is tough. Sure pays big dividends in work efficiency overall though.

 

[Blazinzuk]

I am prioritising what really needs to stay in the garage.

I also fixed the large shelf in my pole barn that drops down from the trusses. It's a large shelf so I can put stuff up there and not put stuff on the ground in the pole barn.

In all reality it's time for me to get rid of some stuff. I'm OK with that although it can be brutal.

Gotta get a new filter for my shop vac. Grinding dust really does get everywhere

 

[bdbecker]

...In all reality it's time for me to get rid of some stuff. I'm OK with that although it can be brutal...

As someone who sees potential use/value in pretty much everything, I can relate. I don't like to call it "getting rid of stuff". I call it "reducing inventory".

 

[Blazinzuk]

As someone who sees potential use/value in pretty much everything, I can relate. I don't like to call it "getting rid of stuff". I call it "reducing inventory".

Nice!

Yep gonna reduce the inventory a bit

 

[Blazinzuk]

Did more. Current pic


Still a long ways to go and the power company is bringing me the truck to start working on tomorrow. So just keeping things at this level will suffice for a couple weeks

 

[Blazinzuk]

Oh and I got all my engines at least out of open floor space for the most part. Gotta buy or build some engine dollys

 

[egnorant]

I have a couple of engines on those cheap Harbor freight rolley things...work great!

Bruce

 

[Blazinzuk]

I have a couple of engines on those cheap Harbor freight rolley things...work great!

Bruce

Thats the plan in the near future

 

[camit34]

This is a good way to keep your goals insight and check on your progress. Great idea.

Might need to do one too...


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[Blazinzuk]

Just to keep myself updated on progress. I worked for a while in the garage. Cut a whole lotta steel. Well tired started to come in. Nope I said gotta clean. Spent 15 20 minutes or so.

Kind of proud of myself. I know I know not a big deal to alot. But by dang progress towards my end goal of being organized

 

[DirtyJersey]

That 1st pic kind of resembles my space lol
I try to organize at least one area everything I'm in there, tripping over **** or wasted time trying to find **** gets old FAST.
I try to do one thing everyday, even if it just a few minutes organizing.


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[rvieceli]

Looks a lot better. It's hard to clean up after each work session but it always makes a big difference.

It looks like there is a good space for some storage racks or something on that far wall with the window. Seems there is enough space to put a good depth shelving/racking storage from the front wall to the end of your bench or at least the window.

If you build it in you can transition it to household storage as you get set up in the barn. If you make it removable you can just haul it out to the barn.

 

[jimgood]

****, Blazin...that first pic has nothing on some of us! At least there was still navigable floor space. I couldn't even work on anything in my workshop a year ago it was so cluttered.

Nice job on the clean up!

Edit: now that you have it tidy, do what the sign says! STAY ON TRAIL

 

[Throbbin Rods]

My garage wasn't too bad until the floor on the right side became unusable due to cracking. heaving and collapsing about a foot. Now it is a hell hole. Looking to maybe get a metal carport, floor it with plywood and move everything from the garage in there so I can redo the slab.

 

[Blazinzuk]

****, Blazin...that first pic has nothing on some of us! At least there was still navigable floor space. I couldn't even work on anything in my workshop a year ago it was so cluttered.

Nice job on the clean up!

Edit: now that you have it tidy, do what the sign says! STAY ON TRAIL

Lol that makes me feel better. Man grinding dust gets everywhere. Building a utility rack. I tend to grind welds flush. I think it looks nice. Hence lots of metal dust.

 

[Thumper68]

Lol that makes me feel better. Man grinding dust gets everywhere. Building a utility rack. I tend to grind welds flush. I think it looks nice. Hence lots of metal dust.

Have you tried good quality flap wheels instead of grinding disks?

I have found that they make much less of a mess and the right ones will actually work faster.

 

[Blazinzuk]

Have you tried good quality flap wheels instead of grinding disks?

I have found that they make much less of a mess and the right ones will actually work faster.

I have switched to resin fiber discs for most blending. Flap discs come out for shaping and abrasive disc are on for very rough shaping.


I like Lehigh valley abrasives for much of my grinding needs.

Haven't made much progress other than the fact of keeping it picked up every night. We are now on day 3 of it should have been here waiting for parts. Hard to do much when a crew cab long bed is taking up one bay

 

[McLean]

Progress is looking great so far! I hear ya on the grinder/sander/steel dust; that **** gets everywhere!

Oh and I got all my engines at least out of open floor space for the most part. Gotta buy or build some engine dollys

If you are looking for ideas on how to store/organize your drops, here's my cheap solution. It's much easier to manage than the million lb plastic tub I used before: http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showpost.php?p=5103511&postcount=30

 

[simpler=better]

If you want to catch grinder dust put a backing panel on your bench, with a tray beneath it. It will catch like 80% of the dust.

 

[Blazinzuk]

If you want to catch grinder dust put a backing panel on your bench, with a tray beneath it. It will catch like 80% of the dust.

I actually don't do much grinding on my bench I have a couple of tables I use.

I am starting to work on a couple removable sheet metal gaurds for those to control the grinding dust

 

[matt_i]

If you had a pallet jack, you could nail together some custom bases for those engines, then easy to move around like chess pieces. Normal pallets would probably take up too much room as they would be oversized. The minimum is the width of the forks plus say 1" of wiggle room + 2 times (1-1/2" for a 2x4 on edge), so fork width + 4". As I recall its in the 31" wide range. As always, a pallet jack is one more thing to potentially get in the way, so I'm not 100% sure if the idea is a slam dunk.

 

[Blazinzuk]

It is something I have thought about.

Right now if I could mod it to drag it behind my 4 Wheeler it would be awesome.

 

[Blazinzuk]

Garage is pretty full

Building a rack for this




The previous cleaning and organizing has helped tremendously in doing work