Clean shop or not.

[Dan Crabtree]

So how clean is your shop or work area?

[cross]

I like to sweep up and place tools back when Im done,I think i got in the habit with the small shop,it just made starting the next time easier.Also its a good time to be looking for hot spots,another habit I got into with the small shed.

[T-Gold]

Right now I'm moving my shop stuff into our garage, so it's not as organized as I'd like it to be. Also I'm installing more storage-related stuff (shelves, hooks, etc) than I had before. Right now it's not so much a mess as it is very tightly packed, I hope that having shelves will help me out in that department.

[Ed Thomas]

...ummm... do you have any more categories???? ops: ops: ops:

[irnsrgn]

Are thinking Disaster Area ED? LOL

[Ed Thomas]

Jr: I think we could probably paraphrase the Jeff Foxworthy lines that made him famous....

If you've ever -- [fill in the blank] -- you might be a blacksmith.

If you've ever lost your anvil and the stump it was on -- and tried to locate it by calling out its name -- you might be a blacksmith.

If you've ever burned your woodwhacker buddy's hunk of flawless Koa wood as fuel for forge-welding -- you might be a blacksmith.

If you've ever burned a 1/2" hole in your forearm and didn't notice till the smoke from your flaming shirt blinded you -- you might be a blacksmith.

And so on.

Oops. Dan, sorry for hijacking this perfectly good thread. My shop is in... er... flux... so to speak. I'll get back to work now...

:shock:

[JimG]

Check out "You might be a" at http://www.iforgeiron.com/ Ed, those 3 you mentioned look new to me

[Ed Thomas]

JimG: Yeah, I realized that was there after I posted these. I made them up on the spot after the lost anvil reference. Oh, well... back the regularly scheduled Poll: "Just how messy a boy ARE you??"

[Fionnbharr (finn:-)]

Well I can find both of my anvils,and the swage block, and the power hammer... So it is not a complete disaster, but... The welding table is covered with scrap. The graded scrap is pouring out into the room from underneath the welding table, and the graded tool steel buckets block the end of the power hammer tool rest. Various welding projects hang from the joists and clutter the floor. I know a few guys who have packed more tools and scrap into this size space, but not many:-) I have out grown this space even before I have it finished:-( Not surprising really:-) I picked up another postvice for 20$ needs work but is a fairly heavy one:-) I ry to keep it clean but extra things keep accumulating in there and it makes it hard to climb into the shop:-)

[Dan Crabtree]

Maybe we should get some pictures up of our messy and not so messy shops. I would but im still looking for the cable that connects this camera to the computer, its burried somewhere in the moving boxes.