My wife kept telling me that before I put my blacksmith shop in the garage, there used to be a floor in there. Well, after a good clean up, She was ....right...........AGAIN!! The only problem is that now I probably won't be able to find anything.LOL.

Edited October 10, 200817 yr by CurlyGeorge

You need more tools....

While cleaning up, I set most of my hammers and tongs in a wooden tool box that's on the floor behind the white trash container. But, yeah, you can NEVER have enough tools!! LOL

Wive's are like that I've found...

Don't you just hate it when you wife is right? LOL

Your shop is way too clean. You need to start making stuff!

( It is a nice shop. All kidding aside )

A clean shop is a happy shop!! And I have a very unhappy shop.

My wife's a potter. We built her a 16 x 20 studio with a 16x10 patio equipped with a 12 cubic foot gas kiln. I get a single car bay in the garage (unheated & unair-conditioned) that I share with 10 storage shelves (all full) , 12 Rubbermaid containers full of pottery, compound mitre saw, table saw, 2 hand carts, 8 folding bookcases, and a partridge in a pear tree. My new/old leg vise is still in the bed of my pickup. 35 years with Uncle Sam taught me life's a xxxxx but the IRS is worse!

Clean? Shop? HUH?
Finnr

I was in the shop last night taking apart air line fittings. I'd had enough of needing a fitting only to find its on some arrangement I made up some time back so I was breaking everything down and she was watching and telling me about her terrible day. She finally claimed I was making her dizzy from all the turning and wanted to know what was doing. When I told her I was organizing and shes a neat freak..well..my night got a little better, wink.

Ugh, i gotta clean my this sunday. lol. nice setup and nice clean, organized and efficient shop. lol

Curly, your shop is so clean, that we will have to start calling you "Doctor Curly George"
Ted Throckmorton

LOL. Thanks Ted. But I don't think there is a "Dr of Blacksmithology". LOL.

Oh I don't know George, I think we can wrangle you a Dr. of BS once we present your credentials.

Hmmmmm. Would that be a BSD?

Frosty

Curly, you are one sick puppy....

Frosty, I'll just bet you could. LOL. And Thomas, THANK YOU!! I'll take that as a compliment. LOL.

Floor? What is that? Anyone who's ever seen my mess will like the looks of your shop.

"Clean blacksmith shop." Ha!
There's one for the myth busters.

OR, one for the honey-do list...
"Honey, while I'm out shopping, I'd like it if you could do something with that blacksmith shop of yours"...

Good luck fellas. Dan:mad:

a clean shop is the sign of a sick mind!! but there are times when going out and puttering is by far safer than staying inside. My forge doubles as a "PMS" retreat center.

It's funny how everyone has a "dirty" shop, but is organized and when you clean it, you can't find anything. When I clean my shop I find production or efficiency increses, where as when I have a dirty shop, I have to dig to get items when I need them, because they are buried under tools.

It's funny how everyone has a "dirty" shop, but is organized and when you clean it, you can't find anything. When I clean my shop I find production or efficiency increses, where as when I have a dirty shop, I have to dig to get items when I need them, because they are buried under tools.

sounds like you have too much in your work area. what i do is i keep the tools that are most used close by, and less used farther and farther away. the stuff i very rarely use goes in a pile in the corner or in drawers, so i know if i dont use it often, im gonna have to dig for it. if i do use it often, it should be close by.

Thanks for the incentive curly. I think I will take the weekend and do the same.

My theory is:
If I walk on it all long enough.. it will press down and make a solid floor....
Eventually...

(nice shop)