Thread: How untidy/disorganized is your workshop?

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Well Guys, I would like to believe we all get too busy to tidy up,pick up the tools, sweep the floor because at the end of the day, we are having too much fun building our latest rod and there is always the next project waiting in the corner. I have a friend who,will remain nameless for obvious reasons, must have the most clutted workshop in the whole universe, but in his defence, the workshop is full of NOS, (neat old shit) yeps, stock. In the only photo I will post, you may identify one or two classics under construction. The most obvious is the steel 32 5 window coupe,directly behind that is a 39 Mercury 4 door, next is an early 50's Plymouth 4 door tudorised,chopped channelled and customized and in the corner is a early Corvette. Above on the shelving is a front engine rail, 28 Model A steel Roadster and other bits and pieces wait to be built. The next time I visit I will try and sneek some more photos. Have a laugh any way.

Got to many cars and to many tools and want more more more! My three/four car is getting real crowded. Time to add on.

Keith

I used to be really bad about keeping my workshop neat - then I've had to move. Several times, with another coming. I've sold many "treasures", I've given others away, and even worse, taken some to either a land fill or scrap dealer. Occasionally I visit the local town park which was created by fill dirt on top of the trash and garbage where all my flathead and 'Y' block engines and parts are interred. I do have to say though, my collection never arrived at the state shown in the picture though my last house had a large basement shop, a 30x40 pole barn shop as well as a separate garage that were filling as rapidly as the attached 2 car garage. . Never again - I have been 'cured'(to a point)

Mines cramed full, this is only half the otherside has my 30sedan In my make shift paint booth doing body work and there is some outside

Originally Posted by IC2

I've sold many "treasures", I've given others away, and even worse, taken some to either a land fill or scrap dealer.

I can identify with everything you say, Dave.

How is my shop? TERRIBLE!

It was bad enough before we moved into a nicer but smaller place. Now the situation may be hopeless.

I own one of just about everything ever made, but now I can't find a blasted thing until I no longer need it. I even lost my drill press for a while (the moving guys had laid it on its side and stacked a bunch of boxes in front of it).

This is a sad situation for an admitted pack rat to be in.

Do I have any recourse? I'd go re-enlist in the Navy but I'm told they're not taking guys in their late seventies theses days.



Jim

every time i get my area of the garage organized and clean either my hubby or my sons trash it. i have started throwing their things out into the back yard. it is starting to look like a scene from sandford and son back there. i just give up. lol

How untidy/disorganized is your workshop?

In a word: Very.

And that's about all I'm gonna say on that.

Hey Pro53 you got a clean workshop man,One could eat their lunch off the floor, it is that clean and I like the fact that you can still walk around your parts with ease and I will compliment you on the use of dust covers over things. Very tidy

Abit of and update on the messy workshop. The '33 pickup has become driveable but by no mean finished. The seats that are on top of the 5 window coupe are out of a theatre that was demolished in LA and Steve scored for his truck. It is running a Corvette 283 ,4 speed and '39 ford diff. Steve dislikes the ratrod terminology and the pickup will have a bright shiny paint etc. when completed. I also only discovered yesterday that hidden in front of the plymouth is a steel '29 A Cabriolet, and I forgot to take my camera, not that I would of been able to get to it. Must remember camera for next visit...

No matter how we try to keep ours organized it keeps getting trashed. Dan and I spent two weeks reorganizing it......moved all the dirt-making equipment to one area (drill presses, grinders, bandsaws, etc) and all the clean stuff to another area (sheet metal brake, vice, tool boxes, etc) We even turned all the cars lengthwise and scrubbed the floor with dish detergent. It lasted about a week or two and now it needs a good cleaning again.

For a while we were pretty good about cleaning up our messes before we quit for the night, but lately we have been slipping again. I feel sorry for Don, his part of the shop is very organized and Dan and my stuff bleeds over into his section. Before he comes over every Monday night we have to scramble to clean his section so we don't get our butts chewed out.

I've really got to try harder to keep it better.

Don

Hey Don, I think you three are so lucky to have such a excellent working relationship to be able to share the workshop space. I know how hard it is to keep your space clean and I was taught too many years ago as an apprentice panelbeater that at the end of the working day ALL tools etc had to be picked up and placed in it's correct place and the floor swept to enable a clean prompt start the next day. I haven't mentioned yet and was going to wait until I could get some photos, is that my friend also has a roadster pickup parked in front of the 5 window that your son would be keen to see. It is so low, has nailhead motor with 6 x97's auto and quick change. Plus approximately 8 vehicles outside awaiting his attention.

Do I know this GREEDY person Whiplash???

Well Robin here is some clues, his first name I have already mentioned, secondly, a very early member of NZ's first hotrod club,(Auckland) but now a member of Manukau R & C C. but also been a member of Oceanside pre 49 club, Thirdly,his brother is a member of the Scroungers and also your old club, Forthly, has owned some early historic NZ rods,( Furnies T, Stormbringer, (which was then butched by the next owner, his nephew) to name two, about your age and like you, just a very quiet allround good guy. I should list some of his outside undercover waiting patiently for his attention, but I leave just encase he reads this site. His main problem is that he buys stuff for no other reason than " I didn't have one of those but now I do!!"

Originally Posted by Whiplash23T

Well Robin here is some clues, his first name I have already mentioned, secondly, a very early member of NZ's first hotrod club,(Auckland) but now a member of Manukau R & C C. but also been a member of Oceanside pre 49 club, Thirdly,his brother is a member of the Scroungers and also your old club, Forthly, has owned some early historic NZ rods,( Furnies T, Stormbringer, (which was then butched by the next owner, his nephew) to name two, about your age and like you, just a very quiet allround good guy. I should list some of his outside undercover waiting patiently for his attention, but I leave just encase he reads this site. His main problem is that he buys stuff for no other reason than " I didn't have one of those but now I do!!"

Sounds like little Timmys uncle....,but I wont mention his name....
In regards to the workshop cleanliness,hmmm..Workshops tidy,not a lot happening in there the last week or so,,been out doing a bit elsewhere,the top shed is clean on one side,reorganised on the other,to work on the Cusso,and a Kenworth front coming in a day or so for a repair,so,will take some pix of the new mess about ot happen...

You can go straight to the top of the class Robin. Yes you have probably spent time discussing the joys of building hot rods with Steve at your old club.