Grunge Garage

[Red Leader]

Originally Posted by bczygan

More progress:
Photos of stuff I forgot I had:









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Hey! I think I have that same Craftsman tool kit! It has been GREAT over the few years I've owned it, and a nice start to a good tool collection

[1991Syclone]

If any of that wood is usable instead of cutting it up and putting it into the dumpster, take it to habitat for humanity and see if they'll take it. Never know, you might help someone else out. Just a thought.

[JC23]

If you want to keep that lumber, think about a rack that hangs from the ceiling. I can post a pic if'n you need to see mine.

[bczygan]

Originally Posted by 1991Syclone

If any of that wood is usable instead of cutting it up and putting it into the dumpster, take it to habitat for humanity and see if they'll take it. Never know, you might help someone else out. Just a thought.

Stuff I'm throwing out is basically firewood..............hey, we're going camping. I should bundle some of it up.

[bczygan]

Originally Posted by JC23

If you want to keep that lumber, think about a rack that hangs from the ceiling. I can post a pic if'n you need to see mine.

What I have now is a jury rigged one. I want to get it all out of there and open up the space. If it needs re-acclimating I can bring a few sticks in at a time for that. Show me your rack anyway!

[Marmaduke]

Pull it all out into the driveway or lawn very early Saturday am and garage sale it all as you sort stuff back in. You would be surprised you could easily get $2000.00 from the sale to buy something you could use better. My garage if full of crap I don't want anymore but to good to garbage it.

[bczygan]

Wed., Aug 17 Progress:

No photos yet. Spent yesterday evening getting the Astro towed with flat and no spare to a tire store. This morning got up early to take wife to work and go get 2 crappy Kennedy boxes for $10 each. Back home and take care of 4 dogs. Back out to get small beat up C'man 2 drawer and storage roller and 4 drawer top box for $30. Picked up wife from work, went and got van and ogled the SO boxes the techs had and ate dinner. Just finished an hour of pulling more boards and trim out and now have a big stack of lumber on 2 sawhorses by the front walk. Gotta cover with a tarp as rain expected tonight.Done Brought 3 empty dumpsters in ready to fill. Will sweep 6x6 cleared area in the garage!Done Stated setup by putting C'man stack in there. Photos to come later. Starting to look promising.....

Tomorrows (And a few more day's) goals:
Pick up and sort sweeping piles
Clear path to back vestibule
Clean out corner of garage for staging area for tools.
Bring small tool boxes from back yard and living room to garage.
Start bringing tools from living room and front entry/stair to clear that area for easy passage.
Keep bringing trim out to lumber pile.
Bring out balustrade
Keep sorting boxes and filling dumpsters
Move stack of lumber to back yard and find shed to store in or lumber stack to add to.

[Sriracha Me]

Hey,

I can easily relate to you and understand you.

http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/s...d.php?t=112940

Take it one step at a time with a helping hand.

[bczygan]

Originally Posted by Sriracha Me

Hey,

I can easily relate to you and understand you.

http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/s...d.php?t=112940

Take it one step at a time with a helping hand.

It's good to know there are others like me who have succeeded! Thanks.

[RobSmith]

Shame it's a two storey building set-up. If it was a separate building I would suggest setting a fire and letting it clean the lot out in one go !

[bgarrett]

Originally Posted by bczygan

See an explanation of why I used the Confederate Battle Flag as an avatar: HERE

My former avatar (Confederate Battle Flag):

That is NOT a Confederate Battle Flag.
Stop spreading false information. Our Battle Flag is square

[bczygan]

OK, here are photos as of noon on Thursday the 18th of August. Just 3 or 4 short work periods stretched over the same number of days and it is looking like a garage will emerge. A little worried about where all the lumber will go, but as I clean out sheds, it will find a place.

Start of the lumber pile


Some of the tools that will get out of the living room and entry and go in the garage. Microwave will go into kitchen and it will get a remodel.:


Porter Cable pancake compressor (Trip over it as I come in the house).:


HF service cart and 13 drawer roller will go into garage and free up living room for???


Fridge in living room will go out and newer one on the front walk will go in kitchen.


File cabinet on front porch will go in garage for tool storage. Fridge on front walk will have doors removed to bring it in.


Three photos of the wood pile I have brought out of the garage and a photo of 2 trailers in front of the Airstream. One with tarp is an M416 with insulation in it. It will go out to the property once I use up the insulation for the shop I'm gonna build. The other, a 67' Apache Mesa, is for sale for $500 ($400 to GJ members).








C'man stack I got for $20. Beat up and needs repair but will hold some tools.


Still more lumber to pull out, but you can see the lathe now.


One of 2 $10 Kennedy boxes I picked up yesterday:


5 photos of the garage. Still lots of stuff to pull out. Lots to sort and dispose of and clean and organize. I find that writing and photographing this helps me to think about and focus on what I'm doing. I have your voices in my ear saying "Throw it out".









Last photo show a couple of spots of floor. Hope to make it a trend.


1:00
Time to go out and do some more work!!!

[scootr14]

Calm down bgarrett, the early battle flags were mostly square, but rectanglular ones were also issued and used during battles.

[bczygan]

Originally Posted by scootr14

Calm down bgarrett, the early battle flags were mostly square, but rectanglular ones were also issued and used during battles.

True.
I would like to get a photo of A.P. Hills flag as My g grandfather was in his corps.

[Boiler]

I used to have a small pile of 2x4's, trim, etc in my garage. No more. A lot of it ends up being a mishmash of a bunch of types that aren't going to be used together, so even if you can use it later, you only use one or two items out of a pile.

I would recommend you STOP handling things 3-4 times. Put the wood where it is going to go for good. The extra steps are going to burn you out, you've got a lot of work to do and you don't want to make it worse.

Is there any possibility you can ditch the contents of one shed, and then make it the woodshed? Then anything that won't fit in there, you don't save it.

Keeping those piles of wood are just a killer because they're so difficult to move / work around.

Also, there is no way I'd be attacking this with garbage cans and cutting stuff up to go in it. You need a real 12' or longer dumpster so that you can make some real headway.

Finally, be careful looking to some of these guys for advice. No offense guys but a lot of y'all can't throw anything out. This is such an extreme case that he needs to have a big change, and completely learn to minimalize the stuff. Saving mayo jars full of mixed hardware and PB jars of plugs that came with hydraulic hoses is the kind of thing that leads to this problem.

[Thumper]

....DAMN..........keep it up...your doing great...

[Nighttrain]

Great progress! But you just brought home two more tool boxes... I have had a difficult time going to garage sales because I wanted to buy anything that seemed like a great deal. Thats why I dont go to them anymore until my garage is completly cleaned and ready for it. Keep up the work you are doing great.

[rickairmedic]

Looking good BC . I got motivated last weekend to get my garage back " again " when we lost power due to a storm for 3 days . I had nothing better to do no TV or internet to bogg me down . I am working out placement of stuff now ( sitting area metal working tools area ) . I will get some pics in the next few days to update my thread . I will have to agree with the others as to tossing stuff . I have found that I come from a long line of hoarders and I have crap stacked up in here that neeeds to find its way out for good . SWMBO doesnt help either as she loves saving wood .


Rick

[bczygan]

Working on stuff today. Went through 3 more piles of wood and separated boards from trim. Found 8 pieces of crown molding 16' long! Found a 6/4 x 8" x 6' board of walnut!
Pulled it all out along with some concrete form boards. Put the second Kennedy box in there.
One of the next things I want to do is to clean a path out the back vestibule and door to the back yard. Then I can take things straight out there without storing them in the front yard first. I can also start bringing in the C'man tool chests from under tarps in the back yard. Going to do more work and take more photos.....

Bill (Cleaning up in Detroit)

[Dennis Cavallino]

It's worth a beer or two that you can actually see the floor now. Keep up the good work.