Made a set of steel racks for over the third garage door. This is to get the assorted pile off of the garage floor. Now steel on the top rack, pipe and conduit on the second rack, and lumber on the lower. It may not be so easy to pull down what I need but the floor pile was no better and always in the way.
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Found some oak I'd forgotten I even had!
Every little bit helps. like you said might be awakard to get to, but now you know what you have, where it is, and the forrs space available to work with. Dad's been doing the same stuff with his shop for the past few months, something he could get out and work on a little between chemo treatments. Has made a huge difference. That's where I'm going to be doing my upcoming V8 swap and its hard to believe that I'm actually going to have room to move around the vehicles. I've done all major engine work in the same shop and it's always been a pig path shuffling around what ever I'm working on due to the stuff piled up around the sides.
It's a 15x30 pad that he had a 15x30 shop around for most of my life. Most of that time there was just enough room to park most of a Ranger in there, by most I mean the back tires were on the ground outside, and literally shuffle sideways down the sides. One time (or maybe two?) it was cleaned out enough to get a whole 84 long bed Ranger in there and close the doors to paint it, but that didn't last long. Around 8 years ago he tore down that building and had a much larger metal building erected. Center part is a little larger than the pad, and it has a 10 foot wide lean-to off each side. It was still so packed in that working space was about the same. Was over there earlier and I can almost park the F-250 in there with room to work on all sides. Only thing that would make it better would be having it at my house, or having him feeling well enough to help me on the projects. Hopefully both will happen soon, but not likely in time for the next one.
Sorry for rambling.
EDIT: and in spirit of the thread...
Today I went to work (for employer) and went to work (on my stuff). Eight long hours of telling people that I can't give them an estimated delivery date for parts that they never ordered, and trying to explain that, in the world of government airplanes, I can't order parts for an airplane if those parts are not listed in the technical data. Then I got to swing by the parents house and actually accomplish something on the parts truck, but details for that probably belong in the other thread.