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Offline brooksbeefarm

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Do you have this problem?
« on: September 19, 2014, 11:19:27 am »
I can hardly move around in my work shop for the boxes and buckets full of scrap lumber. ??? I use to throw it in the trash barrel and burn it or start the wood stove in the shop, and before i know it i'm looking for a piece of lumber the size i just burned :o. So now i save any might be usable lumber, and i know i'll use it sometime, but in the meantime i have to work around it or look for the size i need. >:( Jack
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Re: Do you have this problem?
« Reply #1 on: September 19, 2014, 11:34:29 am »
Story of our lives Jack  ;)

But if it weren't for those hoarded nuts and bolts, scrap wood, dull screw drivers that still have some purpose, corks... corks?, odds and ends of rebar and pipes...  well hubby and I wouldn't be the fine inventive carpenters that we are today  ;)
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Re: Do you have this problem?
« Reply #2 on: September 19, 2014, 12:23:09 pm »
Half my basement, and three quarters of my honey shack are full of:
"just in case"'s and "you never know"'s.
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Re: Do you have this problem?
« Reply #3 on: September 19, 2014, 12:30:13 pm »
Exactly Perry  :)  You're working on some project at 10 at night, or 2 in the morning, and all the hardware stores are closed...
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« Reply #4 on: September 19, 2014, 01:34:41 pm »
Sort them by length and keep them flat so they don't warp.  I built the 10x10 "bee" shed with a good straight elevated floor and a good roof for lumber and boxes and whatnot, and keep the center of the floor clear for just this sort of thing.  Largest plywood on the bottom, and sort by size on the other stuff and lay it out, and when you get down to 6 inch pieces you bring the trash can over and it's the bin for them.
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Re: Do you have this problem?
« Reply #5 on: September 19, 2014, 04:25:16 pm »
Yea, right Gypsi, in my dreams., buy the way a 6 in board will make an entrance reducer for a five frame nuc, why would you throw that away. Jack :laugh: :laugh:
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Re: Do you have this problem?
« Reply #6 on: September 19, 2014, 04:34:28 pm »
Oh! You mean like these pieces   :)


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« Reply #7 on: September 19, 2014, 05:35:54 pm »
That's some good stuff right there!  :)
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Re: Do you have this problem?
« Reply #8 on: September 19, 2014, 05:41:01 pm »
Yup, I rifle thru these buckets for all kinds of reasons  :)
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« Reply #9 on: September 19, 2014, 05:56:53 pm »
anything over 6 inches will at least make an entrance reducer, those are all over 6 inches, and the bucket system works. Unless the pond crew swipes your buckets, which mine do
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Re: Do you have this problem?
« Reply #10 on: September 19, 2014, 06:03:16 pm »
Yes, I'm victim to hoarding a small amount of screws, nuts & bolts as well as a good sized pile of scrap wood.  Time was that I remembered where each nut and bolt came from (leftover from this project or that).  Seems there is a rhythm to saving, then using things around the house that will save a trip to town (35 miles and 70 minutes round trip).

After those things accumulate under foot to an intolerable level, I invariable discard something that would be useful the week after going out in the rubbish bin.  My biggest success in many years was using an aluminium plate in a project for the yard that was around in those reserve piles for nearly 40 years.....There was a perverse pleasure in having the piece on hand and not having to drive to town and pay an exhorbitant price for it.
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« Reply #11 on: September 19, 2014, 06:35:28 pm »
LBurou :occasion14:
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« Reply #12 on: September 19, 2014, 06:39:06 pm »
When our son and daughter come to visit with there family they always ask if i need help doing anything, but add, i'll help build fence, shovel manure or spread it, but i won't clean your shop :P. Jack
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« Reply #13 on: September 19, 2014, 06:46:01 pm »
That would be the same with my art room. I would just have to kill you!  :D
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« Reply #14 on: September 19, 2014, 07:43:08 pm »
on nuts bolts and screws I have a drawer sorter in the garage and a junk drawer with baby food jars in the house. periodically I go through the misc on my dresser, counter and workbench and "file" accordingly
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Re: Do you have this problem?
« Reply #15 on: September 19, 2014, 08:41:56 pm »
Well, I'm sorry, but I do not see it as a problem..   My wife DOES, but she has been wrong before, and will be wrong again, even if she will not admit it...

   She often complained about my truck parts on shelves or on the floor in the back of the store..  JUNK she calls it..   Threatened to clean it FOR me all the time....  could NOT see how it was ANYTHING other than GARBAGE taking up space....   Then I sold one of the 205 gear to gear transfer cases I had back there for 300 dollars.. and a good 700R4 for 200 dollars, and a good running 350 for 500 dollars all in one week.....  so I had a grand in my pocket...   OOOH buddy let me tell you how PO'd she was when I told her she couldnt have ANY of that money...
   Since then I have been rubbing it in...   My current truck Betty has a minor dent in the front bumper..  I point at it when we walk by...   Hey I have a like new bumper in the back of the store for that.. saved us 200 bucks!!
   My Alternator quit, so I told her I needed 130 bucks for a new one.. she whined and complained and grumped and drug her feet,, and eventually I got the money... then I handed it back to her and grabbed a good used alt off the shelf..
   A Deer ran into the side of my truck.. Told her a new fender would be about 100 bucks, plus paint etc...   she lifted an eyebrow and looked at me sideways...Have a fender already?   I nodded.. Yep...    She hasnt complained about my "stash" for a while...   
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Re: Do you have this problem?
« Reply #16 on: September 19, 2014, 09:06:34 pm »
LIKE!  ;D
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Re: Do you have this problem?
« Reply #17 on: September 20, 2014, 12:09:05 am »
geez, after reading this, i am happy that it's just not me with this 'problem'........... :D
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Re: Do you have this problem?
« Reply #18 on: September 20, 2014, 12:29:32 am »
And it's a part of our generation as well. Tin cans full of nails, and canning jars full of buttons  :)
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« Reply #19 on: September 20, 2014, 12:54:47 am »
My grandmother never threw out an article of clothing that still had a button on it. When she was giving up her apartment and my uncle was moving them, she sent me her sewing machine. And in the drawers were prescription bottles of buttons, lol.  My parents were users and discarders, I get my packrat gene from grandma!
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