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Jul 21st, 2025 | | | | Joined: Apr 2004 Posts: 5,139 Authorized Pest | | Authorized Pest Joined: Apr 2004 Posts: 5,139 | Man, I just had to stop in the middle of my Gallery stuff to post this. I started to do it last week, but I thought perhaps it was just a fluke. Do you all REALLY have such CLEAN garages? Man, I have never seen such neat, clean (and sometimes almost empty) garages as I have in the last few weeks. Most of the image is cropped out so you've missed out on the "big picture" here. And then over the weekend, we went to an ATHS picnic and the fellow is building a garage that looks like it'll be the size of his house. Even with a great view of the pond. Quite impressive! It's a job keeping our car garage neat and keeping the stuff that doesn't belong there ... O U T :rolleyes: . The '49's home is pretty full of stuff (including the second '49 in pieces). It's as neat as we can stuff it. Certainly doesn't look like the photos I've seen lately. So, I just finished txpete\'s tri-fecta (he got his third '58) ... and man, another clean and neat garage. I am impressed. So ... now that I've got that out of my head, I'll get back to the gallery pile! Cheers, Peg
~ Peggy M 1949 Chevrolet 3804"Charlie" - The Stovebolt FlagshipIn the Gallery || In the Gallery Forum"I didn't see this one coming. I don't see much of anything coming. :-O" | | | | | Joined: Jul 2005 Posts: 1,158 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Jul 2005 Posts: 1,158 | Nah... We just move all of the crap over on top of the tractor for when we take shots of our trucks...  | | | | | Joined: May 2004 Posts: 920 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: May 2004 Posts: 920 | It takes my wife just a few days to pack our garage with junk we don't use anymore. I clean it, get rid of stuff. She shops, and fills it with junk again. And the cycle just keeps going...Maybe if I stuff the shelves with empty boxes, she'll think it's full! | | | | | Joined: May 2006 Posts: 63 Member | | Member Joined: May 2006 Posts: 63 | I heard that Big...
Every time I clean out the garage, the wife decides its time to clean house. And guess what?
The crap she doesn't want ends up in my garage!
'67 Chevy C-10 283/350 | | | | | Joined: Jul 2005 Posts: 308 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Jul 2005 Posts: 308 | I cleaned my garage this weekend and pulled my truck in and started taking things apart. I was able to take up the space before the wife got home from shopping.(not that she could park in before the cleaning or anything)
Ed | | | | | Joined: Sep 2003 Posts: 324 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Sep 2003 Posts: 324 | Everyone needs a land fill and the garage is mine. You never know when you will need something. (If you can find it)
Tom | | | | | Joined: Feb 2006 Posts: 1,867 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Feb 2006 Posts: 1,867 | Ive got a tiny 2 car garage. Against 1 wall is a 56 gmc cab on a dolly stuffed with parts, next to its a 72 cab on a dolly waiting to be worked on. Above the garage door is shelving I built to hold parts, 4' deep across the entire width of the garage w/only a foot of clearence to the ceiling. My tools/shelves take up the other wall and my 53 takes up the rest of my garage space... I really have to suck in my stomach to move around! Outside in the carport is the 72 frame and behind it is the 41 with the last 12' of frame sticking out into the weather. Wonder what its like to have space??? I cant remember... We have no room. But I stay busy! Oh yeah I sneak her stuff back into the house and have about a months reprieve before she finds it again!  Jeff | | | | | | Anonymous Unregistered | | Anonymous Unregistered | 2 years ago I got an empty 25'x50'steel building and a 53'4400.I'm STILL rearanging things and building storage shelves,racks,and even rooms!I'm getting ready to build an office/breakroom(really just a place where I can live when Jen is mad at me)and upgrade the electrical situation.I'm such a packrat that I will take apart broken lamps to save spare parts :o ,sooner or later I'll have a use for it.Everything I've built for my shop is recycled and I'm always getting more. | | | | | Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 6,383 Ex Hall Monitor | | Ex Hall Monitor Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 6,383 | Clean garage....isn't that an oxymoron? Kinda like diet icecream or military intelligence.
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| | | | | Joined: Mar 2004 Posts: 3,068 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Mar 2004 Posts: 3,068 | My wife is impressed with the way I keep my shop. She only wishes I would do the same in the house,
Scott | | | | | Joined: Mar 2006 Posts: 483 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Mar 2006 Posts: 483 | If your garage and or shop is clean,there ain't no work going on... | | | | | Joined: Dec 2001 Posts: 14,522 Moderator: Welcome Centre, Southern Bolters, Legion Hall | | Moderator: Welcome Centre, Southern Bolters, Legion Hall Joined: Dec 2001 Posts: 14,522 | My wife stays out of my shop and I stay out of hers......which is the kitchen | | | | | Joined: Apr 2005 Posts: 345 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Apr 2005 Posts: 345 | My garage has a big "B" in the middle of it, (as in garBage). I'm working on it though. | | | | | Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 3,374 Moderator - The Electrical Bay | | Moderator - The Electrical Bay Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 3,374 | I've got too much JUNK.. i've got boxes that havent been unpacked in 10 years or more!!!
I was able to spread it out between the two garages tho, so it looks neater than it actually is...
Another quality post.
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| | | | | Joined: Jul 2006 Posts: 149 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Jul 2006 Posts: 149 | Remember folks........
A clean shop?? is a sign of a SICK mind.....
Michael
\'48 chev 2-ton boom truck (Boomer) '49 Chev 2-ton flat bed '65 Chev 35ft school bus '88 GMC 6500 '72 Superior 26ft class "A" coach '50 Farmall "M" '71 MGB GT '68 Austin-Healey Sprite '65 Austin-Healey Sprite and various other odd British cars and lots of old radios..... Although we know what the speed of light is..... What I want to know is... How fast is the speed of DARK??
| | | | | Joined: Feb 2005 Posts: 469 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Feb 2005 Posts: 469 | Who wants to waist all that time sweeping. Ten years from now who is going to care if your shop was clean but all the neat stuff you built will last for ever. Work now leave the mess for your kids to clean up when you die. | | | | | Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 442 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 442 | Luckily I have a 3rd garage, attached, which I use for the shop area, and the 2 car garage hold my wife's car and the '50.. hopefully the next house, if we build one, will have a large seperate shop, complete with 220V service, refrig, and all the toys nessacary!! | | | | | Joined: Apr 2006 Posts: 21 Apprentice | | Apprentice Joined: Apr 2006 Posts: 21 | You are all lucky. My garage is about 10x20. With all my tools, I can't even fit my truck in it to work. The front end of my 68 is stacked next to the garage and looks like modern art. I spend most of my time in the sun,wind, rain, cold depending on the day of the week.
MACZ
| | | | | Joined: Mar 2002 Posts: 9,112 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Mar 2002 Posts: 9,112 | A buddy of mine at work used to say that " a clean desk is a sign of a sick mind". Going with that theme on the garage, I don't have a sick mind! | | | | | Joined: Apr 2006 Posts: 273 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Apr 2006 Posts: 273 | What's a clean garage? What does one look like?
| | | | | Joined: Mar 2005 Posts: 92 Wrench Fetcher | | Wrench Fetcher Joined: Mar 2005 Posts: 92 | Originally posted by Beaver 53:
If your garage and or shop is clean,there ain't no work going on... If you only knew how much gets done! I stay organized as I work, Scott | | | | | Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 272 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 272 | I just sold my truck and cleaned my garage.
Pics in my link below. | | | | | Joined: Jul 2005 Posts: 308 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Jul 2005 Posts: 308 | Looks awfully naked without a truck parked in it but clean.
Ed | | | | | Joined: Sep 2005 Posts: 191 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Sep 2005 Posts: 191 | I guess when I get my truck freed up where it'll move easily, I'll put it in the barn. Then I can show you guys what a dirty shop really is, dirt floor and all. I might have to get some rolls of plastic from Wal mart so I can block off the wind this winter LOL. Truckernix, your GMC looks like it was about like my 51. I think I'm gonna look around and try to find a more solid cab off a big bolt, seems most of them are alot less rusty around here than their smaller brothers. | | |
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