A few weeks ago, before I went on vacation, I took the time on a Sunday to tear down some shifty looking wooden racking at the back of my garage. It was hastily erected by the previous owner/Tennant and it was making me nervous to work under. So four hours later I had the shelves emptied, and all the plywood & two by fours, and old unfastened posts disassembled and on the floor. My pile to go north to burn has grown considerably. But! The new 90″ by 90″ five shelf rack has been built and I may have miscalculated a little bit. Oops.
Mind you the space is cleaner, I did regain open floor space, and I managed to get 95% of what I needed put up and away onto it. I have several hours of fine tuning to do to it all though. I’m not certain that how I have things arranged are the best they could be. I knew going in I just had to block stuff out and then revisit to clean up, and optimize the space. The hard part is done. Fine tuning can happen over the preceding weeks or months. I’m not too concerned.
I would like to reorganize my wood selections a bit better too. That’s a heavy job with a lot of lifting, so I need to think that through first, as I don’t wish to brute force it, and wind up doing it three or four times before I get it right.
I managed to cut down all of the cardboard into manageable pieces that the recycling guys will take away. I need to fill a garbage back with dust & debris to go out next week too. So after all is said and done the shop is a little cleaner, and I need to find a way to store a few more long tools, and I’m all set. Nice.
It was a big task to undertake, and I’m glad that the bulk of the job is done. Fine tuning in a semi heated shop should be a far more pleasant experience moving forward. I have my larger heater, and fuel, and batteries now. Ready to heat the space to a more reasonable temperature. The old wreck of a rack was torn down, and is no longer an eyesore to look at every time I go into the garage. I swept the floors that hadn’t been touched in more than a decade. And I have open air space above my work bench for longer pieces of wood to not snag, and I have more open floor to walk around in too. It does come with the drawback of being different, and requiring a better storage/wood management system, but I’m good with positive changes like that. If I need to purge a little bit more, so be it! Once I get those off cuts up north to be burned it will feel like a whole new maximized space to work in! Glorious. And a long time coming too.
I thought that it would for sure take me until April to start this project, and here I am, not even March yet, and I can start the fine tuning portion. Amazing! Really — it is. I hate having a big project on my mind weighing down on my shoulders. Get into it, make some headway. It doesn’t have to be CO.pleted in a day, but if you put in the hours, you will get someplace better. And for me, that was replacing those wonky donkey wooden racks. They were so unsafe. So very unsafe. I trusted them well beyond what I should have. So unbelievably unsafe to work around, under, or on. Yikes. But not anymore! I’ll take a picture once I get things sorted out a bit more.
Ciao Bella!
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