Really I was just looking for a particular hand saw, started shifting stuff from a table in my workshop to a bench, and kept finding stuff from last summer, and parts to a project, and some stuff I am still stuck on.   I did find the saw though, glad none of you guys got this problem. 

At least you found the saw. I lost a pretty Disston 2 years ago and I don't have the slightest clue as to where the 'nice safe place' I put it might be. (was grandpa's)

*sigh*

Hard to tell how many? looks like 12?   (like counting beans in a bottle)

That is a pretty sexy pile

That must be the horizontal surface away from the door, where you carefully store the tools you'll deal with "fairly soon" (as opposed to the horizontal surface right close to the door, where you just put tools down for the moment, and will get *right back to them.* 

Not to be confused with the 'vertical storage' surfaces.
(Rusty is going to have a shelving emergency fairly soon, the cheapo stamped steel shelving is leaning about 9 inches to the right.....)

Quote from: rusty on September 29, 2012, 09:30:41 AM
.....the cheapo stamped steel shelving is leaning about 9 inches to the right.....)

LOL - I know this visual

Looks like your title should of read.


" I was digging thru my laundry and found some saws ".

they certainlly stored safe and free from outside pressures. I'll bet the big saws look like a country road   ,   bob e\w.

Quote from: rusty on September 29, 2012, 09:30:41 AM
(Rusty is going to have a shelving emergency fairly soon, the cheapo stamped steel shelving is leaning about 9 inches to the right.....)

My wife is particularly safety conscious.  (Moving to California has made her very earthquake aware.  Me?  Ho-hum.  I went through an 8.5 quake at the tender age of 4.)  Every tall shelf in the house is secured to a stud in the wall.  I got in the habit, and my cheapo pressed steel shelves got the same treatment.  They don't lean to the left, don't lean to the right, and they don't lean away from the wall.  Very quick fix.  Now about the 1/2 inch thick mdf shelves...  There's plywood in their future.

Quote from: Branson on September 30, 2012, 08:51:10 AM
....There's plywood in their future.

Last Spring the local bigbox hardware store put 3/4" cabinet grade pine on sale for $15/sheet.  I bought all I could afford and store properly.  Was finally was able to put up shelving in the workshop substantial enough for a pile of tools....."blocked, grooved, glued, and screwed" my elder brother said shaking his head at me.  I haven't crater'd a 36" x 12" span YET.

8^)

Quote from: scottg on September 30, 2012, 02:53:43 PM
8^)

LOL - I just knew this would happen when you came along :)