SHOW US YOUR MESSEIST GARAGE PICS

[Stoney]

Branson he must have seen my shop.  He wasn't from Alabama was he?  That reminds me of how my drafting instructor told us about, how they wrote dimension instructions, when he first came to Huntsville.  Before Dr. Von Braun came, Huntsville was a sleepy little cotton town and the machine shops mostly did automotive work.  They couldn't hold the close tolerances that the space industry needed.  My instructor said that they would write, "beat to shape, file to fit."

[kxxr]

I don't dare show the whole shop, but this is the 'recently acquired, unsorted pile', or one of them anyway. I especially like the PowerKraft box, the picture doesn't do it justice.

[RedVise]

Crapppy pics but you can see the "look" I was going for...

Bench with vises and plant and tools
Lets see, vises and tool boxes
misc tools
over all  view

So, I always feel better when I "straighten " out the garage, it's cheap theraphy to keep me happy. I find the more cluttered my garage is, the more cluttered my life is. My wife finds this a little strange, but has put up with it 32 years.

Brian L.

[Stoney]

RedVice, I can see clean floor space.

[Stoney]

Ok here's my shop'  I was sorting my tools when I had to have my operation and with this chest catheter I can't bend over.  Soooo I just have to wait for my son to come and play tools with me.


Horse/mule drawn IHC Fertilizer Knockerbox in the foreground with my blacksmith blower and cone mandrel in the background.

[Branson]

Stoney, that looks pretty familiar to me.   You got more wrenches, though.  A lot more wrenches.  I'm making up for that lack with hammers, saws, and axes.  I think I see a post drill in there.  Mine's still in storage, but my cone mandrel is taking up room, just like yours.  Not an easy thing to find, at least in California.

"beat to shape, file to fit."  With wood, it's cut to size, beat to fit.

RedVise -- I see floor. Kxxr -- I see so much bench that I can tell what kind of wood it is.

[Stoney]

Yes Branson there is a post vice there somewhere and a pair of rail carriers, 3 wooden toolboxes, a Snap-On bottom and 2 middle, Mac top boxes and maybe Jimmy Hoffa.  KatBird saw what I was posting and said your posting that!!!!!!!!!!