Monday, November 21, 2005
Anyone Seen My Shrink Ray?
Winter is coming, so it's time to get the garage cleaned up. Time to get all the summertime gear stored away. It's amazing the amounts out shit I can amass over the summer. Now all I have to do is find some place to put it all. Today I cleared a bunch of shit out of the rafters. Who ever lived here before us decided it would be a good idea to cram a dozen sixteen foot long pieces of wood siding up on the cross members. Not a real good idea. You can put some stuff up there but not a lot of heavy shit. The guy must have had around 300 pounds of lumber stuffed up there.Getting rid of some of the wood gave me a chance to fire up my stove and check it out and make sure nothing weird happened over the summer. Like nesting birds. I caught one trying to nest in the top of the chimney late last spring. Not a good thing. Unless you like your sparrow eggs soft boiled. The paint on the stove hasn't really cured all the way, so it gives off a funky smell the first couple times I burn in it. I should be able to take care of that this winter though. I like to keep it warm in there, cause you never know when there will be the need for some emergency "garage hiney".
This is the first place that I've lived with a functional garage. A place where you can actually drive a car into it. My parents garage is always packed to gills with shit that they will never use and about fifty boxes of crushed soda cans is F-shaped trial that you have to walk in, which is annoying. Maybe some day I'll get my other truck out of there. I think some day is still quite a ways off.
The task of cleaning the garage is always a pain in the ass. First you have to move most of the shit out of the way. Toss all the crap you don't need figure out how your going to get all that shit back in there worst is when you get it all out and look in and see all this extra room, and then you turn around to see that your driveway is overflowing into the yard.
I think the biggest problem I have is all the large items I have. Stuff like five 33" mud tires, an engine hoist, a 3,000 pond pneumatic lift, an engine analyzer, an air compressor, a 12 ton shop press, 6' tall roll away tool chest, a lawnmower, a snow blower, and a 4' long workbench. Add to this one car and all the odds and ends on the shelves and that pretty much fills the two car garage. There is also the fact that I have to keep all of this at least 3 or 4 feet from the stove.
The tires I don't really need anymore, but I have yet to get rid of them. The little voice in my head keeps telling me that the rims cool and the tires still have some miles in them. The engine hoist...with the vehicles I drive you just never know when you will need that. That's another thing I forgot about. I have three more engines and two transmissions at other peoples garages. I think I need to come up with some storage solutions, buy a shed next summer, or have less shit to store. Yeah, something tells me that the latter will never happen. I'm like a squirrel hoarding away supplies for future use. Just if I could only remember where I put things next spring.
greasemonkey1320 at 4:11 AM
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at 6:33 AM
Katy Barzedor said... If you're gonna have emergency garage hiney, I don't know if it's a good idea to get rid of your wood, if you know what I'm sayin'...
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at 10:42 PM
Zombie_Flyboy said...
Somehow, I don't think running out of wood is going to be a problem in that garage Bucky.