I am just wiped out today.
I near kilt myself yesterday hauling and moving stuff in, out and around that garage.
I didn’t get everything put back until 11 o’clock last night when I finally shut the garage door.
No lunch, no dinner, just breaking my back.
My lower back is completely fried and my legs feel like I walked twenty miles.
First thing was taking the tarp off the Sprite and getting it started.
I put the trickle charger on it a couple of times last week just for fun.
It cranked over quite a bit, it’s been sitting since last Summer but eventually it fired up and ran again.
The throwout is squealing and the valves still need adjusting but it still runs and drives.
Then the real fun began.
I started hauling crap out of the garage into the driveway so I could get that massively heavy work bench out so I could get it mounted on a cart frame I got from work.
You can see that work bench there in the middle.
Sweet Jesus what a pain.
I didn’t take pictures of the process because I was too pissed off and just wanted to get it done but at one point it got away from me when I had one end picked up with the cherry picker and was trying to use a floor jack and a board to pick up the other end so I could take the huge crappy wheels off of it and roll the cart under it and the damn thing flipped over upside down into the driveway.
The driveway is sloped and the whole show kept rolling down hill.
It took me an hour to get the damn thing flipped back over by myself.
It’s gotta weigh 250 pounds easy.
It finally wound up with the cherry picker trapped sideways up against the tailgate of the truck and the end of the table jammed up against it too so it couldn’t roll away anymore.
Then I was able to lift the back and roll the cart under the back.
Then set it down on one end and let the other end down onto the tailgate so I could get the cherry picker out of the way, roll the cart under the legs, center it and then push the whole mess back uphill to get the end of the table off the tailgate and let it drop down onto the cart.
Then let it roll back against the tailgate so I could weld the feet onto the cart.
That table top is 1/2 inch steel plate.
Heavy?
Holy shit is it heavy.
That table is stout enough to sit that Sprite on though.
Then I had to rearrange the garage to make room for it.
Oof.
I forgot how heavy that Snap On Roll Away is.
Because at 10’Oclock at night when I was trying to get the crap out of the driveway and back into the garage, it’s still a mess.
But I will be going through and getting rid of a bunch of crap.
The back of the truck is already full.
It’s not exactly what I wanted but it’s a start.
I need more horsepower to get the rest of it moved around.
I want to get my tool boxes off the wall and out of the corner so I can get to them and move the cabinets back in there.
I am somewhat happier though.
As soon as I can move without yelping like an old arthritic dog, I’ll head back out there and start straightening things up and getting shit off the floor so I can get around better.
It’s a mess like I said but there is so much more potential and eventually it will be much easier to work in.
That table is going to be a game changer.
As long as it doesn’t turn into a Catch All.
Like that will never happen.
LMAO!
how many times a year do you do this Phil?
At least twice.
Normally I’m not moving the tool boxes.
Because it’s a major pain and they are completely full and VERY heavy.
Holy crap. I couldn’t deal with the stress of having all that stuff and the possibility of getting the boot because it’s a rental. You have my respect.
As a matter of fact, that is exactly how we wound up here in the first place. Got a call out of the blue giving us 30 days to get out because he was getting divorced and his bitch wife wanted the place.
With a little help and a liftgate box truck I could have it empty in one day.
Throw it in storage until I found a new place to put it.
PODS is your friend!
You need a 40 x 70 garage for everything. Yeah, I know you know that. So do I. chuckling
At my parents house make that late parents, I had a 28 by 36 Workshop. That wound up into three, 10×30 storage rooms they took me 2 months to empty. I also inherited half of my step dad stuff so now I have a 24×40 basement full 22×24 garage and I feel your pain every time I try to move to get to something. When us old farts decide to clean and move junk around and out, the women folk of the family usually are nowhere to be found. They have been waiting for this day for years and don’t want to interfere. Good luck remember to stretch before you move the heavy stuff, it really does help.
Damn son… you are too old and decrepit to be doing young buck work! You are gonna feel it come this week… too bad ya couldn’t have waited until the end of the month and have me help ya! I could have stayed a day or two longer to straw boss a project like that.
I think I got it figured out. All your shit is in there fucking, making more and more shit. Maybe if you stopped carrying stuff to the dump they would feel crowded and stop?
You need more stuff and I can help.
Shut your trap, go away! Phil doesn’t need outside help, he does well on his own…. {sarc}
when I made the retirement move to the mountains, I had to give up a LOT of stuff.
metal cabinets with tons of drawers in them built to outlast a nuke even.
lots of steel metal stock, woodworkers bench I made out of rock maple back in the 1980’s even. then there are your “helpers” when moving that sometimes help themselves to things. as a few of them where related, I let it go.
anymore, I just glad I have left what I have. never doing that again.
on the other hand, there are a few things I sure I never going to use again, so they go on craigslist here soon to get some cash and stock the shelfs a bit more.
I don’t really need a spot welder and fender tongs or 2 mig welders anymore
sold the concrete mixer 2 weeks ago inside of a day (?) old school one, lots of cast iron in it. got my asking price too after he looked it over.
damn thing was made back in the early 1960’s at least, I owned it for close to 30 years and poured a lot of concrete with it. with even half assed care the damn thing will last another 30 or more years
sorting thru your stuff, is one of the hardest things I found. seems like 2 weeks after whatever is gone, you find you need the damn thing.
you might want to keep the sprite the way things are going. good gas mileage I bet, YOU can work on it too. another big plus.
just figure out a way to haul more stuff with it ?
Not pickin’ on you Phil, “But I will be going through and getting rid of a bunch of crap”. if it’s crap why’s it there in the first place? ;-))
You must be from the same hoarder school as I am. “I might need that sometime”.
I think that comes from parents who grew up during the Depression. Their parents never threw anything away either.
I will attest to that. My folks taught us children (mostly by example) and it sure will come in handy Real Soon Now…
Is there a Tool Collectors Anonymous ??… You know, something like Alcoholics or Gamblers Anonymous
It’s called Swap Meet…
😆
Careful on the lifting Phil, I did the same last Thursday straining some chest and back muscles and went to the hospital Friday but it was a false alarm. Clownworld hospital could not figure it out for 2 fucking days they wanted me to stay 2 extra days till I figured out they did not have the exam crew available till tuesday due to holiday weekend. I said some things to them and they called the crew in and nothing burger. The doc’s were cardiologists as well. FUCKERS
You find Jimmy Hoffa in there yet?
Might be easier to get a pricing gun and a couple of garage sale signs for next time. A lot less chit to put back that way! 😜