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spiritchsr1 -> Tool Inventory Is yours organized? (9/25/2008 10:29:49 PM)

Have you ever taken an inventory of all your tools by actually counting them and writing them down on paper? I tried this once several years ago. After writing down descriptions on 6 pages of paper i really became tired of it and never finished it.

This is good to do for insurance purposes. Or you can always take pictures of your tools, especially your power tools.

Spiritchsr1



John_O -> RE: Tool Inventory Is yours organized? (9/26/2008 9:04:59 AM)

That would require gathering them up from the multitide of places they are scattered to. I've been remodelling for close to 15 years so I have tools everywhere.

Although it would be a fun thing to do, If I could just find the time to do it.



buckifn -> RE: Tool Inventory Is yours organized? (9/26/2008 9:11:34 AM)

No..I'd have to wait for everybody to bring them back...and that would take a few years prob.!



janidhiro -> RE: Tool Inventory Is yours organized? (9/26/2008 12:04:41 PM)

No. This may lead to an actual acknowledgement of how many tools I have and may preclude my ability to buy more tools.



DaveW -> RE: Tool Inventory Is yours organized? (9/26/2008 12:27:56 PM)

No. I did have them physically organized in a closet size area under the stairs but that was taken over for storage last January and now I can't find anything.....



John_O -> RE: Tool Inventory Is yours organized? (9/26/2008 1:57:27 PM)

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ORIGINAL: janidhiro

No. This may lead to an actual acknowledgement of how many tools I have and may preclude my ability to buy more tools.


Excellent point. I'll have to remember that for when I remarry



spiritchsr1 -> RE: Tool Inventory Is yours organized? (9/26/2008 9:43:27 PM)

JohnO You must like to buy tools. My boss is like that at work. I work in the Maintenance Dept. He scatters the tools all over the place and then keeps going out and buys more.

I on the other hand have organized most of the tools in our workshop and put them in bin boxes on our shelves. I know where things are at and he usually come to me when he needs a tool. I drive him crazy because I organize everything.

I'm threatening to put the shelf boxes in alphabetical order next.

Spiritchsr1



denbert -> RE: Tool Inventory Is yours organized? (10/5/2008 6:47:03 PM)

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The last time I organized my tools, I couldn't find anything.



shoe -> RE: Tool Inventory Is yours organized? (10/5/2008 11:44:04 PM)

I like to think I have everything in its place in my garage. However, I must have gremlins or something, because when I start a project, I can't find anything for the first ten minutes! Sometimes it seems easier to spread everything out so I can see everything, then pick what I need to get the job done. Of course all the items must remain spread out just in case I need another tool, my wife just doesn't understand the concept.



denbert -> RE: Tool Inventory Is yours organized? (10/6/2008 6:01:17 AM)

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Yep, somehow you're suppose to be able to fix everything with an adjustable wrench and one screwdriver.



shoe -> RE: Tool Inventory Is yours organized? (10/6/2008 9:49:17 AM)

And duct tape. Maybe, some Super glue.



beauregarde -> RE: Tool Inventory Is yours organized? (10/6/2008 12:45:54 PM)

I'd have to inventory by floor, and by garage. I tend to leave a bucket of basics in the basement, the 2nd floor (in my closet to the wife's chagrin), and of course in the garage. It just make things simplier.



Jhud -> RE: Tool Inventory Is yours organized? (10/15/2008 8:44:34 PM)

I am slowly adding more marked out peg board that has a space for almost all my tools, then presumably when it is full, I will know all the tools I have. The operative word here would be when.



ffbruce -> RE: Tool Inventory Is yours organized? (10/15/2008 11:29:04 PM)

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ORIGINAL: denbert

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The last time I organized my tools, I couldn't find anything.

That's kinda where I'm at.

I can find my tools that I need. That's all that's important. [:D]



OneJohn410 -> RE: Tool Inventory Is yours organized? (10/16/2008 10:41:28 AM)

Wow! I thought you were talking home shop tools. Tools at work organized. I hope you have an unorganzed stash of some somewhere that no one else can appropriate. I would have a real fit if I needed something, someone had borrowed it from its bin, and it was no where to be found. The patience of Job fits in there somewhere.

By the time they are organized, several are needed for something, and when the job is done, they are needed somewhere else. It's a love the tool-hate looking for the thing-hate that it's not in its designated spot kind of thing. A bucket buddy tool saddle thing is a cool thin for an open-faced indoor tool bucket.
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ORIGINAL: spiritchsr1

JohnO You must like to buy tools. My boss is like that at work. I work in the Maintenance Dept. He scatters the tools all over the place and then keeps going out and buys more.

I on the other hand have organized most of the tools in our workshop and put them in bin boxes on our shelves. I know where things are at and he usually come to me when he needs a tool. I drive him crazy because I organize everything.

I'm threatening to put the shelf boxes in alphabetical order next.

Spiritchsr1



Blackrock -> RE: Tool Inventory Is yours organized? (10/24/2008 12:52:58 AM)

Let me see now, I have my tools out in my shop, enough to overhaul most anything or build a house, power tools, air tools and welding tools. There are my tools and gunsmithing stuff in my Man Cave in the house. Both my trucks have tool boxes with most of the basics. At work i have a complete set of mechanics tools in upper and lower boxes, on my Ford F550 service truck is yet another COMPLETE set of everything up to 2" sockets and wrenches plus a complete set of air tools and cordles drill as well as cordles 3/8" impact wrench. Four (4) different multimeters and other test equipment.

I do keep an inventory of my stuff at work for insurance purposes.



stamper_ben -> RE: Tool Inventory Is yours organized? (10/27/2008 12:46:02 PM)

Half the fun of working a project is looking for where the tools might be....

I did separate the metric from the SAE wrenches when I changed the starter in the car last weekend. Now I realize why I had jumbled them up. One of them toolboxes is really heavy now.



JoeyWest -> RE: Tool Inventory Is yours organized? (10/31/2008 12:27:14 PM)

I had that wrench here.




















no here.























I thought it was here!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



spiritchsr1 -> RE: Tool Inventory Is yours organized? (11/1/2008 7:36:08 AM)

Spiritchsr1 here aain,

Since I have organized all the tools at work in our shop It's working. My boss is actually starting to put things back. I think it's a breakthrough for him.

I scarf up the tools from him as soon as he brings them back from a project, or many times he now asks me to put the tools back. I have even got our janitor to mop the floor in our shop once a week. I usually help him with that.

We have three major peg boards. One for painting tools only, another for general tools such as screwdrivers, pliers, nut drivers and other light tools. The third one is for our heaverier tools and larger items such as hammers, squares, miter box, crowbars and any larger items .

The whole other wall consists of large deep shelving that was previously used for paper storage from the old company. Our free bin boxes come from the Home Depot Paint department. They just happen to fit perfect. I don't have to spend a dime for our bin boxes.



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