how often do you clean your shop?

[Fred West]

Alright let's start with reality. Neither the scooba nor anything else will help what comes out of my nose.   Poto, I was pretty sure you were not invertebrate if you came from the pre-cambrian. So why would you need a roomba, scooba or anything as I assume you just slither along the floor and clean it up that way.   ;D

I have five dogs and the scooba could not begin to keep up with them.   Poto, I too have a hard time with throwing away cutoffs. It absolutely drives me crazy yet I cannot stand to throw away what could be though never is the perfect piece.  

So, I stick to just using the ole shop vacs often and always.  : Fred

 

[robtonya]

I also have a hard time throwing away cutoffs. I figure they could be used for something, even bracing.

 

[Fred West]

Rob, it does not seem to matter how many I have and/or what shape or size they are they are NEVER the right size for what I need right then so I just go ahead and generate new ones and add them to my collection.  : Fred

 

[Eli]

I clean a little bit every time, and try to stow away any big chunks left about after finishing something. I burn offcuts, but I don't burn only offcuts, so it's hard to catch up there. Taught the 3 YO how to sweep, but then he discovered the CT22, so I have him vacuum if he's in the shed and starts getting grabby. Keeps him busy in his own world once the earmuffs are on him.

 

[Dan Clermont]

My tools get put away every night. My biggest issue is offcuts and what to do with them. In the winter time I burn them and in the spring and summer they end up in some large garbage cans outside of my shop where they await the winter burn.

Dan Clermont

 

[Jerry Work]

Hi Dan and others,

One great way to get rid of your offcuts is to donate them to a nearby school woodworking program.  The kids will make great use of even the smallest scraps of good wood.  If you work at all with semi-exotics, those scraps may be the only time the kids get to work with such wood at all.

Jerry

My tools get put away every night. My biggest issue is offcuts and what to do with them. In the winter time I burn them and in the spring and summer they end up in some large garbage cans outside of my shop where they await the winter burn.

Dan Clermont

 

[HowardH]

That's a good idea, Jerry.  I just hope the high schools in my area even have a wood shop program anymore.  I had a class in the 8th grade back in '72 or so but it sure seems that they have been getting fewer and farther between.  I just keep piling up the cutoffs so they have taken over about 90% of wood rack.  It's a sad sight.  :-\  I keep hangiing on to them think I'll use the some day.  It's the old pack rat mentalitiy...

 

[cflansbaum]

I admit it doesn't do a whole lot for my cut off pile, but I do slice up some of the nicer little scraps into stir sticks for later finishing -- I never seem to have enough of these and seems silly to buy stirring sticks when there's so much wood around...

c.