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In the ShopHow to get from the Shop and Beyond
by Bob Sturgeon
Project No. 1
Today is the day you say, think I’ll head down to the shop and work on that project I’ve been planning for about a month. You gather up all the needed wood, the fasteners, the glue, 27 pencils and you get all of your plans and drawings. Then you’ve got to have lots of tools. Lets see now, will need hammers, levels, saws, miter box, screwdrivers, drills and bits, chisels, squares, rules, tapes, and more and more and more…………. At this point you now have out everything you own, but this is as it should be because you are a Galoot Woodworker. A week of shop work goes by smoothly and at last the project is done. Looks great, don’t know how you ever got along without one. Since you have all of those tools out anyway, you decide its time to start Project No 2, since that one went so well. Suddenly you hear a noise at the shop door and there stands your wife with a few requests. Your well laid plans are about to change. She informs you, that you are about to move onto a different, Project No. 2.
Project No. 2
What did she just say? Her mother came out your back door onto the deck and stepped through the deck boards up to her knee. She says her mother won’t be back until you fix the deck. (You’re having mixed emotions at this point) Also how about all of those shingles that blew off the lawn mower shed out in the lower forty, during that last big storm, you promised to replace. Well you will admit sometimes it is rather hard knowing where to step on the deck and it is getting to be work dumping out all those plastic 5-gallon buckets catching water in the shed. Well OK, so the Galoot Woodworking has been put on hold. How bad could it be. Better get to the deck. First thing to do is to get the tools and supplies out to the Deck Job Site. You could carry all of it out by hand, but that would take about forty trips. Use the wheel barrow? Maybe five trips. You say there has to be a better way. If only I had a Galoot-A-Wagon-----Like Bob Has Scroll Down “Galoot-A-Wagon” with complete working trim. Handsome driver in working uniform consisting of Official John Deere Hat, Tee Shirt, and of course John Deere Driving Gloves.
“Galoot-A-Wagon” as stand alone unit.
Rear view of “Galoot-A-Wagon” with official license plates, one by John Deere and one from the Great State of Indiana.
Well what? Doesn’t everybody throw in a picture of their dog? This is “Killer” my Miniature Pincher. Little bitty dog, great big name. When he is in the house, all I have to say is “Do you want to go to the garage“, and he will beat me to the back door. Love’s the garage and shop. I bought this trailer from my brother-in-law several years ago for a whole $85.00. It was a Coleman utility trailer, painted light and dark brown. In the summer of 2005 I sold my old 12 horse Murray riding mower and bought a new John Deere Lawn Tractor. Would you believe buying the new tractor was my wife’s idea? Far be it from me to disagree with a woman. Last summer I refurbished this trailer in beautiful John Deere green and yellow and built the removable stake bed rack on top. The bed inside is about 4’ x 5’,quite a bit larger than the ones John Deere sells. Tail gates drop down front and rear and bed tilts. If anyone is wondering the purpose of the goofy looking poles in the back, when I hooked the trailer up to my truck to pull it on the street, I couldn’t see it in my mirrors. Can see the poles through my topper window now. This is an example of one of the finest Woodworking Tools I own. “The Galoot-A-Wagon” (Have Tools will Travel) Bob Sturgeon, |
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