Quote Originally Posted by Crusty View Post
I got frustrated at not being able to find things and decided to turn over a new leaf for me and organize my tools and supplies more or less grouped by their primary usage. I found that it had an immediate positive impact on the time it took because I wasn't spending all that time looking for things. Extending that I've adopted the procedure that once I've used a thing I immediately put it back where it goes and this improved my workflow more, since it takes little time to put something back from where you just got it and it eliminates most of the time spent at the end of the session returning things and my work sessions are more productive and less aggravating because of it. I can imagine with a collection as extensive as yours that a significant amount of time could be spent looking for stuff.
Not only looking for stuff but deciding it is faster and cheaper to make a 30 mile round trip to town than to hunt for something. I hardly ever just buy 1 of anything when it comes to oils sprays and such so when I get done I have 1 left over for the next time only the next time the same scenario happens until eventually I have a plethora of things in multiples many of which only partially used.
So yes a shelf here or a rack there to eventually give everything a place and every place its own thing always makes life more pleasant.
For one of my soon to be upcoming endeavors will be to rearrange the furniture IE move the lathes all to one place the mills to another the drill presses to yet another and have a bench grinder near each of them