Thread: The humble shop bucket

Gidday


Work benches are akin to aircraft carriers theres always tools a landing on them and in no time valuable benchtop real estate is consumed by the Darksiders greatest BANE...................workshop mess


You know what I'm talking about all but the most OCD of us rack up every square inch of valuable workspace with tools nails coffee cups chips shavings and dust till most of us get to that critical mass and finally give up to the reality that its clean up time


then the ritual begins your cleanup autopilot kicks in and then off you go for the most of us ending up with a pristine workspace once again .............. mmmmmmmmmmmmm I dread to think of how many hours i waste doing this unnecessarily


Indeed some poor fellows have allowed the onset of a weakness of volition a disease of the mind choosing to give up the fight altogether and roll around in shavings and dust until sounder wits and intellects suggest otherwise.............. usually SWMBO


One solution that I have found handy is a cheap plastic shop bucket from Aldies [Just a Yogurt tub] with a bit of thought these can be transformed into a handy Benchtop storage system for most of your favorite tools and even be hung from the underside of your Bench


Once you hardwire the habit of using them they really can help increase intervals between cleanup cycles

That said anyone else got their favourite ways of isolating tools on bench real-estate storage/caddy systems that you find super helpful?


Regards Lou