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25th June 2015, 09:47 PM #1
What happens to your workshop equipment when you are gone
The post down a few lines about the garbage tools at auction, has made me think about who gets my toys when I am no longer able to use them in my workshop.
I look at the problem from different points of view.I'll be dead or infirm so I won't know ,won't care.
Then I think what will my wife do? Would she manage the organization needed just to dispose of my gear for a limited return ?.
I have seen an estate sale or two where dealers turn up like vultures offering the unsuspecting widow unfair prices for good tools and equipment.Then there are others who want bargains but expecting gear to be in tip top condition.
I was only talking yesterday to an older family member who was saying his carpenter tools are virtually worth nothing as they are old hand tools and most the younger blokes would not or could not use them anyway.
Given my situation there is no one in the family I want to have my metal work gear. I would will some of it it to a mens shed and /or to some deserving young person who had the need for it and family circumstances to use it.
Perhaps now, or soon will be a good time to make an inventory at least to give someone a good start at sorting it all out.
What are your views then ? Have you thought about a home for the kit you have taken half a lifetime to acquire?
Grahame
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25th June 2015, 09:55 PM #2SENIOR MEMBER
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Hi,
I've got four boys, 15,13,4, and 2 plus a 16 year old girl. Hopefully one of them will be interested enough to want the old man's toys when I'm gone. I have high hopes for the youngest two, they love doing work with me in the shed (even if it's just placing my scrap around the shed)
Ben.
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25th June 2015, 09:58 PM #3.
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Most Mens shed should be able to use it directly or find a good home for it.
My concern with some perhaps smaller mens sheds is they won't necessarily have the knowledge to maintain specialist gear.
I'm not that fussed about what happens to my stuff, for me its the voyage usually more than the destination.
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25th June 2015, 10:05 PM #4
I just hope my wife sells it for what it's worth, not what I told her I paid for it.
I know, an oldy but a goody.Those were the droids I was looking for.
https://autoblastgates.com.au
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25th June 2015, 10:24 PM #5GOLD MEMBER
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Good food for thought Grahame. My son, who I've not seen for 5 years, won't want it as it's not car related and probably the same with my grandson, not seen him for nearly 9 years. So I'll probably end up giving most of it away, as I won't get much for it. Going to get buried as a paper, my first 2 wives saw to that, first one got the house, second got the super and left me with a debt.
Kryn
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25th June 2015, 10:33 PM #6Philomath in training
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A lot of the men's sheds around here don't do metal for some reason - probably lack of knowledgeable people to drive the equipment.
The other thought I had was a few of the model engineer's clubs - there may be people there that would like to buy it (not that I'll care when I'm gone but my favourite solution would be to have a club set it up as the basis of a club workshop as I can see some of the more specialist gear that I have would be more useful as a group resource than going to an individual)
Michael
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25th June 2015, 10:43 PM #7GOLD MEMBER
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Yep...thought about it often....
Assuming none of the kids dont want it.. catalogue it all and leave instructions to auction it on ebay?
Dont know what will happen for the other toys locked in the safe and the $$$ she doesnt know we have
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25th June 2015, 11:11 PM #8Product designer retired
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After I'm gone
I face the exact same delema. My two eldest are girls and I reckon they wouldn't have a clue as to what my tools are worth.
I'm in my 70's so should start to put labels on everything saying what they are with suggested prices.
How would a girl know what a restored Hercus lathe is worth, or an Arboga EM 835 mill ?
Drop saws, Unimat 3 lathe, compressor, chainsaws, Singer boot patcher. These are all expensive items.
The sale of all these treasures now, would buy a fine marble head piece or two on two acres of land.
Who am I kiddin, I'll have the tools any day.
I also have a son, unfortunately he doesn't know the difference between a hammer and a screw driver. Long shoulder length doesn't help. No good for lathe work!
Ken
ps Grahame, my dear friend, I reckon you have won the gold logie for the year as the most important post.
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26th June 2015, 12:18 AM #9China
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I will be dead I won't care
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26th June 2015, 12:38 AM #10
Grahame
my suggestion, for what it's worth is
find a forumite who is about 20 years younger than you who has some knowledge of what the tools you have are used for or are worth.
label your tools -- especially making sure that all a tool's parts and options are stored with the tool.
charge the younger forumite with the duty of disposing of your tools -- once you are dead -- direct that the procedes from any tools that are sold go to a charity of your choice.regards from Alberta, Canada
ian
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26th June 2015, 12:46 AM #11GOLD MEMBER
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26th June 2015, 01:03 AM #12
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26th June 2015, 06:45 AM #13
I've already made some arrangements with a good friend that I trust. He will take all my gear that is not wanted by a family member and sell it, the proceeds going to my wife or my estate. Part of my problem is I have a lot of gear that should have been disposed of a long time ago, but its very hard to bring myself to part with it, especially those items that have been bought for me by my wife and children.
I keep telling myself that there is always tomorrow...Best Regards:
BaronJ.
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26th June 2015, 07:44 AM #14future machinist
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I'm 20 So don't have this problem yet But I Have the entirely different problem of Where does my stuff go When I move out can't get an apartment
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26th June 2015, 07:52 AM #15Philomath in training
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