More Fastenal Racks + Organizing #2
I have about 8-10 of what they call gondolas picked out, one is in the pics below that we brought back today, they are 7' 2" with adjustable shelves and they all set straight or can lay forward to put things like paint or calking size racking on the shelf to put cans or tubes on. 1 shelf holds 16 cases, or 96 cans of paint, lube, or anything in a can size. The racks can be used single sided or double sided. If you want to see what they are just walk into any Fastenal store and you can see them. There are other things I really liked and picked out like the Milwaukee rack, mostly because it was red already lol.
I had a spot for one of these since all of the Fastenal shelves were put in the parts dept on the last redo, so it already had a place to go. I'll add more pics here as things get here and get put together.
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Temporarily look over the part I said in the last post about "I gotta slow down on the hoarding."
I talked to my Fastenal DM friend a few days ago and the new store is ahead of schedule, so tentatively around Aug 1st he is sending in a crew to break down all of the fixtures to get them ready to go. There are a lot more of them coming than I originally planned, I'll fill everyone in when when they're here. I've been trying to round up some extra peeps, trucks and/or trailers (I have some extra trucks to pull them with) to get it all out so I may be out for a few days early next month when the weather permits. Dad can help with his truck, and Clint was here today and said he can most likely help too. I also need to make some space somewhere over the next few weeks to put it all. This would be a really nice time for a bigger new building lol.
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A little clarification on the 1st post about "There are a lot more of them coming than I originally planned", I didn't want to mention this until I was pretty sure. We're getting pretty much the entire store including a lot of the racking in the warehouse. I think it can all be moved in a week. Some of the crew breaking things down are from the local store here and are driving fastenal trucks and said they can bring back truckloads every day when they head back, and the DM lives only a mile or so from me and said he can use his truck too so that will help a lot.
Will know even more toward the end of next week and will give another update then.
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This will get done but it's gonna be a much much bigger project than I thought, what else is new... Then I got to thinking, (I know, oh no lol), and asked my DM friend this morning how many of just the 72 each blue bin fixtures were in that store. He said 24 or 25. Then it hit me, that's 1,800 blue bins alone that will be quite a few more loads in itself than I figured. :surprised :faint
It's going to be a wild ride for a little while but you all know me, I'm always up for a challenge and I'm not backing down now...
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Looks like no rain for a week (if the weatherman is right which is totally debatable) so I'm hoping everything goes smooth. I'll know more of an exact schedule tonight or tomorrow but once this starts I may be impossible to get ahold of for a few days to get this done. I'll let everyone know as soon as I know.
I wish I had this much space all the time...
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WOW LOOKS GREAT.............................Geno wrote: The Cavalier is squeezed in the 4 car garage with everything else that would fit in there, I have somewhere around 1500 sq ft or more of the shop cleared, and a lot of parking lot space cleared if need be for all the Fastenal fixtures. Every cart and wheeled shelving unit is cleared for all the boxes of different peg board hooks and such and I'm as ready as I can be, they will all be broken down so hopefully they will all fit in here, somewhere, we will soon find out...
Looks like no rain for a week (if the weatherman is right which is totally debatable) so I'm hoping everything goes smooth. I'll know more of an exact schedule tonight or tomorrow but once this starts I may be impossible to get ahold of for a few days to get this done. I'll let everyone know as soon as I know.
I wish I had this much space all the time...
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I can't see the forest for the trees.
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It won't look so great once all the Fastenal store fixtures clog the whole place up though.
I'm meeting my Fastenal DM over at the store they're cleaning out this morning around 10 and we're formulating a plan to get it all here so I'll fill everyone in when I get back. I'm taking the dually and the 12' trailer and may be over there awhile to help with some of the tear down and bring a load home while I'm at it.
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They still have a lot of inventory to move but I'll be going over prob tomorrow and definitely Friday for another load, the Fastenal guys will be bringing some truckloads in on Friday too. Looks like most of the stuff will be ready first of next week and it's gonna make a real mess lol. There's a lot more stuff in the warehouse than I payed attention to and the shop will prob end up filled up and a lot of it I think is gonna end up in the parking lot. Will get some pics up in the morning.
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The fixtures we cleared yesterday had things on them like the chain cutter, some fancy hooks, the signage, pegboard accessories with dividers, etc., and I thought those were things they would keep and possibly reuse... My DM friend said "you said you wanted the whole store didn't you?" I said yep, no problem here lol.
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