Tinkerer’s Paradise Saint-Basile-le-Grand, QC

[combustable herbage]

Might be an opportunity for someone young and strong
Oh my back everything is in the basement!! but then again probably everything to move stuff up and down somewhere in there!

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[YYCHM]

Hoarder house clean out! Everything must go! Anything from old airplane equipment to industrial lathes to sensors and gauges to handtools!

 

[Tomc938]

Wonder if you could get a by the lb price?

 

[Dabbler]

He had some very nice stuff!

 

[Tomc938]

True! But a lot of stuff that I think he gathered with the hope that he could use parts from it to fix something else some day. The one pile with (perhaps) an angle grinder and (maybe) some power supplies and armatures looks like some of the things I have gathered over the years.

The milling machine cutters look unused, and would be a real treasure for someone with a horizontal mill.

And of course my ignorance doesn't help. The big green machine with the (looks like) cup shaped grinding stone. Does anyone know what that is? Is it complete? It looks partially disassembled to me, but also with the 60 degree dovetails it looks promising...

I would love to go through the storage bins.

 

[Dabbler]

The big green machine is *most likely* a bowl cutting machine for making wood bowls. It is missing one axis, which I *think* i saw buried in one of the piles...

 

[Mcgyver]

Maybe I'd feel differently if I had to clean it all out, but the term hoarder with mental illness connotations seems slightly undeserved and pejorative. I convince myself its not hoarding if you can let garbage go, let duplicates go and only keep stuff that might be useful or value. Then again I may be wrong looking at the pile on the floor, wow. Perhaps an "accomplished junk collector" would be fairer

 

[Dabbler]

undeserved and pejorative

@Mcgyver I agree - People should be judged by their actions in society, their contributions, etc. Not everyone has the organizational skills to be neat and tidy. Extreme cases of ADD or ADHD can result in unfinished projects, piles of stuff, etc.

 

[Tomc938]

@Mcgyver I agree - People should be judged by their actions in society, their contributions, etc. Not everyone has the organizational skills to be neat and tidy. Extreme cases of ADD or ADHD can result in unfinished projects, piles of stuff, etc.

I agree! Totally. Although I have the piles of stuff and unfinished projects and I don't have ADHD or...squirrel!

 

[Susquatch]

@Mcgyver I agree - People should be judged by their actions in society, their contributions, etc. Not everyone has the organizational skills to be neat and tidy. Extreme cases of ADD or ADHD can result in unfinished projects, piles of stuff, etc

Totally agree. Most of my construction gigs were manufacturing facilities but I did build a big 15 story office tower once. In the process of designing office space, I spent some time with Steelcase developing custom workspaces. That led to discussions with their psychologists about how different people work and what they need to be productive and creative. The most important thing I learned from that is that the world is full of pilers and filers. Both are equally able to do great work, but you should never try to turn pilers into filers or vice versa. You stifle their productivity when you do that.

So we designed work stations that were flexible enough to be useful to either kind of working style and anything in between. That project was recognized internationally for what it all accomplished.

I've never forgotten that lesson and I always cringe when I hear people making fun of either type.