My mind has already started the process of the tale I must spin to the wife, not just for this clamp cart, but a few others. Sometimes, as makers and hobbyists, we need some vision to help spark our own. These videos never disappoint. I mean, never. If you don't hear it enough, thank you.👊
That is one crazy dog - no not the real one - that one that keeps it's master well steamed. My great nephew laughed - but so enjoyed, that we now have to go watch one more. Thanks from all the kids in us!!!
I WAS JUST THINKING ABOUT BUILDING SOMETHING FOR MY CLAMPS IM WAISTING 10 FT OF WALL SPACE NOW TIME TO MAKE ROOM FOR SOMTHING ELSE TO LIVE THERE NOW, THANKS NICK
Having the need, and a start given to me by my brother - a mobile display rack - I started searching for the best use of the space, and SHAZAM! Here you are. Just the inspiration I needed to build my project. This will work great! Thanks Lowell
Most welcome, although Travis and i had to laugh when you described Bella as "patient." Most of the time she's like one of Travis' speeded up assembly scenes.
6:08 and if you glue it, you will drop something down the hole like a unique small screw. Or an unextended extending bendable magnetic part retriever. 10:33 don’t be a tease. Say “rebate” instead of “rabbet.”
What a great channel, which I just discovered from an "almost-random-click" on a shorts-video about how cams work. I have no workshop, tools or skills of this nature, but have long been fascinated by the things people make and the skills they learn to make them. Though I would love to have the basic skills and tools, I live in a flat (apartment) with no space for tools or a workbench. Liked and subscribed. Now I am going to binge-watch a half a dozen more of your videos.
Here’s the rub. My shop is 20’x20’, a mere 400 square feet. Anything taking more floor space will require special dispensation from God Himself. Floor space is a premium in most shops. Wall storage is my only relief for clamp storage and I have been somewhat creative in wall clamp storage designs. Some of your storage techniques are fully adaptable to wall storage, so kudos for a wonderful video.
Interestingly, the design for the clamp caddy evolved when we were working in a shop not much bigger than what you describe. It allowed us to store all our clamps in an out-of-the-way corner, bring them out just for assembly, then get them out of the traffic pattern when they were no longer needed. And many of the features on the cart, such as the rack and the hand-screw shelf began as wall-mounted storage units that we simply bolted to a cart. As with most of the jigs and fixtures that we show on this channel, I try to break the project down into individual features so you can pick and choose what will work for you.
Nice design and well thought out. I am in the process of making a similar cart, but I have reduced the depth of the drawers so that I have a 3" full-depth space in the middle of the cart to facilitate storage of long bar clamps.
Could you guys make a video on a lumber/wood/stock/sheet goods storage solution, whether it be a cart or racks? Thank you so much for the high quality videos.
In the few months since I discovered your channel. I've picked up more (and better) ideas, tips, and tricks than I did from all the rest of the woodworking channels I've been watching since I retired in 2016. Thanks.
Nice approach to your design! I have a couple of thoughts offer: Rolling resistance: As I watched you pull the cart across the floor of your shop to illustrate its mobility, even with your 3” casters, it appears that there’s significant rolling resistance to it. I think that if you increase the diameter of the casters even more that you use on the box, you will find it much easier to pull around. Stability: In your discussion of the concerns some may have that the rack is top heavy: you can mitigate that to some extent by increasing the size of the base that the casters are mounted upon (adding some triangle bracing too), placing their contact with the floor farther out from the box. While that increases the footprint somewhat, the shelf and assembly table mounted to the sides already expanded the footprint. Keep up the good work!!!
Dear Captain Amazing, have you done a mobile tool cart video? if not, I hope you'll consider it. thank you for another amazing and highly entertaining video. I learn so much and your competence, chill manner and sense of humor are the perfect teaching combination. The master of two skills. thank you
Always enjoy your humor and wisdom. Have you ever done a video teaching how to do that great hammer spin? Slow-mo with safety tips?? Protective head ware, footwear, mouth guards necessary for learning curve ??? Best place to practice????
I have explained the method and how I learned many times. It boils down to getting very good at hand gun acrobatics, then balancing a hammer the same as the six-gun that you are familiar with. Thanks for your kind words.
Cheers back. And by the way, we're beginning to think that Bella may have some Australian ancestry. Several of your neighbors have written in calling her a "kelpie," and I've written back explaining she's a border collie. But I have no papers to prove that, and after some consultation with some folks who train working breeds, we're fairly sure she's at least part kelpie. Whatever she is, she's one of the smartest dogs I've ever trained.
@@WorkshopCompanion Definitely Kelpie in her ancestry. Kelpies also have dingo genes from a long time ago - hence the slim body lines. Dingo genes may also give her the tinge of tan/brown she displays. Kelpies love to chase a ball or any old toy that is beyond redemption!! Gotta love them...
That is a very useful clamp caddy. I use a 30 gallon drum with tall plywood dividers creating four vertical quarters for my long clamps. It's on a rolling base but heavy enough that I normally come to it instead of rolling it around the shop. I purchased a nicely sized A-Frame clamp rack and it holds the smaller clamps. When I need to store more, I believe I'll build one based on your model. That gluing box is certainly going to get more consideration.
Hey Nick. I just picked up one of your books at a used book store this past weekend. "Nick Engler's Weekend Projects Plus". Its an amazing resource. Just wanted to thank you and Rodale for putting it together. You can be sure I will collect them all as I'm able to. Thanks again!
Always good to hear from a reader. For your next book, I suggest you find a copy of "Woodworking Wisdom." I wrote that one just as I finished writing the Workshop Companion series. Took all that research and boiled it down to the bare essentials to get all the core woodworking knowledge between two covers.
In Oz there is only plastic conduit or galvanized water pipe these days, we used to have very flimsy metal electrical conduit but there were too many electrocutions & fires due to crappy wire insulation over the years (cotton, rubber). I used 1x3 and 1x4 pine screwed to the uprights for my 'Normite' double sided clamp rack on a 24x24 base. As for casters, I have noticed the local big box has iron wheeled castors with ball bearings and a capacity from 500 > 1000 pounds per wheel ( total capacity is calculated as 3/4 the total capacity of ALL the casters). There are also nylon wheel casters in the same range of wheel sizes, price & weight capacity but they have brakes to lock the casters. Much easier to get things rolling if its been sitting in one place for a while.
I’m in the beginning of setting up my workshop in my new house’s basement. I’m a luthier and I mostly work with hand tools, I’m browsing the internet in order to find nice ideas for storing the tools and organizing my space efficiently, this one did the trick for me! Btw: I’m Italian and I couldn’t help but noticing the “lasciate ogni speranza o voi che entrate” written on top of the flammable material cabinet.. 😂 I wonder what’s the story behind that 😃😃
Thank you. Just the video I needed right when I needed it. My weekend project was to organize my admittadly much smaller collection of clamps, and also clear the sawdust of my shop collie
Easily the best approach I have found to clamp storage. My own assortment is more modest than yours, but still weighs a lot and takes up space in an awkward way. Provided I can dig up some robust casters, this mobile rack may provide the solution I've been looking for while using up materials that at present are just adding to the clutter in my small workshop. You have another subscriber.
Nicely done. Love it. I have enough clamps to hold down a postage stamp or a tooth pick so not a problem yet, but I will think on it when the time arrives. Thank you for the share.
479 clamps!!! Wow... not even in my most imaginative dreams would I have close to that many! I'm hoping to get to a maybe a total of 50 varieties and will be very happy with that many.
Along that line, just days ago archaeologists announced that they have found the tomb of the real St. Nicholas, Bishop of Myra, beneath the floor of a church near the Mediterranean coast of Turkey. Long way from the North Pole.
Great video as usual. Do you have a video on making base cabinets. I'm wanting to make a built-in bookshelf with base cabinets for storage on both sides and a bench seat with storage under the window. I've been drying live edge for the bookshelf for awhile now. So getting closer to having no excuse lol
We have a few cabinetmaking videos lined up for the future. If you need the information soon, however, I suggest you visit the Workshop Companion Store and look over the table of contents of "Making Built-In Cabinets" ebook. It probably has what you want.
Useing just plain cord/rope as pulling handles could cut into your fingers and become more uncomfortable and could apply a sideways crushing force to your fingers as the caddy becomes heavier. A way to minimise this would be to run the cord through a short length of PVC pipe or dowel (drilled lengthways). About 4in long x 3/4 to 1in diameter (100mm x 19 to 25mm) would be enough.
Great Video Nick, and a very clever idea. Given you have so many clamps, i cant help but think that your setup looks a little top heavy ... have you done any tests to see what happens when it gets pushed sideways etc?
We test that almost every time we move it. If you grab pipe clamp and pull sideway, it rolls. That's how we maneuver it most of the time. There is no tendency to tip due to all the weight in the base.
Great idea & that is one terrific clamp caddy Nick! I can't believe that someone else had more clamps than you! I have around 30 clamps and I thought that was a lot. HAPPY HALLOWEEN to you and the crew! 🎃🎃💀💀
Same back at you. You have to remember that I made rag-and-stick airplanes you many years. When you assemble something that fills an entire hangar, is sometimes take a few extra clamps.
People underestimate the strength of conduit though hanging long sash clamps cheek to cheek on spans like yours could call for an intermediate support. Also, my screwup on a larger A frame rack holding hundreds of pipe and bar clamps was to use too soft casters, an error I've made more than once on other equipment. Beware medical service take-offs on the surplus market. Those soft tires when heavily loaded are like trying to push a car with four flats. The prospect of completely unloading the rack to change the casters is very unappealing. Years pass with the new, heavier casters still on the shelf.
The other reason to leave the top grid unglued is I know I’d drop some small and valuable item through one of the open grid holes. The unglued top grid will let me get it out.
Ah and HA! I have about 45 clamps all stashed on a wall rack in about 26" of valuable wall space and another lost count number of other clamps stuck to anything that will get things stuck to them. I've even considered glass lighting tubes, but had to pass on that idea.. Problem is my only real viable available wall to use for clamps has two pesky windows that don't do much other than give insects a place to buzz around then eventually die.. Floor space is the other problem and my floor LOVES extension cords and air hoses more than I do.. Did I mention that I collect darn near every scrap of wood that ever enters the door? Still, I'm not opposed to making better use of my bad habits and this rack may just change a few of them.
Quick idea for your windows, if you wish to repossess them: The folks at Popular Woodworking magazine once had a window in their shop to which they attached narrow notched shelves. They used these shelves to hang and organize a variety of hand tools -- chisels, files, rasps, mallets, screwdrivers, wrenches, anything long and thin without a cord. This essentially turned the window into a tool cabinet with solar backlighting. It was quite striking. Travis and I are building a new shop that will have a few windows, and I plan to do this with at least one of them.
@@WorkshopCompanion I thought about this as well myself, but I'm not too crazy about the idea of advertising to every thief in the area that I have a shop full of tools. The windows face the street and I'd probably have to rearrange the deck chairs in my personal Titanic. I could easily grow things in the windows though, but I'm in South Carolina. I'd have a small jungle in no time. LOL Actually my working partner and myself are close to closing a deal on a much larger shop. My wife has mixed emotions, but she would get her parking space back.
I have a small ton of plywood scraps, but all seem just a bit too small or whatever or buy a full sheet and my old body fights with it till it's chopped down. I'll have to wait for the next supplier run and salvage pieces from what's leftover. Ain't that the way it goes when plywood has overtaken our bodily abilities? That's why I have a younger partner..
2:08 well... just maybe... perhaps... there was any... if u just get rid of them books - which, I assume, you do not read in your workshop? just kidding. Keep on makin these videos!
"so in 20-30 years you can vacuum it out" your practicality in these videos never ceases to amaze. xD
Just call 'em like I live 'em.
My mind has already started the process of the tale I must spin to the wife, not just for this clamp cart, but a few others. Sometimes, as makers and hobbyists, we need some vision to help spark our own. These videos never disappoint. I mean, never. If you don't hear it enough, thank you.👊
Most welcome. And glad I could provide a believable excuse for buying a few more tools.
Love your humor, it fits just right in these videos.
Love ‘em, Love ‘em.......just wish you had been my woodwork teacher at school 😎
I always appreciate your well written scripts for your videos and, furthermore, your use of the adverbs. 😉😁 Like a breath of fresh air to YT.
Thanks for saying. I've always found there's nothing better than a few adverbs to help with your woodworking. I buy them by the case.
That is one crazy dog - no not the real one - that one that keeps it's master well steamed. My great nephew laughed - but so enjoyed, that we now have to go watch one more. Thanks from all the kids in us!!!
Most welcome.
I can't imagine needing a clamp caddy for my 10 clamps, but if the day arrives that I could use one...I know JUST what to make! 😁
I WAS JUST THINKING ABOUT BUILDING SOMETHING FOR MY CLAMPS IM WAISTING 10 FT OF WALL SPACE NOW TIME TO MAKE ROOM FOR SOMTHING ELSE TO LIVE THERE NOW, THANKS NICK
Most welcome.
best woodworking channel EVER! informative, entertaining, dry humor that woodworkers can laugh at because we've felt the pain. LOL
Thanks for saying.
You never disappoint my man!!! Always such an honor to get the knowledge from you.
Just as much of an honor to share it.
I’ve only got about 10% of the clamps you do, but I’m going to go ahead and make this! Thank you for this awesome video!
Most welcome. You'll find the storage unit, once it takes up residence in your shop, is a constant reminder that you need more clamps.
@@WorkshopCompanion no one respects a clamp rack with gaps in it! :)
@@reactdave1800 Exactly.
convince me that this man is not the Hogwarts professor of woodworking and ill tell you you're wrong.
10/10 most engaging teacher
Having the need, and a start given to me by my brother - a mobile display rack - I started searching for the best use of the space, and SHAZAM! Here you are. Just the inspiration I needed to build my project. This will work great! Thanks
Lowell
Most welcome.
I’m 7 months late, however this popped up on my feed just as I was cleaning up a bunch of clamps! Just purchased the plans, thank you
I love your work, explanations and humour. And your faithful, patient dog. Thanks for having me around 🌞
Most welcome, although Travis and i had to laugh when you described Bella as "patient." Most of the time she's like one of Travis' speeded up assembly scenes.
6:08 and if you glue it, you will drop something down the hole like a unique small screw. Or an unextended extending bendable magnetic part retriever.
10:33 don’t be a tease. Say “rebate” instead of “rabbet.”
Thanks for another entertaining video. Who would have thought that more than 400 clamps would not be a winner.
Apparently I have neglected my clamp-hoarding skills.
@@WorkshopCompanion Mine are much less well developed, my lovely wife says thank goodness, where would they go. Now I can answer her lol
What a great channel, which I just discovered from an "almost-random-click" on a shorts-video about how cams work.
I have no workshop, tools or skills of this nature, but have long been fascinated by the things people make and the skills they learn to make them.
Though I would love to have the basic skills and tools, I live in a flat (apartment) with no space for tools or a workbench.
Liked and subscribed.
Now I am going to binge-watch a half a dozen more of your videos.
Here’s the rub. My shop is 20’x20’, a mere 400 square feet. Anything taking more floor space will require special dispensation from God Himself. Floor space is a premium in most shops. Wall storage is my only relief for clamp storage and I have been somewhat creative in wall clamp storage designs. Some of your storage techniques are fully adaptable to wall storage, so kudos for a wonderful video.
Interestingly, the design for the clamp caddy evolved when we were working in a shop not much bigger than what you describe. It allowed us to store all our clamps in an out-of-the-way corner, bring them out just for assembly, then get them out of the traffic pattern when they were no longer needed. And many of the features on the cart, such as the rack and the hand-screw shelf began as wall-mounted storage units that we simply bolted to a cart. As with most of the jigs and fixtures that we show on this channel, I try to break the project down into individual features so you can pick and choose what will work for you.
Nice design and well thought out. I am in the process of making a similar cart, but I have reduced the depth of the drawers so that I have a 3" full-depth space in the middle of the cart to facilitate storage of long bar clamps.
Good idea. But we just let ours stand up vertically. Thinking of using one of them for a flagpole.
Very clever idea and result. Always enjoy your videos, sir. Thanks very much for doing them.
Most welcome.
I don't need one of these since I already did something very similar, but your presentation is so good that I was GLUED to your clamping station video
I sincerely hope you were able to extricate yourself before the glue set up...;-)
It is quite the sticky situation.
Very cool.
It is amazing how much you can still learn from your videos.
Thanks for saying.
Could you guys make a video on a lumber/wood/stock/sheet goods storage solution, whether it be a cart or racks? Thank you so much for the high quality videos.
Absolutely, we are in the process of moving shops and will probably be doing a lot of shop furniture in our future videos. - Travis
Wedges wrapped around cylinders. You are the Carl Sagan of woodworking.
In the few months since I discovered your channel. I've picked up more (and better) ideas, tips, and tricks than I did from all the rest of the woodworking channels I've been watching since I retired in 2016. Thanks.
Most welcome, and thank you for the kind words.
Nice approach to your design! I have a couple of thoughts offer:
Rolling resistance: As I watched you pull the cart across the floor of your shop to illustrate its mobility, even with your 3” casters, it appears that there’s significant rolling resistance to it. I think that if you increase the diameter of the casters even more that you use on the box, you will find it much easier to pull around.
Stability: In your discussion of the concerns some may have that the rack is top heavy: you can mitigate that to some extent by increasing the size of the base that the casters are mounted upon (adding some triangle bracing too), placing their contact with the floor farther out from the box. While that increases the footprint somewhat, the shelf and assembly table mounted to the sides already expanded the footprint.
Keep up the good work!!!
I think part of the rolling problem is that the casters are rubber. If they were polyurethane wheels I think it would roll easier.
Dear Captain Amazing, have you done a mobile tool cart video? if not, I hope you'll consider it. thank you for another amazing and highly entertaining video. I learn so much and your competence, chill manner and sense of humor are the perfect teaching combination. The master of two skills. thank you
Most welcome, and thanks for your kind words.
@@WorkshopCompanion mobile tool cart!
Nice job, Nick! I'm thinking of two caddy's; one for pipe clamps and one for all the others. Whatever works, is the best design!
Thanks.
Always enjoy your humor and wisdom. Have you ever done a video teaching how to do that great hammer spin? Slow-mo with safety tips?? Protective head ware, footwear, mouth guards necessary for learning curve ??? Best place to practice????
I have explained the method and how I learned many times. It boils down to getting very good at hand gun acrobatics, then balancing a hammer the same as the six-gun that you are familiar with. Thanks for your kind words.
Useful and timely. Thanks for keeping the audio audible. Please pet your shop buddy for me.
Will do.
Some great tips Nick. Great video and just love that Bella!! Cheers again from Australia on the sunny Coast of Queensland!!
Cheers back. And by the way, we're beginning to think that Bella may have some Australian ancestry. Several of your neighbors have written in calling her a "kelpie," and I've written back explaining she's a border collie. But I have no papers to prove that, and after some consultation with some folks who train working breeds, we're fairly sure she's at least part kelpie. Whatever she is, she's one of the smartest dogs I've ever trained.
@@WorkshopCompanion Definitely Kelpie in her ancestry. Kelpies also have dingo genes from a long time ago - hence the slim body lines. Dingo genes may also give her the tinge of tan/brown she displays. Kelpies love to chase a ball or any old toy that is beyond redemption!! Gotta love them...
@@lesblack413 Gotta. Absolutely.
That is a very useful clamp caddy. I use a 30 gallon drum with tall plywood dividers creating four vertical quarters for my long clamps. It's on a rolling base but heavy enough that I normally come to it instead of rolling it around the shop. I purchased a nicely sized A-Frame clamp rack and it holds the smaller clamps. When I need to store more, I believe I'll build one based on your model. That gluing box is certainly going to get more consideration.
Thanks for sharing.
This is only the second video I see from you but definitely not the last! I'm going to binge your back catalogue later :^)
Thanks for saying
I always find your videos informative and entertaining. Keep'm coming 😉
Will do. Thanks.
I only have a about 2 dozen clamps, but I do like the caddy.
Hey Nick. I just picked up one of your books at a used book store this past weekend. "Nick Engler's Weekend Projects Plus". Its an amazing resource. Just wanted to thank you and Rodale for putting it together. You can be sure I will collect them all as I'm able to. Thanks again!
Always good to hear from a reader. For your next book, I suggest you find a copy of "Woodworking Wisdom." I wrote that one just as I finished writing the Workshop Companion series. Took all that research and boiled it down to the bare essentials to get all the core woodworking knowledge between two covers.
I'm envying your clamp collection. 💯
We built replicas of historic aircraft for many years -- it takes a lot of clamps to assemble a 40-foot (12 meter) long wing.
Excellent build, Nick! Thanks for all the tips! 😃
Stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊
Most welcome. Will try.
They should have awarded clamps to the losers instead of the winners. Thanks for the show!
Most welcome.
In Oz there is only plastic conduit or galvanized water pipe these days, we used to have very flimsy metal electrical conduit but there were too many electrocutions & fires due to crappy wire insulation over the years (cotton, rubber). I used 1x3 and 1x4 pine screwed to the uprights for my 'Normite' double sided clamp rack on a 24x24 base. As for casters, I have noticed the local big box has iron wheeled castors with ball bearings and a capacity from 500 > 1000 pounds per wheel ( total capacity is calculated as 3/4 the total capacity of ALL the casters). There are also nylon wheel casters in the same range of wheel sizes, price & weight capacity but they have brakes to lock the casters. Much easier to get things rolling if its been sitting in one place for a while.
I’m in the beginning of setting up my workshop in my new house’s basement. I’m a luthier and I mostly work with hand tools, I’m browsing the internet in order to find nice ideas for storing the tools and organizing my space efficiently, this one did the trick for me!
Btw: I’m Italian and I couldn’t help but noticing the “lasciate ogni speranza o voi che entrate” written on top of the flammable material cabinet.. 😂 I wonder what’s the story behind that 😃😃
I've got 8 clamps. I keep them in random places around my tiny shed. By 'random', I mean "not where I want them". 🤔
Excellent presentation of a very practical and approachable project. I really need a clamp caddy - my clamps are spread all over the place!
Thanks for saying.
Thanks Nick I try to never miss your episodes. This one is as awesome as usual keep ‘‘em coming!
Most welcome. And thanks for saying.
Thanks I really need to build one for a while but was waiting for the design will come in my dreams but you give me a good start thanks again 😊
Most welcome.
Thanks for another excellent shop project! Next, you'll have to build a caddy for Bella's treats and toys!!!
Already have one!
@@WorkshopCompanion I SHOULD HAVE KNOWN!!!!
I love these videos
Thank you. Just the video I needed right when I needed it. My weekend project was to organize my admittadly much smaller collection of clamps, and also clear the sawdust of my shop collie
Such a great idea thanks
Another practical, useful and entertaining video! Thanks for posting.
Most welcome.
Easily the best approach I have found to clamp storage. My own assortment is more modest than yours, but still weighs a lot and takes up space in an awkward way. Provided I can dig up some robust casters, this mobile rack may provide the solution I've been looking for while using up materials that at present are just adding to the clutter in my small workshop. You have another subscriber.
Thanks...and welcome.
Great video, thanks!
I have about 20 clamps total. I have a lot of catching up to do. LOL Nice build!
Nicely done. Love it. I have enough clamps to hold down a postage stamp or a tooth pick so not a problem yet, but I will think on it when the time arrives. Thank you for the share.
Most welcome.
479 clamps!!! Wow... not even in my most imaginative dreams would I have close to that many! I'm hoping to get to a maybe a total of 50 varieties and will be very happy with that many.
Well goodness! Don't leave us hanging! How many clamps did the winner have??!!! 😂
Don't remember precisely, but it was somewhere just south of 1K.
Superb and entertaining. Thanks.
great video
This is how I envision Santa's workshop.....🤔....St. Nick?
Along that line, just days ago archaeologists announced that they have found the tomb of the real St. Nicholas, Bishop of Myra, beneath the floor of a church near the Mediterranean coast of Turkey. Long way from the North Pole.
Super nice.
Great video as usual. Do you have a video on making base cabinets. I'm wanting to make a built-in bookshelf with base cabinets for storage on both sides and a bench seat with storage under the window. I've been drying live edge for the bookshelf for awhile now. So getting closer to having no excuse lol
We have a few cabinetmaking videos lined up for the future. If you need the information soon, however, I suggest you visit the Workshop Companion Store and look over the table of contents of "Making Built-In Cabinets" ebook. It probably has what you want.
Here for the 🐕 🐶 dog.👍🇺🇸🛠️🔨🔧
Useing just plain cord/rope as pulling handles could cut into your fingers and become more uncomfortable and could apply a sideways crushing force to your fingers as the caddy becomes heavier. A way to minimise this would be to run the cord through a short length of PVC pipe or dowel (drilled lengthways). About 4in long x 3/4 to 1in diameter (100mm x 19 to 25mm) would be enough.
Good tip. I've also used 4" pipe nipples.
I hope to one day need one of these.
May your dreams come true.
“I have plenty of clamps.” Said no woodworker ever.
When I'm using them, there's never enough. When I'm storing them, there are always too many!
@@Bob_Adkins - Good point. 🥃
I have been told I have plenty . . . but not enough.
i do wonder if a pushbar would be easier to push if its heavy
Great Video Nick, and a very clever idea. Given you have so many clamps, i cant help but think that your setup looks a little top heavy ... have you done any tests to see what happens when it gets pushed sideways etc?
We test that almost every time we move it. If you grab pipe clamp and pull sideway, it rolls. That's how we maneuver it most of the time. There is no tendency to tip due to all the weight in the base.
Great idea & that is one terrific clamp caddy Nick! I can't believe that someone else had more clamps than you! I have around 30 clamps and I thought that was a lot. HAPPY HALLOWEEN to you and the crew!
🎃🎃💀💀
Same back at you. You have to remember that I made rag-and-stick airplanes you many years. When you assemble something that fills an entire hangar, is sometimes take a few extra clamps.
I need one that floats mid-air, as i'm lacking any available floor space...
If you find one, please share your source.
Hey Nick, how about a video on squares and general layout
I'll take that under advisement.
Looks great. Will suck in my sand floor shop though.
I can’t believe you left us hanging ! ( like a worn out clamp) How many clamps did the winner have ?
Don't remember. Something just south of 1K is what sticks in my brain.
@@WorkshopCompanion must of been them fellas that laminate curved hand rails on site.
I think every 20 to 30 years is an ambitious schedule for the cleaning… 😂
Darn right. But Travis and I keep a neat shop.
People underestimate the strength of conduit though hanging long sash clamps cheek to cheek on spans like yours could call for an intermediate support. Also, my screwup on a larger A frame rack holding hundreds of pipe and bar clamps was to use too soft casters, an error I've made more than once on other equipment. Beware medical service take-offs on the surplus market. Those soft tires when heavily loaded are like trying to push a car with four flats. The prospect of completely unloading the rack to change the casters is very unappealing. Years pass with the new, heavier casters still on the shelf.
Seeing all those clamps made me weak at the knees.
Ive spend over a thousand Aussie dollars on clamps and I think Ive only got around 12 haha
Oh lord I just noticed the sticker on your chemical cabinet, think I need one of those too, hah.
Thirteenth-century medieval poets are always good for a laugh.
The other reason to leave the top grid unglued is I know I’d drop some small and valuable item through one of the open grid holes. The unglued top grid will let me get it out.
Good point. You can just bet that's where the shop gremlins are going to put your pencils.
Для каждого зажима - отдельную стойку! 🧐
Ah and HA! I have about 45 clamps all stashed on a wall rack in about 26" of valuable wall space and another lost count number of other clamps stuck to anything that will get things stuck to them. I've even considered glass lighting tubes, but had to pass on that idea.. Problem is my only real viable available wall to use for clamps has two pesky windows that don't do much other than give insects a place to buzz around then eventually die.. Floor space is the other problem and my floor LOVES extension cords and air hoses more than I do.. Did I mention that I collect darn near every scrap of wood that ever enters the door? Still, I'm not opposed to making better use of my bad habits and this rack may just change a few of them.
Quick idea for your windows, if you wish to repossess them: The folks at Popular Woodworking magazine once had a window in their shop to which they attached narrow notched shelves. They used these shelves to hang and organize a variety of hand tools -- chisels, files, rasps, mallets, screwdrivers, wrenches, anything long and thin without a cord. This essentially turned the window into a tool cabinet with solar backlighting. It was quite striking. Travis and I are building a new shop that will have a few windows, and I plan to do this with at least one of them.
@@WorkshopCompanion I thought about this as well myself, but I'm not too crazy about the idea of advertising to every thief in the area that I have a shop full of tools. The windows face the street and I'd probably have to rearrange the deck chairs in my personal Titanic. I could easily grow things in the windows though, but I'm in South Carolina. I'd have a small jungle in no time. LOL
Actually my working partner and myself are close to closing a deal on a much larger shop. My wife has mixed emotions, but she would get her parking space back.
honey dipped & deep fried in murphy's law... LOL.. brilliant.
I have a small ton of plywood scraps, but all seem just a bit too small or whatever or buy a full sheet and my old body fights with it till it's chopped down. I'll have to wait for the next supplier run and salvage pieces from what's leftover. Ain't that the way it goes when plywood has overtaken our bodily abilities? That's why I have a younger partner..
Let's admit it, the dog is the most important thing in this video... :D
Obviously.
I wish I had a out the way corner in my 15x9 workshop 😕
Where to get plans ???
Lou
workshopcompanionstore.com/products/clamp-caddy
2:08 well... just maybe... perhaps... there was any... if u just get rid of them books - which, I assume, you do not read in your workshop? just kidding. Keep on makin these videos!
*looks at tool caddy*
*looks over at the two cheap plastic clamps I've managed to scrounge for cheap*
Show off.