Things Removed from Grandpa’s Garage Today

Over forty whole televisions, many more pieces of televisions. Many of the televisions were in wooden cabinets.

Seven 8 track cassette players

Four reel to reel tape recorders

three hair dryers from the 1960s, the kind of hair dryers that came with a long hose and a vinyl hood to go over curlers

two oscilloscopes

twenty small motors of various types

A dozen stereos with radios and record players. Many in large wooden cabinets. (Though a few of these were actually in the house rather than the garage.)

Ten or more blocks of wood that had been drilled with holes so that they could be used as tool racks.

Tools, many many tools, vice grips, wrenches, screw drivers, drill bits, hammers, multiples of everything.

Pieces of tools, handles without hammers, saw blades without saws, etc.

Then there were the frankentools, where part of one tool had been attached to the handle of something else. Usually with an epoxy or silicone glue.

fifteen or twenty work lamps, most non-functioning.

Thirty or forty pounds of screws, bolts, nails, hinges, locks, door knobs, and other metal bits.

hundreds of fuses of any type you can imagine, ditto resistors, and radio tubes.

Three giant lamps that must have been removed from some stadium somewhere.

Thirteen pressure gauges

Four electric heaters

Three bicycles with no wheels. (We found the wheels outside fastened twenty feet up to living trees where they served as clothesline reels. The tree had grown around the bicycle parts so they appeared to be growing out of the tree.)

Random pieces of wood with things attached (voltmeters, circuits, light switches, and sometimes there were hand written notes on the wood saying things like “motor burned out, circuits good.”)

Eight linear feet of radio and TV repair manuals.

Fifteen linear feet of a radio repair magazines.

Twenty or thirty other small electronic devices.

All of this was hauled out and sorted. Some was delivered to recycling center, thrift store, or dump. The rest gets hauled off over the next week.

Estimated size of this garage is 600 square feet or less. It was packed.

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