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Last year I bought a little farm in Michigan that I've been slowly moving into. Today, I was cleaning out a room in the basement that had an old work bench in it. The previous owner left me several of these benches spread around the property's buildings. They all bear the same design and were all clad in pressed board, which, like any reasonably minded man, I loathe. The frames are cobbled together with 2x stock on PT 4x6 legs. I've been stripping these down to the frame and refitting them with plywood tops. As a bonus he used spiral shank 8p nails to attach two layers of pressed board for a top. Each nailed successively.

These all have a single full width shelf underneath built on 2x4 rails. Oddly, he'd covered both the bottom and the top of the rails leaving a 3.5" deep compartment in the shelf. He did this on all of them. The bench in the basement is the forth one of these that I've salvaged. This bench was a repository for the 50 years of leftover paint cans that were generously left for me. After clearing out the old paint, I removed the pressed board shelf top expecting to find a rodent den or some other cross section of nature. The compartments of three other benches like this were empty, but not this one.

Old paint... rodents nest , pressed board etc.... think of it as karma..... for the links you traumatized us with......
Glad you are getting settled in brother Kingston

What, no early 70's stash of dirt weed? half rotted Playboy mags? A half pint of Old Grandad, fully aged now?

Just some old paint cans?

When I bought my 7 Acre RANCH!, I at least got an old cows skull up in the tree, some vertebrae, and a bunch of old gray mule deer antlers, some already chewed on by the rats.

Geno.
Kingston moved to Michigan.... not the wild west

Great thread. I like where this is going.

Promising...

Well, what's in them cases?

I've found a couple woodchuck skulls.

Link? 😃

Oh my!

I’ll give you $25 each and throw in a cow skull and some rotten mule deer antlers so you can feel like you have a RANCH like Geno.

How much wood can a woodchuck chuck?
Good grief Kingston, why settle for Michigun? enjoy Gretchen? wtf

Ok It's Christmas unwrap them.

Ohh now?!

Cmon dirtweed!!!

This is like wheel of fortune

Sunsabitches.

A few here know about the 7 Acre RANCH! title.

But Kingston is going to be a bastid if he holds out showing us what else is in there.

Cray Cray dude.

Inspiration for this thread comes from those unboxing videos on Youtube were some inna-net milf gets a big delivery of Chinese lingerie and scented massage oils from Amazon, just tweaked for loonies.

Tryin' to figure out from the shape of that one in the upper left wrapped up in a shirt. Paratrooper M1?

Pistol in that one in the lower right perhaps, and if so, I hope it's well wrapped in an oily rag being in what looks like a plastic bag.

No telling what else.

I like the long knife.