For health and safety reasons my woodworking days are over.
If I keep the tools available I will be tempted to use them.
This could be dangerous.
Does anyone know of a good organization to donate these to?
I am talking about table saw, planer, joiner, chopsaw,...

Thanks for any and all help.

wrote:

For health and safety reasons my woodworking days are over.
If I keep the tools available I will be tempted to use them.
This could be dangerous.
Does anyone know of a good organization to donate these to?
I am talking about table saw, planer, joiner, chopsaw,...
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Where are you located?

Lew

"Lew Hodgett" wrote in message
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wrote:

For health and safety reasons my woodworking days are over.
If I keep the tools available I will be tempted to use them.
This could be dangerous.
Does anyone know of a good organization to donate these to?
I am talking about table saw, planer, joiner, chopsaw,...
-----------------------------------------------------
Where are you located?

Lew

Local high school shop class?

NW New Jersey.

On 5/16/2014 4:25 PM, wrote:

NW New Jersey.


You could always donate it to me.
Central NJ..


No seriously, most schools are not even doing woodworking.
I would see if the Y wants them, maybe they have a program.

You could sell them and donate the money to anygroup.

Also talk to the religious groups in town, see if there is any down on
their luck contractor, or person who needs to fix up their home.

--
Jeff

wrote:

NW New Jersey.
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I think I would talk to Goodwill, the VFW, Volunteers of America or
similar organization.

They are probably best able to address any potential liability issues
as well as handle your tools as a package.

Lew

Bob La Londe wrote:
"Lew Hodgett" wrote in message
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wrote:

For health and safety reasons my woodworking days are over.
If I keep the tools available I will be tempted to use them.
This could be dangerous.
Does anyone know of a good organization to donate these to?
I am talking about table saw, planer, joiner, chopsaw,...
-----------------------------------------------------
Where are you located?

Lew

Local high school shop class?

They don't even exist anymore, do they?

--

-Mike-

"Mike Marlow" wrote in message
...
Bob La Londe wrote:
"Lew Hodgett" wrote in message
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wrote:

For health and safety reasons my woodworking days are over.
If I keep the tools available I will be tempted to use them.
This could be dangerous.
Does anyone know of a good organization to donate these to?
I am talking about table saw, planer, joiner, chopsaw,...
-----------------------------------------------------
Where are you located?

Lew

Local high school shop class?

They don't even exist anymore, do they?

--

-Mike-


I don't know. My son graduated a couple years ago. I seem to recall he
made a wood toolbox in some class. I'll ask him about it. I know they
still had welding because he was the welding TA his senior year. He also
went back the next year about once a week for a couple months and helped
teach the new guys how to use the CNC Plasma cutter he had setup the
previous year. They obviously still do some vocational trades classes.

On 5/16/2014 2:56 PM, wrote:
For health and safety reasons my woodworking days are over.
If I keep the tools available I will be tempted to use them.
This could be dangerous.
Does anyone know of a good organization to donate these to?
I am talking about table saw, planer, joiner, chopsaw,...

Thanks for any and all help.

I'd second the idea of selling them and using those proceeds for some
charitable organization as probably most practical altho the idea of
finding an organization seem a good idea.

On that side, surely Habitat for Humanity has some stuff of their own?
Perhaps a local branch? I really know nothing of their actual
organizational process--worked on a couple of builds but wasn't enough
into the directed unskilled labor instead of actually doing something w/
a skill set that seemed the norm there that I continued...

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wrote in message
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NW New Jersey.

Another option might be Habitat for Humanity. Atleast for some of your
tools.

Bob La Londe wrote:


I don't know. My son graduated a couple years ago. I seem to recall
he made a wood toolbox in some class. I'll ask him about it. I know
they still had welding because he was the welding TA his senior year.
He also went back the next year about once a week for a couple months
and helped teach the new guys how to use the CNC Plasma cutter he had
setup the previous year. They obviously still do some vocational
trades classes.

Wow - that's great. Around here all forms of shop class are long gone.
BOCES took the place of what we knew as shop class but it was for the kids
that weren't candidates for the standard academic trac. Don't even know
what it's like now.

--

-Mike-

dpb wrote:
On 5/16/2014 2:56 PM, wrote:
For health and safety reasons my woodworking days are over.
If I keep the tools available I will be tempted to use them.
This could be dangerous.
Does anyone know of a good organization to donate these to?
I am talking about table saw, planer, joiner, chopsaw,...

Thanks for any and all help.

I'd second the idea of selling them and using those proceeds for some
charitable organization as probably most practical altho the idea of
finding an organization seem a good idea.

On that side, surely Habitat for Humanity has some stuff of their own?
Perhaps a local branch? I really know nothing of their actual
organizational process--worked on a couple of builds but wasn't enough
into the directed unskilled labor instead of actually doing something w/
a skill set that seemed the norm there that I continued...

--

Around here they take anything building related. What they can't use
they sell in their thrift store.

--
 GW Ross 

 I got lost in thought, it was 
 unfamiliar territory. 

Hello,
I saw this in the news group and sent the info. to my brother-in-law.
He works for a Christian Organization and does many donations, and helps
with many orphanages etc.
He is also working in Mexico with poverty and orphanages.....
just a thought.
john


wrote in message
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For health and safety reasons my woodworking days are over.
If I keep the tools available I will be tempted to use them.
This could be dangerous.
Does anyone know of a good organization to donate these to?
I am talking about table saw, planer, joiner, chopsaw,...

Thanks for any and all help.

"Mike Marlow" wrote in message
...
Bob La Londe wrote:


I don't know. My son graduated a couple years ago. I seem to recall
he made a wood toolbox in some class. I'll ask him about it. I know
they still had welding because he was the welding TA his senior year.
He also went back the next year about once a week for a couple months
and helped teach the new guys how to use the CNC Plasma cutter he had
setup the previous year. They obviously still do some vocational
trades classes.

Wow - that's great. Around here all forms of shop class are long gone.
BOCES took the place of what we knew as shop class but it was for the kids
that weren't candidates for the standard academic trac. Don't even know
what it's like now.

I asked my son, and he said they had a class called construction trades
where he made the wood tool box. I thought it was interesting because it
was similar to one my dad taught me to make for myself when I was a kid.
Mine had a sawed off handle from a broken broom for a carry handle, and the
sides were made from old soda pop crates. My sons had a piece of plywood
cut into a pleasing raised handle shape. He also made a similar box in his
welding class with a sheet metal brake and rivets his first year.

Habitat for humanity.


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wrote:

NW New Jersey.
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I think I would talk to Goodwill, the VFW, Volunteers of America or
similar organization.

They are probably best able to address any potential liability issues
as well as handle your tools as a package.

Lew



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On 5/16/2014 2:56 PM, wrote:
For health and safety reasons my woodworking days are over.
If I keep the tools available I will be tempted to use them.
This could be dangerous.
Does anyone know of a good organization to donate these to?
I am talking about table saw, planer, joiner, chopsaw,...

Retirement community?

Son-in-laws grandparents live in a good-sized one in the Twin Cities
that is equipped... mainly by the residents with a nice shop with many
of the tools you have to offer.

Look around your area for a similar operation not so well-equipped
(yetg) that could use some tools?

On Fri, 16 May 2014 13:25:22 -0700 (PDT), wrote:


NW New Jersey.
Peters Valley
pvcrafts.org

On Fri, 16 May 2014 15:03:45 -0700, "Bob La Londe"
I don't know. My son graduated a couple years ago. I seem to recall he
made a wood toolbox in some class. I'll ask him about it. I know they
still had welding because he was the welding TA his senior year. He also
went back the next year about once a week for a couple months and helped
teach the new guys how to use the CNC Plasma cutter he had setup the
previous year. They obviously still do some vocational trades classes.

The OP may run into the same type of problem I did. I've got a club
quality exercise machine that I tried to donate to a local hospital
physiotherapy department. (They already had a similar type of the same
machine).

Anyway, after a short discussion, they refused my donation offer
because of possible culpability from accepting used equipment should
any injury occur from using it.

On 5/16/2014 2:56 PM, wrote:
For health and safety reasons my woodworking days are over.
If I keep the tools available I will be tempted to use them.
This could be dangerous.
Does anyone know of a good organization to donate these to?
I am talking about table saw, planer, joiner, chopsaw,...

Thanks for any and all help.



Try asking the businesses that you bought them from or like businesses.
They are asked for donations all the time.

wrote:
For health and safety reasons my woodworking days are over.
If I keep the tools available I will be tempted to use them.
This could be dangerous.
Does anyone know of a good organization to donate these to?
I am talking about table saw, planer, joiner, chopsaw,...

Thanks for any and all help.



In Australia we have old mens sheds (just google)If you have similar
places you could donate there.

On Friday, May 16, 2014 2:56:49 PM UTC-5, wrote:
For health and safety reasons my woodworking days are over.

If I keep the tools available I will be tempted to use them.

This could be dangerous.

Does anyone know of a good organization to donate these to?

I am talking about table saw, planer, joiner, chopsaw,...





Thanks for any and all help.



Look for a local retirement community. They may have a room available for individuals that would like to do woodworking but who do not have room in their apartments for the equipment. However, they would need to establish liability problems first.

I know that I would like this and may donate mine when I give up the house.

Len