There has got to be a better way to store and organize these types of tools. Any suggestions?
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Like this..buy shovel at ACE hardware...use it. Toss it.
Repeat...they store all the stuff for you at a modest price.
Hmph!
I still have the same shovel my grandad gave me - It's only had three new handles and two new blades.
(G) Oh crap..I know how bad it is..I have the damm things all over the yard, in both sheds, in the truck..eerywhere
I get to a job and forget a shovel! Go buy a new one..I'm bad for that.
Ha!
That's how I got a lot of my stuff.
LOL When I was a kid I kept breaking the handles out of the post hole diggers. My father hired a welder to put some metal handles in and said " If you can break those take the rest of the week off".
That was 25 years ago and I still have them with the same handles. I still have the store of handles that my father kept because of me.
Havent had a week off since.
I started on a set of PHD's with pipe handles. I thought for a long time they were all like that, never got a chance to break the handles on one until I bought my own years later.
Got great shoulders out of it.
When my father built a house he did most of it.
Set the forms-(it aint the finishers job and I want my houses square),frame, shingles,(roofers probably drunk anyway), trim, cabs-if it was wood we did it.
I didnt get to drive a nail until I was 16 so for three years all I did was gopher.
I was always there on set forms day and always on the shovel or sledge or PHD.
I really wanted that week off.
I was mostly brute force myself when I was a kid, I got most of the PHD duty, and carryin' stuff.
The neighbor even had good advice for me - once when I was backfilling the front porch with that shovel of grandads, he took time to tell me-
'Boy, you make sure you fill up the back end of that shovel with dirt, the front end will take care of itself.'
Durn if he weren't right.
All the old timers told me was was, "Slow down and pace yersef boy, so you can last 'til the end of the day"Comne end of the day when I was still out shoveling them, they said, "Slow down young'un, so you can last 'till end of the week"By end of the week, all they said was, "Which shovel you want to wear out today?"
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LOL
Same here, still pretty good with a shovel.
Heck -
I wonder if my Dad knew your neighbor. He always preached the same thing to me. - lol
Didn't realize I could tell people I have a PHD :) I've seen some shops where they will take two parallel angle iron, pipe, sq. tubing or whatever and weld an angle iron on one end which gets lagged to the wall. Shovels, brooms rakes etc. hang handle down. You have to shuffle them around, but it keeps them from tangling up.
I've got 2 PHD's! LOL
Tried it that way once, every time what I needed was at the back.
Easiest pair of PHD I ever used had aluminum pipes for the handles. Pops had replaced the wooden ones after they broke. The aluminum pipe was handy, so that's what he used.I liked 'em so much that when I got an old pair, I searched around and found some aluminum pipe for mine, as well.Made 'em about half again as long, as well.That extra length came in handy when I had to dig a ten foot deep hole for my power pole.(If I tried to dig the same hole today, it'd probably kill me. LOL)
Yeh... That'll work.
Get some cinder blocks, stack them 2 high, and stand the handle upside down in the cavities.
Maybe 3 high.
Max tools in min floor space.Troy Sprout
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That sounds like it would work, good idea.
That idea is gona srcatch up the handles and leave em all splintery.
Wada you complaining about? You got enough wall space there that you can almost see what you got.
I've got twice as many in half as much space.
This is just the first set. Wait till I need the thing that's in the back corner a few times.
This was my solution. If I did it now, I wouldn't bother with the fancy holders, but just use finish nails and drill holes in the handles.
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You got way too much space there -- I can see wall between the handles.
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Yea, I had a lot of free wall to use. But they take up less floor space than leaning against the wall. I also wanted them off the dirt floor. If I had used nails, the spacing could've been a lot closer.View Image
I like it, but I don't have that much room.
Heck, you just move or something?
Handles in a trash can.
Ka-ney?!
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Yep. Not all set up yet, but I'm in. I just moved acrsoss town to nicer digs.
Handles in a trash can, eh? Interesting.
What's Ka-ney?
It's really not much better, but I built a plywood box that hangs off the wall (doesn't touch the floor so I can sweep or vacuum under it ) and corrals that stuff. At least it can't fall over or slip down towards the floor. I also have a couple of the lesser used tools the hang about the others, such as the spud bar and the garden rake.
"Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd."
~ Voltaire
A tool corral is what I would call what you got, it was what I had at the old place, yer right, it keeps 'em in one jumble.
<g>
we recently re-organized our shop, and had a mess like yours before, peg board went along way. If you converted the space where they are currently stashed with floor to ceiling pegboard you'd be amazed at how much you can fit on there.
We has the peg board and had to buy the hooks, so it was cheaper then anything pre-made I saw at ace or HD. IMO all the racks and holders I saw for sale looked like they would break in short order
For some reason, I have never been able to make pegboard work for me, and I have tried it several times.
I'm not sure what I am doing wrong - too many hooks, not enough, wrong kind?
Got any pics of your setup?
I can take one next time I'm at the shop
Nothing speacial about the hooks we used, just from HD. It's been up for about a month and a half or so and no problems yet, I do wonder about long term....
What about slat wall?
Slat wall too 'spensive. Would make an awesome shop, with slat wall everywhere.
Best I've seen was a tool trailor where the boss had me put 12"x1/2" steel rod 8"x6"OC in a 2x6 bolted to the wall. This really helped organise the tools for a 175 man crew.
The bolts alternated 6" and 8" apart. Shovels obviously had to hang between a 6" pair. Hoes had the blade hung over the 2x6 behind other stuff, but you could have one pair of rods 2"OC.
SamT
I'm liking that idear.
Ever see a trailer used by a lawn care company? They weld some steel tubes, and set the handles in the tubes.
Or, hang them outside. Nobody's going to steal a shovel- especially if it looks ugly and used.
Nobody's going to steal a shovel- especially if it looks ugly and used.
I'll have to respectfully disagree with that based on experience.
ditto....Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming<!----><!----><!---->
WOW!!! What a Ride!Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
I had a few sharp shooters taken from the back of my truck one night because I was being lazy and didn't feel like moving them... They also took two 6' chains that were locked together with master locks the theives didn't have keys for, and 2 nylon ratchet straps...
Of all the things to steal.
everything and anything seems to be a target anymore...
nothing is safe...Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming<!----><!----><!---->
WOW!!! What a Ride!Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
$120/ton for steel. Heck they're stealing catalytic xverters, they're worth big money. Had a guy killed stealing live wires off the power pole. They are stealing everything and anything here. The company I work for had every GPS unit stolen out of the cars in the parking lot last week. Made the local news. Even though most were put under the seat, if the thieves saw a mount for one, they broke into the cars and found them.
double ditto"Poor is not the person who has too little, but the person who craves more."...Seneca
Sorta reminds me of a customer I had back in Pa. He owned a roach coach bizness...8 lunch trucks that got garaged everynight.
One Memorial Day weekend he had a flat tire on Fri eve, just out side the garage. Changed tire, parked truck inside, locked up and headed home for the long weekend.
He got a call ( and subsequently so did I) that the shop got broken into..steel door pried out of the jamb.
Here is the kicker...they found the tire iron he changed his flat with, that he left outside...to pry open the door. DOH!
He called me on Sunday morning asking me to weld the door shut, to prevent more tresspassing.
Never leave tools just hanging around where the publick can get thier hands on them.
Here's the best way I know of to store lots of these tools in a small space. This one holds 48 and is on casters. I adapted this from a similar idea I saw years ago for storing a collection of pipe clamps. I've never posted pix before so I hope this works.
Now that's awesome.
Very cool.
Now youve done it.
Ladyfire says we need one of them PVC holders.
point her in the direction of the store...Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming<!----><!----><!---->
WOW!!! What a Ride!Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
I heard that!
Lets see, in between working two offices, going on installs, cooking and cleaning and raising kids,( Bambam included) fighting fires, and of course my BT time............
Yeah. I can find lots of time for that. Bet I get mine built before you do.
Correction.....2 built......1 for Heck.
:)My brain + his brawn = a perfect team
that you will...
the one shovel I gots just rides around in the back of the truck...Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming<!----><!----><!---->
WOW!!! What a Ride!Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
well then, there went that idea!
Wish all we had was one. I need at least two of them rake racks!My brain + his brawn = a perfect team
and the shop...Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming<!----><!----><!---->
WOW!!! What a Ride!Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
She'd probably build it too.
Have her build two, I'll take one.
:)
Working on it, but the catch is you gotta come to firefest to get it!
See ya' in Februrary.My brain + his brawn = a perfect team
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That would be extremely hard t do. I think he's the only one of him in the world!
My brain + his brawn = a perfect team
I think you'll like it. 1-1/4" pipe works well for the stuff with skinny handles but I added a few 2" for the larger things.
I'm planning to add a few of these to my garage to hang stuff up.
Gempler's Long Handle Tool Storage
I have seen those before. They sure are pricey, they cost more than most of the tools I would hang in them.
It would be nice to have a few around, though.
I just (finally) tamed my pile that looked a lot like that.
I started by nailing a couple of scrap 2x4's across the studs horizontally at two elevations. Next, with a pile of cheap lag bolts and my heavy duty impact wrench, I install a peg or two to hold each tool. I use longer lags to hold multiples of the same tool (such as spades or leaf rakes). The two horizontals allow for staggering of long and short tools and overlapping of odd-shaped heads on things like picks in order to minimize the amount of linear footage taken up. A few screws in the blank spaces provide hangers for the small stuff like garden tools.
Not rocket science, but it works and it's cheap. Total cost - less than ten bucks. Only about an hour of time. Good Luck.
I think that is what I will do, but I will put up pegboard first, then the two levels of horizontals with pegs.
I can then hang the bigger and longer tools from the lags, and fit smaller stuff in/around them on the pegboard.
I spaced, do you still want pics of our peg board set up? It's not really all that impressive but if you're interested I will post
Yeah, if you don't mind. I am pegboard challenged, and could always use some tips.
Sure here is!
Put half of them in the other corner
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I was in the active army for three years and recieved two metals for digging foxholes. Go figure! Didn't get a dime for it. Must be the Irish in me.
So did you find any foxes??