Attachment storage

[shui5612]

Hello guys,

I was wondering where all of you keep your attachments and how do you store them? This is mostly for winter storage.

I mostly place all of mine on a couple of cinder blocks and 2x6s to try and prevent them from freezing to the ground, but all of mine are pretty much snowed in now.

Storing them in a shed isn't an option because I now have abit too many attachments to make most of them accessible easily.

If you guys are curious I have a 5ft rear blade and 8ft one. 7ft box blade. 5ft Harley rake. 7ft snow blower. 7ft bucket. 10ft jib and finally front forks with grapples. I was thinking of making pallets and storing them /moving them around on pallets but some of these don't fit well on pallets /don't balance.

Ian

 

[rd_macgregor]

I have no indoor storage, so all my stuff sits outside in the weather. This includes my tractor, snow blower, chipper, arena drag, bale spear, hydraulic auger, grapple rake, brush cutter, box blade, chain harrow, and carry-all. I put pallets or PT boards under each item, but this is not optimal storage conditions; stuff deteriorates/weathers significantly faster when left out like that...plus, it is more accessible to thieves and vandals. Also, especially in winter, it is unpleasant to work on...maintenance or repairs are not fun in cold rain or nose-hair-freezing cold (usually with howling wind)!

 

[KennyG]

I think you're OK. I have enough room to store everything inside but if I didn't, I would prioritize anything with electrical components - it would have to be inside. After that things with moving parts/seals. Then all steel stuff. Keep it off the ground if possible. Spray cutting edges and bare steel with Fluid Film. Any plastic or rubber parts, spray well with silicon spray. Lots of stuff lasts 30 or 40 years stored outside.

 

[JRobyn]

I try hard to find someplace that's mostly flat/level. I'm occasionally successful.

If you check a couple of times over a week or so, your local Lowes will give you the pallets that heavy landscape materials come on. They are blue, with a 4x4 frame and stringers that are spaced much more tightly than most pallets.

 

[Thomas]

For long winters nap I place attachments on wooden pallet/pallets cover w/tarp.

 

[RjCorazza]

Some of my stuff sits outside, I also prioritize what goes inside by electrical / hydraulic / gear or chain / steel.
Hopefully by next year I will have a small pole barn over an old concrete slab I poured 15 years ago for a basketball court. Currently the indoor implements sit on harbor freight dollies so I can push them into a cargo box. The outdoor implements are sitting on gravel or plastic pallets.

 

[Looking4new]

My snow blower is sitting on a pallet for this winter. I am doing the snow with the loader and rear blade.

 

[oosik]

My tractor with grapple & rear blade are in one bay of my carport. Other than that the chipper is also in a separate bay with my JD lawn mower. All the other stuff sits outside, up off the ground on 4x4 timbers. I keep all the stuff with electricals & moving parts under cover. Its the best I can do with limited storage space.

 

[TheMan419]

One way to make it easier to get to is to put the pallet on casters. I know many people on here will build a custom "pallet" for each item. If they are on wheels you can easily move them and store more in a tighter space. I think as I get more I will do that. Right now I just have the FEL which stays on all the time and a rotary mower. When it is off there is enough room in the barn for it. As I get more toys that will not be the case. But putting them on pallets with casters will make it easier to get more in the same amount of space.

 

[RNeumann]

I am fortunate to have some room indoors so I keep the attachments with hydraulics inside. The ones without get lined up outside on pressure treated 4x4s. If it's something that would tip over like a 3 Point blade I would make a "kickstand" so it won't tip over and it's easier to reattach.

To me a few PT 4x4s is worth the cost since I know they will be around a while and provides some uniformity for my OCD brain!

I am also fortunate to have an old road/area that is hidden and level to store everything I want to outside.

 

[newbury]

One way to make it easier to get to is to put the pallet on casters. I know many people on here will build a custom "pallet" for each item. If they are on wheels you can easily move them and store more in a tighter space. I think as I get more I will do that. Right now I just have the FEL which stays on all the time and a rotary mower. When it is off there is enough room in the barn for it. As I get more toys that will not be the case. But putting them on pallets with casters will make it easier to get more in the same amount of space.

I go one step further with some of my implements, like my Jinma chipper. It's rather top heavy so I strap it to a pallet then put the pallet on 3 (I think) of the Harbor Freight 18 In. x 12 In. 1000 lb. Capacity Hardwood Dolly which I get on sale for about $7. These make for easy man handling. I've got my 5' tiller on 3 dollies.
I've probably got a dozen or two of the dollies supporting stuff around the shops and have only broken one in 5 years.

 

[94BULLITT]

Most of my stuff sits outside. The grapple, bucket, and pallet forks sit inside. The small stuff like the trailer mover is inside too. I keep some attachments on pallets so I can easily move them.

 

[TerryR]

I built this shed for all my tractor toys:



There are not enough bays for all the toys, but the dollies I built to make them easier to hitch up also allow me to move them around so more fit in:

 

[DocDryden]

I'm fortunate to have a lot of room for storage in my barn,

 

[ovrszd]

I store almost everything inside. Prioritized as mentioned by others earlier. I don't store anything on dollies.

If you get to the point that you have storage buildings, notice I say buildings plural, have a building for machines. Have a separate building for "stuff". A LOT of building space is killed with "stuff". A multi-hundred dollar attachment sitting outside so there's room in the building for a $5 lawn chair. We all fail in this regard. Better to have a "stuff" building.

 

[nikdfish]

I'll +1 dollies on wheels if you have the luxury of a smooth cement floor. Creative nesting lets me store a 1025R FILB, 3038e w/loader, 60' box blade, 72" landscape blade, 72" landscape rake, post hole auger, 6" Jimna chipper, 60" finish mower, 60" tiller, 3pt carryall and shelf w/diesel & lubes, compressor and generator plus propane jugs under cover in a shed with a 22x20 foot footprint and everything man accessible as needed. Wheeled dollies also make hookups soooo much easier. (The structure was specifically built to be dedicated to tractors & attachment storage).

Nick

 

[ovrszd]

I'll +1 dollies on wheels if you have the luxury of a smooth cement floor. Creative nesting lets me store a 1025R FILB, 3038e w/loader, 60' box blade, 72" landscape blade, 72" landscape rake, post hole auger, 6" Jimna chipper, 60" finish mower, 60" tiller, 3pt carryall and shelf w/diesel & lubes, compressor and generator plus propane jugs under cover in a shed with a 22x20 foot footprint and everything man accessible as needed. Wheeled dollies also make hookups soooo much easier.

Nick

You obviously have no "stuff" in there!!!!

Pics please!!!

 

[nikdfish]

(forgot to include the hiller & middle buster)

rake & blade are same form factor, so their dollies can nest

Things get shuffled around as I use different items.

Nick

 

[ovrszd]

Very nice Nick!!!! That's efficiently using space!!!!! You are wayyyyyy better organized than I.

 

[pat32rf]

I have three sets of "forks" for different uses, a firewood/snow bucket and a hydraulic angle snow plow. It is not uncommon to switch 3-4 times a day. Even my wife knows the signal to "pull the pins" to change implements, all of which are sitting in the snow on old tires. If I emptied my quanset hut I could store things inside but my stuff is too valuable to toss.....
A nice wide 16" tire on its side will keep the pins of the tools above most of the snow (until it starts getting deep) while letting me get the hooks on so I can lift and curl so the pins line up