How do you store your attachments? Stacking options?

[s219]

What you will find is that it can be a pain to hookup 3-pt implements unless both the tractor and implement are on level ground relative to each other. I fought with this a lot. That led me to make sure I put a concrete floor in the barn I built, so that implements could be on dollies to roll unto place behind the tractor for easy hookup. The other benefit to that is that the dollies can be rolled out of the way to store the implements off to the side of the barn. I store a box blade, rear blade, and wood chipper this way, and it has been working out great.

I am putting in metal racking to store the implements for my Deere garden tractor in a stacked fashion. I have a tow-behind sweeper, thatcher, and core aerator. Right now they are outdoors rusting. With the rack, they will be stored one above the other on shelves in the barn. I can use the front loader / forks on my large tractor to lift them down when needed (which is only 2-3 times a year at most).

If you had a lot of space and room to maneuver, you could stack larger tractor implements on a rack as well. I have seen pictures of that done here on TBN, so a search may find some good info. I could only do that if the rack was directly opposite of my barn doors, since I don't have room to maneuver much in a 20x20 barn, and anything would have to be a straight shot in through the door. But that is my strategy if I run out of room off to the sides.

The problem with storing implements on the floor is that they waste all that space above the implement unless you get clever. I hate wasted space. So I am always thinking about ideas to either stack implements, or put in shelfs/hooks/hangers above the implements to use up the dead space.

Good luck!

 

[300UGUY]

Here's a somewhat smaller version I built several years ago. It has bays for four implements plus a small closed room with a toilet that's tightly closed and heated above freezing, so works great for storing seeds, garden chemicals, etc.
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But since the "toy" collection tends to grow, you never have enough stalls. So I built dollies for each tool that both make it easier to hook up and lets me slide them in tighter to fit more in:

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Terry

I like your design on the dollies, I have built dollies for mine, but I may steal your design, if I build some more.

 

[flusher]

Get a wide carport, say 20' wide by 25-30' long with covered sides. Orient it so you don't get a lot of wind-driven rain inside the structure. That way you would have room for at least 4 implements. Or buy two 10'W x 20' L carports with sides. You'll probably have to anchor those structures to a concrete foundation to handle the wind loads in WY.

Good luck

 

[Trails End]

I had a car port style enclosure built for my tractor and attachments, with dollies
for each attachment. This works great, except for the fact that I didn't have the
enclosure built large enough. Depth was determined to blend in with the depth
of the garage that it's attached to, but I should have made it twice as wide.
I've run out of space.

 

[Gary Fowler]

Inside storage is great for rotating equipment, however, I ran out of space in my shop and covered areas storing motorized things like my truck, wife's car, Goldwing motorcycle, boat, two zero turn mowers and a push mower. My attached garage houses another SUV, golf cart and RTV900 so basically all the equipment is stored outside. I place some bricks under the bush hog to keep the skids of the ground and the PTO shaft elevated so water cant run back inside the two pieces, both disk harrows are just set on the ground along with my landscape rake (chickens like to perch on it so it is covered with manure but I haven't used it in over 2 years)cultivator, light duty back blade and box blade.

Basically a gallon or so of paint is much cheaper than a storage shed and even without any touchup, all of the 3 PH equipment will outlast me.

 

[joeyd]

I store my implements outside on pallets and put tarps over them in the wet season, I fluid film exposed metal to help protect from rust. All I have to do is make sure I keep my QA pallet forks in front for when I need to change out.

 

[Industrial Toys]

I built this a few years ago. Earlier we built another barn, but quickly ran out of room. In that barn, which is high, I have pallet racking and keep buckets and such things on the racking. Or snow blowers and various mowers on pallets. Problem with that is that too often things are in the way of the racking and putting stuff high up is a delicate operation, best done with a spotter. I have destroyed racking when stuff got hooked in one way or another!

In general, I am trying to get rid of stuff, because there comes a time when more just becomes a pain! I just hate tripping over all manner of attachments that always seem to litter any available floorspace regardless of how much room you have.

The idea I liked with this new building is that it has total access from the front and although there is still always stuff in the way it seems, it is a much better solution then doors from one side or another. Also, the barn has one of it's two big doors under the roof eave side and unless I want to do a lot of extra snow removal work, that door becomes pretty much unuseable throughout the winter months and so largely does access to the racking so it has to be more for seasonal or seldom used stuff.

 

[Industrial Toys]

This picture doesn't do it justice, but this is the kind of chaos that always seems to exist inside any of my buildings. One thing about having more space though. There is always a good chance that there is someplace to put something and sometimes never in the same spot twice! I HATE, I mean absolutely hate stuff left outside.

Some other points occured to me. I have three or four hand pallet type trucks which I could not live without. I got them all used with minor repairs required or at auction. They are GREAT for moving stuff that you store on pallets out of the way. One is really narrow and that one seems to be my favourite and most saught after! Even better if you have concrete aprons and can move stuff outside temporarily.

 

[DocDryden]

Here is another tread from Dec 2014

http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/attachments/327094-where-do-you-store-your.html

 

[SweBota]

I bought used pallet racks and shelves. I put everything on pallets and stack it with the forks. Flail mower is hard to store on a pallet so it goes on the floor under the rack, snow plow on first shelf etc.

/Marcus