Pallets & Racks for attachment storage (not a fork discussion).

[Underdog57]

Lol, what's this?
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Love it!!!!! LOL :laughing:

 

[Bullwinkle123]

A shim?:laughing:

Is that because you haven't bolted the uprights to the floor?

I have an issue there because the genius who designed my garage put in radiant heat. Never used it, probably never will (since it's presently heated by a distant propane-fed boiler), but don't want to wreck it by sinking bolts into the wrong place. So wall ties or ... shims ... for me probably, if necessary.

 

[dstig1]

Your picture certainly looks something like I was thinking of. It looks like your entire fork fits underneath the shelf, what are the rack dimensions?

I don't think I would ever try to stand my rotary cutter up. At 745 pounds that sounds like a good way to kill myself, or at least break a lot of stuff!

The rack is 48" deep, as are the forks. I think it is 12' long, but I'm not 100% on that. I screwed mine to the wall because I am a genius that put radiant tubing in the slab BTW it is the best heat for a shop, the only real downside is you can't drill into the floor - or you have to plan ahead when you lay the tubing out to leave gaps where you need them.

If you were to even think about standing up the cutter, it would obviously be using the forks and straps or chains, and then putting it on a custom made dolly/rack. Not much different than lifting anything heavy, but i can see not wanting the hassle of it.

You can assemble pallet racking solo, but it is enormously easier with 2 people, BTW. Getting that first crossbar in place can be a real juggling act solo.

 

[Bullwinkle123]

The rack is 48" deep, as are the forks. I think it is 12' long, but I'm not 100% on that. I screwed mine to the wall because I am a genius that put radiant tubing in the slab BTW it is the best heat for a shop, the only real downside is you can't drill into the floor - or you have to plan ahead when you lay the tubing out to leave gaps where you need them.

If you were to even think about standing up the cutter, it would obviously be using the forks and straps or chains, and then putting it on a custom made dolly/rack. Not much different than lifting anything heavy, but i can see not wanting the hassle of it.

You can assemble pallet racking solo, but it is enormously easier with 2 people, BTW. Getting that first crossbar in place can be a real juggling act solo.

Thanks for the info. I cleared out my garage today, time to order some racks.

Re: radiant heat. Sounds like your experience is better than mine. All my radiant heat stories in my current house are basically nightmares. In fact I just had the plumber pulling inexplicable gunk out of three radiant zones in the living area last week.

 

[Bullwinkle123]

So having cleared my garage of most stuff, planning for pallet racks, I'm left with one corner of garden-ish hand tools that needs to move. Rakes, snow shovels, spades, mattocks, event a cant hook and a pickaroon. Need to find a new home for them, sure would be nice if there were some way to store them on the new pallet racks. Putting them front to back flat on a shelf is just a way to lose an eye. Right now, in their "tool corner", some hang on the wall, many just lean against the wall.

I'm wondering if something similar to this (see link) could be a solution. Leave off the wire mesh on a section of my racks and put something like this in. I can't tell from the picture if they're really designed to hang on the beam of a pallet rack or not.

Tool Holders and Pallet Rack Divider Arms

As is, those tool-store types of things aren't really good though, since they're meant to hold uniform items where taking the front tool is sufficient, not for grabbing a random tool in a line of them. But maybe there's useful variations on the idea. Certainly some prospective welding projects hiding in there.

Googling for various terms hasn't turned up much for me beyond this one site. I suppose it's possible to drop some tools with no handles on them right down through wire mesh, but not easy if the shelf is high and/or another shelf is too close to it.

Of course if I leave the mesh off I could stand some of the taller tools inside the beams of the rack, on the floor. So maybe no special hanging brackets are required. Messy though, tools'll be falling all over the place if I'm grabbing one.

Hmmm, maybe just a cross bar (such as those that line the underside of wire mesh shelving), and brackets hanging off the beam. 2-3 tools to a cross bar, 3 cross bars to a 4 foot rack/beam width. ("cross bar" being a the steel which goes front to back between two beams connecting uprights, a.k.a. "pallet support")

Ideas?

 

[Peter 315]

Just make or buy some hooks and hang them on the wall , You will only have maybe 3 of the same tool on each hook that's how its done in my garage ...

 

[Bullwinkle123]

Just make or buy some hooks and hang them on the wall , You will only have maybe 3 of the same tool on each hook that's how its done in my garage ...

I'm losing wall space to make room for the tractor and the pallet racks.

Meanwhile, I'm thinking of some kind of hooks that fit the racks, like this fancy ascii graphics image captured because TBN won't let me put spaces in my posts.

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[Peter 315]

I'm losing wall space to make room for the tractor and the pallet racks.

Meanwhile, I'm thinking of some kind of hooks that fit the racks, like this fancy ascii graphics image captured because TBN won't let me put spaces in my posts.

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Link won"t work

 

[Bullwinkle123]

Second try using "advanced" "attachments" options.

 

[Peter 315]

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Second try using "advanced" "attachments" options.

This is my wall...