HELP! shop is a disaster! ideas for bar/chain/saw racks anyone?

[SawGarage]

I have about 50 saws, 90% with bars, and then about another 25 bars on top of that... along with 50lbs or so of chain (loops. lengths etc...)..

I'm trying to think of space efficient ideas for hanging this stuff so it's organized...

I suppose by mount type , size then length?


Show me what you guys do!



I GOTSTA CLEAN!!

This is before the last 20 saws or so... and the 20+ bars....and misc chains... 'shop' (shed) is 12x16 with a big attic area (plenty up there too... I just finished this shed in February, BTW...

 

[RandyMac]

This may not help you much, chains are easy to muck up. I hang as much as I can. I'll never have enough shelf space, bars on saws makes shelves kinda worthless anyways. I had a good supply of nicely seasoned OG Doug Fir, I'm not much of a carpenter, so everything I make seems neolithic.
This is from my old shop, after a flood and before I moved.

 

[Guido Salvage]

I just posted a thread on this last night. While this may not work for you, this is my solution.

 

[leeha]

This room is 16x22. There has been another
8 foot section added to the right of the shorter
shelfs. Theres 175 saws or so in this room now
and over 125 have bars on them. Might not be
the ideal system for you but works great for me.

Lee

 

[BobL]

Some of these pics are deeply disturbing but I really like em!

 

[CWME]

WOW, CAD much?

Nice pics by the way.... All I can say is WOW... Have some saws...

 

[Jacob J.]

I like Lee's set-up...

 

[GPETER]

Lee
Looks like you could outfit an army of wood cutters!

 

[JJuday]

Leeha is my new HERO!!! I had a thought a while back of standing a small diameter log about 12''diax8' long upright on a pedestal and boring holes in it and using it for a saw stand. With the larger saw below, mid size saws between and small saws up top it'd look like a mechanical Christmas tree! JJuday

 

[STEVEGODSEYJR]

Lee....can I move in? I will just stay in the room with all the saw and be the "Protector of All Saws"! Steve

 

[7oaks]

This room is 16x22. There has been another
8 foot section added to the right of the shorter
shelfs. Theres 175 saws or so in this room now
and over 125 have bars on them. Might not be
the ideal system for you but works great for me.

Lee

:jawdrop:

Looks like I have a good idea for shelving my great big collection of 13 . LOL Seriously I like yours and have been looking for a reason to practice my primitive welding skills. I'll post pics if I ever get it done. LOL

 

[kevlar]

 

[super3]

Lee, you would qualify for the new show on the history channel "hoarders".

 

[GeirA]

First of all: leeha, you're my hero! That's crazy.

Being a cheap SOB I hate spending money on anything but stuff I need/want, I've always resorted to making my own stands, shelves, containers, etc.
For hanging tools etc, I just take a sheet of MDF, drill holes in it and stick wooden pegs (roundbar) in there. Marking off each peg for easy reading.
Shelves: No explanation needed I hope
For screws, nuts, and such: Old jam-jars. Glew/screw the lids underneath the shelves and put stuff in the jars. Easy access and easy to dispose of.

 

[sefh3]

Wow Lee. How many 1000's of cc's do you have in there?

 

[Teddy.Scout]

Lee's a JERK!!!!!!!!!!!! LOL!!


Man that is a nice spread!!!

 

[RandyMac]

We have witnessed a true fanatic at work.

 

[Teddy.Scout]

We have witnessed a true fanatic at work.

Randy, I saw the Pabst cans!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Your a good man! Always welcome in my garage!!!!

 

[RandyMac]

Thanks Teddy, when I trek through our great Country, I will stop by.

PRB, old school beer with old school chainsaws for an old school sawyer, life is good.

 

[Guido Salvage]

Lee, are you married? The first thing that I learned when I started collecting farm tractors (I eventually owned 25 at one time) was to never line them up where my wife could see them and count how many there were.

If I displayed them like that I would be sleeping in that room and eating chain saws for all my meals...

By the way, you have given us all something to aspire to.