I hang them up on bicycle hooks.
Let's see how you store your saws...
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cuinrearview
Red saw lover
Too many saws. Let me help you out, go ahead and send this one my way.
Nice looking setup sir.
Thanks, that's the one I put a new 346 top end on. The 346 and the red versions are bad a** little saws.
I know it's not a bad problem to have but I outgrew my chainsaw storage. I've posted the first one before, so pardon me repeating myself.
This is what I started with..
Which worked great for 5 saws, but I recently acquired quite a bit more and had to make some changes...
In hindsight, I would've made it even taller, and spaced the saws a little further apart. I was hoping to only use two sides of this rack, but the saws were making contact, so I had to use all 4 sides, but it is holding 14 saws with room for one more.
I would love to see what you guys have come up with...
10" spikes driven into an overhead tie beam in the barn. The saws hang by the handles. Then a hardened 3/8 chain goes around the beam/through handles, and a quality hardened padlock.
I upgraded to 3/8 chain as almost lost all my saws with 5/16...............see the recent thread on stolen saws.......
cuinrearview
Red saw lover
I really should run a chain through mine. At the moment just just my Dutch Shepard is keeping mine safe but you would have to kill him if you wanted in my shop.
Brent Nowell
Addicted to ArboristSite
That is a good idea!
Brent Nowell
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How do you guys store bar and chain?
I’d love to have something portable for just this in which I can bring multiple sizes with multiple chain types.
I’d love to have something portable for just this in which I can bring multiple sizes with multiple chain types.
In the shop I just hang them on big nails and throw them in my truck box when I go out. I know that's not much help but I haven't come up with a better way to do it.
Brent Nowell
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I was thinking of making a slim wood case or something in which it has slots to accept and separate bars. The chain would be wrapped into the bar using some kind of jig to simulate a sprocket to keep it in place. Just ideas in my head nothing has come to any kind of fruition yet
Back garage wall. All visible saws are runners. Saws in boxes are future projects. Misc. A/C equipment, ultrasound cleaners, etc. Five work saws at other house and cabin. Five others on floor.
I store a few this way as well
Wonder if she’s related to my wife? I get the exact same questions...
I ran out of floor space so I hang them all from the ceiling in my shop. I now have each one covered with a small trash bag to keep the sawdust off it.
Mine get a little tuft of cardboard out on the garage floor with the mice 
Admittedly Pretty poor accommodations for tools that could easily take your life if they wanted .
Admittedly Pretty poor accommodations for tools that could easily take your life if they wanted .
This is what I came up with for bars and chains. It’s just unistrut, 5/16 shcs with the heads cut off for the bar side and left the heads in for the chain side. As you can see, I still need to sort out the chains and hang them up, I also am in the process of labeling the unistrut. Not exactly portable...
Husky and Stihl parts, sorted by part number
More Stihl parts by part number
More Stihl parts by part number
Brent Nowell
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Wow now that’s a rack!!
We use strut all the time at work, at one point I was gonna make a chair with some but I never thought of something like that!
Those mounts on the bottom for the floor we call “elephant feet” in the trade.
The amount of accessories for strut is really amazing, they have right angle brackets, front angle brackets, pipe clamps, and even roller setups for making your own crane. Very very cool setup you have!!!
*edit*
You have inspired me, I will make something like this in the near future!!
It takes up a little floor space, but so far it has been worth it for me. I still have another 200 or so bars that are just stacked up in the cardboard sleeves, but they are mostly duplicates of what is hanging up. Nothing is more of a pain than having to dig through a pile of stuff to find what you’re looking for. Has taken me a while to get frustrated enough to start organizing.
