Attachment storage

[OldcrowP51]

I'm starting to collect quite a few implements and wondering how you guys are storing them. I don't like the idea of leaving them outside in the elements.

I could build a traditional rectangular (pole) shed but I know how that works; the attachment you want is all the way in the back and you pretty much haver to empty the building to get what you want.

I'm thinking open sided racking that would store 3 point items down low and FEL items on shelf above.
Would only cover roof, back and side walls. It would keep them out of the sun and majority of weather.

What are you guys doing?

 

[fried1765]

I'm starting to collect quite a few implements and wondering how you guys are storing them. I don't like the idea of leaving them outside in the elements.

I could build a traditional rectangular (pole) shed but I know how that works; the attachment you want is all the way in the back and you pretty much haver to empty the building to get what you want.

I'm thinking open sided racking that would store 3 point items down low and FEL items on shelf above.
Would only cover roof, back and side walls. It would keep them out of the sun and majority of weather.

What are you guys doing?

Your idea, is the same that many do use.

 

[old and tired]

Depends on which ones, the ones that were cheap and were bought from people that had them in the open, they are still in the open. These just hang out by the tree line, some you can't even see.

The rest that I care and use more often, they live under our covered porch.

Then odds and ends, are in the basement, PHD, hay bale spear, and other miscellaneous stuff are inside there, too.

 

[Lil Foot]

This is what I did:

Implement Stand

In the ongoing effort to reclaim my mountain garage as a garage rather than a storage facility, I built this stand to store implements on/in. All the materials were on hand left from various projects & some judicious scrounging, so cost was labor & time only. The plow, box blade, forks, backhoe...

www.orangetractortalks.com

 

[rc51stierhoff]

I'm starting to collect quite a few implements and wondering how you guys are storing them. I don't like the idea of leaving them outside in the elements.

I could build a traditional rectangular (pole) shed but I know how that works; the attachment you want is all the way in the back and you pretty much haver to empty the building to get what you want.

I'm thinking open sided racking that would store 3 point items down low and FEL items on shelf above.
Would only cover roof, back and side walls. It would keep them out of the sun and majority of weather.

What are you guys doing?

Good day.

Great topic for sure…

For my last barn build I thought long and hard about this, but ultimately my knees got wobbly when time to pay the piper for extra doors. I ended up putting in insulation and a wrap around porch on instead of spending money on extra doors.

I did not do this but what I’ve thought about and would like to do: I’d like to have roll up doors spaced around the exterior (non vehicle drive in / out sides) of the building or at least along a wall, and behind the roll up doors would be industrial shelving giving ready access from the exterior. Shelving would be just inside and roll door up get what you want, then roll down and keep elements off. If you did that, I think you could actually have a double row of industrial shelving and the second row accessible from the inside. (At some point a pallet stacker or forklift might start to make sense depending on the size of your collection.)

I could not make the math work when I was trying to hit a magical number.

I am currently palletizing most items…I was using dollys until that started adding up, and then I ended getting a pallet jack. I can maneuver stuff around pretty easy and can a little more efficiently with that. Certainly easier in a corner with a pallet jack.

To me industrial shelving makes sense in a lot of situations if you have the lateral and vertical space available.