What have you built from an old bed frame?

[C96]

Looking for some ideas, I have a couple old bed frames I want to save for future use. The angle used in them seems to be of decent quality and could be used for making many things around the shop / garage.

Please share what you've made or done with them along with any creative ideas of what they might also be used for.

Post some pictures if you can, I think we would all like to see some creativeness.

 

[kmkalf]

I made a book case out of an old wooden crib

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[sberry]

I usually don't save them. I am a big re user but those are a problem.

 

[chipper]

If your talking actual metal bed frame(not headboard/footboard) then I cut one up and used it to stake down a wooden swing set for the kids it worked perfect

 

[C96]

If your talking actual metal bed frame(not headboard/footboard) then I cut one up and used it to stake down a wooden swing set for the kids it worked perfect

Yes, I’m referring to the metal frames, should have been more specific. Seems there could be many uses for them.

 

[d19h]

I've build a frame for blast cabinet, recessed shelf supports and ceiling brackets to hang things (shelves) from, trailer rails. I always seem to be using them for something and someone always has them on craiglist.

 

[lilredex]

There are lots of projects.....


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Drill Press fence.


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I have a good supply of them and never drive by them.

 

[rieferman]

Good idea on the fence... if they're straight and true, I might repurpose some that I have laying around for my miter saw station.

 

[48fordnut]

I use them to build battery boxes/hold downs .Good steel

 

[boston813]

I used some as part of a soap box derby car

 

[PugetDude]

Stand for my Craftsman benchtop bandsaw. Too lazy to dig it out and take a picture, tho...

 

[NUTTSGT]

I remember seeing somebody here posted a picture of a wood rack (inside use) they made from bed frames. I asked about them and it gave me the idea to make a rack like it.

 

[lilredex]

A few more..

http://garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=160044

 

[KEH]

Bed frames are made from hard steel. Drilling through them is not easy, but what you make of them is strong and light. I have heard the view expressed that they will crack around the weld, but I have made numerous projects using 6011 rod and an AC welder and have not had problems. I have made side rails for several trailers. Made a computer desk for my daughter once, light and easily moved, it's on standby to be cut up and reporposed now. Frames for shop doors. Gates, one has the outer frame made and oak boards bolted to it for cross pieces. Wood exposed to th eelements has a tendency to warp and sag, so the frame prevents all that. Frames for shelving in the shop. Another frame to hold a homemade tool cabinet on the shop wall. There has always been a class of people who move when the rent comes due, and in more prosperous times they often threw out some bed frames. Now scrappers pick up most
abandoned steel and a lot that is not abandoned.

KEH

 

[Big Bad Dad]

I used old bed frame to make a seat bracket for my 78 Dodge truck. The original bench seat was shot. Picked up a nice set of split front benches with the twin fold down armrests from a late model Crown Vic. Took them off the power seat tracks, and bolted them to a rectangle frame fabricated to bolt to the manual truck bench seat brackets. Put it all together, and it works like a charm. (Just no power seats)

 

[Granite Guy]

Great thread here...

I have a granite countertop business, and have used bed rail frames for all kinds of stuff around my shop. Built our A-frame for our installation truck out of them, also a really nice work table that we fabricate on. We use 2x4s as runners that make the table very versatile. Also hose racks and shelf brackets too.

My family was in the mattress business many years ago, so we have a lot of old bed frames still hanging around. And I still stop at the curb and pick up any old bed frame that someone is throwing away. I'm stockpiling

 

[ambenz]

I've seen Garden gates....

Trellis....

Bench...

Fence...

Wine rack....

Patio Lounger.....

Sofa table....

 

[NUTTSGT]

I've seen Garden gates....

I believe that has some serious cool factor there, not sure why but I like it.

 

[gearhead1]

What haven't I made from embed frames might be a better question......

Fuel cell frame for demolition derby cars.
Re-mount the coil packs,to on top of the engine from the front of the engine on demolition derby car.
Welding cart.
Adapter to fit in a floor jack to lift automatic transmissions.
Used some to mount my trailer fenders, made them removable.
Homemade tire bead breaker tool.
Frame to put tire machine in to roll it around.

I had one frame that had a high nickel content or something, and I couldn't drill it or torch it. I scrapped it, but that was only one. Everything else I ever used can be drilled or welded.

If I'm in my truck, I don't pass up any bed frames. A couple buddies scratch their heads and gave me a hard time until I used it for something they wanted. I also get conduit and uni strut from construction dumpsters. Oh and buckets too. I refuse to pay for a 5 gallon bucket, there are always some in dumpsters.

 

[evintho]

Well, this isn't your standard bedframe. It's a custom piece made from 2" x 3" rec tubing. A friend of mine bought it off CL for $150. He brought it home to his apartment and couldn't get it through the front door. In frustration, he called and asked me if I wanted it........................YEP! The guy even delivered it to my house!

Made a couple of mods and turned it into a frame table. Built my roadster frame on it!

 

[tavernaut]

A hanging rack for air tools. A stand for a dinky freebie belt/disc sander. A fixture for bolting an intake manifold onto a bridgeport table.

Bed rail is the go-to re-purpose stock in my shop. When I find some I just chopsaw the riveted ends off and toss the angle in a pile until I need it. Sometimes I practice welding on the feet and the cut off bits.

lilredex, I'm making a fence like yours, thanks for the inspiration.

 

[Big Bad Dad]

Well, this isn't your standard bedframe. It's a custom piece made from 2" x 3" rec tubing. A friend of mine bought it off CL for $150. He brought it home to his apartment and couldn't get it through the front door. In frustration, he called and asked me if I wanted it........................YEP! The guy even delivered it to my house!

Made a couple of mods and turned it into a frame table. Built my roadster frame on it!

This is pretty close to a "you ****" award on GJ...

 

[gsport]

Here's my first project...

 

[gipp]

I built a stand for my Arbor Press and a stand for my sand blast cabinet. Like some of the other suggestions.

 

[Rickb1873]

A couple of years ago I built a great tire rack from an old bed frame. I drilled and bolted it together and attached it to the wall using tap cons.
It holds up to eight tires, and saved me $175 by not having to buy and ship a pre-made Tire Rack.

 

[Lippyp]

I made a small piece of fencing to fill in between some steel palisade fencing and a stone wall at our old house. the fencers had left a gap and I caught some thieving little scrote heading into our garden with bad intentions. Welded up a simple frame filled in with some weld mesh and a couple of strands of good sharp barbed wire across the top. I have used other bits to stake shrubs and for various small welding projects.

 

[colsanders]

My wifes great uncles built a tow bar for his Seabee out of an old bed frame.

 

[7th Kahuna]

Bed frames are made from hard steel. Drilling through them is not easy, but what you make of them is strong and light.

A couple years ago I read that bed frames were one of the most popular uses for recycled railroad track. Apparently the 'formula' that makes it well suited to carrying rail traffic makes it unsuitable for much else.

I have used it several times but not for anything special. Reenforced a garage door, and a work bench top, etc.

 

[big.jim]

built a small box trailer out of one at full bed size , new meaning to what is the trailer bed size

 

[blacknblue]

Bump anyone else? My neighbor just tossed out some tonight so I grabbed them. Just looking for ideas

 

[sberry]

I really try to be cautious where I use them,,, want to go back and punch a driller thru them and cant. Same for steel fence posts.

 

[finn]

Another vote for the air tool hanging rack. Got the idea from the Miller site.

Works well.

 

[hackwelder]

welded together a stand for a Weber BBQ, works well...

 

[Slednut]

I'm liking this thread.

It isn't much but the small pieces of angle iron are from a bed frame.

They are dollies that go under each ski of my snowmobiles so they can be moved around the shop.

 

[SlowAl]

Welded up a rectangular frame, casters on each corner, threw on a couple of old craftsman 26" toolbox bases with a solid core door as a bench top and made a poor man's 52" rolling workbench/tool cabinet.

 

[RVDan]

Well it's really just angle iron, so any angle iron project could be a bed frame project. My dad used bed frame parts for everything, just because he could buy a bed frame at the thrift store for $5 and new steel is more than a buck a foot.

 

[12vwiz]

You guys amaze me. Heck, I thought I was doing something when I salvaged a set off an old queen size bed and made them work on a twin.

I like this place!

 

[WVBrady]

I built a portable tree stand using sections from a bed frame that I found near where I hunted. It was probably from a former ranger cabin.

 

[The Cobbler]

a friend would say, " what haven't I built with bed frame ?"

 

[TedF13]

I'm liking this thread.

It isn't much but the small pieces of angle iron are from a bed frame.

They are dollies that go under each ski of my snowmobiles so they can be moved around the shop.

Nice!! I love the repurpose on the rollerblade wheels.