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BigWilly

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I have two sets of tires and wheels for my car, not a big garage and last night spent one hour looking at stuff laying around that I could possibly make a rack out of...then I remembered, I shouldn't start any new projects until I check "The site"...
Can you post up picks of your tire racks?
 
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I don't have any pics right now, but I made two knee braces out of angle, bolted them to the wall, then used a leftover chainlink fencepost and a couple of the post clamps as the horizontal member to span between them. I'll try to get some pics tonight.
 
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BigWilly

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I have a few lengths of angle iron laying around...I'm thinking that would be the way to go. I was curious to see what others are doing around this.
 

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I'd be curious to see some tire storage solutions as well. I was just looking at ideas the other day. Someone on here has a garage build thread where they used the space above their garage door to store them (up against the header) built a shelf basically. Pretty cool except you have to have the door down to access the tires. Still pretty good idea.
 

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We installed this tire rack at a BMW shop. It uses Shure tire racks modified to have a top tier. They will hold a lot of tires and a lot of weight.

Joe Germann
 

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BobWarfield

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Got a Gorilla Rack at OSH and it works great. Just assemble without the MDF shelving. The tires fit perfectly. Add shelves if you don't need that much tire storage.

Best,

BW
 

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Here's mine:

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Here is the one I did out of pipe. It was very simple and under $100 for supplies IIRC.

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Like xelderx... mine are black pipe and pipe flanges. The whole section holds 4 sets of tires on rims.

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Here's the one I just put up today.

I didn't make it, I got it out of an old service station. It was covered by 4 layers of paint that took forever to scrape & sandblast off. It looks like it was homemade out of shelving uprights, shelf brackets, angle iron and flat stock.

It was in use for probably 40 years, it's now 11' long, after I trimmed it.
 

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With 4 service trucks, I finally developed a tire rack that is very easy to make. It is also completly adjustable. At present, there are 6 tire/wheel assemblies stored, tommorrow the Sprinter tire/wheels will be added, then the summer tire/wheels for the E250.

Start
1. tire/wheel on floor, layed down
2. Next tire wheel on first
3. Next tire wheel on 2nd
Stack as high as needed, while maintaning stability.
To retreive, remove top tire/wheel. I have tried to remove the bottom wheel/tire, but that is very troublesome.

Any one needing inexpensive storage, please feel free to use my method.
 

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fireguy, I am using your method as we speak! I even have a table top sitting on top of a couple stacks. Too bad the table top is covered with **** and I can't use it. :beer:

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Black pipe brethren, is there a way to mount blackpipe 45 degrees on a wall? Do they make a flange like that?

Talking about circled areas....

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I just stack them in a corner though I only have the 4 summer tires for my Subaru. Everything else I own I don't switch tires for winter.
 

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Black pipe brethren, is there a way to mount blackpipe 45 degrees on a wall? Do they make a flange like that?

Talking about circled areas....

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I would need to see I photo of your garage, but I assume you have a cathedrial ceiling hence the need for mounting the flange @ 45 degrees.

If so, why not add a 45 elbow in one of the upright braces to set the flange perpendicular to the ceiling?
 

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I made mine quite simply out of some unistrut and threaded rod, under $100 in materials, an hour or so to assemble, easy storage of 12 tiresDSC_0387.jpg
 
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I would need to see I photo of your garage, but I assume you have a cathedrial ceiling hence the need for mounting the flange @ 45 degrees.

If so, why not add a 45 elbow in one of the upright braces to set the flange perpendicular to the ceiling?

I think that is my only option, unless someone knows of something else to use. My worry was that the added depth needed when using a straight piece off the wall, then a 45 might make it stick off the wall too much.
 

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I will get a couple pics, my helper and I just build one that holds 45 or 50 tires. Nice to finally have that mess picked up. I like a couple of these home brew setups in this thread.
 

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I was originally going to build a rack up high. Then I realized my regular old metal shelves would work just fine. Not having to lift the wheels is a big plus when considering options.

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is it better to have the tires & wheels stacked up on each other than having them up right and on the ground? We just switched our summer wheels out last weekend and I just rolled them under the table.
 

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Sitting on the tread in one spot for too long could potentially cause a flat spot or cause the tires to go slightly out of round. But that's really far-fetched, more than likely nothing will happen to them sitting like that. But just for peace of mind you may want to have them lay on their side...
 

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IMHOP… it really doesn’t make much difference. Tires flat spot to some degree every time you park your vehicle… sometimes more than others depending on pressure, temperature, and time. Tires return to round while driving… sometimes it takes longer than others depending on the same three factors. Except for long term storage (like 5 years plus), tires are tires and they will take about anything you throw at them within reason.
 

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What secures the threaded rod to the upper pieces of wood?


There is a blind nut on the top side of the wood. I was worried it wouldn't hold enough weight and I even went hunting for a larger diameter blind nut, but my 200lb grandfather decided to hang from it with all the tires up there and it didn't even budge.
 

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We built a wall-mount tire rack like these picture. It looks pretty clean in a tire garage and takes a big 5 minutes to assemble.

It is good for 8 tires (two sets) and price is 131.25$
 

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This one is pretty hard to argue with for the price:

http://www.tirerack.com/accessories/detail.jsp?ID=61

It's cheaper, direct from the manufacturer: http://www.hyloft.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=96&Itemid=130

We built a wall-mount tire rack like these picture. It looks pretty clean in a tire garage and takes a big 5 minutes to assemble.

It is good for 8 tires (two sets) and price is 131.25$

Maybe I'm being thick, but where is the pricing/ordering info?

I'm definitely interested -- it's less than the cost of two hyloft units and it'll give me back the space taken up by my race and rain sets.
 

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A permutation on the no cost flat stack idea, is to dig around in your parts/junk box for four matching casters. Make a small dolly, say 32"x32" (or whatever your largest tire diameter is, and attach the casters at the four corners of the dolly. This allows you to relocate the stack as needed around the garage without having to unstack and restack. Maybe even buy one of those inexpensive HF carpet covered furniture dollys and nail a piece of sheeting (cut to size) to it. I wasn't smart enough to think of this myself, but saw it in a friend's shop.

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BigWilly

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I ended up using all materials I had sitting around the place. Some angle iron, some chain...It does just what I needed, Now I can park a bike under it no problem. Holds the spare set of wheels...worked out good.
 

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We built a wall-mount tire rack like these picture. It looks pretty clean in a tire garage and takes a big 5 minutes to assemble.

It is good for 8 tires (two sets) and price is 131.25$

+1 on these racks. Sturdy as heck - I can climb on them with tires on and no flex at all (used 3 1/2" lag bolts into studs).

Marc
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