Jack Stand Storage

[oldcpecdr]

Took my jackstands (8) out of the corner under the stairs today and cleaned and vacumned all the spiders and critters out...

Anyone have an idea about storing jackstands other than the floor ? Obviously a shelf would work ...but any alternatives someone has used ?

Mike B

 

[Sammy7]

Just a shelf for me.

 

[wouldworker]

I would consider a cabinet with just enough room to store a pair of jack stands on one shelf--therefore 8 stands would require a 4 shelf unit. Depending on your garage decor it could be plywood or better if you make it yourself. Doors would be your choice to include or omit as would quality of materials and construction method. In my case it would most likely be 3/4 plywood with face frame and doors, on rollers with an durable, hard surface paint job.

 

[koditten]

I have my shelf built 8" inches off the floor. This leaves enough room to park the floor jack under them. This way the jack and the stands take up the same amount of floor/wall space.

 

[reinhardt]

on a shelf in the shed in the backyard. dont pick the car up often enough to justify taking up garage space.

 

[Iron-Iceberg]

Im kinda lazy. I keep one on each side of the garage so I dont have to walk around the car to get one. LOL

 

[nate379]

All around the garage. I use them often enough it's pointless to store them.

 

[ADaughen]

Aren't they supposed to be under the car??? That is where mine have been for the past five years.


FWIW, My spare stands are on a shelf next to my spare jack. I built a set of shelves 22" deep, 48" wide and I can fit two back to back.

 

[Flatland Dave]

I hang my two up side down from a small loop of rope, from a bracket attached to the wall.

 

[Charles (in GA)]

Whats a "jackstand"

Charles

 

[ZRX61]

Mine are currently employed as a BlackWidow condo by the garage door...

 

[boro_boy70]

Aren't they supposed to be under the car??? That is where mine have been for the past five years..

Glad I'm not the only one

On the bright side, this method also free's up space to store more junk under said project

 

[1320stang]

I built corner shelf units on each side of my garage door to store them.

'Piders still get to 'em. Only way to keep that from happening is to use them more often, which I hope not to do.

 

[eldirector]

I have regular old jackstands like these:

I pull the center part out and set them aside, and the stand parts stack pretty well. I stack them 2-3 high under a bench.

 

[ADaughen]

Glad I'm not the only one

On the bright side, this method also free's up space to store more junk under said project

No doubt. I just moved an 2.3T head, 8.8 rear, T5 trans, spare axles, and a set of rims out from under mine.

Needed to make room for the "rolltisserie".

 

[evintho]

I've got 6 of 'em on the shelf under my welding table.

 

[James E]

Yeah, what is it about jackstands that attracts black widows?

I leave mine on the floor for a couple of days and the spiders can't resist them.

 

[thdewey]

Yeah, what is it about jackstands that attracts black widows?

I leave mine on the floor for a couple of days and the spiders can't resist them.

so true, I just had to clean them out of mine yesterday...

 

[Boost Creep]

once i get unlazy and clean the spiders off mine, i plan on storing them in the side cabinet of my hf box on one of the shelves in there. hopefully it will keep the spiders out of em

 

[sammerdog]

Whats a "jackstand"

Charles

Hey y'all young kids -

Charles was KIDDING! Never never never support a vehicle with concrete blocks or old busted up hunks of concrete.

Cement can and will fail without warning and crush you.

Thanks for the laugh though, Charles!

 

[shotgunfatcat]

Hey y'all young kids -

Charles was KIDDING! Never never never support a vehicle with concrete blocks or old busted up hunks of concrete.

Cement can and will fail without warning and crush you.

Thanks for the laugh though, Charles!

Even if I just use it as a block to hold up my 2x6 as a ramp. Oil changes can be so hard when you have a lowered truck like mine.

 

[Keep]

I built a cabinet for my sander and grinder. I made the bottom the perfect size to store 4 jack stands under. I think I have some pics around here somewhere.

 

[M3Pilot]

Hey y'all young kids -

Charles was KIDDING! Never never never support a vehicle with concrete blocks or old busted up hunks of concrete.

Cement can and will fail without warning and crush you.

Thanks for the laugh though, Charles!

Many years ago, a second cousin was crushed (& died) when the cinder blocks holding up his car failed.

 

[evintho]

Hey y'all young kids -

Charles was KIDDING! Never never never support a vehicle with concrete blocks or old busted up hunks of concrete.

Cement can and will fail without warning and crush you.

Thanks for the laugh though, Charles!

Nonsense!! Concrete blocks are perfectly acceptable! Bear in mind however, they must be placed haphazardly. A cobblestone street as your work area is preferred and positioning the vehicle on an incline is added plus!

 

[LocoCoco]

Hey y'all young kids -

Charles was KIDDING! Never never never support a vehicle with concrete blocks or old busted up hunks of concrete.

Cement can and will fail without warning and crush you.

Thanks for the laugh though, Charles!

I read in the Darwin Awards book a story of a guy who used a car battery as a jackstand. Sure enough, battery eventually squashed and guy got crushed, while laying in a puddle of sulfuric acid. Perhaps the craziest part of the story was that the guy was a safety officer at some factory.


Anyway, my jackstands are too short to use on my Jeeps and the wife's Accord simply never breaks so they're in a milk crate on a shelf.



LC.

 

[OccupantRJ]

Im kinda lazy. I keep one on each side of the garage so I dont have to walk around the car to get one. LOL

That's not lazy, it's efficient!

 

[rsieracki]

i bought a set of "race ramps" riser blocks for my rear tires, have the front end up on ramps.... its like my car is on stilts... i love laying under it wrenching and watching people driving by doing double takes and looking like WTF!

 

[Auzivision]

Is that a gas tank he is welding?

 

[scooterseats]

It always seems that I store mine where I can trip over them. I just hate it when that happens!

 

[wantedabiggergarage]

I had a friend who used J or Bicycle hooks to hang them from the ceiling. Make sure they aren't in an area you normally walk though, I found them when I was trying to grab something on that side of the garage, the hard way.

 

[Need4racin]

Is that a gas tank he is welding?

They only blow up in the movies. It's been proven you can weld a gas tank as long as it full of a liquid.

 

[aqr81]

I think I live in the spider capital of the world! I have to watch 'em or they will ban together and carry them off.