Some stuff I've built in my garage...

[Wanna Ride]

Here's the trailer for my quads and motorcycles. I've got a total of about $1200 in this, including all the steel, hardware, led lights, toolbox, composite decking, etc:

Here's the saddlebag rack for my bike:

And my tour pack rack:

One of my next scheduled projects, will be a collapsible welding table. This sawhorse thing has to go:

 

[LeadDoggy]

Nice job on the trailer! I made a tour pak rack also, and I like the saddlebag rack.
Nice work!

 

[Stuart in MN]

Nicely done! How does the composite decking hold up to loads? I've heard that stuff can be pretty flexible.

 

[Wanna Ride]

Nicely done! How does the composite decking hold up to loads? I've heard that stuff can be pretty flexible.

Pretty good, in fact... I've never noticed any problems with it. Like I said before, I built it for bikes and quads and it holds up great. I didin't want to use wood, it splits, swells, shrinks, absorbs water, blah, blah, blah. Didn't want to use expanded or diamond-plate, because of rusting, scratches, etc.

I got all of this on the trailer for $115 on clearance at Home Depot.

 

[cowboy73]

You do some very nice work!!!

 

[zmotorsports]

Very nice work. Everything looks great and finished just as nice. Mike.

 

[Brad54]

Those pack racks are VERY nicely done.

-Brad

 

[NUTTSGT]

You have some nice projects there. You may want to check out my portable welding table thread.

 

[Wanna Ride]

Been a long time since I posted anything in this thread. And I've made a bunch of stuff to add, but I'll start with my current project. I've wanted to get started on this one for quite a while, and finally had some time today, after accumulating parts for a few months. I'll post more progress pics as I go.

This is going to be a central, mobile hardware rack for all my nuts, bolts, washers, wood screws, wiring connectors, etc. All of this stuff is currently spread around the shop in three different locations, so this rack will free up quite a bit of space for other things, and be more organized too. I like the idea of bringing this rack to the project, instead of making a dozen trips back and forth to various places in the shop for hardware. Been building this in my head for about six months.

I wasted no time putting the new portaband to good use, cutting up all the steel...

This was just going to be a hardware rack, but figured that adding a few more trays, might just be perfect for cordless tool storage, and free up even more shelf space at the same time...

 

[Wanna Ride]

Got some more done today, but not as much as I was hoping for. This project's going to have to sit for a couple weeks, before I can get back to it.

Need to get come more steel, because I'm going to have a total of 10 organizer trays, 5 on each side. I'm also going to add a shelf to the bottom, where I'll store the circular saw and battery chargers. I'm going to mount a power strip, a 25' cord, and some other features. Of course this will be painted red, but I might even get it powder coated. Not exactly sure how tall I'm going to make it yet, that's why the legs are so tall. Should be around 42"- 45" when I'm done, with a work surface on the top.

Thinking about adding one of these HF trays to the side of the rack. You can never have too much work space. I'm going to incorporate several other hangers for various items, to the sides of the rack as well.

 

[Wanna Ride]

Recently made some revisions to the trailer. Added these bungs on each side last year...

To eliminate the need to carry a floor-jack around everywhere, and no need to get down on the ground to shove a jack under the trailer. Because you know the only time you get a flat, is in the rain. This works better than I expected, easily lifting the trailer...

Added a spare tire rack, on the curbside last year...

Built some wider, heavier ramps this year...

And here's what it currently looks like...

Got to admit, this trailer pulls really well. Until this past April, I've used it for approximately 9000 miles since I first built it, and then about another 5400 miles just this summer. Very happy with it so far. I've never had a single light problem, or any other issues with it.

 

[bulletpruf]

Nice work! Like what you did with the trailer jack -- no fun crawling under one in the rain to get a jack positioned.

Scott

 

[toofart]

Cool idea for the jack mount.. I like that.

I made a similar spare tire mount using some scrap steel. Nice work.

 

[Wanna Ride]

This was my Friday night garage project. Finally got tired of always having to go back to the toolbox to grab a wrench, so I decided to make a wrench rack. Resisted this for a long time, because I just prefer clean, uncluttered garage walls. But it seems they could be really handy at on e of the work benches. I'm already kinda' liking it, and I have several wrench sets, so it's likely I'll add them to both of the other benches too.

Plus, it gave me a reason to assemble my new SWAG porta-band table. I wanted to get it powder-coated first, but that can wait. I used the bandsaw to set up a jig, to cut the dowel rods. The stop was used from my test piece, that I tested the dowel rod fit to the drill size.

I wanted the dowels to stick out at a slight angle, so the wrenches don't easily get bumped off the rack. I figured the fastest, most consistent way to do this, was to tape a piece of dowel rod to the backside of the board and then drill all the holes. I also laid out the hole pattern with different spaces between holes, to accommodate the different wrench sizes. The smaller wrenches are closer together, then the larger wrenches.

I used 1/4" dowel rod, and drilled all the holes with a 1/4" drill. Sanded a slight chamfer on both ends of all the dowels, dabbed a little bit of wood glue on each of the holes, and tapped in the dowels. I'll probably take it down later this weekend, to paint it. Nothing fancy, and you can probably buy something similar for a few bucks, but this was a good project for winding down the work week. It came out ok, I think.

 

[zkling]

Nice work, that trailer is a very clean build.

 

[Wanna Ride]

Finally got around to making another wrench-rack and adding it to the bench on the opposite side of the shop. Hard to tell from the picture, but there's two of each wrenches on there, both standard and metrics...

 

[Wanna Ride]

Finally got back to this project. Attached the bottom and top trays.

Had this plasma cutter for a year now, and finally got to use it for the first time. Pretty nice unit.