Where do you store your floor jack?

[vtx531]

Pics anyone?

 

[nate379]

Wherever, just out of the way. I use it often enough that there isn't a point in wheeling it across the garage to a special place.

 

[cyamaha2007]

under the car that hasnt been on the road for 3 years....

 

[930dreamer]

Under the 68 Coronet

 

[waltmcq]

under a car, in a corner, in the way, and sometimes outside just outside the sliding door.

 

[Stinger]

Now that my new shop is getting organized, I've moved mine to a few different places and I've yet to find one I'm happy with. I'm hoping someone posts an ingenious storage location as well.

 

[cyamaha2007]

at work we built a floor jack garage into the side of a compressor closet. It was a slow slow day.

 

[evintho]

Mine slide under a shelving unit that holds power tools and some other junk. Note the bungie cord to keep the handles from falling down and banging a quarter panel. This is earthquake country, ya know!

 

[crewchief888]

mines usually under my s-10 outta the way

 

[usmc_noma]

mines tucked between the stairs leading into the garage from the house and some ducting for the a/c unit. it just barely slides in but makes use of wasted space.

 

[manic_mechanic]

mines usually under my s-10 outta the way

Mine is usually in my S10...

 

[bry@n]

In the garage under the shop table.

 

[Scout Driver]

In the farm shop we store the floor jacks under the steps to the loft. In my garage....poked under a bottom shelf with the handle secured so no-matter-what, it can't fall.

Scott

 

[Mike83]

Mine slide under a shelving unit that holds power tools and some other junk. Note the bungie cord to keep the handles from falling down and banging a quarter panel. This is earthquake country, ya know!

Your shelf appears to be a tad overloaded

 

[Az Scooter]

I put mine under my table saw. The jack moves more than the tablesaw is used.

 

[Handyman163]

I have mine under the radial arm saw. Like Az Scooter, the jack is used at a rate of about 10:1 compared to the saw.

 

[nolatoolguy]

I personally dont have a specific spot. Its more werever i last put it after using it or were i last moved it to make more rooms for something else. I really need to be more orginized lol.

 

[jwhcars]

It gets put along the wall in a corner behind the shop vac.

 

[viper86]

under the car that hasnt been on the road for 3 years....

+1... except mine hasn't driven in over 4.

 

[Marty256]

with my topside creeper!

 

[Vernmotor]

No one spot where ever I use it last..moves all over LOL

 

[mustangmccance]

I had the same problem I did not like looking at the jacks or my spare 302 engine and I had all these parts sitting on my workbench for the 5.0 engine I am going to build so I built a closet for all of it.


before:


and after. now I have lots more storage space and I don't have to look at all that junk.

just finished it last night so I still need to clean up the rest of my mess off my workbench but I like it a lot better now.

 

[Aberdale]

I park mine under my toolbox. (I rarely roll the box around, so it stays in one place.) I have a 4 ton long frame Lincoln jack that I park under the right side so the handle doesn't block any drawers.

Dale

 

[Wayne02]

I have a floor jack problem. I have four of them but I don't need four of them, yet I can't seem to bring myself to get rid of at least two of them. I don't use them often but when I need one I really need one. In fact the last time I needed them the job required two of them at the same time.

They are a real pia to store and take up a bunch of floor space. I keep as many of them as possible shoved under the lathe against the back wall, the other ones get shoved beside the drill press where I can trip over them.

 

[VegasBruce]

I just shove them off into a corner.

 

[Fudge]

With the handle to the wall. That way when one of my kids bump it, it doesn't slam down on the black car in the garage. Pipe insulation around the handle also helps eliminate dents in cars.

 

[TOOLOW4I75]

I've used a few modified jacks, the nicest jacks I've ever scene were modified by the boy's over at Pit Stop Fab for FAIR, they are craftsman 2 ton alum with pneumatic tires and a leg to support the weight of the car and not bend the axel, nice and convenient however the rams are starting to fail on us (gotta love the Sears no questions asked returns). As for my personal garage/truck jack I have what I believe to be the HF alum, it's a blue US General I found in the desert with broken linkage at the handle, a few cotter pins fixed right up and has given me years of faithful service.

Any pics available of these modified jacks? Is FAIR an acronym?

 

[dfndr]

Fudge, Great idea-handle to the wall. So simple that I'm ashamed I havn't figured it out. Rick

 

[Falcon67]

On the floor - wherever I plan to walk in the next few minutes so I trip over it.

 

[Fudge]

Fudge, Great idea-handle to the wall. So simple that I'm ashamed I havn't figured it out. Rick

Yeah I learned the hard way when I was a kid and knocked the handle into my pops restored model A. He never beat me but I'll be he wanted to. LOL. Since then all his jack handels face the wall and have the foam pipe insulation zip tied around them and so do mine.

 

[BlindViper]

Yeah I learned the hard way when I was a kid and knocked the handle into my pops restored model A. He never beat me but I'll be he wanted to. LOL. Since then all his jack handels face the wall and have the foam pipe insulation zip tied around them and so do mine.

Both of mine are foamed, I keep the handles in the twisted ready to lift spot. They don't drop unless pushed. Mine are stored handle out, I find it much easier to walk around the handle then trip over the wheels.

 

[purpony]

I store mine vertical against the wall.

 

[mustangmccance]

those are some pretty cool jacks. I guess I need to spend some more time over at my local sears store. I don't need another jack but I need to go check out some of there other cool stuff.

 

[RbrtAWhyt]

with my topside creeper!

I wanna hear the story about what happened that prompted you to put padding on that steel support pole...

 

[Stinger]

I store mine vertical against the wall.

Nice! That's what I'm talking about!

Where did you get those hooks?

 

[Stinger]

those are some pretty cool jacks. I guess I need to spend some more time over at my local sears store. I don't need another jack but I need to go check out some of there other cool stuff.

The harbor freight version is of equal quality and is dirt cheap...$130 on sale sometimes and then use a 20% coupon to get it for a little over $100!

http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/ctaf/displayitem.taf?Itemnumber=92782

 

[gsport]

i've got a lift so i haven't used mine for quite some time, but i know it's out there somewhere....

 

[vtx531]

I store mine vertical against the wall.

Looks good. Do they rest on the concrete?

 

[purpony]

Looks good. Do they rest on the concrete?

Yes, they rest on the concrete. The wall bracket holds no vertical weight. If you look closely at pic 2 you can see that the jack is not touching the horizontal parts of the bracket. Only the vertical tabs on the bracket hold it up. Works great.

I found the brackets at HD. They are made by Tornado i believe and are the U2000 model. They are originally orange in color but that clashed with my color scheme . I had a can of the black rubber spray and put a coat of that on them.

 

[Auzivision]

Never have found a good way to store mine… it just sit’s on the floor in front of my tires.