Your solution to Yard Tool Organization?

[madison069]

I'm fed up with the little 6x6 shed organization (lackof) and I'm fixing to gut it out to make it work better for me.

With that in mind I'm thinking of ideas on how to organize the yard tools as they are a pain and in the way when I first walk into the shed as they are leaning against the wall by the door.

So lets see how folks are keeping their yard tools organized and hopefully I get a few brain farts from other folks ideas!

 

[ken w.]

I use long nails pounded in about 1 1/2" - 2 " apart to hang rakes , hoes , and such against the wall.Handle side down.It works for me.The smaller tools like small 18' long ones I keep in a 5 gallon bucket.I don't get too fancy.

 

[4everRS]

I too am interested to see what others have done for a solution on this. Subscribed.

 

[hifi_hokie]

Pegboard.

 

[NUTTSGT]

This is the shed I added to the rear of my garage, it's about 5x9. It has quite a bit stuffed in it.

This is the racks that I made to hold the shovels and such. The heavy stuff, sledge, mattock and maul sit lower.

 

[EJM02]

I too am planning a shed build so I'll be watching this thread for organization.

I'm trying to think of a simple way to store tools overhead so they are completely out of the way and still accessible. Something with the handle ends pointed at and near the entrance so I don't have to tip toe through all the eventual piles of **** that I know will accumulate in there.

I might do something as simple as a shallow shelf built down from the ceiling.

 

[rsanter]

I have had the idea to build a shed with doors on both ends and have the space divided 3/4 and 1/4
The slammer space on the back will be for the yard tools and such and the larger space for stored items that I do not need very often like the blast cabinet and brake

Bob

 

[SlowPoke-Canada]

This style hook on a french cleat system

 

[upndown]

I found the perfect solution! My good friend and fishing buddy owns a landscape maint. co, I maintain his garage doors.. He takes care of my yard! Natural desert, No grass foolishness here..

 

[rednecklimo85]

This style hook on a french cleat system

I had bought a CHEAP version of this that was all plastic and snaped together, it allowed you to hook those cleats into multiple spots, and it does not work at all.. I suspect it has something to do with being CHEAP how ever.. lol.

I'm getting a bunch of good used 2x6 from my dads house and I think I'm going to build a small simple lean too off the back of my shed, just a roof 4 walls, a door and rock floor. something like 5 x10 maybe. I'll make hangers for brooms and shovels and such, and it'll be big enough to fit the wheel barrow and yard cart etc.

 

[transplant_wi]

I use a 2x4 cleat along the wall, with 3" screws sticking out and/or the large screw-in hooks (4-5" long IIRC) with the vinyl coating. Cheap, utilitarian. Using screws allows me to adjust the spacing later if I wish. Another thing I do is drill and slightly countersink 1/2" holes through the ends of wooden broom handles so I can hang them up off the floor.

 

[Adrock09]

I would suggest peg board, its usually the go-to stuff for getting things off the floor

 

[lilredex]

Maybe a variation of this one.....

http://www.millerwelds.com/interests/projects/ideagallery/project/2423139891/

 

[BD1]

http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=39367&highlight=wall+storage

This is a on going thread of ''what's on your walls''. Some great ideas. There are yard tool post but I didn't go through them.

 

[Lippyp]

My garden tools (well the wifes really as she's Head Gardener!) are stored in our woodshed, its block walls so I have a bunch of cheap pressed steel tool hooks screwed to two long battens screwed to the walls, high ones for long tools like rakes, hoes etc and the lower ones for spades etc, spaced so the handles from the long tools fit between the short tools. It's still a mess though and needs more hooks and refining a bit plus a good tidy up as we seem to have shoved a load of **** in there recently.

 

[felixgogo]

As posted in my thread - 'The Mews Garage' I used the outside shed for all the 'yard tools'

Here - http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=102265&highlight=mews&page=4

This is what I did - mounted a wooden board with multiple hooks and hangers:

And then using shelf supports - I made a wood rack for all those offcuts:

It works well - and keeps all these stuff out of the garage.

 

[KEH]

Basement storage, put long tools handle down in a open 55 gallon drum. For smaller hand tools my wife mostly used, I got as large a plastic tool box as I could find at the pawn shop and keep it on the back porch. No worries about the plastic tool box rusting and the tools are kept dry and convenient. (porch open and rain blows in)

KEH

 

[sberry]

Every situation is different.

 

[koolcat]

Not my idea, but I'll be using it.

 

[Tim The Tool Man]

I went with a lot of pegboard and a bunch of heavy duty brackets from Homer...

 

[mcmlvif100]

Used a sheet of 3/4" plywood, and a bunch of 20 penny nails and screw eyes. The plywood is screwed to the studs approximately 16 inches on center vertically. Drilled pilot holes in the end of the handles for those items which hang by the handles.

Works great if you have the wall space. Everything is off of the floor, nothing is more than 2 items deep, and it's easy to see if something is missing at the end of the day.

As shown, it's holding 4 shovels, 3 post mauls, 3 axes / wood splitters, 2 rakes, 2 hoes, 2 grass whips, 2 brooms, 2 wrecking bars, a garden fork, a pitchfork, a squeegee, a magnetic pickup, a lopper, a hedge trimmer and a number of small garden tools, plus the requisite fire extinguisher and first aid kit.

This is the second garage that I have used this approach and I would do it again if we ever move. In both cases, I installed it right next to the access door which makes it really convenient.

 

[rharman]

I have the big tall Rubbermaid shed. I had a couple of pieces of the Gladiator Gear Wall that I mounted with toggle bolts and also a cleat where the shed is molded for a shelf.

Miscellaneous Gladiator hooks and all the tools are around the inside perimeter. Have enough room to store my gas edger in there and the lawn spreader too.

 

[darwyn]

I made my own slatboard out of plywood, and then a variety of shelves, hooks, etc to go on it.

 

[George in Rancho Cordova]

Bob's Lawn Service (800) 555-5555

 

[sberry]

Tim, I usually dont have much use for peg board but that looks good.

 

[sscustom]

alot of good ideas here cheers guys

 

[Tim The Tool Man]

Tim, I usually dont have much use for peg board but that looks good.

Best part is that I got it for 11 cents a sheet from a retail store closing. Each piece measured about 48" x 42" but it was heavy, prefinished, and I had bought a ton of it...

 

[BigSteve63]

I made my own slatboard out of plywood, and then a variety of shelves, hooks, etc to go on it.

Any pics?

 

[aar0s]

Not my idea, but I'll be using it.

Yup, I might have to use that one also

 

[Rs130754]

I went to Duluth Trading and bought some long handled tool holders. They are steel, made in USA and hold several tools. I bought the 12" version and it holds 2 round point, a flat shovel, and push broom. I will be ordering more.
http://www.duluthtrading.com/search...rch_sid=&p_origin=mens-home&processor=content

 

[66HertzClone]

One of these for nearly everything.

 

[Clogking]

I went with a lot of pegboard and a bunch of heavy duty brackets from Homer...

Tim you have a serious amount of garden tools!! That looks like way to much work!!

 

[metalmagpie]

We went low tech. Wire mesh, openings about 2x4". Empty open-top 55 gallon drum. Bent the wire mesh down around the top. Insert tools upside down, one per opening. Shovels, brooms, hoes etc. all fit nicely and don't get jumbled up because they're kept separate by the wire mesh (aka hardware cloth).

 

[darwyn]

Any pics?

It's at the ex's house, will work on getting some pictures and dimensions if anyone is interested. In the meantime here is a diagram of sorts. Technically it is not a true slatwall, but the effect is the same. You run pieces of plywood along the wall that are spaced out 1/8". Then you build your shelves with spacers.


slat wall

 

[DrunkSmurf]

Another cheap upcycle idea

 

[madison069]

Nice ideas folks! I pulled the stuff that's in the way right now out of the shed, I removed the big bench on the back side so I can get that tall wall real estate for yard tool. I then built a shallow shelf along the right side and got ice chest, pool, and cooker under it. Now to incorporate some ideas into the yard tool wall.

 

[LX-Markham]

Planning on running a 2' strip of this stuff around the perimeter of my garage.

Extruded PVC panels with horizontal slats in it for hanging attachments. More modern looking than peg-board IMO.

 

[R6 Racer]

I just kinda play tetras on the wall. All my tools are up on nails. Simple, cheep, works for me.
Mine is a 4 x 10 but there is a lot of wall lost to windows & potting shelves. The 4' end that's to the right of the shed (in the last pic) is a second door. So wall space is very limited. I don't have a lot of tools, but they do everything around my house?

Steve

 

[northsidechicagoguy]

Runoff of the thread here - but on a shed note - it gets pretty cold here in Chicago and I find that the padlock I use freezes up and I can't unlock the shed when I need to. Anyone have any thoughts on how to prevent/is there a better lock to be used?

 

[mtnwalton]

I have little wall space so I use a 36" x 7' high double door cabinet- top shelf for loppers, grease gun etc. A vertical divider from the floor to the shelf. Stuff is stacked around all 3 walls of both sides. It's a pain, but at least I don't lose much wall space.