spin off shelving for the shop or garage.

chaplinfj60

chaplinfj60

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good morning all,
i have been looking shop lay outs and pictures of your shop / garage / man cave and there are alot of really good ideas for shelving out there. lets see what you got. i do need to redo my layout this winter so my space is more useable. and who knows i may put a thread up on that too.

thnaks again
 
pallet racking
Costco racking (the smaller verson)
even home depot has heady shelving

any of thosr can be configured to make a lower workbench

or go the old trusty 2x4 rout, it all works.
 
I bought a bunch of used pallet racking for my mishmash of storage. Most of the industrial places take it on trade, and it used to be very attractively priced. Dunno what today pricing looks like though
 
Working with a 16' lid here, your mileage will vary.
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I've got a fair amount of those grey racks in the pump shed, they are purty stout...
 
I tend toward the 2x4 & plywood route. I have tried using premade shelving in the past, and either it was too lightweight for my needs or it was all the wrong dimensions and I had a bunch of wasted space and stuff hanging off the edge, ya know, stuff that grates on the old OCD. DIY 2x4s lets me vary the shelf height and support widths to just what is needed. If you are stacking axles and transmissions, and have the room in the shop, go get pallet racking. Personally, what I shelve in my shop is lighter weight and more random than that heavy stuff.
 
Around here they sell used pallet racks in different depths cheaper than the cost of lumber, and much stronger, I did steel racks.
 
I've tried a few shelving systems over the years and have decided I hate shelves that take up floor space. If I had a larger shop, my opinion might be different, but i've built a few wall hanging shelves to solve the issue for me.

This is the latest iteration, and obviously the things in the bins don't get used very often. Bottom of the shelf is 10' off the ground, works great for me.

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Bed bath and beyond... when they closed up I bought a bunch of their stock room shelves. A lot of those big box vendor stores, the store walls are actually made up of shelving on the backside to create stockrooms.

This was $300 at the time. 12 foot walls.

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I also built a very heavy mezzanine storage area in wasted corner over a door and stair intersection. The building is ICF so the brackets are anchored to 8" concrete walls. I had a 453 detroit and an Road Ranger 10 speed up there for a while with a bunch of other stuff and it didn't mind at all. Its low enough I can set pallets on it with my skid steer.

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this little angle brace frees u floor space. pretty cool.

i am worried about hanging shelfs from my rafters because my shop was am old cow building so rafter spacing is 8 foot not the standard 2 but up the walls in more of a uniform 2x4 plywood is what i need.

did this little guy saturday. not that all my coolant jugs are full but hate tossing them.
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The one thing with hanging or wall mounted shelves is that i've learned to be annoyed with is that angle brace. If it's low enough to hit your head on then it's not real floor space, unless there's a workbench below it. I have one like that right now and I'm looking forward to getting rid of it, lol.
 
So the cmu foundation is @ 5' + off grade.
Then the 2x6 framing with cdx sheerwall inside leaves a little bit of mudsill exposure for the angle brace to set on.
I'm 5'8 onna good day, rarely ever had any problems with them.
If you did a ledger strip you would have the same thing...

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if you did the same thing I did , Ledgers bolted to studs as top of shelf support @ wall then used the knee brace to the upper outer edge you would in essence " triangulate" :flipoff2: it . Then you would only have to worry about pulling the wall in, you could run a few ceiling joist @ the critical areas if needed....
 
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My shop had zero room for pallet rack, and shelving units dont go tall enough.
 

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Somebody posted pics of shelves over their garage door a while back. One of those spots that never gets used:idea:
 
Sluggy said:
I like the mini lathe mounted to the tool box, so much room for activities/ tooling
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It's actually just a couple intermediate chests built into a steel stand that I built. Frame is 2x2x0.125" square tube, 1/4" plate on the top. The lathe isn't actually a "mini", it's a 12x28, somewhere in the 500-600lb range...still small but not mini.

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I can also move the stand fairly easily, one of my very early youtube vids showing how:

 
Steve300xcw said:
Somebody posted pics of shelves over their garage door a while back. One of those spots that never gets used:idea:
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Could have been me.

I built a mezzanine :lmao: over my buddy's garage doors, in a quonset hut. Literally had no room for joists, so we used reject 2 inch LVL beams as decking, with no joists. They span 8 foot something no problem.

I'll be back with pics, but you're right, it's rarely used space, especially in a quonset hut.
 
Napa cabinets and wall cabinets came from work, other floor standing deal I found on the side of the road. Wall shelves came from Home Depot, could've built them out of wood but I had a gift card anyway.

Shop's too small for pallet racking, I've had it in a small shop before, takes up too much floor.


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I picked up 36" pallet racking for mine. I have a few sections where the lowest shelf is about 6' so I have room for stuff like my lathe and press

I need to rearrange some of the shelves. I left a spot open in the middle section along the wall to use as a work bench but it is kind of inconvenient there. Would be better in the section behind the dirt bikes or where the blue bins are.

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I finished the shell of my shop last year. It has 14ft walls which allowed me to build lofts over the first and second bays. On the main level I put as much as possible on the walls and then have gorilla shelves and file cabinets on one side of the lofts and desk and table work area on the other side of the loft. I am definitely a ADHD project guy with multiple projects in progress
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chaplinfj60 said:
jesus man. i will fall thu them opening the first time i got up to get something..... :lmao::lmao::lmao::lmao:
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The stairs to the lofts got installed many months later and I was using pulleys and a ladder for a while. I only installed railing in the area where I hang out some. Many times it’s still easier to lower something down than to walk it around. When I get old and wobbly, I’ll add more railings.
 
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