Here's how I store some of my metal, inside my shop. Just nail a strap between two studs and the empty space between the studs becomes a handy storage area, without taking up ANY floor space. It works great!!!;)

Nice shop you have there. My insurance just won't allow any of that kind of stuff in my garage, no fire, spark, welding or soldering. I don't have any stud space as it is filled with insulation and covered with drywall. I use a set of stucco scaffold horses for my metal storage.

I like vertical storage too but haven't gotten it set up in my shop yet.

What's the hand wheel on the crate for?

Frosty

That wheel is part of the workings for a ratchet forge. I know a guy that has the body of a forge that needs some parts, and I have some parts that need a forge. So if he gets back with me, soon, we're going to get his forge running for him.

Aye, i do that in the ceiling of my garage with larger straps to store ladders and miscellaneous long objects.

Good idea, when I have a properly built shop, ill try that.

i do something like that. i have what was going to be a two piece camp chair that has slowly begun to be my stock holder.

Curly,

That's the way we stored stock at the historic site I worked at. It's a really great solution to being able to sort through the various pieces.

I'll go that route too when I get a corner cleaned out enough to set it up.

I know a guy who had an abundance of milk crates, so he cut out sections in the bottom, reversed it, made several that way, screwed them together and had a nice wall section all nicely proportioned. He even had black marker labelling!

That wheel is part of the workings for a ratchet forge. I know a guy that has the body of a forge that needs some parts, and I have some parts that need a forge. So if he gets back with me, soon, we're going to get his forge running for him.

Cool, it gets resurrected and put back to work.

It caught my eye because I have a Champion 200 1/2 post drill missing the flywheel and I'm always on the lookout. I could tell it wasn't for the drill, the hubs are different but it caught my eye none the less.

The chances of finding a wheel for my drill up here are pretty slim and I'm thinking about making a pattern and casting one at next June's iron pour. It's that or fab one.

Frosty

Thats a cool Idea. I may do that in my new shop.

I am storing mine in a similar way. Instead of between the wall studs, I put a few pieces of 1/8" X 1" steel across two of my ceiling joists and slide the steel in longways. As my stock supply stock grows, I may need to open up a couple more joist spaces. Works well for me....
Jerry

I use one of those plastic tool racks that sits in the corner. There is a top and bottom shelf with matching holes I can group the stock together by size and when it get too short to reach between the two shelves I put it on the floor.

so some of you guys just store it outside? I think my wife would dimly view that, unless I his it behind the forge...hmmmm...

If the wife objects, throw some camo-netting over the pile. Then make some metal flowers and place them in front of the pile to hide it even more. When she asks about the flowers, tell her the pile is a seed bed and the flowers are coming up from the seeds.

DO NOT use the term *it is growing*. Wives lack a sense of humor sometimes.

Holy cow!! Thanks Glen, that sounds like a real good idea, and the room it will free up, sheesh, why didn't I think of that!! She loves metal flowers, and it will give the army of chipmunks that invaded me this year a new place to drive my dog crazy! What I really need is another building just for my metal!!

My new shop is 16x12 and i have a lil 8x10 side shed i plan to use for coal & steel/metal storage. So I`am pretty good on this LOL

I think my wife would dimly view that, unless I his it behind the forge...hmmmm...

YEP, I have been given only a few more days to get it moved and stowed away properly or she is calling the scrappers! :o :o

Nate, take what you don't want to Salt Fork Conference. Blacksmiths there will take it off your hands, no charge.

I only blacksmith for a hobby, I am self employed in Carpentry.
When I get time to do a project I need the materials on site.
I made a rack for long lengths of steel, I am still finishing the ends of the shop, hope to put in some kind of vertical storage there.

Tim.

What I don't want...???,,,!!~`1

... Nope noting there that needs to go :cool:

......nothing needs to go! I have used that exact phrase many time over the last 40 years and you would be surprised how many times I got to eat it. (Yum, yum! I love crow.) Well maybe them what's been at it a while won't be surprised at all.:p