[Shop-talk] Tire storage

[Al Fuller]

Amazon and Uline sell tire racks, e.g. https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Tire+rack


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Al Fuller

On Tue, Mar 4, 2025, 2:11 AM Scott Hall <scott.hall.personal at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Miq,
>
> I was thinking something like your original setup, but I had weight
> concerns, too. I'm confident I could build the 'shelf' strong enough, but
> getting them up and down would be a pain in the butt. I don't want to be at
> an orthopedist in two years explaining how I hurt my back hoisting wheels
> over my head. They don't rotate that often, but I'd like them off the
> floor. The Griots ones were nice because you could mount them at whatever
> height you wanted.
>
> I guess I could find someone to weld me up some replacements, but that
> seems like it would be easier for me to just buy a new welder and make them
> myself, and a new garage oven and powder coating gear.
>
> Scott
>
> On Mon, Mar 3, 2025 at 10:39 AM MIQ MILLMAN <miq at bigllama.com> wrote:
>
>> I used to have a large set of home made L brackets, approximately 2 feet
>> tall and long, that I lag-bolted to the studs.  These were across the
>> nearly top of a wall, spaced every other stud (32" apart) and then had an
>> aluminum angle bar 3"x3" laid across the lot of them:
>>
>> Side view
>> W|
>> A|
>> L|\
>> L|_\______^_
>>
>> Tire/wheel combos would be strapped in pairs, and then held up with the
>> tires resting against the wall on one side, and the angle bar on the other.
>> like this:
>>
>> |O,
>>
>> This worked great for the light weight race car/sports car sets--which
>> weighed less than 45 lbs per wheel/tire.  It wasn't easy to get the heavier
>> sets down by myself (the rack base was set at 6 1/2 feet), but do-able in
>> singles (I used cheap HF ratchet straps).
>>
>> However, when I tried to put up a set of off-road tires/wheels from my
>> G-wagon that weigh 112 lbs each, it was too much (both to lift up over my
>> head easily, and for the lag-bolts to support.
>>
>> In my next shop, I'm going to have a set of big-box warehouse style
>> shelves (3 feet deep, 8 feet long,  set up perpendicular from one wall (so
>> I can get access to both sides, kind of like a data center rack setup), and
>> then I can just use a lightweight aluminum pole in the center of the wheels
>> and have that pole across a pair of shelves against the wall.
>>
>> I guess the real question is how often do you need to swap out sets of
>> tires/wheels?  if it's just seasonally for winter something out of the way
>> is fine, but if you're vintage racing or (god forbid) drifting and go
>> through multiple sets of tires a month, just stacking them like a giant
>> tower of hanoi in one area is probably easiest.
>>
>> If you really are going through 8 sets regularly, maybe set up a
>> tire/wheel room where you can even mount and balance them yourself.  Then
>> you can store the tires separately from the wheels, putting wheels
>> horizontally on shelves and good tires on the brackets I describe.
>>
>>   --Miq
>>
>> On Sun, Mar 2, 2025 at 3:40 PM Scott Hall <scott.hall.personal at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I forgot how much I enjoyed reading the list. So here's another one:
>>>
>>> I used to have Griots Garage wheel storage 'poles'--they bolt to the
>>> wall/stud and stick out perpendicularly and you hang your wheels on them.
>>>
>>> I don't see them on the Griots website any more. It looks like I'm
>>> starting from scratch on wheel storage.
>>>
>>> I've got eight--no, nine--sets of wheels and tires in the garage right
>>> now. Opinions on the best way to store them, and why you like them? Right
>>> now they're stacked against the wall and on the shelves and I don't like
>>> that.
>>>
>>> WRT the impact: ordered the Dewalt DCF-900. It says it's rated for 1400
>>> pounds, I think. I guess if the lug nuts don't spin, it just twists off the
>>> lug stud itself. I guess either way the wheel's coming off.
>>>
>>> Scott
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