“Hideaway” Tool Storage Cabinet
“I was tired of having my wife’s rakes and gardening tools laying around, getting in the way. So one weekend while she was gone, I made a tool cabinet that’s easy on the eyes and mounts conveniently on back of the garage,” says Paul Tierney, Bloomington, Minn.
He built a 12-in. deep wood frame that attaches to the wall. It measures 5 ft. wide by 6 1/2 ft. tall. Tools hang from headless nails on crosspieces at the top of the frame, and across the middle. Tierney simply drills a hole in the handle of each tool to hang them.
He made a sliding door that rolls back and forth on a steel track he made from a piece of angle iron with rollers made from window weight pulleys. The door is made from a wooden frame covered by lightweight canvas that’s painted white and reinforced with 1 by 2 crossbars.
“I wanted it to be light so it slides open and shut easily. When the door is closed the tools are out of sight and not standing around where I could stumble over them,” notes Tierney.
Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Paul Tierney, 10020 Pleasant Ave S., Bloomington, Minn. 55420 (ph 952 888-8526; tagratus@yahoo.com)
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“Hideaway” Tool Storage Cabinet BUILDINGS Houses “I was tired of having my wife’s rakes and gardening tools laying around getting in the way So one weekend while she was gone I made a tool cabinet that’s easy on the eyes and mounts conveniently on back of the garage ” says Paul Tierney Bloomington Minn He built a 12-in deep wood frame that attaches to the wall It measures 5 ft wide by 6 1/2 ft tall Tools hang from headless nails on crosspieces at the top of the frame and across the middle Tierney simply drills a hole in the handle of each tool to hang them He made a sliding door that rolls back and forth on a steel track he made from a piece of angle iron with rollers made from window weight pulleys The door is made from a wooden frame covered by lightweight canvas that’s painted white and reinforced with 1 by 2 crossbars “I wanted it to be light so it slides open and shut easily When the door is closed the tools are out of sight and not standing around where I could stumble over them ” notes Tierney Contact: FARM SHOW Followup Paul Tierney 10020 Pleasant Ave S Bloomington Minn 55420 ph 952 888-8526; tagratus@yahoo com
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