Giant Lazy Susan Makes Tools Easy To Find

Stephen Bashista has an organizer idea for the "not so perfect farm shop." His four-sided Lazy Susan makes it easier to find the assorted wrenches and sockets he has collected over the years. It spins for easy access because of the tandem axle manure spreader wheel and hub he set up as the base. Beefed up with plates welded to the shaft and metal sides to create a 48-in. tall A-frame, it's durable and heavy. With a handle on the top, Bashista can move it anywhere using a loader with a chain or forks.

"I usually stick it in a corner of the shop. It turns so the tools come to me," explains the Southampton, Mass., farmer. The two 3/16-in steel plate sides have wrench cups - 2 1/2 to 3-in. thin wall square tubing cut 3 1/2 to 10-in long to hold various size 1/8-in. wrenches - with troughs between to hold 1/16-in. wrenches. Slotted shelves hold socket wrenches.

"I left an open space at the bottom of each cup about 3/8 in. wide to let out the dirt and welded the top and part of the sides," Bashista notes. The other two sides are made of 32-in. tall by 20-in. pieces of 3/4-in. plywood on 1-in. angle iron bases. One side is for metric sockets and the other is for SAE sockets.

"I pre-drilled it at 15 degrees for 16D finish nails for small sockets. The pegs for larger sockets are Timberloc screws with cutoff heads at 7 in., with a small flat area ground onto the shank side for the drill chuck to grab," Bashista says To make it easier to find the right size tool, he organized them by size from small to large. "I built this in 2016 because I didn't have a good toolbox setup," Bashista says. "I had odd stuff around, and it was a mess to find them and sockets were all over the place."

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