BIG wrench storage

[amertrac]

How do you store big ( 1/16 to 2  1/2) wrenches ? My combos are hanging on the wall and the doe and dbe are thrown in a metal box next to the cabinets. To put them in the cabinets it would take three drawers (  I do not have three drawers empty nor room to start another stack of cabinets. when i was repairing tractors they got used but bow they just hang there.  bob w.

[Fins/413]

I've got some big Protos setting on a bench along with a bunch of other stuff. I haven't figured out a good way to store them either other than hang them.

[rusty]

I can tell you how NOT to store them.
I made space in my top tool drawer by putting all my Blackhawk and Bonney wrenches that were > 1 1/4 in the bottom drawer of my HF rollaway. The drawer promptly collapsed....

oops...

I am thinking that is probably why my dad used to store his in an old wooden milk crate on the floor...(Those old crates had steel reinforced corners, I think they were designed by ex bank vault engineers)

[KeepinOldBolts]

Two ways:

1. I formerly drove nails into the supporting 2x4 just below my wooden workbench tabletop and hung them. That eventually got in the way of items on the shelf below.

2. Acquire an extra slim (and long) toolbox. That makes it easy to carry all sizes to the job and grab the right one.

J

[johnsironsanctuary]

I store big tools and big piles of smaller tools in a 6 drawer cabinet that was originally intended for engineering drawings. Not many in use now that CAD has taken over. The drawers are rated at 400 lbs each.  My inside drawer dim is 49 X38 X 3 1/2 and it is 6 drawers high. The only drawback is that you have to have a lot of room in front of it to open the drawers. I've seen them on Craigslist for $100. There are different sizes. It is built as 2 units stacked and the drawers come out easily.

[Wrenchmensch]

Ramset two bys on the cinder block walls. Nail pegboard to the 2 bys, using shingle nails.

Length never a problem.

[amertrac]

If you have a wall with nothing on   lol  bob w.

[Papaw]

I made folding panels of pegboard on 2x2s with hinges so I could transport them to shows. A couple of years ago I put them up on the wall in the shop, thinking I would take them down for a show later, but they are still there.

[rusty]

Papaw, there is *way* too much empty space on that pegboard....

[Papaw]

I filled it that day at the Alvin, Texas All-American Festival. That was three years ago.

[Stoney]

I hang mine in the storage box on the side of my Snap-On roll around.  They used to make a long tool storage box for roll arounds.