Here's a list I have collected from various forums over the years. List of Hacks/ideas to help organize or make life better in the garage. Here is what has been listed before. 1. Rubber mats for horse stalls - make great pads to keep your feet from hurting and hard enough material your creeper seat can roll across and they dont slide out from under you. 2. Laptop and flat screen tv - for a cheap garage computer for tracing wiring diagrams. 3. old cheap roll around tool box - make great welder carts and storage for welding/fabrication tools. 4. installed a poly parking lot bumper keep my front end off the back of the garage. 5. Colored electrical tape at the ends of tools for quick Identification. 6. Home Depot Rustoleum Epoxy Garage Floor Kit: BEFORE MOVING IN. $200 and 3 weekends of labor (2 for prep, 1 for application and drying) -Not perfect but looks really great and makes cleanup easy. USE the anti-slip powder! 7. Retractable electric cord reel on the ceiling: I mounted mine right in the dead center of the garage and it's the most awesome time saver / annoyance saver ever. 8. Retractable air hose reel on the ceiling: My next purchase. I am putting my air compressor into a Gladiator Garageworks cabinet, then applying dynomat and the foil insulation to the bottom section of the cabinet where my air compressor is (cuts down on noise), then adding a retractable reel air hose close to the electric cord reel. 8. Sink 9. Good lighting: I upgraded to LED lighting, but I'm adding 2 more LED lights and a dedicated over-bench light. 10. Carpet scraps for laying on 11. Bench Grinder with a dewalt wire wheel. 12. Bench Vice 13. Rechargeable blutooth speaker lets me run a show or music off of the phone and still get phone calls. 14. T-handle ratcheting alan wrench. 15. I gut my old 18 volt batteries and screw the shells on the wall, then I use them to house my cordless drills 16. Simple, but I keep a paper towel and toilet paper dispenser on the wall, can buy one at HF. 17. I made a sheet metal holder for the HF nitrile gloves mounted to the wall to serve as a dispenser, can buy one at HF. 18. have two wooden boxes under the workbench, one for clean and one for dirty shop towels. (I wash and reuse mine) 19. made four 10 1/2 by 10 1/2 by 7 blocks out of two by fours. three on top, three on the bottom and two runners. They make great supports for any thing, vehicles, for cutting wood, a quick step, etc. 20. old bathroom rugs, they're the best for lying on, the toilet ones are great for motorcycles, the cutout fits around the tires. 21. 4 inch PVC cut it to the lengths I need and mount them to the wall. They make great place to put moldings, wood trim and a variety of other things. 22. shelves above garage door rails for storage. 23. a work bench with shelves under it for storage. 24. Old cabinets for storing paint,brake clean etc 25. Set up a commercial account for yourself at your local parts stores, they often sell brake clean for cheaper than advertised price to "commercial" clients along with other discounts on parts behind the counter. You dont need a charge account or a tax number. 26. Keep your eyes/ears open for someone that updates hardware stores, I got a rack of bolt bins from an old hardware store for $15 27. Check the insulation in the attic above your garage if its not already climate controlled, it helps alot . 28. Tire storage hangs from ceiling to keep them out of the way. 29. Peg-board double loop screwdriver holders (that never seem to work for screwdrivers I own), mounted to the side of the toolbox to hold the 1/2" drive extra long ratchets and extension 30. Peg-board fork things, again on the side of the toolbox to hold the vice-grips. 31. Plastic pipe with caps to hold the drippy grease guns

I just started MIG welding a few weeks ago and I'm absolutely addicted. Now I can't wait to repurpose my 2500 lb winch and throw it on a steel plate so I can have a portable winch for my front hitch or back hitch on my dually! Well done sir

@GEARHEADdezign

5 ай бұрын

A mig welder is one of those things you never knew you couldn't live without! I thought the same thing, like an air compressor and most recently a lift🤣

@porterbramwell656

4 ай бұрын

Pro tip: a 2,500lb winch is not sufficient for a dually. Look at getting a 12,000lb winch. 2,500 is more for ATVs. With every row of wire/rope the ratio changes. If you’re using the top row of line the pulling power is greatly reduced.

@GEARHEADdezign

4 ай бұрын

@@porterbramwell656 true story. I've had my 9000lb winch be too weak to pull a 3900lb Blazer out of the mud with a snatch block, which theoretically doubles the power

Nice video.. I welded a bracket w/ angle iron, bolted it on a winch, then bolted separate angle iron on a trolley (I Beam), then drilled 5/8” holes through the sides, slide 5/8” hitch pins in for a ceiling hoist that can be easily removed, I’ve used it to pull motors and jeep tubs.. I then use the 5/8” holes to attach chains to the inside truck bed eyelets to roll in my Harley on a chock cart.. also use chains with winch bracket to load cars in car hauler, hooking to the front tie down eyelets.. I then welded 2” tube on a removable bracket for hitch receivers. All the power comes from a chargeable jump starter box..

Awesome idea thanks. I'd love do thus and make a mount for my dump trailer for logs.

Definitely will try it , thank you

I have done the same 4x4 car trailer homemade tilt trailer best thing I’ve ever done Gday from Australia mate

@GEARHEADdezign

6 ай бұрын

Yeah I'm super glad my buddy gave me the idea, that's why I shared it. I went to Australia a few years back and it was great. We'll be going back once the kiddo is a little older

Nice video cool ideas

Like the Road Runner!!!!!!

@GEARHEADdezign

5 ай бұрын

Barf 🤮🤣

You can also put a hitch in the front and that way you can see where you are guiding your trailer.

@GEARHEADdezign

Жыл бұрын

Yeah it makes maneuvering in a tight spot easier

About 15 years ago I ordered a receiver winch platform that has the female receiver on the other end ---- so you can have the winch on the rear hitch and still pull a trailer. Pretty much eliminates the winch and battery on the trailer. It is such an obvious way to do it, yet I've never seen another one like it

@GEARHEADdezign

Жыл бұрын

That's a pretty cool idea. Gotta be pretty bulky though. And isn't the winch a little low to load something on the trailer? The reason I ended up building my own was because of the height issue.

@jimcollins8097

Жыл бұрын

I have a 3/4 ton and have to use a drop hitch for my trailer, so height works out. Otherwise, you just fabricate a roller and mount on top of front rail of the trailer.

@GEARHEADdezign

Жыл бұрын

@@jimcollins8097 that's true, my 2500 has a 6" drop hitch too. I thought about making a fairlead for my trailer but just raised the winch instead. Also helps with approach angle when it's mounted on the front hitch

@jimcollins8097

Жыл бұрын

My trailer tilts, so I put a receiver on top of the tongue, about Midway. I have a 2" square tube with pulley mounted on end, and stick that in the receiver to make a boom when trailer is tilted.

@GEARHEADdezign

Жыл бұрын

@@jimcollins8097 I love simple functionality like that

I have the same thing welded a receiver onto my car trailer front and rear receivers on my truck and even made a receiver for my tractor. I hard-wired a pair of towtruck 01 ot jumper cables into my truck they run to the front receiver and the back receiver and them mad a jumper cable that I can plug into the rear one to reach the winch when its on the trailer

@GEARHEADdezign

Жыл бұрын

Hell yeah. I need to set mine up for an Anderson connector or something. Using jumper cables is brilliant. I've been needing a way to do it on the cheap.

@GEARHEADdezign

Жыл бұрын

You can build a front receiver on the cheap. I bought (and then had to modify) the one for my current truck, but I built the one for my last truck and my blazer. The receiver tubes are like $20, then you just need to weld the structure to the frame

@dmwi1549

Жыл бұрын

Im sure it can be done. It’s just a little trickier with a unibody van and plastic bumper with sensors and way to much technology in that nose section.

@GEARHEADdezign

Жыл бұрын

Well that's probably true🤣

I'd like to have seen the connections you used. Cool video though

@GEARHEADdezign

3 ай бұрын

I just put Anderson connectors on it recently. But I've been using just the 3/8 ring terminals straight to the battery or with jumper cables

You should probably get a better winch battery if you are going to be using your winch on different stuff

@GEARHEADdezign

8 ай бұрын

Haha I just ran into this problem. So I'm making up an Anderson cable setup

What are those lead looking wait on your positive terminal

@GEARHEADdezign

8 ай бұрын

It's the circuit breaker setup that came with the winch

any tips or vids on HOW to install / fab up a front receiver on my 23 F-150- All the ones I see say I CAN'T do it with my front skid plates from talon Garage.

@GEARHEADdezign

Ай бұрын

2023? That's 20 years newer than anything I work on 🤣

@vicc6744

Ай бұрын

@@GEARHEADdezign hahaha- got it- this is my first new truck since 1980 and man I have a lot to learn- Thanks for the reply

How difficult was wiring it?

@GEARHEADdezign

4 ай бұрын

Either easy or super easy depending on how you do it. At first I used either 3/8 bolts or jumper cables. Now I did Andersen connectors. I still gotta put together that video

Am I trippin or is that winch slow as 💩😂