The third item for the patent office is an exotic method I’ve developed for hanging up everything: extension cords, hoses, power tools, car rims, you name it. There are endless possibilities!!!!
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I call it a “piece of string,” but technically I think it’s actually a loop of nylon cord. There are a million things available for five dollars each or more to hang up anything you can imagine when organizing your garage. I came up with this 30 years ago. I use a $0.002 sheet rock screw, strategically placed, or sometimes a cup hook. I make a loop out of the nylon cord, and hang it off the screw. When I wind up something like the extension cord, it’s very easy to reach through the middle of the coil of wire, grab the loop, and hang it back on the screw.
I don’t care what kind of hanger you have, nine times out of 10 the wire or whatever will start falling off the hook. This completely eliminates that. In this picture, about 14” wide, I have the positive and negative cables from my welder, one of those 6 foot chainsaws to the left of that, an extra pressure washer hose (they’re always a pain to hang), a 50 foot extension cord, and behind that I have a leaf blower and a hedge trimmer. It’s easy to grab any one of them without worrying about the other ones flopping down as you do it. If you’re really interested, I can provide detailed instructions and blueprints.
Btw, another space saving idea is the 2 x 4 frame all of this stuff is hanging from. I put my buzz-box stick welder on that frame, about 7 feet in the air, because I only weld once in a while and rarely change the settings. I have a piece of broom handle about 2 feet long, drilled through the end, with a zip tie looped in it about 3 inches in diameter that I used to turn the welder on and off....
Yeah yeah, I know this sounds nuts, but it keeps all the cords and all the hoses and the leaf blower etc. very organized, and you can do it in a compact area without them all mixing in between each other. I have actually layered such things up a wall by using different lengths, and they easily pull free-great space saving. After you do it for a short while, you can grab the leaf blower or the extension cord or whatever, unhook it with one hand, slide it into your hand, and roll it out to whatever you want to do.
As before, there is also a 1.1 version. If you have something that is particularly unruly, instead of starting with the loop on the screw, I take the loop and wrap it around the cord or whatever, pass it through itself, so you’re only hanging it on one side of the loop, and the loop is acting like a lasso around the unruly cord. I use this on a 100’ sewer snake, with about a quarter inch poly rope, and it never gets in a mess.
My fourth item, is my “crank rag,“ but I don’t have a picture handy. I will submit that in a day or two along with my gas-tank cleaning brush....