DIY Storage Solution With A Secret (You Won't Believe How It Works!)

You can feed a HAXMAN child by purchasing merch here! thehaxman.com/

Great build. You could save even more by making the 2 end units stationary and they could hold the whole assembly up. No need to have them slide unnecessarily. Just a thought.

Shout out to the wife for being the patient camera woman! Most underrated thing of the episode. 😅

This is amazing! The commercial system is so cool, but also so insanely expensive. Something we did on a similar system was take a photo of each sliding-shelf, showing everything on it, and then printed it off and put it in a small picture frame attached to the shop-facing side of each shelf unit. Makes "looking" for stuff so much faster.

Putting the trolley in after welding is actually an improvement. If one goes bad in the future you can more easily replace it.

The radial arm saw brings me back to my first year carpentry class in high school, back in '98 or '99, and the teacher warned us that the radial arm saw will kick back. He can hear when it happens, but for us whom are all deaf, we have to go by the feel. I was cutting some solid oak plank - maybe 12" wide I can't remember it's like a lifetime ago - and sure enough, the saw immediately tried to kick back, but because of his warning and my stance, I was able to prevent the saw from trying to chew up my hands or take out my shoulder as I was braced in anticipation of these kickback. When the saw kickback, my teacher immediately swiveled his head to check on me, and I nodded to let him know I got it.

I need this for books. Home library here I come.

I love building things with strut! Its one of my go-to tools. They make double sections of strut. Similat to how you welded the things together, ao anybody could have that added stability off the shelf with no welding needed. You could have built the entire assembly from the struts if you had wanted to. They make attachments for all of that and there are strut nuts that make it a cake walk to bolt the entire assembly together and then you can easily take it down or modify it if you ever need to. They even have floor mounting plates like what you used to attach ypur 4x4 posts. Super fun to watch.

Have to say, Haxmeister...damned impressive! As an old time maintenance electrician, love that you used one of the best inventions ever, the conduit rack and trolley system! Well done, young man! Very well done! Always look forward to seeing what's happening in Hax-Land with you, your lovely wife and all the young Hax-Ladies. Keep the good times rolling! Take care, be safe and God bless!

I worked in hospital where they kept medical records in system similar to this. I had often thought how nice it would be to have my library in one. Now, it just might possible.

During college, I used to work summers in a saw mill. They had a 24" pendulum (swing) saw which was terrifying as it was belt driven and the off switch was a couple of steps away. The guy who normally worked it has one bicep twice the size of the other, and a slip up could launch the saw blade at your chest, so you had to respect that saw. The radial arm saw I used had a rotating head and I would rotate it 90 degrees and run a gang blade to rip boards into 1" stakes for mine surveyors to use - The push stick was a broom. Amazingly I still have all my fingers!

I would never do this. But watched the entire video because it was entertaining and educational.

HOA's are something that should not even be legally allowed.

LOL! The gorilla peeking through the door at the end was funny!

hope you didn't get sick after welding the strut to the tube. Welding galvanized metal requires good ventilation to prevent breathing in the vaporized zinc. It will make you feel terrible for a few days. Project looks great though. I'll be building something similar in the future.

I like the color coded shelves idea in the comments. I would also make labels to put on magnets, of what is on each shelf, onto a small steel plate on the visible side of the shelf. When you move a tool, move the magnet/label to the shelf.

That looks really great! Would be a good addition to my shop, so I'll definitely keep it in mind. The only two things I would add are: another 1x2 across some of the shelves to keep smaller stuff from falling out. You may open them slowly, but will your kids? And some handles on the outside to be able to move the shelves without the risk of pinching fingers.

Those rails and trollies have so many different applications! Plus, not having the casters frees up a little space underneath if you ever need it for material or something. Fantastic work and really appreciate the cost breakdown as well! You're killing it!

That combo of storage space and organization potential hits so hard.

30 seconds in, I had to press the Like button. Storage will always be (for a lot of us DIYers and semi-pros) the sinews of the war.