Need ideas and/or pics for storing axles

[thatK30guy]

I have a bunch of axles stored in the back of one of the junk trucks on my driveway and now want to strip that truck down to part it out. I do not want the axles laying all around the drive, etc., and do no want to put them in the back of another truck bed.
I want some ideas or pics of how you store your axles. I have reserved a spot behind the shop to make space for such storage if only I can get some ideas on how to keep the axles off the ground.
I would like ideas and/or pics so the axles can be up off the ground high enough for me to back a truck up to the pile and roll or push an axle off the rack onto the bed of the truck and drive out with it. I do not want to roll a cherry picker back there to do any lifting. Not on rocks so the picker is out.
Lets see and hear your ideas. I had the thought of using railroad ties stacked on each other high enough but that would look cluttered. I thought of steel posts or beams into the ground with two horizontal supports to lay the axles across. Supports such as old railings from highways, etc.

Lets hear your thoughts. I want something that looks decent and serves its purpose. Strong, too.

 

[diesel4me]

Local boneyards have two uprights planted in the ground like fence posts,with angled steel "arms" welded to them to hold the axles,spaced about 18" apart, ,so they can pick the axles up with a forkloader and plop them on the "stands"...they use truck frame rails,channel iron,or large pipes for the uprights,and put cement in the holes in the ground so they wont lean..

In your case,if you want to be able to just back up a truck to the axle and load it without the aid of a hoist or winch,you'll only be able to stack a few on each pair of uprights,otherwise you'll be lifting or lowering them into the bed...if you made a rack with the axles lying one behind the other,you'll have to somehow lift the one in front of it up and over the one nearest the bed,or move it,which wont be fun to do alone..

An idea we often used and the junkyard when a customer wanted a diff,we would put a rim on one axle and stand it up on the rim--then when they came with a truck or trailer to pick it up,they could back up to it--push it over onto the bed,then all they had to do was pick one end of it up and shove it in,if we were busy with the loader in the yard...(most customers took off with the rim too though,which sometimes caused a problem next time we needed one for a similar axle)...

 

[ryoken]

I have a bunch of axles stored in the back of one of the junk trucks on my driveway and now want to strip that truck down to part it out. I do not want the axles laying all around the drive, etc., and do no want to put them in the back of another truck bed.
I want some ideas or pics of how you store your axles. I have reserved a spot behind the shop to make space for such storage if only I can get some ideas on how to keep the axles off the ground.
I would like ideas and/or pics so the axles can be up off the ground high enough for me to back a truck up to the pile and roll or push an axle off the rack onto the bed of the truck and drive out with it. I do not want to roll a cherry picker back there to do any lifting. Not on rocks so the picker is out.
Lets see and hear your ideas. I had the thought of using railroad ties stacked on each other high enough but that would look cluttered. I thought of steel posts or beams into the ground with two horizontal supports to lay the axles across. Supports such as old railings from highways, etc.

Lets hear your thoughts. I want something that looks decent and serves its purpose. Strong, too.

your biggest issue is the width.... if you want to be able to just roll em off into a pickup, that's gonna be hard cuz they really need to load front to back... if it was a flatbed, it'd be easy...

but you still have the issue of proper height... a rack as Bob mentioned, like guys steel racks, wont work due to the different heights... you really need one rack at the proper height with a few on it, or all of the individual racks at the same height.. but multiples...

 

[blazerdavid]

Racks

I use my little tractor with my pallet forks to load and unload them.

 

[-stew-]

I like the idea of standing them. Id pour a concrete pad big enough for them and stand them up on a wheel.

 

[Deuling]

Id build a rack like that and get a crank setup from what they use to lift boats and jet skis out of the water, and just strap them, and lift up and down

 

[Greg72]

Convert the axles into U.S. Currency and store them in your bank.....











-G

 

[muddermilitia]

We built a wooden rack, almost looked like a staircase, with notches cut out of the wood planks that the axle tubes would sit in. So that the brakes wouldn't hit the brakes on another axle, we would alternate if the axle hugged the left side or the right side of the rack.