Looking for creative ways to get it out of the garage or off the garage floor. Don't have much room for a shed, but if they made a little plastic shed just big enough for a mower and a couple yard tools that would be great.
Looking for creative ways to get it out of the garage or off the garage floor. Don't have much room for a shed, but if they made a little plastic shed just big enough for a mower and a couple yard tools that would be great.
Yeah, having the mower (and snowblower here up north) taking up valuable car project space is a pet peeve of mine too. My mower has a folding handle, and I fold it up whenever I'm not using it, which helps a little. There isn't a good spot in my yard for a shed either, but I'm hoping that I can convert the space under the deck into storage for stuff like that next spring. In for everyone else's solutions.
I shove mine under the deck that is under a screened in porch. Slightly out of the weather and hidden. Anything like that an option?
Battery powered: Compress and fold the handle, store vertically, hanging optional and made easier with battery removal during storage.
I would go for a small shed if that is an option. Getting yard tools out of the garage was one of the best garage upgrades I've ever done.
They do make low height storage sheds- they've just gotten a lot more expensive than they used to be. I don't remember them being so pricey 10-15 years ago when I was shopping for backyard storage.
I think I've seen plastic covers for push mowers, sort of like outdoor grill covers. You might could fabricate one using a cheap HF tarp for material & gorilla tape or somesuch adhesive to put it together.
I have a pair of lean to sheds on the back of my separate garage. I keep my mower and yard tools in one, along with my generator. I'd like to free up some of that space, and have the generator closer to the house but still protected from weather and easy theft when it's in use.
I've been thinking about building a shed, wish I would have done it last year. A couple of weeks ago I heard on Marketplace that lumber prices had dropped 40% from the peak in May.
Pricing plywood a couple of days ago, I'm still seeing over $70/sheet. Apparently, the price drop hadn't made down to the big box stores yet.
Two lawn tractors and a push mower and various gardening tools were taking over my garage. Built a 16 x 10 shed to house it all. It all fits, but still I wish the shed was bigger!
M2Pilot said:I think I've seen plastic covers for push mowers, sort of like outdoor grill covers. You might could fabricate one using a cheap HF tarp for material & gorilla tape or somesuch adhesive to put it together.
That's a good idea, but a 10-month-old black lab has some vicious tendencies
Driven5 said:Battery powered: Compress and fold the handle, store vertically, hanging optional and made easier with battery removal during storage.
Are the electric mowers really that much lighter? Because maybe that's the viable option. If I can hang it on the wall I can do that.
When we put a laundry room addition on the back of the house, I included a 6 ft x 10 ft room accessible only from the outside and lined in 5/8" fire rated drywall. I keep my lawn mower and gas grill in that.
Maybe some variation on this?:
In reply to aircooled :
Kind of sketched out about having a gas powered lawnmower overhead. I have also run out of room on the ceiling
Oh, sorry. I thought you were talking about an oldy school "push" mower for some reason.
Yes, hoisting your gas and oil filled mower to the ceiling is probably a bad idea.
I have about 3 feet between the garage and the fence. I figure someday I will build a little lean-to between there specifically sized for that sort of stuff.
I'm building a lean-to on the side of my garage that will be 6' x 12' so I can move all the lawn stuff out there. My problem is that I waited too long and the project will cost 3 times as much as it should. So I wait.
My house came with an 8'x10' shed and it's awesome! Planting shelf down one wall, bat hooks on every stud for hanging tools, mower, stump grinder, gas can, chain saws, leaf blower, power washer, kerosene heater, bags of dirt and fertilizer, and much more all fit inside. It's absolutely the best thing for the yard.
Not as useful for clearing up space, but I always folded the handle up on mine and stored it under the work bench. I designed the bench so it fit underneath pretty well.
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