Build A Super Cheap 10 Dollar Hanging Ski Rack Hanging Ski Rack Plans and Instructions Donation Amount Thanks! $1.00 USDUber Thankful!! $2.00 USDYou Made My DAY!!! $3.00 USD With that in mind please seriously consider donating a buck or two (or three?). This is by far the most popular thing I’ve given out to the world. And since it’s been so widely heralded as awesome, far and wide. Over 10,000 downloads later and I’m still considering selling these little plans they are so widely loved. But maybe you could just donate a couple of bucks? THANKS! —– When you and your growing kids start skiing, and skis begin to propagate like freaking bunnies, you need a place to put them.  The problem we have is that we have to keep all our skis so that as our kids grow up they may grow into them… and thus, we have about a million skis lying around.  Where should we put them all?!? So when we bought our skis this season I decided I’d had enough.  Until now we have been just piling our skis in a corner of the garage.  Yeah, not great for the skis, and not great for the clutter quotient of the garage.  To solve this problem I began researching what it would cost to buy a rack to mount on the wall in the garage and I just didn’t want to pay over two hundred bucks or whatever to get all the racks I needed to handle all our skis. And so I started researching the best ways to build a rack that efficiently handle our skis.  I considered closet setups, and bench configurations.  I looked into mounting them on the ceiling, but I didn’t want to have to get ladders out to get at them.  I considered a horizontal solution.  I thought about brackets for the bindings, and a leaning method for them all. And I even considered building a hover ski rack container for everything… but I didn’t want to win a nobel in the process.  I just needed a place to dump my skis quickly.  And that was when I realized that there was a super simple solution staring me in the face. My Hanging Ski Rack Plans and Instructions became super simplified when I realized that if I just used two dowels, I could hang the skis vertically and simply.  And blam, I had it all figured.  Except… that would be a lot of torque on the dowels… how in heavens name am I going to have enough strength in the construction to pull it off?!? But then it came to me – the magic formula and ratio for the dowels and the spacing in order to support the weight.  If you’d like that magic ratio and installation instructions, consider donating now: Donation Amount Thanks! $1.00 USDUber Thankful!! $2.00 USDYou Made My DAY!!! $3.00 USD The plans include a materials manifest. A detailed walk through of how to build the ski rack. I even have a 3D Google Sketch plan that I used to create detailed images of the process and the way the dowels will inset. And heck if you are into that sort of thing I might even be convinced to send you my sketch plan if you’d like. Way way more documentation than even really necessary! hahah. 13 Responses egd July 24, 2016 I have been searching for a post with this much detail (dimensions, pictures) for the past 3 days…I was about to give up and on my last search I came upon your tutorial (CAD dwgs what?!?!!). Thank you for posting and hopefully there were more than 4 people looking for this info! I’ll be attacking this project this week, woohooo! Reply Taylor Holmes February 17, 2017 My pleasure… and if anyone wants my sketchup file, I think I can find it somewhere. Not sure exactly why you’d want it, but whatever! hahaha. Glad so many people are getting great use out of the plans. Taylor Reply Monica September 19, 2016 We are interested in reposting this on SkiingMag.com. Please email mpurington@aimmedia.com if possible. Reply Taylor Holmes September 20, 2016 sure sure… emailing presently… taylor Reply Pace September 29, 2016 This rocked, made it for my small storage closet and it was very easy to adapt. Thanks for the info! Reply Taylor Holmes September 30, 2016 Great! Glad to hear it Pace. It’s definitely made a huge difference in my garage if I do say! hahah. Take care. Reply Lee Nuttall October 19, 2016 Wahoo! Gonna save me a fortune with the kids growing up!! (Although have spent said fortune having convinced my wife I need a bigger shed so I can do these projects and save us money!!) Thanks though! Reply Mike February 19, 2017 Am I missing the link to the plan downloads? Reply Taylor Holmes February 20, 2017 Oh weird. I guess it’s now behind the donate link. You don’t have to donate anything. I believe you can enter zero if you want. Taylor Reply Lucy March 10, 2017 hmmmm , when I click on donate I see only an ad for PayPal Credit. Happy to donate a dollar but I can not find the details… thank you Reply Taylor Holmes March 10, 2017 oh whoops… checking! Reply Lauri April 16, 2017 I too would like to donate but it doesn’t give the details. Thanks! Reply Taylor Holmes April 16, 2017 Yeah, dangit. You guys are sweet. I just keep forgetting. I’ll work on it! Thanks for the reminder. Reply Leave a Reply Cancel Reply Your email address will not be published.CommentName* Email* Website Notify me of followup comments via e-mail. You can also subscribe without commenting.
egd July 24, 2016 I have been searching for a post with this much detail (dimensions, pictures) for the past 3 days…I was about to give up and on my last search I came upon your tutorial (CAD dwgs what?!?!!). Thank you for posting and hopefully there were more than 4 people looking for this info! I’ll be attacking this project this week, woohooo! Reply
Taylor Holmes February 17, 2017 My pleasure… and if anyone wants my sketchup file, I think I can find it somewhere. Not sure exactly why you’d want it, but whatever! hahaha. Glad so many people are getting great use out of the plans. Taylor Reply
Monica September 19, 2016 We are interested in reposting this on SkiingMag.com. Please email mpurington@aimmedia.com if possible. Reply
Pace September 29, 2016 This rocked, made it for my small storage closet and it was very easy to adapt. Thanks for the info! Reply
Taylor Holmes September 30, 2016 Great! Glad to hear it Pace. It’s definitely made a huge difference in my garage if I do say! hahah. Take care. Reply
Lee Nuttall October 19, 2016 Wahoo! Gonna save me a fortune with the kids growing up!! (Although have spent said fortune having convinced my wife I need a bigger shed so I can do these projects and save us money!!) Thanks though! Reply
Taylor Holmes February 20, 2017 Oh weird. I guess it’s now behind the donate link. You don’t have to donate anything. I believe you can enter zero if you want. Taylor Reply
Lucy March 10, 2017 hmmmm , when I click on donate I see only an ad for PayPal Credit. Happy to donate a dollar but I can not find the details… thank you Reply
Taylor Holmes April 16, 2017 Yeah, dangit. You guys are sweet. I just keep forgetting. I’ll work on it! Thanks for the reminder. Reply
