Anybody come up with a novel way to display your saws?
Mar 10, 2022 22:46:05 GMT -5
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Post by w30bob on Mar 10, 2022 22:46:05 GMT -5
Hi Guys,
Well, I'm at the point now in this chainsaw hobby thing that I need to find an innovative way to display a lot of saws in not a lot of space. I don't want to banish the 'not so pretty' ones out to the shed, as mother nature will just continue to consume them. But I'm getting tired of walking around and tripping over all these says strewn throughout my house. You can't put very many on the kitchen counters and still use them to make food, and only one will fit in the microwave, if you take the bar off. Two can fit in the oven, but it's a pain taking them out every time I want to make a pizza. No, I don't have a wife...........if I did I'd be the one living in the shed, not the saws. But it would be nice to get my house back to looking like a house..........and not a long defunct Homelite dealership.
Now I've got a nice large "I" beam running on the ceiling in my workshop that runs the length of the room.........that could easily support 20-30 saws hanging from it. So I thought about making up a steel hanger for each saw that would clamp to the lower lip of the I-Beam and then catch the full width of the handlebar on each saw. This way the saws couldn't shift from side to side. But that would expose the bottoms of the saws for viewing, which is never their best side.........so that won't look too pretty when all is said and done. Then I thought about hanging each saw from it's rear handle vertically, bar pointed toward the floor. That would work, but I haven't seen a saw yet that doesn't leak oil out the filler cap when held vertically. Which would make a real mess I'd rather not deal with. Even the saws that are drained of oil seem to have some leak past the cap gasket and make a puddle. And seeing as most of my saws are in original unrestored condition.......the cap vents and gaskets have probably all seen better days. Can't really hang them vertically from the tip of the bar..........at least I'm not aware of any way to do that...and the oil would still leak out.
So I figure there's a lot of folks on here with a lot of saws. Has anyone figured out a great way to display them? Off the ground would be preferred, but anything will be better than me stacking them like cord wood, which is the direction I seem to be going in now. If I cut my ankle on a chain one more time while stepping over them......I'm gonna scream. So help out a fellow chainsaw nut and tell me your secrets for storing or displaying these bad boys.
Thanks,
bob
Well, I'm at the point now in this chainsaw hobby thing that I need to find an innovative way to display a lot of saws in not a lot of space. I don't want to banish the 'not so pretty' ones out to the shed, as mother nature will just continue to consume them. But I'm getting tired of walking around and tripping over all these says strewn throughout my house. You can't put very many on the kitchen counters and still use them to make food, and only one will fit in the microwave, if you take the bar off. Two can fit in the oven, but it's a pain taking them out every time I want to make a pizza. No, I don't have a wife...........if I did I'd be the one living in the shed, not the saws. But it would be nice to get my house back to looking like a house..........and not a long defunct Homelite dealership.
Now I've got a nice large "I" beam running on the ceiling in my workshop that runs the length of the room.........that could easily support 20-30 saws hanging from it. So I thought about making up a steel hanger for each saw that would clamp to the lower lip of the I-Beam and then catch the full width of the handlebar on each saw. This way the saws couldn't shift from side to side. But that would expose the bottoms of the saws for viewing, which is never their best side.........so that won't look too pretty when all is said and done. Then I thought about hanging each saw from it's rear handle vertically, bar pointed toward the floor. That would work, but I haven't seen a saw yet that doesn't leak oil out the filler cap when held vertically. Which would make a real mess I'd rather not deal with. Even the saws that are drained of oil seem to have some leak past the cap gasket and make a puddle. And seeing as most of my saws are in original unrestored condition.......the cap vents and gaskets have probably all seen better days. Can't really hang them vertically from the tip of the bar..........at least I'm not aware of any way to do that...and the oil would still leak out.
So I figure there's a lot of folks on here with a lot of saws. Has anyone figured out a great way to display them? Off the ground would be preferred, but anything will be better than me stacking them like cord wood, which is the direction I seem to be going in now. If I cut my ankle on a chain one more time while stepping over them......I'm gonna scream. So help out a fellow chainsaw nut and tell me your secrets for storing or displaying these bad boys.
Thanks,
bob
