Auxiliary Tool Hanger

I like to hang my tools on the wall of my shed so they are easy to see and easy to grab, but with all my shovels, mattocks, rakes, hoes, and saws, it did not take long before I ran out of wall space. I wanted to create some additional hanging space for some of my smaller tools, like trowels, and I remembered a silly solution my father had used back in the 1970s. 

My father (RIP) made one of these hangers about 50 years ago. It hung in a tool shed for years. He tried to get the idea published, without any success, in a couple of garden magazines. I'm happy to finally get it into the public eye by posting it on Instructables. Thanks, Dad!

Materials needed: trunk of a small conifer tree (a discarded Christmas tree works fine), eye screw, cord or ribbon

Tools needed: loppers, saw

Prune branches from the tree trunk, leaving some of each branch attached to the trunk. These branch stubs will be the pegs from which you can hang your tools.

Pick one section of the trunk, maybe 8 to 12 inches long, where several potential hanging pegs are attached. Use a saw to cut that section of trunk from rest of the tree.

Prune branches to a manageable length and number.

Screw an eye screw, or other hanging hardware, into the upper cross-section of the trunk.

Hang the completed hanger from a beam, or what have you. (My shed has beams so I put a nail in one of the beams and hung the eye screw on it.) 

Use a piece of cord to tie a loop on each tool, and then hang each tool from the hanger.

Your tools are easy to see and easy to grab.

(Thanks again for the idea, Dad.)