Gear room ideas

Down with hanging packs, ropes, and some season specific gear like axes/tools but cannot be asked to rack and re-rack all the cams, carabiners, etc. after every outing. I won't deny I love when things look neat tho :))

Chad Miller wrote:

Once you get a certain amount of gear you're not going to bring it on every outing.  I keep my standard single rack and gear on a few slings that I can just grab and go.  The various other gear needed for longer or more unique outings needs to be specifically chosen.  Because of that I like to keep things organized on a wall for easy access.  

Oh for sure. I tend to place a lot of gear so I have a pretty big rack I keep on my gear sling in my pack I might thin out. And then I have an extra bag I bring with stuff like extra fingers/micro cam and a size 6 cam where I would stuff the thinned gear from my rack. And I have a bin at home I lovingly call my Indian Creek bin (though still haven’t been) with a lot of my older cams I reslung I rarely ever need. It would be awesome to have this system and be organized enough to use it. But some of the pictures looks like they re-rack each time.  Maybe organized wall like this will be a goal of mine in the future. Currently with 3 little kids, I would settle for my house not looking like a tornado has gone through it. 

Scott360 wrote:

Got motivated over a stretch of raining weather and put my power tools to use.  Drill jig came in handy to get the holes perfectly vertical.

Do you keep your bags filled with something?

Jakob Trock-Jansen wrote:

Do you keep your bags filled with something?

I store my down quilts in them. Except the Atmos 65, my cragging/trad pack, in which I keep asorted climbing paraphernalia: headlamp, stick clip, dog bowl, flip flops, Houdini, etc. 

Doubles on a sling. The rest is sorted and hanging - so when you need quads of yellow and green you grab and go. How people think this doesn’t save time, I don’t get. You think surgeons or navy seals or dentists or ninja warriors yard sale all their gear and then peck thru it every time they go?  Why should we. 

It’s aesthetic you yokels 

Scott360 wrote:

Got motivated over a stretch of raining weather and put my power tools to use.  Drill jig came in handy to get the holes perfectly vertical.

Looks great. Love the spot for sunscreen. I always forget the sunscreen. 

Ben Podborski wrote:

Tents, sleeping bags, packs, etc in the closet to the left. 

This one sparks joy.

So did you walk into a gear store and say" I'll take it all"

Scott360 wrote:

Got motivated over a stretch of raining weather and put my power tools to use.  Drill jig came in handy to get the holes perfectly vertical.

I like the peg system. How thick is the plywood? What’s the dowel-hole clearance? Any issues with the dowels “sagging” when loaded?

Kevinmurray wrote:

So did you walk into a gear store and say" I'll take it all"

Deals, trades, Facebook buy & sell, MP forum, handshakes with the local reps, and dedicated google alerts for sales. 

Nick Thomas wrote:

I like the peg system. How thick is the plywood? What’s the dowel-hole clearance? Any issues with the dowels “sagging” when loaded?

Plywood is 1 1/8" thick, approx. 71" tall x 64" wide.  Glued and doweled one sheet to get this size.  Made spacers out of the scrap plywood with a 2" hole saw, so peg board is 1 1/8" off the wall.  Drilled 98 holes 1 1/4"; spaced 6" apart horizontally & vertically.  Cut 1 1/4" dowels for pegs.  Each dowel could hold at least 100 lbs., so I'm not worried about sagging.  Held on wall with 25 1/4" lag screws, each 3.5" long.  Needed that many to flatten it out; raw lumber likes to potato chip.

Ben Podborski wrote:

Tents, sleeping bags, packs, etc in the closet to the left. 

My hat's off to that pegboard; it's working over time!

Finally had some time off and spent the day building my gear closet. Just needed some power tools and a few trips to Home Depot, how’s it look? Not shown is the 6 other places in my apartment and car that gear and random dirty socks from trips are scattered about

M Clark wrote:

Get some Gladiator Gearwall panels on sale, have them in my garage for yard tools/climbing gear and they work great.

Another thing I thought of: I used slickdeals.com and set alerts for "garage storage", "garage organization", or something of that sort and got notified when the gladiator panels went on sale like 50% off at Lowe's, made the purchase easier to stomach.

Scott360 wrote:

Plywood is 1 1/8" thick, approx. 71" tall x 64" wide.  Glued and doweled one sheet to get this size.  Made spacers out of the scrap plywood with a 2" hole saw, so peg board is 1 1/8" off the wall.  Drilled 98 holes 1 1/4"; spaced 6" apart horizontally & vertically.  Cut 1 1/4" dowels for pegs.  Each dowel could hold at least 100 lbs., so I'm not worried about sagging.  Held on wall with 25 1/4" lag screws, each 3.5" long.  Needed that many to flatten it out; raw lumber likes to potato chip.

How'd you calculate the 100lb dowel strength? Trying to plan a dowel wall for myself and 1 1/4" seems like serious overkill - wondering if I can cut down to 0.5" dowel except for maybe 0.75" for the rope dowels

Tal M wrote:

How'd you calculate the 100lb dowel strength? Trying to plan a dowel wall for myself and 1 1/4" seems like serious overkill - wondering if I can cut down to 0.5" dowel except for maybe 0.75" for the rope dowels

Strength:  Nothing scientific, just stood on one. I went with 1 1/4” dowels for aesthetic reasons—I like how they look.  You could go smaller and still have great strength from each peg.  

Idea 1: Table & shoeboxes with slings of protection on closet doorknobs

Idea 2: Shelves, smaller footprint than table

Idea 3: Racks & protection on rope, my favorite iteration yet!

Finally got around to intstalling a pegboard.

Metal Wall control peg board.  takes a lot more weight