WALL MOUNTED TIRE RACK

Winter tires are big, heavy, and when you have four of them in a pile they take up a lot of room. Due to these considerations, you can save a lot of floor space by setting up a wall mounted tire rack. In this case I put the tire rack above the garage door so that it was totally out of the way of everything. This wasn’t a particularly difficult job to do, but it did take a few hours as a result of the quantity of measuring, cutting and screwing involved.

MY KEY TAKE AWAYS

Stack up the items that you are storing to make it easy measure
This will be a measure of the minimum width to store your tires
Measure your studs to ensure the minimum measurements work. In this case I will increase it slightly to 50 inches in width
Use the tires to size the board spacing. Too big and they will fall through, too small and they will be unstable in the rack
Cut your lumber to the appropriate length
Use some construction screws to fasten the boards in place
If not using joist hangers I'd recommend nails over these screws
Joist hangers will add additional strength to your rack
Add some metal eyelets to attach road or SWR
Use a level and mark the studs where you will be hanging the rack
Use nails or structural screws to hold the rack. You need the shear strength. Nails would also work in this application
Add eyelets on the wall side
Measure the length of SWR needed and cut the SWR to length
Attach the SWR to the front edge of the rack
Attach the SWR to the wall side
Use some sort of tensioner to tighten the SWR and take weight off the leading edge of the rack. Make these for both sides
I highly recommend some additional webbing or rope get added to prevent the tires from rolling forward

Some examples of stuff I used in the video:

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