Tool hanging hook

[mklotz]

In Garaj Mahal, my overcrowded garage shop, stuff gets placed where there is space. Sometimes that means hanging things from the rafters overhead.

At 6'1", I can reach many of the things hanging above but sometimes a smaller item will be a stretch, literally. Some of you may be old enough to remember when the local general store hung merchandise from nails in the exposed rafters. They used a tool to place the stock there and retrieve it when a customer wanted to buy it. This tool was a long rod with a curiously shaped hook on the end.

A discarded broom handle, a length of 3/16" stainless and a bit of time with the bender and I had my version of this tool. The long tongue on the leading end of the hook gets under the hook or ring supporting the suspended item, allowing it to be freed from its support. Its chisel-shaped tip neatly slides under holders lying flat against the timber.

If, like me, you hang stuff from the rafters, making one of these hooks might make things a bit easier for you.