Mounting Items in Garage

[Jae]

Can you mount hooks to the garage wall for tie straps to help secure large items like motorcycles or grills? How do you locate the studs?

 

[blong]

Hi Jae
You have a few options that have read about here and tried.
1)metal Stud finder - personally used successfully to mount a tv hold on the wall of a 3950
2)call heartland to get schematic of the wall in question - Tried without as much luck, hard to read and they sent a generic diagram of the wrong wall.
3) check outside of trailer in the morning for dew lines after a cool evening, you will see the fame outline, this works and I confirmed with the stud finder too.

That being said, I am not sure how much weight you want pulling on your walls, our tv was small and light and we never travelled with it on the wall. A motorcycle tied to it might be a little heavy?

I am sure others will chime in with other creative methods too.

 

[Bob&Patty]

The wall studs are very thin aluminum and I don't think they will hold much weight or stress. You could add more "D rings" to the floor, but if your only putting them to the plywood flooring. I would put some steel plate under the plywood to spread the area of stress.

 

[jeffdee]

I agree with the previous comments. I don't believe the walls would be strong enough for lateral or even angular stresses. You might want to do a search for comments made by DocFather and others in the Garage section referencing motorcycle tie downs and restraints. When I pack a grill I just strap it down to d-rings. Never had a problem. I am always carrying the wife's golf cart with no issues using the d-rings. They are plenty strong for use with ratchet straps.