Stainless Steel Milk Bucket Rack

A friend of mine who is an organic farmer called me up the other day. He was in need of some service on his field cultivator.

John mentioned also that he was in need of a shelf unit in his milk house and he was wondering if I could come up with something to help him out. I told him I would talk with the milker to see what the project would entail.

Joel, the milker, informed me that he wanted to hang the shelf on the wall which is cinder block construction. He said he will hang it on the wall himself if I would just get started on it, today, I delivered it and placed it to see how it would fit.

I didn't know if he would be hanging full buckets of dairy soap and other cleaners on the shelf unit, but I assumed to build the rack heavy duty enough to handle such a load.

 The shelf, will physically handle six 5 gallon buckets, with one bucket tucked tightly into the corner. During the mock up fitting of the shelf, I doubled the number of buckets by elevating the shelf onto buckets plus a 2 x 4 to allow for storage underneath the shelf.

When a project like this comes along, I am reminded why I do this freelance welding projects business. I worked for a family diary farm in high school. and am glad to pay this project forward. Sometimes personalizing a project pays with unforeseen dividends. Perhaps we will get together and discuss that exercise equipment project he was talking about last weekend.