Equipment Defender Hand Tool Racks: Get Shovels and Rakes Off the Trailer Floor

Shovels, rakes, and post hole diggers loose in the bottom of a trailer are the quiet time-waster of any crew's day. You dig for the one you need, you scratch up whatever else is riding, and you leave tools where anybody walking past can grab them. A wall of hand tool racks fixes all of that for less than the cost of replacing one stolen set.

What These Hold

Equipment Defender makes hand tool racks in a few configurations because hand tools aren't one shape. There's a version built for D-handle tools, shovels and post hole diggers with that loop at the top, and a version for straight-shaft tools like rakes and brooms. Both hold the tool by the shaft and lock it in.

If you're laying out a trailer wall, mix them. Most crews run a D-handle section and a straight-shaft section side by side rather than trying to make one style do everything.

They Lock

That's the point of the brand. Every rack in the line locks, and the cable and pin setup means a tool can't be lifted straight out while the trailer sits open at a job. Ask us which lock comes on the configuration you are looking at, since it varies across the line. Hand tools are the easiest thing on a trailer to walk off with, because they're worth enough to sell and nobody notices one missing until they need it.

Built to Stay Outside

Same construction as the rest of the line. E-coated first, which gets the coating inside the tubing and into the corners, then powder coated. On an open trailer that sits out in the weather year round, that matters more than it sounds like it does. A rack that rusts through at the mounting point drops your tools on the highway.

Open or Enclosed

These mount on the rails of an open utility or landscape trailer, and on the interior wall of an enclosed trailer. Inside an enclosed unit the racks do double duty, because getting tools vertical on the wall opens up the floor for the mower or the material you're actually hauling.

Plan the Wall, Not the Rack

The mistake we see is buying one rack, mounting it, and then discovering it's exactly where the blower needed to go. Walk out to your trailer, look at what rides with you every day, and lay the whole wall out at once. Hand tools, trimmers, blowers, gas cans, and a water cooler each have a rack, and they fit together better when you plan them together.

Bring the trailer to Thomasville or Winston-Salem and we'll walk it with you.

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We also carry Buyers Products racks if you want the value option. Equipment Defender is the heavier commercial choice for crews that run hard every day.