Well I started reading this thread and I was thinking "oh this is pretty interesting"
And then it turned to "omg! what a shit fight!"
I actually use milk crates too for most of my stuff. They're as tall as TreeVet's, but they're twice and wide. Ropes and gear fit alot better into them cuz they're a little bigger.
All of my personal safety gear and that rope go into a BlackHawk Gear Bag.
The crates are convenient to haul around, since I have to unload my truck after every day's work.
For drying, well, there's that big 5,000 sq ft steel building you can see in the "arb harpoon" test videos. I hang them up in there, which works really nicely.
And, I'm the one who was chipping into the back of a bread truck (BIG van), but never again!!! What an absolute pain in the ass (and back...and neck, and legs/arms etc)
Unloading that thing took almost 3 hours solid. And it coated the entire inside of the cab and all the windows and controls with a fine sappy-mist spray coated with minichip which hardened like cement... spent another 6 hours cleaning the truck after that project.
Chalk it up to experience!
