O/T and long. Lumber rack

the flying belgian · Mar 18, 2014

I need to do something different with my used lumber. I have a picture in my head but want to see if anyone else has an idea. Right now it is just laid out on the floor in the old hog house. Pile of 2X lumber from 4 to 10 ft. long in a pile over here, pile of 1X lumber in a pile aside of that. Some plywood pieces leaned up against the wall over there. Some full and most just scraps. Some misc. 4X4 lumber laying over there. Some trim boards and quarter round stuff mixed in with the 4X4s. Cat manure all over the top of the piles. Can't find anything when I want it. Don't even know if it is in that pile and hate digging through everything to see if I got a piece. Ideas welcome, pictures great. Thanks

Anonymous-0 · Mar 18, 2014

Start with Get rid of cat

redforlife · Mar 18, 2014

Use 4 foot 4X4's for runners and stack the same dimensions in nice even level stacks. Use a pair of forks to stack the stacks of lumber on top of each other in a shed you can manuever forks in. Then you just use the forks to get what you want. 2nd best thing is to build a rack with a hole for each dimension to be slid in from the end. Kind of a pain because it pretty much has to be stacked longest first working toward the shortest.

ss55 · Mar 18, 2014

If your concrete floor is flat and dry, maybe stack it in piles by dimension and have columns in each pile for different lengths, from shortest to longest. Similar to how a lumber yard is organized. Lean the plywood against a wall or build a rolling rack.

Woodworking magazines often have these kinds of projects in them. Your public library should have several different magazines in their periodicals section.

rlpintx · Mar 18, 2014

Could build one of these but would probably use all your scrap lumber.

omahagreg · Mar 18, 2014

Mine is too full at the moment! You could do something like this if you have a wall to hang from. Multiple rows would allow you to sort it as well!

showcrop · Mar 18, 2014

Mine is up above a stall area in the old post and beam barn. The nice thing is that the ends are all visible .

flembo · Mar 18, 2014

I am not very proud of the mess but this rack is built under the cellar stairs. 8' long stuff can go on the bottom and about 6' on the second shelf and 2' on the top. Every now and then I straighten it out but not lately.

flembo · Mar 18, 2014

I ment to mention being under the stairs it made use of what was somewhat wasted space anyways.

JMS/.MN · Mar 18, 2014

I have steel pipe racks in one pole shed for lumber.....Couple racks maybe 5 feet long, setting end to end, so 16 foot stuff fits fine. Several levels...bought at some auction. I just watch for stuff I can re-purpose...usually buy that cheap while others wonder wtf are you bidding on. Same with lotsa shop cabinets, etc. Years ago I got racks in a junk yard that were drying racks from a concrete tile company.....re-purposed for small steel/pipes, etc.

Bret4207 · Mar 19, 2014

I used to work at a lumber yard and organizing different types is a pain. My best idea so far is storing my stuff vertically in a section of my barn mow by width and type, ie- all 2x4 SPF in one slot, all 2x6 SPF in another, all 2x4 treated in a 3rd, sheets of plywood in a 4th, etc. That takes up a lot of room though and many people wont have it.

My plan at this point is to take the section of the mow where I store this stuff and put a second floor over that area. I'll build some stairs op there and make it a storage area for the household "stuff" we have there and then use the lower section for lumber and maybe do my plaining and table saw work there.

showcrop · Mar 19, 2014

(quoted from post at 04:08:52 03/19/14) I used to work at a lumber yard and organizing different types is a pain. My best idea so far is storing my stuff vertically in a section of my barn mow by width and type, ie- all 2x4 SPF in one slot, all 2x6 SPF in another, all 2x4 treated in a 3rd, sheets of plywood in a 4th, etc. That takes up a lot of room though and many people wont have it.

My plan at this point is to take the section of the mow where I store this stuff and put a second floor over that area. I'll build some stairs op there and make it a storage area for the household "stuff" we have there and then use the lower section for lumber and maybe do my plaining and table saw work there.

Brett,

I moved my saw into the basement from the barn about 6-8 years ago. It didn't like the cold and condensation out there. I have to do more carrying with it in the basement of course.

randallinMo · Mar 19, 2014

You're kind of a "neat freak" aren't you? Do you use any of that stuff? Just kidding. I USE my tools.........and usually leave them where I last used them! I'm getting better though. I took a nasty fall last summer when I got my foot tangled in an extension cord that was laying on the floor along with a host of other junk. Just flat out made myself mad.....so I cleaned it all up. My son couldn't believe it when he saw it!

Bret4207 · Mar 19, 2014

(quoted from post at 04:45:22 03/19/14)

(quoted from post at 04:08:52 03/19/14) I used to work at a lumber yard and organizing different types is a pain. My best idea so far is storing my stuff vertically in a section of my barn mow by width and type, ie- all 2x4 SPF in one slot, all 2x6 SPF in another, all 2x4 treated in a 3rd, sheets of plywood in a 4th, etc. That takes up a lot of room though and many people wont have it.

My plan at this point is to take the section of the mow where I store this stuff and put a second floor over that area. I'll build some stairs op there and make it a storage area for the household "stuff" we have there and then use the lower section for lumber and maybe do my plaining and table saw work there.

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Brett,

I moved my saw into the basement from the barn about 6-8 years ago. It didn't like the cold and condensation out there. I have to do more carrying with it in the basement of course.

Ha! Yeah, I know what you mean. Unfortunately my only other option is to leave the saw in the garage where it's at now and that's unheated and damper than the mow. Someday when I have a 2nd story over the garage it'll go there, but "someday" seems to be a long ways away!

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