George's Solid Wood Storage
George VondriskaDescription
George Vondriska explains how he set up the solid wood storage area in his storage building. Using some heavy duty, inexpensive shelf brackets from a home center, he found an effective way to store solid woods. It was easy to set up and helps keep the wood organized. Including a miter saw in this area creates a great work flow to get wood cut to size before bringing it into the shop.
I needed to find a creative way to store solid woods out here in my storage building. And I looked at a bunch of different stuff. I looked at building racks out of two-by-fours, I looked at buying commercially made racks. In the end, what I settled on, were shelf brackets that you can easily buy at a home center. So here's the dealio. On the wall, I've got a heavy-duty standard that's screwed directly into the two-by-four with a very robust screw. I've got a number 12, three and a half inch screw holding these in. A screw in every hole. Then I bought heavy-duty brackets to go on the heavy-duty standards. The brackets are 19 inches long. It's the longest ones they sell. In this case, my studs are on 24-inch centers. So I've got a bracket every 24 inches. What I've found, is that if grab that bracket in about the middle of it. And I grab two of them. I can hang on there, I'm 185 pounds. So spreading a load of wood over four or five of those, depending on how long the material is, I'm real confident we can take the load. What I really, really like about this is. It gives me infinite possibilities. So what I can do is I can shift my brackets up and down, depending on what I'm storing. I filled the entire wall with this, as you can see. So basically I've got each bay kinda separated by material type or material species. If I change my mind in the future. I can take a bracket out, move it to a new spot. Now to keep my material flowing, what I did is I left a bay kinda open in the center here. I've got a miter saw there with a great fence from FastCap on it. So I can bring my material right off of this storage area, get it cut to size. Then from here, move it into my shop. So in the end, for me. These heavy-duty shelf systems from a home center were a great solution. Not that expensive to get lots of solid wood stored out here in my storage building.
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Hi there. I noticed that George mentioned that the brackets and wall standards are "Heavy Duty", and upon researching the link provided in the comments, I found that the KNAPE & VOGT system comes with a heavy duty 1" standard, and a 5/8" regular size standard. I am wondering if George's system uses the Heavy Duty 1" standards or the regular 5/8" ones, and his reference to Heavy Duty, is simply that the regular ones are good quality and strong.
Only green llumberr is stored horizontally Dry lumber should be stored vertically
My storage shed has metal structural members instead of wood 2x4s. I have a bunch of these brackets already, how would I fasten the standards to the metal framing?
Link for the brackets please?
How did you attach the 2X4’s to the metal building?
It looks like you have the Bosch miter saw and stand. were you able to put the FastCap extension arms right on the gravity Bosch stand? You must feel the expense of the FastCaps best fence is worth it? I have not been a bee to justify $450 for the rail system... Can you help explain why it is so expensive?