robinson46176 wrote:garys wrote:I'm still trying to figure out the "best" way to store my wood. I built a fixed rack along one wall of my shop. All my plywood and sheet material gets stacked there. At another end of the shop I have an area where I put half a dozen large trash cans. Each can is labeled for a single kind of wood and all the small pieces of hardwood of each kind go into the individual can. It helps me find a specific piece because I need to look through only a single can to find what I want.
The large hardwood boards are stored out in my garage, away from the workshop. When I need one, I have to run out there and pick one out.
I'm sure there is a better way, but I don't know what it is yet. It is a work in progress.
I will tell you exactly what is the best way to store your wood... Just as soon as I figure it out...![]()
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I have wood all over the shop, some on a rack with sheet goods space on the back and 4 shelves to the front. More is stacked in the frame of an old roll-a-way bed frame. There is a batch of sheet goods leaning against the stairway to the main floor. There are stacks in corners and stacks on the floor down one wall and a batch of short stuff along another wall. Some of this stuff is in danger of me wearing it out moving it.I have wood leaning against one wall of the farm shop and another batch stacked against a wall up in the loft. I have a batch in the loft of another barn (these are farm barns, not yard barns) that sits about 100' to the east of the farm shop. I have several stacks of boards in another large barn about a quarter mile down the road to the west, those are mostly saved used boards. There is an open faced machinery shed at that location with 3 stacks of lumber there.
For some reason I can''t seem to get any time in running my sawmill but I have accumulated 30 logs waiting for it this year and more to come.![]()
My son brought me a tri-axle load of wood from a tree trimmer a couple of weeks ago to cut up and burn in our wood furnace. Wouldn't you know that the load contained 3 nice cherry logs, 2 walnut logs and a couple of ash logs. These are short logs about 5 or 6 feet long and about 14 to 16 inches in diameter. I can't have a sawmill sitting there and burn those nice logs in the furnace...![]()
He told me a few days ago that he will have another load for me maybe this week...
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I have mixed emotions about bringing in a frozen board (It gets as cold as -20 to -25 below here occasionally but not for long periods) and using it right away... On the other hand that is what our ancestors did. I have a forming vision of building an attractive "he shed" type building about 40 feet from the outside door to my basement wood shop. I was looking inside of a common box semi-trailer not long ago and seeing it in my mind filled with wood racks down both sides and all the way up the walls leaving a nice aisle down the center. The thought got pretty exciting.I wouldn't want to park a semi in the back yard but a nice cottage looking building might pass muster.
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My first effort is going to be a large workbench looking rack for one corner of the shop with a lot of room under the top for long boards up to about 10 to 12 feet long and with a place on the back for sheet goods. I figure the "bench top" is on its own and will just fill up with short stuff.I have a set of large cast iron casters with stiff rubber treads to go under it so I can swing it out to access the sheets stuff with minimum effort.
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OK, The first stage is done and filling up...
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It is even painted. Now comes the hard part, I have to empty the spot where it is supposed to be sitting.
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It is quite simple and needs to be 4 times bigger but I think it will serve my needs well as it is. It is very rigid and will stay that way. It doesn't have a single nail in it... It is all glue, screws and bolts. The rubber treaded cast iron casters are as a set rated at 1,400 pounds and roll very easy. It has more frame than shows in the picture.
It's 8' long X 42" deep X 43" tall.
The next step is the ceiling hung rack that will be above this rack. Sheet goods will be on a simple slanted platform between this rack and the wall and will just lean on the wall.