How do you store/organise your planks?
Currently I just put them against the wall, but it's annoying to get the large plank behind the 50 in front of it.
Pic rel looks fine but seems a bit overkill for me
How do you store/organise your planks?
How do you store/organise your planks?
Currently I just put them against the wall, but it's annoying to get the large plank behind the 50 in front of it.
Pic rel looks fine but seems a bit overkill for me
I have a total of 0 planks cuz I'm a lawyer that lives in the center of the city in a high rise apartment. So I don't have that problem ha.
My commiserations.
Keep leaning them against anything vertical until I get pissed off from bringing all that mikado down from accidentally brushing against it once too often. At that point i rev up the chainsaw and turn the whole sorry lot into firewood. One or two days later I go "Well damn, that plank I just burned would have been just the right size for the project I'm working on right now!". Wash, lather, rinse, repeat.
I walk them.
built an autism cart kinda like the one pictured but more vertical
Like this
that looks miserable to retrieve anything from
It's really not
Do you have to finagle the sheets around the light and what looks like a garage door mount? Seems like those would be in the way.
No. just slide the piece I need out of the pile and slide the other stuff back.
maybe he has webbed feet
That looks good I may do that
Thanks.
> screws in end grain most likely hold the verticals
> holes for pipes drilled 2 inches from end grain
> shitload of weight on there
Anon, you do realize this is a fricking death trap that will come down with one hell of a bang eventually? It may hold for 2 years or for 10, but eventually it's going to come crashing down. This is not a stable configuration at fricking all. For the love of all that's good and holy, fix it!
I took the picture on August 15 2019.
Pic related was taken 5 minutes ago.
I am literally crying and shaking right now. I have not seen such beauty since, well, never.
It is pretty and stable. All it needs in the pic is a pack of Newports. At that point I will finally realize we are all Bepis, but with different moms.
Did I say I was literally crying and shaking right now?
>holding on to leftover cutoffs and scrap wood after a project instead of just burning it
your kids are going to enjoy cleaning up after you when you die
We can only tell you it's going to come down eventually. We don't know when it will, but come down it will. Me, I've fixed various things in many an old barn and I know how crumbly old wood gets. Granted, it will last longer than a fellow like me thinks it has any right to, but it will eventually get crumbly and fail. If somebody like say, a son in his senior high school year who has seen it hold up for his whole live trusts it to hold forever at the point in time when it fails, he may get his head caved in. For no better reason than daddy entrusting the unwitting victim's life to six drywall screws and two inches of wood that eventually turned crumbly and going "this will last forever, lol". A huge collection of clamps does not a carpenter make. Knowing how wood behaves under load and over time is not sufficient either, but very, very necessary. At the very least screw some eyebolts into the ceiling beams and run chains through them to secure the pipes.
>At the very least screw some eyebolts into the ceiling beams and run chains through them to secure the pipes.
You mean screw them in to the 60 year old wood that the house was made out of?
But what about
>how crumbly old wood gets.
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Anything screwed into ceiling beams won't be screwed into end grain but into the middle of a beam. That will hold up orders of magnitude better. Also, crumbly is not quite the right term. Wood will easily split along the grain - the older and drier, the easier it gets. The easiest way to split it is starting with the end grain (the tip of a beam or plank if you will) and "unzip" a length of wood from there (it's exactly what you do when you split firewood). What follows from that is that the end grain is the most vulnerable part to splitting so screwing into that is fraught with problems - pilot holes or no pilot holes.
Watch this video for a good illustration of what the problem is with the pipes two inches above the vertical's end:
You don't have the immediate splitting problem because you pre-drilled them. The problem you do have is a fairly large point load on the weakest side of the wood.
You can prevent that from causing a problem in various ways. Back in the old days when there was a blacksmith on every street corner, steel bands used to be quite popular (in fact that's why the wood handled chisels have a steel ring at the top where you pound them with a mallet or hammer). Not a good solution in this case, because they load direction acts to push them off, so you wouldn't gain much from that. The alternative is some sort of belts-and-suspenders approach like the chains and eye bolts the other anon suggested.
Apart from that, the screws holding the verticals from above are an even bigger no-no. Screws in end grain are ok in furniture for securing doweled butt joints where the load is (a) not big and (b) self supporting (think sides of cabinets) or at a 90 degree angle to the dowels (think a bed frame's long side butting into the head/foot ends). But even in furniture, they are never, ever used for suspending anything from above. That will quite likely tear out as the wood ages.
What part of your video pertains to my setup?
Also why the leftist meme tier amount of words?
>Also why the leftist meme tier amount of words?
That anon put a lot of effort into teaching a man to fish. Wasted effort.
Each screw has to hold up 13-ish pounds if the weight is distributed evenly.
I sure hope they don't sheer at that weight or else nothing would stay together.
They won't shear, period. A shear force acts perpendicular to the screw's axis, not along it. The screws themselves won't fail at all. They will gradually pull out, though.
how would you retrieve the last one, or anything deep on the bottom, in that case vertical storage seems more practical
Do you mind if I use this for a presentation at work? I'll give you proper attribution.
Usually it's the cursed images thread that's most useful, but you've posted a real gem.
With the cost of wood it's a little insane to have that much wood just lying around.
Just buy the wood you need when the time comes.
>buying wood
I haven't bought wood in like 5 years. Free wood is everywhere once you start looking for it.
Those are construction sites.
Any tips? Right now I just keep wood from almost every project I do but I never really see wood around except pallets which I sometimes use. Guess I need to check Craigslist and Facebook more
Go to cabinet shops around your city
The one around here throws out scrap or damaged pieces.
Why not use what the stores use? $500-$1000 brand new, but maybe you can find a used one for cheaper...