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- čas přidán 15. 05. 2024
- THE STRONGEST LUMBER RACK EVER! I'm building an engineered cantilever lumber rack for easy lumber access that will be able to hold pretty much anything you throw at it. Plus, the design is super easy to scale to whatever size you need.
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6'' Clamps:
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12" Clamps:
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You never showed the roof structure, but extending the height and bolting it into the roof joists means it can't tip out without taking the building with it. Also, for anyone considering this, price out angle iron and a welder. At least where I am, that is cheaper than all that lumber for such a small rack.
I built the same idea, but used one 2x4 with 1/2" plywood cut into a similar shape. Glue and screw the plywood to the 2x4, extend to the ceiling and tie in there. Holds as much lumber as you need and cost a LOT less!
This works as well but there is less strength over all especially side to side
Love the rack, thank you for sharing your designs freely to everyone. It’s an amazing thing you do!
HOLY CRAP!!! Nice bomb-proof rack!!!
Beautiful design.
I wish I had the need for something so strong. Great that you explained the engineering behind your thought process.
Thanks, for the plans! They are great!
Thank you for sharing! Excellent job on the build and video.
This is great info for later down the road! Thanks!
Great work as always! Enjoy your builds, I'm learning a lot for my own little garage shop.
i love watching your build videos! Thanks for all the hard work you do in producing them. You explain how and why things are done the way they are! I have 2 of your projects in the works now..Keep them coming my friend!
Great lumber rack.
Strongest lumber rack. That's a really bold claim, especially considering the type of wood you are using.
Great build. Thanks for sharing.
I think you have more wood in the rack than you will put on it😅. Nice work. You make the big box store shelving look weak.
I think that most of us resemble that comment... 😅
Well done video. Very useful information. Looking forward to more. Thanks
Love the way you stack construct your builds, man! This approach really makes everything rock solid. Keep up the great work and content!
Nice rack, pretty easy to build, thanks for the video and plans
Wow what an incredible wood storage rack incredible build Zack. May hav to try the smaller version Thanks for sharing
Excellent lumber rack! Normally you would never line screws up like that, but you glued everything so well, it won’ be an issue . These will hold anything you’d want to put on them.
Nice build! Greetings from down under Australia! Stay safe!
Great idea !! thank you
Another good video and solid wood rack. I built your work bench a little over a year ago and it is still strong as ever.
Very good idea
I’ve been looking for a better solution to lumber storage
Thank you
Bear, I’m a tool and die maker so I work with metal chips all the time and have never seen that plastic bag and magnet trick and that simple hack just blew my mind. Also the build looks great! Will probably be doing with this with scrap 2x4s
Great build videos!
Very nice! Sure beats the Home Depot shelf brackets I'm currently using as a lumber rack.
Brilliant build and the good thing is, if you get bored you could always do a climb or a workout on the rack🤣🤣Take Care.
Barry (UK)
Quite appreciate at 12:14 you talk about the design and the engineering aspects of it.
I really appreciate how you incorporated the physics of design into these shelves. They look so strong that the next guy will have to build a shop around those racks. I couldn't find the plans, but I'm really interested in the 2 x 4 rack. I have a much smaller shop. Thanks and keep up the great work.
The plans take a bit longer to put together, but they're coming soon!
PS - genius tip about the magnet in a bag. I’m definitely using that.
Having had some water issues with wood touching the floor of the garage, I would put bathrooms tiles on the bottom of each post.
That magnet in a bag trick is really cool ... I have done something similar using a paper towel ... that way you can just throw away the paper towel, but there is a risk of dropping the magnet into the garbage, dont ask how I know!!
Great looking wood rack. I think i would have added the feet to the rack to be used as a shelf and great support .. as it looks now like waisted space there now. Great job.
Great Build , just wish I had room for one . I have lumber cart , no wall space . T / C 😎
Nice rack, I may try that downsized in my (very small) UK 1 car garage
"it's probably not needed, but it's gonna look cool" 😎
Cool!!
Excellent Build. My problem is that I can't touch the floor because my shop has a minor flooding problem. However, the base of mine would end up being secured to a solid block wall. And, as you said, I believe the wood frame section of my wall would fail before the racks do. Thank you for sharing and God bless.
Use sacrificial blocks of pressure treated lumber at the bottoms. If in a decade or so they rot, knock them out and put in new. Wedge tight.
It looks like a great job and while the build will hold the weight I don't feel each pair of brackets that hold 70 lbs. is strong enough to prevent a breaking tip over. I would add support to the wall or build the rack independent of the wall.
Interesting choice for the bolt position. Agree they are probably overkill’s anyway, but worth keeping in mind that what’s resisting the torque on the arms is the combination of the two bolts plus the glue join between the arm and arm support 🤔🤓🤓 #geekout
If woodworking doesn’t work out for you, there’s a glittering career in shipmaking waiting for you! 😉
I’ll keep that in my back pocket
Good overall video of explanations and techniques of the build. Very good beefy lumber rack. The one thing I am asking about is the work shop concrete?? If so, you might want to put Seal sill to protect the bottom of the wood. Seen untreated wood touching concrete had rotten effect on it in a few years as the concrete wicks water into the wood.
Depends on your environment but not a bad idea to add a barrier/seal
Nice Rack
Real carpentry is joints without screws. Making joints with a sharp-edged drill and joiner's tenon, that's real work.
Looks great. Why did you choose the L brackets over big beefy (Bear Mountain Builds trade mark pending) lag screws ?
There are a couple reasons
1. If I missed the location for the lag screw I was screwed
2. The L-brackets give better side to side strength
3. The L-brackets are easier to install
4. The 8 structural screws are stronger than one lag screw
Whoa those things are beefy! What's the reason for the L-brackets versus just countersinking a long lag bolt straight into those wall stringers? The only thing that comes to mind is your stringer spacing is 24" OC and it looks like your rack spacing may match that.
Actually my original design was to use countersunk lag screws. But I decided to do the L-brackets for two reasons.
1. The L brackets provide more aid to side support
2. If I missed the stringer in the wall a bit with a counter sunk lag screw I wouldn’t be able to move the hole very easily without losing some strength
great build ,just a question wouldn't adding a bit more support below the first arm to make it thicker help the wall from pulling in or warping from all the weight of the wood that is going on it help in the future to keep the wall straight ?
You can add that front leg, but it will limit your access to put lumber easily on the floor under the rack. that's why I didn't add the leg
fair enough
I want a dining table in the shape of Jamaica with iron black legs that has LEDs built in similar to the chest board he built
how much lumber do you plan to store on your lumber rack? You could store a Ford Pinto on those racks.
I need these in my garage. I just don't have the ceiling height you do, my garage is 7' to the joists :(
You can definitely modify the dimensions to fit your garage. You may just want to use 3 sets of arms instead of 4
Super strong, but was it worth the cost?
For something I'll have for a very long time it's definitely worth the cost for the extra strength
@@BearMountainBuilds Nicely stated. I think you are right.
Weakest link is probably the couple nails in the studs in the wall. Sheathing helps.
I would agree. If I didn't have the OSB up on the wall I would probably have reinforced the stretchers in the wall at the joints
When will the plans be put into the shop so I can get them?
I'm trying to get them posted sometime next week
He must be a millionaire using that much wood for storing wood if you don't use it up fairly quickly you will able to make a boat hull out of the wood.😂 I don't know but would it have been cheaper to get ruff cut lumber after it was dryed for that application you cut it all down anyway good job😊
Are you an engineer because you speak very much like one? Currently I am an engineer student who got into woodworking and I enjoy it a lot since I can incorporate some things that I have learned
Yeah I’m a mechanical engineer! I graduated from the University of Minnesota. Good luck with school. It’s a lot of work but definitely worth it!
Oh my gosh that is the degree I am striving for here in California!
very nice racks...only thing that caught my eye was those 3" or 3.5" construction screws into the OSB...didnt seem like you really hit anything behind it?? plus, if there was no blocking behind it, those screws have a smooth shank towards the head of the screw, that has absolutely no grabbing power once it punctured thru the OSB...just make sure you got some 2x blocking where those braces went...if not, that rack will come down the hard way if loaded to the max...1/2" osb wont hold crap...just my 2 cents
There are 2x6s in the wall that I screwed into. I definitely wouldn't trust OSB to hold hundreds of pounds. The screw heads won't pull through because they're going through the l brackets
Nice work & decent design... but definitely NOT the strongest lumber rack I'll ever see.... The steel I-beam lumber racks at Lowe's & Home Depot can hold about 6,000 pounds per arm.... Now affordability wise, that's a whole other ballpark!
It’s pretty tough for wood to beat the strength of steel but this is about as strong as you can possibly make a wood cantilever arm rack
What about the wall..is not this the weakest point pulling the wall over..I am not an engineer. But when loading weight on all the
Racks the wall itself could fail let alone those angle brackets
Walls themselves are design to transfer weight down now this weight is creating tipping pressure on the wall
Hmm concern this could make the whole wall dangerous
Once again I am not a engineer nor do I know how your wall was constructed
good project - unneeded distracting music