Shop tour in Portland showed me a better way to store plywood

I visited a shop over on SE Foster last month and they had this vertical plywood rack made from old pallet forks and unistrut. Cost them maybe $200 total and they fit 60 sheets in a 4x8 footprint. I've been wrestling sheets off a flat cart for years, so I'm thinking about building one this weekend. Anyone else switch to vertical storage and regret it or is it as good as it looks?

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grantw321d ago

Pallet forks might be overkill unless you're loading with a forklift. A buddy of mine did the same thing and the unistrut sagged after about a year with heavy sheets. Still beats flat storage though, just use some 2x4s for the bottom support and you're good.

lily701d ago

Did you try adding a middle support brace under that sag, though?