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Next week is painting/attaching :)

#fork talks to the void #the mechanisms #the mechs #crafts #woodshop #its sanded too btw if you can't tell

It was finally time to take care of the lumber stack. Now that the tools are out and accessible, I need access to the nice lumber. It’s been stacked and stickered to dry since 2017, and if the rule of one year per inch of thickness is correct, then it’s been dry since 2021. Through the years, if I wanted a board, I would search for and pull one like I was playing jenga, but that no longer worked.

I estimated the about 600 board feet to weigh around 3,000 lbs. first step to getting it moving was to lift it and set it on dollys. The ones from harbor freight were advertised to be good for 1,000 lbs, and evidently were not, so they were reinforced after one failed. The one that failed was the third one I got under the stack, so after I repaired it, the first two were beefed up.

The casters did not swivel, so channel locks were employed to aim each one in the direction I wanted to steer, and a come-along winch was hooked up between the stack and the hitch of my car. Slowly but surely, the stack was pulled away from the wall and rotated so that the boards could be slid off.

A platform to keep the ends off the concrete floor was made with the old 1” stickers and pallet slats. The platform is 2 feet deep and 12 feet wide.

After the platform was finished, the lumber was loaded! Most of the boards were between 8 and 10 feet long, so they were bounded by the truss joists. A safety guard was installed across the joists to prevent them from tilting out.

Changing from horizontal to vertical storage gained about 4 feet in depth to the garage, enough space to move the table saw to this side and have consistent access to the bench and smaller wood storage in the other corner.

#there were two groups of boards that were longer than 10 feet that got cut down before they would fit #but thankfully not by much #far right is an accessory platform for bathroom renovation materials #this was a long time coming #lumber #lumber storage #woodworking #woodshop #workshop #garage #garage woodworking

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