You want to make sure that the racks limit any sideways slippage or forward
tippage of the lumber. Dodging and running from an avalanche of 100s bd-ft of
lumber is not fun. Once it starts, you can't stop it. Speaking from the
experience of the one chance I took with vertically stacked plywood (about 8ish
sheets of 1/2", IIRC). Luckily, no one was hurt. My young GIT shot out of the
shop like a rabbit (whew!). It sheared the corner off of a plywood saw horse and
some of the sheets pinned my leg against the bench-just a nasty scrape. I don't
store lumber vertically: moulding would be one thing, but nothing with real
mass.

Buz

On Tue, 06 Oct 2015 at 05:49:39 AM, Mark Jefferis wrote:
> I have roughly 350 board feet of 3 quarter hard maple (8-10 ft lengths), 300
board feet of 3 quarter cherry (8 foot lengths) and 200 board feet of other
stuff in varying lengths. The maple and cherry I purchased through a Craigs List
ad and had been surfaced and thicknessed top and bottom and 1 side.
> 
> To date, I have been storing the lumber as I use it in 3 stacks on bottom
sticks which rest on epoxied concrete. I have not inserted sticks between the
board layers. I live in an art loft that was built in 1916 as a boot factory.
The floors and ceilings are 18 inches thick. The ceilings are 12 feet high.
> 
> I am having thoughts of building leaning racks against the out side walls to
store the wood on end similar to what I see at lumber stores. A lot of floor
space would be saved with this method.
> 
> Is leaning/standing the boards on end a method of storage that does not
> encourage warping and twisting over time?
> 
> Mark
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