Mark writes:

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?

Standing them perfectly flush/vertical against the wall is obviously too
dangerous, and angling them towards the wall may not save as much floor space as
one might wish.

If you look at how the big box stores often stack their lumber, there are sticks
angled towards the rear and boards laid flat on the floor below. But the floor
footprint of the steel frame/rack holding both is identical. So all the other
questions of safety and warpage notwithstanding, I fail to see how this method
conserves floor space. Angled storage might appear to occupy less volume in the
room than a traditional rectilinear lumber rack, and while that’s probably the
only advantage I can see to doing it that way I don’t think it outweighs the
advantages of storing boards horizontally. Let gravity be your friend when it
comes to long term storage.

JL