Vertical lumber rack

[Mandrake]

I'm looking to build some vertical lumber storage. The bottom and the back will be at 90 degrees to one another. But I'm wondering how much lean back would be good. 10 or 15 degrees sounds about right. But, before I started, I figured someone might have some tips or experience.

[Wild Turkey]

How much room have you got to spare? All my racks have been 90 degree to conserve floor space.

[MikeBob]

90* would work with some Bungee cords or other device to keep from falling forward if it is movable.

[meackerman]

You have a hardwood dealer close by? Go see how theirs is set up. The HW dealer I go to has their nicer wood vertical and the more common wood in stacks.

[mdhills]

Are you going to be viewing the boards on-edge or face?

If/when I go vertical, I'm thinking I'll try on-edge, and then wedge to keep the boards vertical.
Any tilt towards the back wall would be very minor, as the goal of having them on-edge is to be able to pull them out to inspect.

Matt

[Gregory of Sherwood Forest]

Here's how we do it.

Keep it as vertical as possible, with cables that can be easily removed for safety.

[Mandrake]

Thanks. I was assuming I would store everything with the faces forward. I have a 10' wide section of room with about 3' on the floor to use. The tricky part is that the overhead door rails run across part of the space 8' above the floor.

[Kansas City Fireslayer]

There's no reason to invest a lot of money in this project unless you're in business, or some other personal reason.  I attached a 2 x 4' to my wall and then used threaded black pipe and mounts from the borg.  HD will thread all the pipe for free.  I didn't put anything on the concrete floor as I wanted all the vertical height I had.  For me, I've found most of my boards will lean in towards the wall and backwards on the pipe just fine.  Sometimes I have to flip a board around.  Mine rest like books on a shelf so I can see the edges of every board but my boards are two deep on 2' pipe.  They lean back on to the pipe at slight angle.  This way I can pull one board out without handling a bunch of boards.  Getting this wood off the floor was time well spent.  It was a "why did I wait so long moment".....

[Foggy]

My local Lowe's stores small pieces leaned on end. Every piece of molding etc. is bowed from being stored this way. Might have been OK if it was vertical.

[OldGuyDrummer]

Another option that I use. You can bind or not bind. It let's you see the thickness and height of every board and unbound, you can look at any board.

For me the binding prevents the boards from falling over.

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Rob