Building a lumber rack – Wood stash reduction challenge

Posted by jerry on December 27th, 2007 — Posted in DIY, Journal, Woodwork

If you’re anything like the kind of hobby woodworker that I am, you will now be finding it hard to get to various benches and tools because of all the bits of lumber of various lengths left over from various projects, like dining tables or stilt legs.

It is time to get o r g a n i s e d !! Actually I was inspired by Sharon’s fabric stash reduction challenge – although I wasn’t going to weigh my stash!

I did, however remove every scrap of timber from my shed and thought about how best to organise it so I could get to all the bits of timber I need for different projects on my new years list of things to build.

wood stash

The rough-sawn timber is ribbon-gum – the remnants of the old gum tree that burnt in the Canberra Bushfire of January 2003; the pale timber is radiata pine, and the red timber is jarrah – a Western Australian hardwood, sometimes called Australian mahogany. I also have a few camphor turning blanks, and some cherry wood and crab apple branches – also for turning.

I decided to improve my wood rack by adding a couple of additional supports, and that entailed modifying the two half-pallets I was using as a base. In the process I also reduced my stash by two bits of lumber – neat huh? 🙂

wood rack

The two additional supports are dowelled into the shelf supports and screwed to them for additional stability. The supports are made from timber recycled from old brick pallets.

And I have decided that I will machine up all my lumber before returning it to my shed so it’s ready for use when I need it – and no excuses like “I need to dress this timber – heck I’ll just buy some from the hardware store…”

But this year, along with Sharon my aim will be to use up a good portion of my wood stash, rather than expand it.

And I turned around my jointer and thicknesser so that the work flow is better, and I have better access to my work benches. So a good day’s work all round 🙂

Cheers
Jerry

1 Comment

Comment by Paula Hewitt

My husband, Matt, has built a woodrack in the shed – it hangs from the ceiling in the triangle of the pitched roof (I’m sure there is a word for this spot!) He can store long lengths out of the way. goodluck with the stashbusting!

Posted on December 28, 2007 at 5:38 am

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