Re: Moving a 40ft High Cube - SHELVES

On Fri, 9 May 2025 12:14:46 -0700, Bob La Londe <none@none.com99>
wrote:

On 5/9/2025 8:48 AM, Joe Gwinn wrote:

On Wed, 7 May 2025 13:15:35 -0700, Bob La Londe <none@none.com99>
wrote:
 

On 5/4/2025 3:40 PM, Bob La Londe wrote:

A buddy of mine hauls containers from the coast and sells them locally.
He picked up 3 for a customer and after he got back with the third one
they decided they only wanted two right now.  He offered it to me
delivered for a couple hundred bucks less than the before delivery and
tax price of the local yard full of ex border wall containers.  I didn't
take advantage of my buddy.  I know what he pays for them.
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The concrete slab behind my shop is where I want it, but it was
completely full of scrap, so I had him drop it next to the slab on some
timbers (old guard rail posts) that would leave it sitting above the slab.
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I spent all day yesterday and most of the day today moving steel, old
machinery, and trash.  It even inspired me to put several large pieces
in the dumpster that I had been keeping just in case.  An old utility
trailer body, an old DeWalt industrial radial arm saw the last of the
steel bins full of stuff that came with the steel work bench John Apple
gave me.
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I thought I might be able to push the container onto the slab with my
little tractor, but that just wasn't working.  I'd push one end in and
the other would swing out.  I kind of expected that.  At about 8500 lbs
it far exceeds the 750 rated load of the tractor bucket, so lifting one
end and carrying it into place was definitely out.
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I ran a chain through the foot on the container, ran another chain
around the safety bollard (concrete filled six inch well casing) by my
rear overhead door and stuck a come-a-long in between the two chains.
Doubled up of course.  With the chains and cable anchoring one end I can
bump the other end with the tractor buck and it moves several inches.
With the tractor up against the container at that end, the tires spun
down into the dirt, the bucket dug in, and the parking brake on I can
move the end with the chains an inch or two at a stroke with the come-a-
long.  It feels like the more of the weight that is on the concrete the
easier it gets.  By that I mean it feels the same, but my arms are
getting weaker and I can still move it so...
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I've got it about half way in the slab right now.  Had to take a break
and get some water.  Well that's enough screwing around.  Back to work.
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I think I've settled on the ninety by twenty-four by ninety heavy duty
shelves from Home Depot. With a height of ninety inches, that leaves me
a little less than two feet on the top shelf to the ceiling. They aren't
cheap. I was thinking five sets of shelves down each side. That's a fair
amount of money. I was wrong.
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The shelves are capable of linking together, and they come with five
shelves per set. I don't really need a bottom shelf, and I was thinking
for the first 2 sets by the door I would leave out half the shelving so
I could roll in a table saw, bandsaw, miter saw on a stand, et cetera.
That's all stuff I don't use all that often, and when I do I prefer to
use it outdoors. That means with 3 shelving sets I can easily have 5
spans. I'm not even worried about stability loss from not using a bottom
shelf. Linking them together adds some of that back, and if I still feel
it needs more they come with tabs welded on the uprights for anchoring
to a floor. I'm not crazy about drilling holes in the floor of the
container, but if I have to make that compromise to get other things to
come together, I will. It will leave a little 3 feet at 1 end or the
other of wall space, with shelves, but I can always get a small yellow
shelving unit or build one if I need more shelves.

 
Many years ago I was also looking for adjustable wire-shelf shelving,
and found that buying directly from industrial sources was far
cheaper, and yielded far better shelving.
 
Joe

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Can you make some suggestions on where to look?  I did quite a bit of
searching online including "industrial suppliers" and everything was
more expensive except a similar set from CostCo with one fewer set of
shelf hardware in each box.
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I can find actual industrial pallet racking from a number of sources,
but this intermediate heavy duty shelving not so much.  One of my goals
here is to be able (for atleast the first several years anyway) to walk
from front to back unobstructed.  With pallet racking that would only be
possible if I split into two much smaller men.
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I have built some very heavy duty shelving many times from 2x
construction lumber and plywood, but being joined with framing nails and
ring nails means its not easily reconfigurable.  At one time I was
making so much of it I had two framing nailers so I could swap from
framing to sheeting without reloading my gun.
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FYI:  The old Harbor Freight framing nailer will work for about 1000
framing nails before it blows a head gasket.  Then, it seems nothing you
do will keep it sealed up.  Rigid and Porter cable... no problems so far.
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I think for now I'll just have to settle for shelving down one side.
Well, at least until another big customer pays me for a big job.
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--
Bob La Londe
CNC Molds N Stuff

 2X lumber uprights with holes every 6 inches for dowels, pipes, or
rods allows you to reconfigure shelves in 6 inch intervals. You could
even set up for 3 or 4 inches instead of 6. Planks or plywood or
shelves. Cross braced, of course, to keep upright.