Furnished content.
(from Lumberjocks.com)
My son needed garage shelves that could hold some heavy items. We had just recovered huge piles of fences blown over by Hurricane Ivan, so I made a shelf using the lumber “raw” (last two pics). I didn't like how rough and ugly it was, so for the second shelf I did a quick jointing and planing of the lumber first, came out much better.First one took me all of about 5 hours to make, second one was only about 7 hours even with milling the lumber, partially because it went together so much easier with nice square lumber.After milling, the posts are 3” x 3” the rails are 1” x 3”, and the decking is 1/2” x 5” Raw lumber shelf is 4' wide by 18” deep by 6' tall. Last picture is the load testing. :)
Milled lumber shelf is 4' wide by 18” deep by 7' tall.
All structural joints were done with coated deck screws, also recovered from the downed fences
The shelves “decking” is milled down reclaimed fence pickets, popped on with a 16ga. nail gun.These things are super heavy, hard to move, but will definitely stand up to the loads he's stacking on them – spools of wire, heavy boxes, etc.