Making sheds using discarded pallet racks

Holy crap Mike, awesome score. Where are you on LI? We have a good friend by us here in Massapequa Park that is a Supervisor in Costcos (Westbury) I gotta ask her about things like this.

 

Grew up in Massapequa south of sunrise off Forest Ave.
I live in Smithtown dead center on Long Island

 

Very cool Mike. I'm between the Southern State and Sunrise close to MCKenna elementary where my 2 boys go to school.
Keep your eye on Craig's list for free fire wood, looks like a lot of people around here are giving it away all the time.

 

Know right where you are
I'm 5 years ahead and with 27 cord split and have hooked up with a tree service that bring truck loads all cut to 20" for me . Have 10 truckloads to split right now

 

Nice work man, I'm just starting out on my end but am having a good time learning the trade.

 

Thanks Mike

 

Great job, the spirit of America lives on!

 

Very cool and good for you Mike. Free building material!

 

Was thinking I'd make a small shed/covering that would cover 2 skids or 2/3 cord old wood 8' long 42" wide
Will post pics when done

 

Ok this took me about an hour today after I fixed my log splitter.
The roof is just laid on for the pic. I have some red metal roofing I'll put on soon and post that pic.
I cut one 12' upright and you can see the leftover shorts.
Used angle grinder to cut welds of center diagonal channel and removed it
Gotta remember to put teardrop cutout facing small end down.
Welded flat metal feet on cut end.
3 - 8 foot beams 2 in back 1 upper front
Since I'll be lifting across upper beams ,with forks on tractor, I'll add bolts to make sure beams don't come out of teardrop openings. I can easily fit 2 pallets of wood in here. I made the height 5'6". I usually have a plastic pallet under wood skids. If it's too high I'll trim it shorter.

 

Thaz a nice quick easy way to keep some firewood nice and dry.

 

I finished this small shed. It holds my emergency supply for when we get a Nor'easter.
Will hold 2 wood pallets. Sitting on plastic skid. We're done burning now - maybe a small fire in evening. Got down to 40 last night
Will leave it out in open while splitting. I can park splitter and old mower used to tow it under cover
The fence behind shed in first pic is 6 ft.

 

Just another update
My brother came down from Saratoga and took almost all the racking that I had. Told him I'd keep collecting for him
over the last month this is what I got for him. 2 of the new upright finds were 15 ft tall!
4 here
6 there
sometimes only 1

 

Sweeeeeeet, some very heavy duty, good stuff right there. Your brother is a lucky man! And you are a very generous guy Mike. Kudos!

 

I've made as many sheds as I can fit. Gonna make one more for 3 pallets of firewood. That will use up the last of my metal roofing. My neighbors son wants me to put together a couple of racks for his 4 snowplows. Will make them 6 ft tall. Bolted to 6x6 or concrete slab.
Thinking of making a 10x10 or 10x8 awning with white tarp roof to split under during summer. Similar to the pop up ones you see. Will have to cut up a couple of uprights and weld some corners so snap in beams will be on all 4 sides.

My brother told me I should sell them. Not interested in that but told him OK you owe me $$$
Last time he came down he used his 3/4 ton dodge truck and it rode great with the load.
Told him you gonna need a bigger truck. I think he's bringing his big enclosed trailer this time!

 

I'm always looking for those, but they are hard to come by where I'm at.

 

That's a heck of a note , to get to much of a good thing

 

Theres a Home Depot in Wilbraham, you can often find them behind one of those stores.

 

The Home Depot's around here always have them out back but have a sign that you can't take anything
I'm happy with what I'm getting so far