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From: "Jim Wilkins" <muratlanne@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Moving a 40ft High Cube - SHELVES
Date: Fri, 9 May 2025 19:08:59 -0400
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"Bob La Londe"  wrote in message news:vvllee$2vttp$2@dont-email.me...

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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I've been using Torx head structural screws from the big box stores to build 
heavy shed shelving and attach 2x4 diagonal bracing to my timber framed 
firewood sheds for two decades, and they've held the weight of a NH snow 
load and me climbing the shelves, as their framing is full height 2x3s with 
an open attic space above for skis etc. The screws drive like drywall 
screws, and being hardened hold like lag screws, and they remove easily for 
modifications. Their ceramic coating protects them from rusting pretty well.

The shelves are 2' deep to use plywood efficiently and because I can't reach 
much further. That shed is 8' wide outside like a High Cube, and the 
interior space between racks is narrow enough to climb using the uprights 
and shelf edges, an arm and leg on each side. A temporary plywood table 
bridging the racks supports whatever I'm storing or retrieving, high enough 
to reach the attic. The floor aisle width is less because I can store 
stacked paint cans, long handled garden tools and boxed equipment on the 
sides.

The shelf racks stop short of the door to leave space for tall objects, an 
8' and shorter stepladders and the gantry hoist track channels plus spares. 
Their uprights are attached to the rafter ties at the top. This is a very 
nice, light weight and stable stepladder:
https://www.homedepot.com/pep/Werner-8-ft-Aluminum-Step-Ladder-12-ft-Reach-Height-with-250-lb-Load-Capacity-Type-I-Duty-Rating-368/100659876?

My idea for the roof has worked well. The roofing is corrugated steel on the 
sunny side and clear corrugated polycarbonate for interior light on the 
north. Every third 2' wide section is a removable hatch that rests on 
cleats, so I can stand up through the openings and reach to the center of 
each pair of panels to drive their screws, or remove and replace damaged 
ones. The hatches slide under and catch on the ridge cap and latch with 
screen door hooks at the lower end.
jsw