so you have the benefit of being able to stack that lumber up and out of the way
but you can also adjust the height of those racks to whatever you want how's it going guys welcome
back to the patriot diy channel if you do much woodworking at all you might run into a common
problem and that's what to do with all that extra scrap wood that you have laying around if
you're like me you like to save cut offs and you like to have a little extra lumber laying around
for your next project that might be coming up and if you're just stacking that on the floor around
your shop in different areas it can really get in the way so one of the best ways to fix that is to
have a wall mounted lumber rack now there are a lot of products on the market that you can buy
to mount to your wall to stack lumber on and there's also a lot of different ways that you
can build your own and being a diy i wanted to build my own so i did a lot of looking around
and one of the best solutions that i found is to build this diy adjustable lumber rack
so you have the benefit of being able to stack that lumber up and out of the way
but you can also adjust the height of those racks to whatever you want now i am going to show you
exactly how we built this adjustable lumber rack but before we do that if you haven't done it yet
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digital plans so you can have a step-by-step guide on how to build this for yourself
now let's get over to the workbench and i'll show you how to build a diy adjustable lumber rack
all right guys first thing we're gonna do is cut down some two by fours
into five inch blocks and you can see i am using a scrap piece of 2x4
to make a stop block so that each piece will be the exact same size
next thing we're going to do is take this over to the drill press and we're going to
pre-drill some mounting holes into the center of each block
then we're going to switch over to the forstner bit and we're going to drill out a half inch deep
recess for the head of the bolts that we're going to be using to mount this to the wall
then we're going to measure and cut some half inch plywood first i'm going to use my track saw
to get a rough cut and then we're going to take it over to the table saw to cut it down to size
you can see i'm using a 2x4 to get the correct spacing for my
fence on the table saw and then we're going to cut out those strips
but it's gonna be cool there you go
you can see i have my little helper with me on the bench today and uh first thing we're gonna
do is go ahead and lay out our blocks and we're gonna be using scrap two by fours as
spacers to create the gaps that we're to use to put in the arms of our lumber rack later
once we have everything laid out we're going to put a thin layer of wood glue on the
top of each of those five inch blocks then we're going to lay our plywood strip on top
and we're going to screw that down on opposite corners of each block
once we're done with that we can flip it over and we'll go ahead and test fit some
two by fours into our gaps and sand down any that needs some adjustment
then we go back with the wood glue on that side and repeat
the process put our other plywood strip on top and screwing it down
being careful to make sure we put those screws on the opposite corners from the other side
and then we're just going to repeat that process for however many lumber racks you need to build
once we have that done we're going to take them over to the miter saw just to clean up the ends
of each of those and then over to the table saw to do the same thing on the long sides
we're just taking off a small amount of wood here to clean up those edges this is really not
necessary but it does give it a nice finished look
once everything's trimmed up we're just going to hit it with our orbital sander
to get everything nice and smooth and then we'll be ready to mount it to the wall
now you can see we're using a 2x4 spacer to get the spacing from the floor on this this
is a good idea to make sure that you get each of those racks at the same height on your wall
and then to mount this we're going to be using five and a half inch
self-tapping screws into each of the recessed holes that we created earlier
this should give it a nice strong connection
to your wall and it should be able to hold plenty of weight
we've pre-cut some 2x4 scraps into 18 inch long pieces to make the arms of our lumber rack and
before we put them in place on the wall we're just going to take them over to the sander and we're
just going to take a little bit of material off of the edges to make sure it slides into our slots
nice and easy you still want it to be a pretty tight fit so don't take off too much wood here
then we're just going to insert those into the slots now you can put these
in any position that you want and now we're ready to load that bad boy up
all right guys that's it for how to build your own diy adjustable lumber rack i hope
this video helped you out guys if you have any questions or anything make sure you leave those
down in the comments below and don't forget we are going to have a link in the description
for all the tools we use for this build as well as digital plans that you can download
and give you a step-by-step guide on how to build these for yourself
thanks for watching guys please like share and subscribe and we'll see you next time
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