How to Identify Your Pallet Rack: Teardrop, Keystone, Structural and More
Green uprights tell you almost nothing. Paint is the easiest thing for a manufacturer to change. Two frames in the same color can come from companies that never shared a part, and two frames in different colors can be the same system bought ten years apart. Pallet rack identification starts somewhere less obvious: the shape […]
Buying Pallet Rack Before Year End: Spend the Budget, Start the Year Organized
Every fall the same two conversations happen in warehouses across Tennessee. One is in the office: there is budget left, and the question is whether equipment put to work before the tax year closes can count on this year’s return under Section 179. The other is on the floor: pallets stacked in the aisles, forklifts […]
Buying Used Pallet Rack: What to Check Before You Pay
Used rack is cheap steel and expensive mistakes, and the line between them gets drawn before the money moves. One buyer walks the lot with a phone camera and a short list of questions, and gets a system still standing when the lease renews. Another sees a price per bay and wires a deposit, then […]
Pallet Rack Layout: How Aisle Widths Decide How Much You Can Store
The aisle is the biggest thing in the building you did not buy. Every row of rack comes with an aisle in front of it, and the aisle takes more floor than the row does. In a selective layout with a sit-down forklift, about three fifths of the racked footprint is aisle. That ratio, not […]
Pallet Rack Weight Capacity: What Your Beams Can Really Hold
The number printed on a beam is real, and it is also one of the most misread numbers in a warehouse. It is a rating for a pair of beams, not one. It assumes the load is spread evenly across the level, which a full pallet does and a machine base does not. And it […]
Cantilever Rack for Lumber, Pipe, and Conduit: Single vs Double-Sided
Long product breaks pallet rack in one specific way: the front beam is in the way. A sixteen foot bundle of 2x4s cannot go into a bay with a column every eight feet, so it ends up on the floor. Cantilever puts the column behind the load. What follows is lumber and pipe as two […]
Boltless Shelving vs Pallet Rack: Which One Does Your Storage Need
What touches the shelf decides this. Not the weight of what you store, not the size of the building, not the budget. If a person’s hands put the product on the shelf and take it off, you are shopping for shelving. If a forklift does, you are shopping for pallet rack. A lot of wrong […]
Pallet Rack Wire Decking: Sizes, Capacities, and How to Choose the Right Deck
Wire decking is the part of a rack system that gets ordered last, priced by the piece, and blamed first when a pallet with a broken board drops a case through the beams. It is also the part people size by guessing. A deck is sold by depth and width, the depth has to match […]
Drive-In, Pushback, or Pallet Flow: Choosing the Right High-Density Rack
Every high-density rack system trades the same thing for density, and the thing is access. Drive-in, pushback and pallet flow each give up a different piece of it in exchange for putting more pallets under the same roof, and the right one for your floor depends on three questions that have nothing to do with […]
Teardrop vs Structural Pallet Rack: Which One Fits Your Warehouse
Most warehouses never make this choice. They inherit it. The rack that came with the building, the rack the last tenant left, the rack a dealer had in stock the week you needed it. That is how most operations end up running on one style or the other, and it works fine right up until […]