If you have a location in your shop that is open to the ridge you can store some pretty long stuff. I use a platform tilted at 3 or 4 degrees. No need for chains even in earthquake-land. Since these shots were taken I have reorganized and added another two feet of width.
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There's a sort of kicker about 5 feet up that holds dividers and keeps the tops of the boards from digging into the wall farther up.
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The boards store like books on a shelf and make stock selection and organization easier . . .
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than on my horizontal racks that occupy the first 2 feet down from the rafters.
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