I've managed to get all of the scrap/salvaged wood that I had stacked in front of the storage trailer stacked onto the rack neatly. I put the 2x4's and 4x4 boards on the bottom level of the rack. On the 2nd level I stacked the pallet boards and any remaining dimensional lumber I still had on the ground. On the 3rd level I stacked all of the PVC pipe of various sizes and some metal conduit pipes as well. In order to squeeze the maximum amount of storage I had to put smaller PVC pipes inside larger pipes. With all of that I managed to clear two areas within the compound/worksite area.
The area in front of the storage trailer was fully cleared when I moved some spare tires I had for our car hauler trailer as well as some wiring and a few other miscellaneous items that were on the ground right in front of the trailer and ultimately under the scrap wood. Lastly I cut the grass around the area in front of the storage trailer to fully clean that zone for future use. Other than covering the area with some gravel in order to make it a more solid location, the area is otherwise ready for use. I will probably be moving one of the project cars over there to work on it in the very near future. The other area that was cleared was the small area between the kayak rack and the stack of buckets and drums, which is also next to the outdoor use wood pile, which is next to the new fuel shed. This small area had all of the PVC pipe stacked in place but is now clear and ready for development. My plans are to build another storage rack, this one a little different in that it will be used to store some automotive parts that are on the ground on the other side of the kayak rack. There's a few other auto parts that can also take residence on the rack but of course the unit has to be completed first. The best part about this, besides organizing loose auto parts is the idea that it will put to use some more of the stored wood that's on the first storage rack. That is the initial reason for the storage rack, to temporarily store usable lumber for future projects. Of course this means that shit will get used and replenished as time progresses and opportunities present themselves in the form of free usable wood. Even though my end goal would be to have a uniform stash of wood stacked on the rack for more organized projects, for the time being I will continue to make use of the salvaged wood that I currently have stacked on the shelf. I will continue to work on projects that will use up the salvaged PVC pipe that is stacked on the rack as well. In the end the rack is really just the means to an end. It gets usable materials off of the ground and organized for short term future use so other ground can be used for other productive purposes. Besides, it looks a lot better when things are stacked and neatly organized versus scattered all over the place, allowing grass and other shit to grow up around it as well as serving as a safe haven for rats and snakes. We will continue to get things in order so my end goal of a worksite compound will finally become a reality.
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