Garage shelving from cattle panels
Posted: Thu Dec 28, 2023 10:39 am
I found someone getting rid of their old metal horse corral fences for free to anyone who would come out and cut them up, so I went out with my daughter and we cut 'em up and hauled 'em back to the house. I wanted to create some kind of four-tiered garage shelving and these provided a skeletal framework with hurricane fence clamps in the corners.
Over the course of the next few days I made numerous panel glue-ups, router sledded them flat and rounded the edges. It wound up being an efficient way to get rid of extra old wood.
I then drilled holes in the shelf edges for the supports to thread through, screwed the rear support to the wall studs and and machine-screwed each wood panel to their support bar.
A little linseed oil, black paint on the bars and boom shaka: Garage shelving with a friendly lip to place filled roughnecks etc on. I thought even for industrial garage shelving I wanted something large, strong and with a slightly minimalist aesthetic. Cross-braces on the side are pending.
I don't know if anyone else has used deprecated horse fence or cattle panel for shelf supports but it wound up being a good resource for me.
Scott
Over the course of the next few days I made numerous panel glue-ups, router sledded them flat and rounded the edges. It wound up being an efficient way to get rid of extra old wood.
I then drilled holes in the shelf edges for the supports to thread through, screwed the rear support to the wall studs and and machine-screwed each wood panel to their support bar.
A little linseed oil, black paint on the bars and boom shaka: Garage shelving with a friendly lip to place filled roughnecks etc on. I thought even for industrial garage shelving I wanted something large, strong and with a slightly minimalist aesthetic. Cross-braces on the side are pending.
I don't know if anyone else has used deprecated horse fence or cattle panel for shelf supports but it wound up being a good resource for me.
Scott