I have been trying to address our current furniture storage issues by making some improvements that cut down the redundant and awkward handling of these objects. Our furniture lives on a type of pallet racking that has carpeted MDO decks. Because of the number of items stored on these decks, proper handling was difficult if not impossible. What we are doing to improve upon our existing system is cutting ¾ birch ply to the foot print of each object, routing the edge of the top and underneath side with a round over bit, and marvel sealing the entire board. We are then attaching tyvar skids to the bottom and on the top we are adhering volara at the contact points. This allows us to easily pull the unit (furniture on the prepared board) out and onto our lift without handling the piece itself. Of course weight and size determines whether or not these boards are battened out and we are usually using plastic pallets on our lifts which the pieces are pulled on to.
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