Rack stack
I built a rack to store 4 cars in the place of two. I dug some old 5” square street light poles out of the dumpster at work to make the rack posts. Added cross bars made from rectangular tubing and then made runners the same width as the ones on my 4 post lift. It’s all bolted together and is very strong. Most people who come in the shop thinks it is a double lift or something. I tell em nope, I ain’t rich and it’s made from stuff that was scrap steel mostly. My 4 post lift can be moved on wheels, so that is how I put cars up top. I put the car to go up top under the rack, and then roll the lift up in front of it. I have marks on the floor where the 4 post lift needs to sit. I tie the lift posts and rack posts together with short 2 x 4’s and C clamps to prevent wiggle. Then roll the car under the rack onto the lift, raise it up, put the ramps between the rack and lift and then roll the car backwards onto the rack. Chock the wheels and I’m done. Then I move the lift back to where it usually sits. My 68 Roadrunner was the first car upstairs on the rack, and is still there. The black Cuda in the pic had just come down off top to be sold…..wish I’d kept it! That’s how I do it, and Hemi Joel on Moparts does something similar, but uses 2 rows of pallet racking with glue lam beams for runners to put the cars on. He uses a 4 post lift like I do to get them up top. The pallet racks are plenty strong enough to hold them.
I built a rack to store 4 cars in the place of two. I dug some old 5” square street light poles out of the dumpster at work to make the rack posts. Added cross bars made from rectangular tubing and then made runners the same width as the ones on my 4 post lift. It’s all bolted together and is very strong. Most people who come in the shop thinks it is a double lift or something. I tell em nope, I ain’t rich and it’s made from stuff that was scrap steel mostly. My 4 post lift can be moved on wheels, so that is how I put cars up top. I put the car to go up top under the rack, and then roll the lift up in front of it. I have marks on the floor where the 4 post lift needs to sit. I tie the lift posts and rack posts together with short 2 x 4’s and C clamps to prevent wiggle. Then roll the car under the rack onto the lift, raise it up, put the ramps between the rack and lift and then roll the car backwards onto the rack. Chock the wheels and I’m done. Then I move the lift back to where it usually sits. My 68 Roadrunner was the first car upstairs on the rack, and is still there. The black Cuda in the pic had just come down off top to be sold…..wish I’d kept it! That’s how I do it, and Hemi Joel on Moparts does something similar, but uses 2 rows of pallet racking with glue lam beams for runners to put the cars on. He uses a 4 post lift like I do to get them up top. The pallet racks are plenty strong enough to hold them.