| BASIC GUIDE |
This quick guide to racking is by no means comprehensive, an entire website devoted to the subject would be required to acheive this but it does offer a plain english introduction to basic pallet racking.
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| COMPONENTS |
Pallet racking is essentially a very simple system consisting of two main components;
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Frames (uprights).
Also know as uprights or legs, the frames form the supprt for the beams. Frames are made up of three components, legs, bracing bars (horizontal and vertical) and feet. Whether welded or bolted all of our frames come complete. Two frames are required to make a single bay of racking, additional bays of racking can be added to this with the addition of another single frame. More than one bay in a row this becomes known as a run or a row. |
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Beams (horizontals).
Beams provide the support for the pallets or decking if the racking is to be used as shelving. A pair of beams is needed to form a single level of support. Beams attach to the frames using a series of lugs which correspond to recesses in the frame. Beams lengths and weight loadings vary but the industry standard is 2.7m 2 tonne beams for standard pallets and 2.4m 2 tonne beams for euro pallets. These allow two pallets to be stored per level. |
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As shown below the connections for each racking system differ in design. This means that if you want to replace or add components to an existing racking system then the original system must first be identified. This can be done using our handy RACKING TYPES identification page.
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As pallets usually only need to be accessed from one direction to save space rows are usually placed back to back. The access spaces in betwen the rows of racking are known as aisles and their widths are determined by the method used to access the pallets (i.e. counter balanced forklift truck or reach truck).
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Due to the fact that three frames are required to create two bays and four frames to create three the total amount of frames required cannot be calculated solely from the number of bays alone. Therefore when quoting you it is essential that the layout of the racking system is known. The forms on our QUOTES/ORDERS page allow you to tell us exactly how you would like your racking positioned thus enabling us to quote you faster and more accurately.
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So recapping to give you an accurate quote we need to know the following things;
The height of the racking frames
The depth of the racking frames
The width of the racking beams
How many levels per bay
The layout of the system
Which system is needed (if applicable) |
