Saturday, February 27th, 2010
Doug Nourse asked:
One of the more common storage methods often used in warehouses is known as pallet racking. This is when pallets containing goods are loaded on top of each other in an orderly manner. It is also a method of ensuring that goods are shifted around securely from one location to the other. However, racks are used for much more than the aforementioned purposes and are often designed in different shapes and sizes to suit the intended function, functions that are utilised a lot closer to home than one thinks - not by a business, but by the average everyday consumer. You’d be hard-pressed to find anyone who doesn’t use a rack in some shape or form at least once or twice during the course of their day, whether they’re aware of it or not. Racking is more a part of our everyday lives than some of us may realise. Meet Susan, a 25 year old medical student. It’s 6.45am and she’s up. She picks out one of her favourite jazz numbers off the CD rack and pops it in the player as she yawns her way to the shower. Grabbing her towel off the towel rack, she sings very badly to herself. She stares at the shoe rack. The flat brown pair it is, then. Quickly grabbing her medical journal off the magazine rack and her brolly off the coat rack, she’s out the door in 20 minutes flat.
If all the racks we used suddenly upped and disappeared, we’d be left with a lot more clutter and disarray than we bargained for. Without racking, plates would lie in a hopeless dishevelled heap on our kitchen worktops, the spaces in dishwashers wouldn’t be used quite as efficiently, and bicycles would either have to lean against nearby walls or invent their own gravity to hold themselves up without the friendly shoulders of bike racks to lean on. Towns like Amsterdam, where there’s a big bicycle culture, would be in a quandary. Lorries in transit would shiver nervously down the motorway without rack support for the pallets in the back of their vehicles; and similarly, warehouses wouldn’t be able to utilise their storage space half as practically (or safely) as pallet racking enables them to. And can you imagine going to the gym, all those weights without racks to hold them in place? Weight lifting would not only be a pretty impractical thing to do (unless you had a training partner), it would present a serious health and safety hazard to the individual.
It’s just gone 7pm. Susan walks through the door after a long hard day at work. Tossing her keys on the work-top, she makes a beeline for the last bottle of Chianti from the wine rack - treating herself to a well deserved mouthful as she slowly sinks into the sofa. Racking represents a degree of order in a chaotic world. It’s simple but essential; practical assembled pieces of design that work with our needs, not against them
For further information, please visit http://www.bigdug.co.uk
Pellet Stove Comparisons
One of the more common storage methods often used in warehouses is known as pallet racking. This is when pallets containing goods are loaded on top of each other in an orderly manner. It is also a method of ensuring that goods are shifted around securely from one location to the other. However, racks are used for much more than the aforementioned purposes and are often designed in different shapes and sizes to suit the intended function, functions that are utilised a lot closer to home than one thinks - not by a business, but by the average everyday consumer. You’d be hard-pressed to find anyone who doesn’t use a rack in some shape or form at least once or twice during the course of their day, whether they’re aware of it or not. Racking is more a part of our everyday lives than some of us may realise. Meet Susan, a 25 year old medical student. It’s 6.45am and she’s up. She picks out one of her favourite jazz numbers off the CD rack and pops it in the player as she yawns her way to the shower. Grabbing her towel off the towel rack, she sings very badly to herself. She stares at the shoe rack. The flat brown pair it is, then. Quickly grabbing her medical journal off the magazine rack and her brolly off the coat rack, she’s out the door in 20 minutes flat.
If all the racks we used suddenly upped and disappeared, we’d be left with a lot more clutter and disarray than we bargained for. Without racking, plates would lie in a hopeless dishevelled heap on our kitchen worktops, the spaces in dishwashers wouldn’t be used quite as efficiently, and bicycles would either have to lean against nearby walls or invent their own gravity to hold themselves up without the friendly shoulders of bike racks to lean on. Towns like Amsterdam, where there’s a big bicycle culture, would be in a quandary. Lorries in transit would shiver nervously down the motorway without rack support for the pallets in the back of their vehicles; and similarly, warehouses wouldn’t be able to utilise their storage space half as practically (or safely) as pallet racking enables them to. And can you imagine going to the gym, all those weights without racks to hold them in place? Weight lifting would not only be a pretty impractical thing to do (unless you had a training partner), it would present a serious health and safety hazard to the individual.
It’s just gone 7pm. Susan walks through the door after a long hard day at work. Tossing her keys on the work-top, she makes a beeline for the last bottle of Chianti from the wine rack - treating herself to a well deserved mouthful as she slowly sinks into the sofa. Racking represents a degree of order in a chaotic world. It’s simple but essential; practical assembled pieces of design that work with our needs, not against them
For further information, please visit http://www.bigdug.co.uk
Pellet Stove Comparisons
