Concrete Curing room Rack System 1

[Slumpcone]

My company is thinking about building a concrete curing room. I am trying to devise a mobie rack system that the cylinders can be stored on in the room that can be moved out when the cylinders need to be broken.

I am trying to think of a way that this can be done without having the racks be unruley or unstable. Has anybody ever attemped something like this? Or would there be aonther way to limit the constant lifting/bending and loading onto a cart. Thanks!

 

[boffintech]

What's your budget for this "rack system"? Do you really think that developing, designing, amd deploying a rack systems will reduce labor costs enough to return the investment?

Do you use rubber pads or sulfur caps?

How many cylinders do you break per day?

 

[Slumpcone]

Well we dont have a budget yet. But one of our other offices built one a year ago and their materials and labor cost was about $2900, for the racks. I figured since our room is lterally twice as big, the costs would double (plus a little fluff to account for inflation of lumber and geographic diferences).
We typically are getting in the door between 7-900 cylinders a week and breaking about 100-120 a day.

I was thinking about using some sort of industrial bakers rack or something so that way we wont have to build anything and we can spend all of our "budget" on materials.

 

[Rjeffery]

I would recommend fixed shelves and a hand cart that can handle 6 cylinders at a time.

two reasons:

1) these 6 can easily be kept moist under damp burlap while the others are being broken.

2) If you have ever seen what one cylinder dropped from 4 feet (1.3 meters give or take) can do to a human body you can imagine what 40 ot 50 would do it these carts were to topple.

As the guy that had to break 120-200/day, the hand cart worked well (after it was fitted with baloon tires.)

 

[Slumpcone]

Thank you for your help woth this but it seemed like I was doing to much thinking. The cart is going to end up working fine. We just finshed construction of the moisture room and the racks. We will be moving our cylinders next week!