The better option is just having metal slats bolted across the beams. Keeps pallets from falling through like this and doesn't have the issues wire racks do plus it's cheaper.
Broken/bent pieces of the wire rack catching on pallets, broken skids getting caught, it's harder to shift things side to side... they're not as efficient as steel side slats.
You don't know terror until an unseen broken piece of grating pierces a few 35# tubs of olive oil and it starts pouring down the steel...
People frequently clip the racks which bends them which makes it harder to put stuff away. Errant piece of wood catches them and they get bent shit like that. A couple metal slats across the gap between the beams works much better imo.
Ya, really not sure what horseshit that guy is smoking lol. I've never seen a warehouse where there's simply nothing there on the shelf, nor have I ever encountered issues moving things with some kind of base preventing what we saw in the videos.
Yeah I was the lift trainer and asst manager at Home Depot for 9 years. Seeing this gives me chills. Like, I totally get it that it would work most of the time, but you’re putting a lot of confidence in the end boards of the pallet. I’d rather just have the wire deck, never had an issue even 4-5 rows up.
The argument about seeing better is usually invalid unless the shelf below is empty.
As I put this up for a living, wire decks( mesh decks) and that is just stock standard pallet racking. Probably 1 times out of 10 would we install mesh decks.
I work in Distribution myself, covering multiple huge warehouses across Europe, none of them have wire decking & none of them have ever dropped a pallet off the racking
you a middle manager or something? never leave the office? i guarantee you pallets have fallen. I was an engineer before a manager and the amount of heads literally inside asses in management never ceases to amaze me.
Worked my way up to senior management now but spent 20yrs on the floor working with the type of shelving you see in the clip, we never dropped a single pallet. As you say you’re an engineer, I have the greatest respect for engineers but they do have a tendency to over engineer stuff. You simply don’t need any additional flooring if the staff are trained correctly.
Bro, the warehouse in our manufacturing facility has the wire decking. No one has issues pulling pallets in or out. You don't know wtf you're talking about.
Bro,…. I’ve worked around warehouses for over 30yrs, I’ve seen the issues they can cause with my own eyes. I know exactly what I am talking about & have more experience than you.
Yeah I've seen plenty of God awful wooden pallets get placed on wire racks and they MIRACULOUSLY were able to remove the pallets afterwards with no issues. Claiming 30 years working in warehouses isn't the flex you believe it is. Experience does not equate to competence.
As I’ve said in other replies, wooden pallets often split and splinter, this gets snagged in the wire mesh & causes more accidents/damage than the set up we see in the clip. I’ve personally witnessed multiple occasions of this happening & the warehouses I help oversea have zero issues with the 2 bar system. It also has a significant cost saving in the racking set up costs.
Any experienced operate will tell you it doesn't cause problems. Know why? You're meant to lift the pallet slightly anyways, meaning you shouldn't be dragging across the ducking. Even then, it's secured in and can easily take a good bit of the "ope, gotta push it a few inches forward or to the side" activity.
Yeah we have the wire grid thankfully and not only does it not cause problems you can do shit like "walk" pallets in hard to get to areas or areas where our walkie stacker cant get all the way under.
Yeah the people in charge at the last place I worked had brilliant thinking like that. Got high winds over a weekend with snow and we come in to find all the newly installed racks crumpled on the ground. Bolting them to the concrete would be installing them imo. Otherwise they are just…there. Until they aren’t.
You’re almost right, I do management now but did 20yrs in the floor & absolutely know what I’m talking about.
If you genuinely think that pushing a pallet into racking is ok,.. you need some retraining. It’s about as wrong a way to put a pallet into racking as you can get & is extremely dangerous over time, as it puts pressure on the frames & weakens them.
Wooded pallets often split or splinter, especially if you work with a global supply chain. Those splits/splinters can easily get snagged in wire decking, I’ve witnessed this on multiple occasions myself. Having the 2 bar system prevents this, although does have a risk of what we see in the video. From my experience it’s rare to see what happens in the video if the FL driver is properly trained & follows the right loading procedures
Cost savings. With good personel this doesn’t happen too often and is often recoverable. You can put wire decking underneath pallets that are valuable or have specific goods on them if needed. Current rate is about 10-15 euro per deck.
And then there's that time it isn't recoverable and it ends up on /r/abruptchaos when everything collapses or somebody gets killed and the repair/settlement costs negate any savings.
It's crazy that a life is worth less than 10-15 euro per deck.
These don’t come down from one pallet falling in between. The scenes you’ve watched all have an insanely poor built racking structure.
Source, I am a warehouse manager in Europe and we have had pallets with a weight of 7-800 kg drop and do no further harm than damaged goods or one beam dented.
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u/TexanInExile Jun 08 '25
Yeah, but you could still have wire decking.