I was wondering if anyone had come across any standardized techniques or effective methods for strapping top barrels to racks when they are stacked. As of right now, we have standard 2-barrel steel racks, stacked 4 racks high. Some stacks have 53 gallon whiskey barrels, others have 60 gallon wine barrels, and some top racks are mixed with one of each. We just started using 400-lb test plastic strapping with a tensioner, 2 straps per top rack, looped underneath the barrels on the rack below (basically 4 barrels sandwiching a rack, double strapped parallel to the hoops). The reason we are not looping under the second rack is that the straps obstruct the path of the forks for when barrels need to be unstacked/moved. I recognize that the two barrel rack system is not the most seismically stable system overall and that in a big quake, the whole stack walk and collapse, but one would think that straps would at least keep top barrels from jumping/rolling and coming down on someones head if there is some minor shaking. Any guidance or advice would be much appreciated.
Cheers,
CJ
Cheers,
CJ
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