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Cantilever Racking

Cantilever Racking

Standard pallet rack has a column at every bay opening, which is a problem the moment something you store is longer than the bay itself. Cantilever racking solves that by moving the columns to the back: a single upright tower supports arms that extend out over the aisle with nothing in front of them, so lumber, pipe, conduit, sheet stock, and furniture load straight across the arms without hitting a frame.

Arms are set at the heights your material needs and adjust up or down as your mix changes, the same way beam levels adjust on selective rack. Towers are engineered to your longest piece, your heaviest load per arm, and your building height, single or double-sided depending on whether the run sits against a wall or out in the floor.

Single or Double-Sided, Arms Set to Your Load

How It Works

Single or Double-Sided, Arms Set to Your Load

A single-sided tower loads from one side and is the right call against a wall or a building edge. A double-sided tower shares one upright column between two arm sets, loading from both sides at once, and gets more storage out of the same footprint in the middle of a floor.

Arm length and capacity are specified to your longest and heaviest piece, not the other way around. Towers are engineered per the same structural standards as selective rack, and, the same rule that applies everywhere in racking, arms and towers from different manufacturers are not rated to work together. A replacement or an extension is matched to what you already have.

Applications

What Goes On Cantilever

Lumber & Building Materials

Dimensional lumber, plywood, and sheet goods load across open arms instead of getting crammed into a bay that was never sized for a 16-foot board.

Pipe, Conduit & Bar Stock

Round and irregular stock rolls onto open arms without the corners and columns that make standard rack awkward for anything that isn't a square pallet.

Furniture & Oversized Goods

Long, bulky, or oddly shaped finished goods store flat across the arm span, with nothing at the front of the bay to load around.

Why Cantilever

No front columns, no length limit

Open Front Access

No columns at the aisle means no maneuvering a forklift around a frame to place a long or wide load: the arm span is clear from front to back.

Single or Double-Sided

One tower design serves both a wall-mounted single-sided run and a double-sided run loading from two aisles at once.

Arms Adjust With Your Stock

Arm height resets on the tower as your material mix changes, the same adjustability selective rack gives you, sized for length instead of pallets.

Tell us your longest piece and your heaviest load per arm.

We will spec single or double-sided towers to your building and send a written quote with a layout drawing.

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Nothing In Front, Nothing In the Way

Nothing In Front, Nothing In the Way

A cantilever tower puts the structure behind the load instead of in front of it, so a forklift approaches straight-on and sets material down without threading between columns. That single change is what makes cantilever the standard answer for lumber yards, pipe distributors, and anyone storing stock by the length instead of the pallet.

Arms carry the load across their full span, so capacity is rated per arm and per level, not just per bay: the same kind of engineered number selective rack carries, just measured differently because the load is measured differently.

Built for Your Longest Piece

Built for Your Longest Piece

Tower height, arm length, and arm spacing are set to the actual materials you store, not a catalog default. A yard running 20-foot lumber needs a different arm length than a shop storing 6-foot conduit, and the tower is engineered for whichever one is yours.

Because arms reposition on the tower, the same system adapts as your product mix shifts: add a level for a new size of stock without rebuilding the tower underneath it.

Cantilever Racks

Key Features

  • Single-sided (wall-mounted) or double-sided (floor) tower configurations
  • Arms adjust in height on the tower as your load mix changes
  • Engineered arm length and capacity to your longest, heaviest piece
  • Base and arm capacity documented for your safety file
  • Compatible decking and divider options for smaller or mixed loads
  • Seismic-rated configurations available for applicable zones
  • Engineering drawings available on request
  • Extensions and replacement arms matched to your existing towers

Frequently Asked Questions

Anything too long, too round, or too irregular for a standard pallet bay: dimensional lumber, pipe, conduit, bar stock, sheet goods, and oversized or awkward finished products.
Single-sided towers load from one side and fit against a wall or building edge. Double-sided towers share one column between two arm sets and load from both sides, which gets more storage out of a run in the middle of your floor. Tell us your layout and we will spec it.
No, for the same reason you cannot mix selective rack components: the capacity rating is engineered for that manufacturer's parts specifically. Send us what you have and we will match it, or spec the whole system new.
Arm length is engineered to your longest piece and your required capacity per arm. Tell us your longest and heaviest item and we will size the towers and arms to match.
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