Has anyone used mobile shelving? Library shelving, comes with a big wheel to move the shelves.

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I've been thinking about my next grow (~3 years from now).

Here's a link to library shelving, https://labs-usa.com/laboratory-furniture/mobile-shelving/. Shelves/racks in link are too narrow, looking for closer to 6' x 6'. I'd probably only use 2 shelves: top, bottom. However, I can see having to run two racks on each side of the room so I can have 12' of shelving because I want one side of the room for indica-dom hybrids and sativas on the other side.

2 main levels/shelves:
1) bloom (top) (with 3 shelves and 2 gaps) and
2) veg (floor) (far fewer lights) (organized by age/development).

Probably 12' long, so perhaps two 6' long mobile shelving units on each side.

I'll probably still hand-feed ... 32 oz drippers with 4 discs for drainage (2 single-hole gravity discs and 2 eliminators (i.e., no hole discs)).

I'm still brainstorming but could use suggestions on materials sourcing, stuff like that. I want the wheel on the side so I can walk around at least 3 sides of the racks/shelves.
 
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... which rolling bench has the shortest legs? I know they're adjustable, but I want the legs to be very short.

I'm not sure i want to stack two rolling benches (doesn't sound easy), just exploring options. "Off the rack" (standard sized, without customization), I can see a 4' x 8' veg flood tray sitting under a 5' x 10' bloom flood tray, sitting on some kind of diy platform. I'd prefer 12 or 15', but 10' would work, especially if you could fit 2 or 3 of them beside each other.
 
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I have seen a setup like this but not quite. They were standard warehousing shelves, the bolt together angled steel kind, simply mounted onto a super heavy castor wheel track. I think that the shelving you're looking at will be fabulously expensive.

They had some pretty creative wiring going on... It was also just a clone room, so a lot less water going around. With so much fixation on square footage restrictions in legal states, I could see a company streamlining a product like this & doing good business.
 
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re watering. currently, i prefer hand-feeding. perpetual bloom can call for all bloom phases of nutes at any time, so it's important to always have some of everything available. but that takes up space. i've seen wand sprayers i guess resting/clipped/attached to a setup ... is it possible to either have a chimera of wands or, preferably, a single wand that let's you select different reservoirs to pull from?

I want to select the bloom phase I'm feeding a particular plant, while I'm making my rounds, like a soda gun that let's you choose between Coke and Sprite? ... I don't want to have to fill separate pump sprayers with each phase I'm using that day.

Currently, I mix up a stock of ~65 gallons of whatever bloom phase (1-8 )/veg phase (seedling, early, late) in separate gallon jugs (labeled, of course); and then, nearly every week, I add x ml of each to a week's worth of gallons and store them on shelves. Repeat cycle.... Takes time, wastes space, not very stealthy....
 
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and ... for my purposes, what do you think about simply mounting eight 4-gallon backpack sprayers to each dedicated perpetual bloom tent? I'd have to modify them with a longer cord ... or get twice as many 2-gallon backpacks.... It'd be quick & dirty, but if they're battery operated, less than $30 apiece, it might be worth it Really need to reclaim time and space. Here's an example of a 4-gallon sprayer. Good shape for stacking/mounting close together. https://www.harborfreight.com/4-gallon-backpack-sprayer-63092.html?cid=paid_google&fbclid=IwAR30Vxe0M5V-Jpvykt5_MgL9fi3ghROqF1NPRBSsvlZ4K0V7GTGwIXLZzS4

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Apostatize said:
and ... for my purposes, what do you think about simply mounting eight 4-gallon backpack sprayers to each dedicated perpetual bloom tent? I'd have to modify them with a longer cord ... or get twice as many 2-gallon backpacks.... It'd be quick & dirty, but if they're battery operated, less than $30 apiece, it might be worth it Really need to reclaim time and space. Here's an example of a 4-gallon sprayer. Good shape for stacking/mounting close together. https://www.harborfreight.com/4-gallon-backpack-sprayer-63092.html?cid=paid_google&fbclid=IwAR30Vxe0M5V-Jpvykt5_MgL9fi3ghROqF1NPRBSsvlZ4K0V7GTGwIXLZzS4

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why not just a trash can with a cheap pump n make a manifold out of pvc with some drip lines..
 
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ct26turbo said:
why not just a trash can with a cheap pump n make a manifold out of pvc with some drip lines..
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the challenge is that perpetual bloom is great but you can have plants at every bloom phase at once. And it's a relatively small space so it's not practical to section plants off into separate phases. i've been keeping up with it but want to reclaim my time. i just want to reach for whatever sprayer i need, and get in and out and back to my day job or ... just something else. eats up my day to feed everything twice by hand. but i still prefer hand-feeding to running irrigation. i'm installing 32 oz drippers so i only have to water like every 1.5 days. Grodan blocks, no soil.
 
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keeping costs of three 8' x 6' x 8' mobile shelves near-reasonable will probably hinge on whether wheels can be mounted to warehouse shelves. the one rep I spoke to was against the idea because, supposedly, the frame would be structurally weaker/it isn't built for that ... but the weight on shelves will be way less than capacity, so I think it's a non-issue.

Three racks would be pretty good, two won't be enough of a push.

now that I'm standardizing plant size/shape and, consequently # of plants, I'm again considering automating irrigation ... though I still wouldn't be 100% reliant on it, mostly set up as a backup when I'm busy or want to leave for a week. and reducing the # of different bloom phase stocks, reducing total potential # of reservoirs ... and organizing rows on racks into early, middle, late bloom, there's going to be enough room to mount 3 or 4 small reservoirs to the frame for bloom; and for veg on the bottom space, reservoirs for early/late veg, ... seedling/clones would be in a separate space.


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The rep knows what he's talking about. If you've ever worked with these racks, you'd agree. Freestanding, they aren't very stable. They're meant to be bolted down and stationary. The lateral bars slide in with a locking clip but they will not prevent twisting of the structure.
 
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Creature1969 said:
The rep knows what he's talking about. If you've ever worked with these racks, you'd agree. Freestanding, they aren't very stable. They're meant to be bolted down and stationary. The lateral bars slide in with a locking clip but they will not prevent twisting of the structure.
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Thanks. Lots of suitable options at spacesaver.com, but the rolling mechanism seems cost-prohibitive. We'll see. I'll find something or just get a longer sprayer, haha.

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