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    Wire Pallet Rack Decking Capacities – What you Need to Know

    August 17, 2008
    by Scott Stone

    pallet rack wire decking

    Craig Chamberlain has an article over at the MHEDA Edge website that you need to read if you use pallet rack wire decking.

    Here’s the money quote:

    “Decking can, and often does, directly bear the total weight of the application’s load and transfers that load to the beams of the pallet rack. Regardless of the weight-bearing capacity of the rack’s beams, an improperly overrated deck can and will jeopardize the load-bearing capacity of the entire system and result in a failure.”

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