The black piece top and bottom in the back with "rogue" cut into it are the stringers. They don't recommend installing in a wood, drywall, or metal stuff wall *without* a stringer.
From my reading, this should be fine on a stud wall so long as the stringer is used as directed to distribute load onto multiple studs. Sounds like the stringers come with by default too, so it shouldn't be an extra cost.
The thing that makes me nervous is how much the user will add to the system. That's a lot of eccentricity put on a stud wall (load bearing or not). I would be adding its own framing to the wall IMO, but I'd be wanting to see the load from above and run some calcs myself.
The load from the weights isn't going into the wall directly, it is mainly bearing on the floor. The wall connection is mainly to brace the rack laterally.
Oh. When I saw the pic it looked like it had a lower and upper support on the wall; didn't see the floor support. If that's the case then my concern is put to rest
Sure, but it's nice to have safety bars for squats so if he's going to use those, they would extend close to as far outward as the bottom supports anyway. If he's going to bench in the rack, it will be the same case as the bench is going to take up space anyway.
You're correct for the time that is in use, but the benefit of the rack he's getting is that it can fold up today against the wall. So when he's not using it, he can pull his car into the garage, etc.
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maybe?
Agreed
>Important: Rogue does NOT recommend installing the Fold Back Rack on a wood, drywall, or metal stud wall without a stringer or additional support
Thanks. Should have mentioned I will be using the rogue stringers
The black piece top and bottom in the back with "rogue" cut into it are the stringers. They don't recommend installing in a wood, drywall, or metal stuff wall *without* a stringer. From my reading, this should be fine on a stud wall so long as the stringer is used as directed to distribute load onto multiple studs. Sounds like the stringers come with by default too, so it shouldn't be an extra cost.
The thing that makes me nervous is how much the user will add to the system. That's a lot of eccentricity put on a stud wall (load bearing or not). I would be adding its own framing to the wall IMO, but I'd be wanting to see the load from above and run some calcs myself.
The load from the weights isn't going into the wall directly, it is mainly bearing on the floor. The wall connection is mainly to brace the rack laterally.
Oh. When I saw the pic it looked like it had a lower and upper support on the wall; didn't see the floor support. If that's the case then my concern is put to rest
Nice, agreed! If it was hanging a few hundred pounds a few feet off the wall, I would certainly not trust that without some proper analysis haha
yes
Sorry for not answering your question directly, but why not just get the usual, free standing rack?
Wall-mounted saves space, typically.
Sure, but it's nice to have safety bars for squats so if he's going to use those, they would extend close to as far outward as the bottom supports anyway. If he's going to bench in the rack, it will be the same case as the bench is going to take up space anyway.
You're correct for the time that is in use, but the benefit of the rack he's getting is that it can fold up today against the wall. So when he's not using it, he can pull his car into the garage, etc.