So I have this large pile (really piles) of wood that I had tucked in a very tiny corner of the shop. This was compact, but annoying.  If I ever wanted to get a piece out I had to basically remove all the pieces to have any hope of finding it.

Now I have a better plan.  I drilled some 3/4" holes into some 24" strips of 2x3 boards.  I angled my drill press table about 8 degrees when drilling the holes.  Then I mounted these boards to the wall below my new shelves and used various lengths of 3/4" dowels to form temporary shelves to hold the wood.

This is working really great.  I have much easier access to the wood and have the ability to sort it by length or type now.  In addition I have room to add more 2x3 boards and could easily rearrange things by drilling more holes If needed.  I ran out of dowels, so I have not been able to fully organize this, but it was only around $20 to put all of this together and another stick or two should polish it up nicely.

This only takes care of the longer skinnier pieces of wood, I need to come up with another way to deal with the small pieces and larger sheet goods, but it takes care of a lot of the mess.

I do have a problem, I seem to be unable to throw away any wood, no matte how ugly or tiny the piece. At some point I need to go through all of this and make some sacrifices.  I'm sure I can cut it in half without much trouble.

This about wraps up the left side of the garage. I may come up with a small bit of something to store a few pieces of sheet goods against the wall, but I like how clean this is. I also will likely put smaller pegs in the lower holes and hang electric cords or other items from them.  And there is a bit more room by the bike to extend this system.  I may pick up another board and finish that off while I still have things all setup to make these.

As for the small gap on the right side that is between the shelf and wall, I still need to think of something to do with that.  I could continue to store wood there that I'm not as interested in accessing. It really is not wide enough to put much of anything else, even a ladder would be difficult to get in and out.  

In theory I could move the shelf over and reclaim some of the space by my workbench. Potentially I could move this shelf over 10".  It would take the better part of a day to do it, and the shelf would currently interfere with the sensor for my garage door, but I think that could be dealt with.  10" would be useful, but less than that is probably not worth the effort.