Abstract: A storage rack for metal structural elements provides a support frame having at least one vertical support column carrying a rack for hydraulically powered vertical motion. The rack provides plural groups of vertically spaced, horizontal supports which may be of a compound nature to allow an upper portion to move horizontally relatively to the rack. The horizontal supports may be subdivided for segregated storage of groups of different items on a single shelf and may extend in cantilevered or supported fashion on one or both sides of vertical support columns of the support frame. The vertical motion of the rack is powered by one or more hydraulic cylinders carried in the vertical support columns.