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Originally Posted by J. R. B.
My Dad was always on my butt to store the batteries on wood. Every year it is a ritual to take all the batteries out of the equipment and vehicles that won't be used over winter. They are lined up on the wood battery bench and my Dad goes to work. After he checks the electrolyte each battery gets a slow discharge. When it is discharged he gives it a quick charge. Later on in March he does the same thing again only this time he gives them a slow charge. Don't ask me why he does it. All I know is that I'm going on ten years on a couple of batteries that he takes care of. I asked him once and he mumbled something about submarine batteries when he was on the Navy yard in early WWII. Maybe one of you can figure out his methods. It's working so I leave him alone.
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your dad was correct. However, batteries no longer have the tar/wood type construction but typically a polypropylene case. A clean, modern battery shouldn't discharge through a concrete floor, but if it has electrolyte spilled all over it then I think it may. (it would also discharge across the poles via the electrolyte if you think about it, so keep it reasonably clean). I put my batteries on a piece of wood to keep electrolyte off the concrete. Either way, the wood won't hurt anything.