Post your Firewood Stacking Method

[ajschainsaws]

I'm somewhat lazy so I do it this way:

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Looks good and holds a lot of wood

 

[ajschainsaws]

Saw this cheap make shift log store pretty simple design

 

[RI Chevy]

Nice. Looks like wood will dry quickly.

 

[Wood Doctor]

I'd love to stack wood as shown above. However, I am now getting delivery orders faster than I can stack the wood. I split the driest wood that I can find and load the truck at the same time. Out it goes the next day or sometimes the same day. Gasp!

 

[maulhead]

I dislike stacking. Never enjoyed it. Hate handling it more then needed.

For last ten years, been stacking wood on racks I made from old heavy duty shipping pallets. Pallet bottoms are made up with 4x4's and 2x6's real heavy duty. Like this. Had eight of these on my property for firewood.




Few months ago I picked up a few dozen of these ag totes.

Really enjoying using them. No more stacking, park two totes by my splitter, split... chuck.... split.... chuck.... repeat.

Timed myself last week, brought home a 8' bed full of firewood. Parked the splitter at the tailgate, one tote on each side of splitter. Bed was empty in 32 minutes, and both totes were heaping full.

Anytime I can save a step, or handle the wood a step less. I'm happy.

 

[RI Chevy]

Good idea.

 

[maulhead]

Good idea.

Ruff guesstimate, is I will need 25 totes for next winter.

Not sure how many cords that is?

But knowing what my old racks held, and how much of them I burned in a winter, I took some measurements on the totes, did a little math. I think 25 totes full will get me threw a winter.

Just to be safe, I plan to fill 30. See what happens next winter.

 

[RI Chevy]

Cool. [emoji106]
I bet the smaller batches of wood dry out quicker.

 

[maulhead]

Or trailer, splitter, and two totes, so nice and easy.

 

[Leafy]

Those ag totes are UN tank or IBC tanks with the tank removed. Guy at work has started using them because he has forks on his tractor they're 40x44x36-40 so it should be like 1/2 cordish if I did my math right.

 

[maulhead]

Most of mine are 40x48, and 41 tall. I have 6 of them at are 40x48, and 48 tall.

I have a forklift here, to move them with. My forks are almost 7' long, can grab two totes at a time. Handy.

I left the plastic tanks were I got the totes. Told the guy I did not want to deal with the tanks. He was fine with that.

I got a few last summer just to see how I like them. Went back and got a lot more, after using them. Doubt I will got back to stacking wood ever.

 

[CrystalRiver1]

I dislike stacking. Never enjoyed it. Hate handling it more then needed.

For last ten years, been stacking wood on racks I made from old heavy duty shipping pallets. Pallet bottoms are made up with 4x4's and 2x6's real heavy duty. Like this. Had eight of these on my property for firewood.

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Few months ago I picked up a few dozen of these ag totes.

Really enjoying using them. No more stacking, park two totes by my splitter, split... chuck.... split.... chuck.... repeat.

Timed myself last week, brought home a 8' bed full of firewood. Parked the splitter at the tailgate, one tote on each side of splitter. Bed was empty in 32 minutes, and both totes were heaping full.

Anytime I can save a step, or handle the wood a step less. I'm happy.


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Looks really good!
I like the idea of getting away from rotting pallets & replacing/rebuilding em.
BTW...where can you guy purchase those AG Totes?

 

[maulhead]

Looks really good!
I like the idea of getting away from rotting pallets & replacing/rebuilding em.
BTW...where can you guy purchase those AG Totes?

I didn't pay money for any of mine. Some I got from a fertilizer place, some I got else where. All free for hauling them off.

I see them for sale on craigslist, etc, but I'm to frugal to pay money for them.

Drive around a farm or industrial area, see a pile, stop and ask. Might score some like I did.

 

[CrystalRiver1]

I didn't pay money for any of mine. Some I got from a fertilizer place, some I got else where. All free for hauling them off.

I see them for sale on craigslist, etc, but I'm to frugal to pay money for them.

Drive around a farm or industrial area, see a pile, stop and ask. Might score some like I did.

Awesome!
BTW...how difficult is it to wrestle the plastic tanks out?
I have no need for those dudes.
But, I sure do like this idea especially elevated slightly...no hiding/chilling place for the chipmunks, skunks, other vermin!

 

[Leafy]

They're designed to have the tank easily removable. Gut at my work gets them from work, we get DI water in them and cutting oil.

 

[alleyyooper]

I also hate all the extra handleing to stack a bunch of wood only to unstack to put in th ewood burner.

It goes from this pile inside to make. atwo week supply in behind the wood furnace.

My fire wood is cut in December, January, Febuary and a bit in early March.
Lays in the woods till about mid september then hauled to the house.

With all the sap in the root system when cut doesn't take long for the wood to dry out.

Al

 

[<DoB>]

Started my second holzhausen yesterday

 

[RI Chevy]

My Holzhausen round stacks are drying well. I will grab some updated photos after it stops raining.

 

[Wilhelm]

I didn't pay money for any of mine. Some I got from a fertilizer place, some I got else where. All free for hauling them off.

I see them for sale on craigslist, etc, but I'm to frugal to pay money for them.

Drive around a farm or industrial area, see a pile, stop and ask. Might score some like I did.

Love the idea!
I have no fork lift but I could come up with a simple rear tractor attachment.
Unfortunately in my area these 1000 liter tanks go for insane 100+$ each, used discarded ones - new ones are 150-200$.

I love processing firewood, both bucking with my saws and splitting with my ax - but I hate stacking it and wheeling it into the shed before winter.

I'd love having a bunch of those totes!

 

[Leafy]

Love the idea!
I have no fork lift but I could come up with a simple rear tractor attachment.
Unfortunately in my area these 1000 liter tanks go for insane 100+$ each, used discarded ones - new ones are 150-200$.

I love processing firewood, both bucking with my saws and splitting with my ax - but I hate stacking it and wheeling it into the shed before winter.

I'd love having a bunch of those totes!

My coworker bought his forks on Amazon for like 180 iirc. And they're the good kind that connect to the loader arms in place of the bucket instead of the stupid clamp on one's.