I got wood

[thepritch]

Blackpuddin said:

A quick Google gives you loads of options, ebay always being a good place to start. Despatch/transport will obvs be an expensive element in the purchase.

This is what I’m finding as I would prefer cages. They seem cheap, but delivery…. Well, a few places want to deliver on an artic, and with our access that’s out the question.

Will go knocking on neighbouring farmers doors, or maybe hire a longer trailer and fetch some myself. Plenty around, just logistics are more problematic. I’m tempted to still go pallet route it as I’d have some fun with a hammer and saw

[Blackpuddin]

Promised Land said:

Harry Flashman said:

Spent a happy hour making loads of kindling, nice and straight so that I can build entertainingly large jenga towers in the stove when lighting the fire with the top down method

Man maths says you want a proper cast table top saw like in my workshop. Kindling is cut in seconds.

That kindling is too nice to burn!

[alfabeat]

I get my kindling from a local chap who makes wooden marquee pegs and has loads of the shavings. Brilliant stuff

[Turtle Shed]

Made myself a log store over the last couple of days. Only cost was the roof timber, £35 for 7x2.4m gravel boards, plus £11.00 for hefty screws. Everything else was free timber that I had already aquired.

Currently got heavy duty bin liners on top to keep the rain out, and when the weather gets warmer I'll stain or paint it.

Aim is to use it for drying whatever wood comes my way, as a store too if space. Logs that are ready to burn will live in my garage where there is a decent amount of space.

[Snow and Rocks]

Keep an eye on FB marketplace - I got mine from a guy in Fraserburgh who seemed to have hundreds and deal exclusively in them but they often pop up elsewhere.

They main advantage is that they are easily movable (by hand when empty and by tractor when full) and that they allow so much airflow.

I'm sure you can do a better looking ob than my "temporary" arrangement - easy way to store a lot of wood though, there's 20 crates there.

[Tim Cognito]

Turtle Shed said:

Made myself a log store over the last couple of days. Only cost was the roof timber, £35 for 7x2.4m gravel boards, plus £11.00 for hefty screws. Everything else was free timber that I had already aquired.

Currently got heavy duty bin liners on top to keep the rain out, and when the weather gets warmer I'll stain or paint it.

Aim is to use it for drying whatever wood comes my way, as a store too if space. Logs that are ready to burn will live in my garage where there is a decent amount of space.

Isn't that roof going to leak?

[Turtle Shed]

Tim Cognito said:

Turtle Shed said:

Made myself a log store over the last couple of days. Only cost was the roof timber, £35 for 7x2.4m gravel boards, plus £11.00 for hefty screws. Everything else was free timber that I had already aquired.

Currently got heavy duty bin liners on top to keep the rain out, and when the weather gets warmer I'll stain or paint it.

Aim is to use it for drying whatever wood comes my way, as a store too if space. Logs that are ready to burn will live in my garage where there is a decent amount of space.

Isn't that roof going to leak?

No. Like I said it's currently got heavy duty bin liners as a temporary solution. Will be felting it next week.

[Tim Cognito]

Turtle Shed said:

No. Like I said it's currently got heavy duty bin liners as a temporary solution. Will be felting it next week.

Oh sorry, I misread and thought you meant the bin liners were like a hanging screen to keep driving rain off.

[bobski1]

Currently storing my stash in the greenhouse, seem to have a batch of slugs and ideally not something I want to take into the house, aside from throwing salt everywhere anybody got any tips to keep as many creatures away as possible?

[Jordan247]

thepritch said:

We inherited a ‘never ending’ log pile when we moved here two years back. The huge semi split pile had been sat there for unprotected for at least 7years from what I know from the previous owner as was a result of at least 10 mature firs being felled on the grounds. Apart from the top layer most of the logs are soaked and some are decaying badly.

The last two years have seen countless barrows taken to be stored / dried, but now they’re full, the big project for the summer is to build more stores (pallets) , or to stack them with a ‘roof’ right next to the pile to then try and dry them over the next few years. Need to hire a splitter for the other pile of rounds that are next to it.

Feels daunting, but getting stuck in, as the ones we’ve dried so far have burnt very nicely.

Edit : can someone remind be how to right the picture please!!

That's quite a steep hill you have in the garden.

[p1doc]

thanks for suggestions- recent wind caused a leaner so ended up taking down 3 more pine trees so keeping busy with them at present

[Hereward]

Last stool of overstood / derelict Hazel coppice collected for the year. Now just have to protect them so the effing deer don't destroy the new growth.

[KTMsm]

Anyone got big, simple wood store suggestions ?

I'd rather go higher (and tidier) than IBC cages

I've seen a steel 6m x 3m field shelter for £1500+VAT but that seems a bit OTT to protect free wood

[Fermit]

KTMsm said:

Anyone got big, simple wood store suggestions ?

I'd rather go higher (and tidier) than IBC cages

I've seen a steel 6m x 3m field shelter for £1500+VAT but that seems a bit OTT to protect free wood

Someone I know has one of those clear supermarket carpark trolly bays. If you see a supermarket being refurbished, or say a Wilko shut down they may let you take it off their hands?

[S6PNJ]

KTMsm said:

Anyone got big, simple wood store suggestions ?

I'd rather go higher (and tidier) than IBC cages

I've seen a steel 6m x 3m field shelter for £1500+VAT but that seems a bit OTT to protect free wood

How about a second hand polytunnel? You are not too far away to make this a possibility - https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/43127869...
You'd need a storage / stacking system as well of course....

[Snow and Rocks]

Polytunnel isn't a bad shout especially if you can put it somewhere with plenty of through draught. Alternatively you could knock up a half decent pole barn type structure quickly and for reasonable money. The tin sheets for the roof covering are likely to end up being your main expense there though.

[KTMsm]

I was thinking of a pole barn but then you need some form of walls - presumably slatted to retain the logs and let air through

[Snow and Rocks]

Stacked IBC cages inside a pole barn?! Haha.

I bought some treated 22mm x 150mm x 4.8 sarking board planks for ~£6 each from a local farm/fencing supplier recently. Wouldn't be too expensive combined with some 2x4 rails to box in the sides of a pole barn. Would look quite good too with decent slats left to allow lots of airflow.

[S6PNJ]

KTMsm said:

I was thinking of a pole barn but then you need some form of walls - presumably slatted to retain the logs and let air through

I was lucky in that the house I bought back in 2015 already had a pole barn with tiles roof being used as a wood store, so I set about fixing gravel boards to the 'back wall' and organising the stacking of my logs a bit better than the random pile I 'bought' with the house. You can just see the gravel boards in the photos.

Back on page 1 of this thread (if you use big boy 80 posts per page) I said this:

S6PNJ said:

Pics of my wood shed as it looks today (about 3m deep, 2m high and about 12-14m long)

I think I might have 'been around' the shed probably twice since then (I stack fresh logs front to back, right to left then take seasoned logs in the same order so apart from the top to bottom of each stack, they are taken in the order they are stacked.

[KTMsm]

I'm more a throw them onto a pile kind of guy



Maybe the stacked cages aren't a bad idea - I was thinking that I didn't want to use my telehandler to move them as it makes a mess of the garden

Forgetting that I could un/load them individually by hand