Dino Bags Firewood Bags - Evaluation

xring100 · Feb 16, 2014

Well after looking at firewood bags for a couple years i finally broke down and ordered a box of 10 for a trial run. i split the order with my neighbor who is pictured below. These bags are big enough to to hold 1/3 of a cord or a face cord loosely tossed into the bag. After today's experience We both decided we are going to order at least 10 more bags each. These bags are an open mesh construction to allow drying to occur It will be awesome in the future to just split and toss wood into the bags completely eliminating having to pick up the the wood and stack it after splitting. And since i can load the bags into a truck it makes delivering it easy only have to unload it by hand.

Neighbor Purchased a cord of ash from me and my buddy as he is almost of out of wood. An 8 foot box would be perfect and would easily hold 2 of these bags in theory 2 would fit in a standard bed

My Kubota does'nt even come close to clearing a 7 foot door with the exhaust stack he used his 8N to slide the pallets into this garage as it won't lift it completely off the ground. He has a separate work shop in the back of his garage with a wood gasification boiler used to heat the house

Next step is to build a stand to hold the bags up to allow for quick and easy loading of the bags.

xring100 · Feb 16, 2014

Forgot to mention that the bags are 36"x42"x58" in height so they can be stored and moved on standard pallets. Dino Bags claims that these bags should last on average of 3 years even when exposed to UV light.

MotorSeven · Feb 16, 2014

Interesting concept for firewood. I'm doing the same type thing with metal cage pallets. Be careful about leaving them outside, or in a barn then transporting them and the hovel of mice into your garage or basement...been there done that.

xring100 · Feb 16, 2014

MotorSeven said:
Interesting concept for firewood. I'm doing the same type thing with metal cage pallets. Be careful about leaving them outside, or in a barn then transporting them and the hovel of mice into your garage or basement...been there done that.

Good point these were just loaded today so not a problem I will remember that in the future and make sure I bring that up with the neighbor

blueriver · Feb 16, 2014

Those look like our 1 ton feed sacks .. Of course our sacks are not a mesh type .. Local coop chgs $7 a sack .. How much are the Dino bags?

xring100 · Feb 16, 2014

They were $13 and change with shipping
I'll find the link. I believe it was listed on tyoga containers site which is dyno bags parent company. I just called them up and the gall was very helpful. I know they also make bags for sand potatoes etc and your right the look pretty similar.

http://www.tyogacontainer.com/bulk-bags.shtml

$10.75 plus S&H

xring100 · Jun 11, 2014

Well after a crappy winter We've had a lot of catching up to do.
These bags are awesome the amount of time it saves is flat out amazing From the Splitter to the stack. I'll build a better stand eventually but this one works quite well. The neighbor here can't fill them completely and still move them with his 8 N even with very dead dry ash. but he's still well over 3/4 full.

Scooby074 · Jun 11, 2014

Im going to bags too, as soon as I have enough tractor to move a full one.

Apsterbobed · May 17, 2015

So I have also been thinking about using bags for firewood. It's been just over a year from your post Xring100 on getting bags, how are they working for you and do you have any advice for someone getting bags.