Firewood carrier

[JerryK]

I have about $400 in materials in it, but I had a few pieces of the angle, the Cat 1 pins and bushings, plus I used a pile of welding rod/grinding wheels/cut off wheels, etc. Probably less than $500 when said and done. I have a cleared spot in the valley below the barn that is big enough for me to stack a couple 48 foot rows of wood, and I will be hauling the wood up from there several times during the winter. There is not enough flat area up by the barn to store that much wood. Plus, as I get my trees thined out, I will be buying wood in 10 cord loads and split/stack it down in the valley where there is room to work. And keep the mess/critters down there away from everything. I'm thinking of getting a new tractor/loader/backhoe before I get old, and I will need the area in the barn to store everything.

 

[Steve C]

I currently stash about 10 facecord into my 40 by 80 barn in the fall. Most of this was moved into the barn by wheelbarrow or pickup bed/trailer. I am moving the area I store my wood stash farther down in the valley, and will use the new carrier to bring in the wood several times during the winter. I will still store 3 or 4 facecord inside, but I am thinking of getting another tractor and will be needing more room inside to store toys. This new carrier, is only 3 feet deep, so it will cut down on the leaning over to grab wood like in a truck bed or larger trailer. Besides, gives an old retired fart something to do. Raining too much so far this fall to start cutting, may have to cut some next spring. We have had one of the coldest/rainist summer/falls on record up here in Michigan. Get your snow blowers ready.................

Jerry
I am north of Gladwin a little. Is the sun every going to come out? If all this rain was snow we would be in serious trouble.

I do like snowmobiling up in your area. The last couple of years we were able to ride up ther from here. (Meridith trail head)

It has been raining for weeks...

 

[JerryK]

Jerry
I am north of Gladwin a little. Is the sun every going to come out? If all this rain was snow we would be in serious trouble.

I do like snowmobiling up in your area. The last couple of years we were able to ride up ther from here. (Meridith trail head)

It has been raining for weeks...

They have a bike/snowmobile trail all the way up to the bridge at Mackinaw now following I-75 on an old train railbed. I think there are trails over to Cheboygan and over to the Charlevoix/Petoskey area, too. I live in the Watson Hills in between Vanderbilt and Boyne Mountain.

 

[beenthere]

I've been the route of splitting in the woods and hauling it out, restacking to dry, then re-loading to haul to the house for burning.

But now, drag the logs from the woods with 3pt quick hitch, buck to firewood length, then set up the woodsplitter. Stack directly onto pallets, and the wood stays on the pallets until they are set off in the garage 2-3 yrs later for burning. Drape used rubber roofing 5x5 cover's over each pallet to shed water. This works great for split wood, but the tops that are not split go into a "bin" arrangement of three pallets. Have the forks on the 3pt when snowplow is on in place of the FEL.

 

[kkesler]

But now, drag the logs from the woods with 3pt quick hitch, buck to firewood length, then set up the woodsplitter. Stack directly onto pallets, and the wood stays on the pallets until they are set off in the garage 2-3 yrs later for burning.

That's similar to what I do. I usually cut timber to ~7 foot lengths to fit on the trailer, and load and unload those pieces using the carryall. Then I buck, split right there and load onto my 1/2 pallets. The 2x4 sides make it very easy to load and also keep the wood from falling off when I move the racks.

 

[JerryK]

I live in an old stand of beech and sugar maple trees. Every few years the beech trees have a big crop of seed, and the critter population explodes for about a year. If I tried bringing in pre-stacked loads like you guys do... I'd be bringing the critters and their nests in with the load. My pole building is a no critter zone.... So I guess I will live with the stack unstack stack life..

 

[beenthere]

JerryK
You make a very good point.
I for a long time stacked wood in a shed with open sides, and had about 30 full cords in there. The racoon decided it was their latrine, and had layers of coon scat in there. So I moved the wood outside, and now just place a packet of mouse poison in the pallet loads about a week or so before moving inside the garage (about a pallet a week in the cold of the winter). Then there has been no problem with the critters. A few old, abandoned nests at worst.

 

[clemsonfor]

after reading the poster said that he could load a face cord and a half. If i remember my firewood speak from my forestry speak (im a forester). A cord is 4ftx 4ftx 8ft. A face cord is 4ft x 4ft x 4ft fi i remember right, so that is not a true cord. Firewood speak is different than forestry, we always talk about cords not face cord.

-Nate

 

[SilverbackMP]

I thought a face cord was 4' heigh x 8' long, one row deep, and cut to whatever length the person desired? I could be wrong (has been the case more than once).

 

[beenthere]

SilverbackMP has the face cord definition right. The one clemsonfor mentions is usually referred to as a rick (4' long wood stacked 4' high and 4' wide.

For 16" firewood, a face cord is then 1/3 cord.

Some states will only allow one to use full cord measure, and call out what fraction of that full cord is being sold/measured/bought (whatever ).