Where do you keep your firewood?

[clemsonfor]

yea i know that looks like a lot of weight, judging by the size must be 14+ feet long!

 

[hr3]

I burn wood in a wood furnace in the basement.. So all my wood goes there in the fall when it starts to get cold.. No going outside for wood for me..

 

[flyingcow]

I handle the wood once from the splitter directly onto pallets. Fork lift the pallets to storage/drying area stacked two high. Add a used-rubber roofing sheet to the top to shed water and melting snow.

After two years, fork-lift the pallets from the storage/drying area into the garage where it goes into the woodburner. Anything to cut down on the multiple times handling a piece of wood (used to be I'd recognize some of the pieces when throwing them into the burner, and thought that was just too many times picking it up).

Just started doing the same thing. I'll try t post pics later. Same set up, boiler in garage, open door drive tractor in.

As far as going outside to fill boiler. typically i start a fire once a day, takes ten minutes, shut door. Usually don't go back for 24 hours.

 

[clemsonfor]

its funny when i saw that finger in the picture i thought i know someone will comment on this. But it showed what i was trying to show, without having to take another or cut it out! Plus the comments on stuff like that are always funny. :laughing:

 

[easygo]

As for materials. You can always try to find a sawyer in your area and ask if he has a slab pile that you could pick through. There is a guy near me who let me take two trailer loads for free. That stuff either ends up in a burn pile a grinder or cut up for very cheap and not too good firewood for outdoor boilers.

 

[wolc123]

I keep mine in an old 50 x 75 ft barn that my great-great grandad built in 1883. It has always had a good roof, but never any paint so it is very well ventated due to the 1/2" - 1" gaps between the 130 year old vertical siding. Wood dries faster in there than stacked outside because it never gets wet. I live in an area that really gets lots of snow and it is great not to have to deal with all that on top of the wood. I also keep my gas-powered splitter in there, where I use a small electric fan, and open the doors while splitting to take care of the exhaust fumes. This makes splitting a great "rainy-day" job as we also get a lot of that in this area. I use a tractor to drag logs up from the woodlot on the back of my farm, usually about half in mid-winter and the other half mid-summer which are the only times the ground is firm enough to get them out without damaging the land, and eliminates saw-dulling mud. I saw them up right behind the "woodshed" and carry the unsplit stuff in on a 3-point carryall on back of my 1951 Ford 8n. The nice thing about that barn is it would hold hundreds of face cords of wood, but I usually have around 30 in there, and only burn about 10 a year, which easily heats my 2000 sq ft house. It is nice having room to keep varieties seperate, as I like oak for the coldest time of mid-winter and ash and maple for spring and fall when not so much heat is needed. I have never been without a woodshed, but it seems like it would be a real pain in this area. I also wouldnt want all that would in my basement because of potential bug problems. I only bring enough wood in the house at one time to last a day, but keep 1/2 face-cord on a covered porch with a door right next to the stove. I have never burned more than 1/2 cord in a week. My carryall also holds 1/2 cord which makes things real convenient, haveing the 8n parked out in the woodshed all winter ready to fetch the appropriate type of wood as needed.

 

[magicheater]

I have been busy building a woodshed. Tired of the tarps and want a dedicated spot for the wood. This is being built from recycled materials. The trusses were left over from a house, the posts had been in the ground for 40 years and look new (6X6), some new framing lumber for the purloins, similar to the hot tub cover in another thread. The steel roofing is also recycled. It is 99" by 16' outside corner to outside corner. Can fit a tractor in when empty. Located where it gets the most sun and is downhill to the boiler in case I have to use the wheelbarrow! Have not decided about the walls yet but have some recycled steel for that too. I will post more pics as it progresses.

 

[beenthere]

I'm trying something new this year. I'm putting my firewood in large breathable bags that can hold almost a half cord. They are 36"x42"x58" high, with 10" lifting straps and will hold 2200 lbs. I hold them open with the forks on my loader and fill them. They fit on a pallet which I then bring into my garage. Garage is attached to house so no need to go out into the weather to get wood. I have 12 foot ceiling in my garage and can stack them two high. Oh yea, they are reusable.

Jake
We'll be looking forward to some pics and reports on your bagging technique.

 

[Jake1297]

For anyone that is interested, here are several pictures of the firewood bag being filled. The first one is of the empty bag, followed by a picture of it on a pallet with wood in it just before I lifted it to disperse the wood. Lower the bag back down and continue filling till filled. The next one is of the bag full, and the last is it being on the pallet taking to get stored. I fill it about a foot or so from the top. You can store them inside or outside. I'm going to tarp mine, as there is no more room in the garage. Removing the wood to burn I'll have to wait and see if it's worth it. So far, everything else is. Takes about 15 minutes for a 56 year old to load it.

 

[SpudHauler]

In the forest.:laughing::laughing::laughing:

Just had to say it.

 

[jimmyj]

That bag business looks like a brilliant idea. They sell soil like that around here now and I can see "bag of firewood $x" signs. Easy in, easy out. Great idea.

 

[techwrtr2]

I burn wood in a wood furnace in the basement.. So all my wood goes there in the fall when it starts to get cold.. No going outside for wood for me..

Either you have nothing in teh basement beyond wood and furnace or you keep your home just above freezing.

We had a wood burning furnace in the basement when I was a kid. One of my chores was to bring in firewood. Three carts (I think from a bakery maybe) stacked above my head. Would last about a week or so.

Parents replaced that furnace with one that is much more efficient and also burns coal.

Currently they have no formal wood shed. The shed where we kept the wood found itself repurposed for storing other stuff for a few years when they didnt' occupy the house. I haven't had time to build something new for them. Instead, I stack the wood outside their basement door under a tarp. Since they mostly burn coal, a cord will last more than a winter.

 

[hr3]

Either you have nothing in teh basement beyond wood and furnace or you keep your home just above freezing.

Hmm the unfinished side has lots of room,, about 1800 sf.. plenty of room for 6 cord and all the other stuff down there..and the house is a constant 72 to 74 all winter,, lol

 

[jpm]

i keep it outside right next to the boiler.the less you touch it the better!:laughing:

 

[keegs]

I keep mine in an old 50 x 75 ft barn that my great-great grandad built in 1883. It has always had a good roof, but never any paint so it is very well ventated due to the 1/2" - 1" gaps between the 130 year old vertical siding. Wood dries faster in there than stacked outside because it never gets wet. I live in an area that really gets lots of snow and it is great not to have to deal with all that on top of the wood. I also keep my gas-powered splitter in there, where I use a small electric fan, and open the doors while splitting to take care of the exhaust fumes. This makes splitting a great "rainy-day" job as we also get a lot of that in this area. I use a tractor to drag logs up from the woodlot on the back of my farm, usually about half in mid-winter and the other half mid-summer which are the only times the ground is firm enough to get them out without damaging the land, and eliminates saw-dulling mud. I saw them up right behind the "woodshed" and carry the unsplit stuff in on a 3-point carryall on back of my 1951 Ford 8n. The nice thing about that barn is it would hold hundreds of face cords of wood, but I usually have around 30 in there, and only burn about 10 a year, which easily heats my 2000 sq ft house. It is nice having room to keep varieties seperate, as I like oak for the coldest time of mid-winter and ash and maple for spring and fall when not so much heat is needed. I have never been without a woodshed, but it seems like it would be a real pain in this area. I also wouldnt want all that would in my basement because of potential bug problems. I only bring enough wood in the house at one time to last a day, but keep 1/2 face-cord on a covered porch with a door right next to the stove. I have never burned more than 1/2 cord in a week. My carryall also holds 1/2 cord which makes things real convenient, haveing the 8n parked out in the woodshed all winter ready to fetch the appropriate type of wood as needed.

Interesting post...dude...you've got a way with words.:thumbsup:

 

[irwin]

Looks like no easy way to get the wood shed built this year... so, I'll be doing the firewood stacks with tarps thing for at least another winter. Too many projects ongoing.

 

[magicheater]

Looks like no easy way to get the wood shed built this year... so, I'll be doing the firewood stacks with tarps thing for at least another winter. Too many projects ongoing.

I can relate, this was my year. Here is an update to my previous post. I have less than $150 in this project thanx to recycled materials. Recycled usually means more time involved but that's free when we work for ourselves, right?! I still do tarps cause you can never have enough wood on hand! Global warming to me means unpredictable, wet/dry.

 

[keegs]

Magic ..that's a home run.:thumbsup:

 

[magicheater]

Thanks Keegs! Here is another recycled effort. Got these 4x4 containers gratis. They had been used for storing cardboard boxes and had a hinged door in front. They were on wheels and not in the best of shape so took the wheels off, put them on skids, beefed them up structurally and cut an angle on the sides and used metal roofing on top. Tried to make them rodent proof as well. They old a tad over 1/2 of a full cord of masonry stove wood. Easy to move with the tractor up to the back door. Gonna use up some old paint on the exterior when time and weather permit.

 

[clemsonfor]

Looks like no easy way to get the wood shed built this year... so, I'll be doing the firewood stacks with tarps thing for at least another winter. Too many projects ongoing.

It took me about 1 full day to build mine. I dug holes one day, built the whole shed minus half the roof in another, and added bracing another, but would easily be done in a day, if i worked at it.