I put a tarp on my little shed in winter , hook it at the top, then just hook bottom 2 corners with carabiners, I unhook the bottom , get me and my buggy behind the tarp and load the buggy
I was thinkin about stringing some fence wire tight across the top and hookin tarp like a shower curtain with small carabiners,, would still have to hook the corners If you get a lot of wind you might have to hook half way up the sides too
What about a hi-lift jack and teasing the front up and sliding a pressure treated landscape timber underneath then catching the timber with another jack to lift high enoughto slide another toward the middle and repeat for the backside?
I don't see a need for that either or never have. So long as the top is covered, that which hits the sides does nothing bad to the wood.
Yeah, it doesn't hurt anything...its just nice not having wet and/or snow covered wood to haul in...BTDT. And if you wait until heating season to cover the front, then you really aren't losing that much for additional wood drying either...in my setup, the wood is already ready to burn by the time it hits the woodshed...that's just my "this winters heat" storage area...the next 3-4 years worth is in the big stacks out back. Everybody has to make their own system work though...if you don't have the room for 4-5 years worth of wood (like Dennis and I have) then you just do your best to stockpile 2, preferably 3...
I've done that with a stack in a place that tended to catch snow drifts or that wet glop we get in a Nor'easter. I used a car hood which protected just enough that we wouldn't get a frozen iced pile. We can get snow/then rain/then ice/then back to snow here and knocking tomorrow's wood out with a sledge hammer is not fun. Having to thaw out and dry out a couple days of splits on the basement floor gets old quick. Especially if the sun doesn't come out for days to help dry the stack back out.
I've used a tall pallet to the same effect during windy snow storms, billb3. Blowing snow, then a sunny day, then -4 at night can lock things up pretty good. I don't want to be whacking splits with a sledge at the 5am reload if I can avoid it.
Covering a shed with ready to burn wood in it for the winter is the same thing as moving a winters supply of ready to burn wood into an enclosed barn . When the shed is totally full no problem but once you take wood out snow and even rain can blow in on top , if it stays real cold snow is not a problem , knock the snow off , but if it warms up and the snow melts some , then re freezes you will have a very hard time burning icicles. Probably be putting the tarps on mine , front and back in next 2 to 3 weeks or so , depending on the weather , I could do it right now , it wouldn't matter , the pallet sides still have some air flow.
side or front covers will work fine. If you know how your weather blows, and it blows into your wood, then cover it up. No harm in that.
