I’ve made a bunch of those racks. One pallet on the bottom, two verticals with a few 2x4 brackets for support. They work well. But the bottom pallet tends to rot after a few years. I like these a lot better, most places sell them but you can find them free from landscape supply places.
Awrite Rob, welcome to the club. Those metal boxes swags been talkin about, im pretty sure you can stack'em on thop of each other.
Rob they do fold, and I have to give credit to Flamestead, a member here that gave me a link to that very simple design. I had built some boxes that hold a cord but they were about $70 each to build. We had a thread about crates last Jan/Feb, I'll look for a link. I cut my wood for my boiler at 26", not a good length for pallet based crates but If a pallet based crate works for you, especially with a shed to keep them in and from rotting on the ground after ? years, it would be a lot cheaper and easy.
Gooder on you fuelrod....always nice when the old guys members help direct the new members to a solid thread.... Edit: Have you followed the link, farmer rob?
Eric Yes I have and I am thinking of building boxes like Fuelrod made earlier before he switched to those fold down ones since I think I can double stack the easy enough in out one shed to dry,just not sure yet is will stick with 4' or go for 6'wide and 42"deep
Thank you a great link and I hope to build a few like your earlier boxes am thinking going 6'wide x42 deep and 5' high sides thoughts?
I like my first bigger boxes but felt they cost me a little more than I wanted to spend. I am trying to have all my wood for a year in some sort of "tractorable" package. That would mean a lot of racks, 6-8 cords worth of them for the current season, then 6-8 cord more for the next seasons "production". I'm feeding a wood boiler (about 6 cord a year) that's a "gasser" and it seems to like wood with a little moisture in it.
Yes a Great link .I am ok with building the boxes as we have a pressure treating plant close to town and they always have some sort of skid made from 2x4s (spruce)at 12 or 16 feet long and they nicely screwed together so I should be able to build 1 box from 4 of those and thus far they have them all year long. I do like your idea also about having everything moveable with tractor since I am finding since moving our wood to a different shed/barn the bottom is damp and if I put pallets on the ground I then cannot push/stack anyhow with my loader bucket.My only concern at the moment is if I should go 42"deep or 48" which will give me 3 rows if I cut at 16" and 2 if/when I get a OWB.
As for the depth & wood length, the size of your pallets might answer you're question. That is if the pallets are 48" deep (the entry side for forks) why cut them down? Also, planning on putting 3 rows @ 16" in a 48" space is not going to be fast to load or unload. If these pallets are a free or cheap, what the he!! right? Just make a ton of them. I was purchasing all my wood and planning from new to accommodate my 26" splits. If I had a steady, cheap pallet source 100% space use efficiency would not be much of a concern. You being a farmer know all about costs/returns & efficiency and know what's the best "balance" for your needs. Just putting wheels on your wood basically
