I'm planning on building one in the early spring that will consist of 4x4x10's buried 2 foot deep, giving me 8 foot tall sides with 2x6x12s as a bottom. The unit will be tall and skinny measuring 48 foot long. Should hold 6 cords if I go 2x8x48. Show me some ideas! Thanks!
Take care. Stacking split wood any taller than 4.5 feet, does introduce a wobble into the stack, risking a complete topple. Sent from my SM-T280 using Tapatalk
The longer your splits, the higher you can go... if your splits are 24” long and uniform, you might be able to go 8 feet high. If it was my stacks, and I wanted to go that high, I would have vertical supports every 10-12 feet... would be quite a kick in the gut to have the middle of a 48’ wall of wood teeter over and take the whole wood rack down with it.... do a test stack first before you go all in on that plan. That’s my recommendation.
yes, the ends will be cemented in and so will the vertical supports. Failed to mention that. I just don't have much space is why I'm needing to go so high.
Here is the cheapest wood rack ever built. Cost of building it is $0.00. We cut some saplings in the woods to stack the wood on (or you can use 4 x 4, landscape timbers or whatever to stack on). Crib the ends and we stack these about 9' long and 4 1/2' high. For covering we use some old galvanized roofing which we scrounged. Again, no cost. One of the best things about these types of wood racks is when the wood is gone, there is no mess or pallets left behind. Cleanup consists of picking up the 2 saplings under each row. The good part too is that the saplings can then be used again and again saving even more work and expense. So building these is cost friendly, very quick and easy to do and also very easy to get the wood from when it is needed. These next two pictures were taken right after stacking. We left them uncovered until around Thanksgiving that year then top covered with the galvanized roofing. A place and good use for uglies is to use for weight to hold down during high winds. If the wood stacks are close to the house, then I'd use something different to weight them down just to make them look better but these stacks are far from the house.
I don`t have any pics but I am going to start using cinder blocks spaced every 8' and lay 24' sections of 1.5" gas line on them. Should never rust. I`ll use t posts for the vertical end supports...
