I hate throwing useful things out

Here's the steel crate my new woodsplitter from TSC came in late last year. Didn't know what to do with it but it was taking up space in my garage.
Got the great idea to make a kindling dryer and storage out of it. I lined the sides with rabbit wire we have hanging around and nailed it to the bottom and wired it to the top. It's plenty strong on the bottom under the plywood. I have it out in the old barn now waiting to fill. It's 72"x 29".
I have a dead fir near where I park that the woodpeckers killed and will take that down and split it up for kindling. I'll get pics of that when I do it.

 

Good airflow.
I wonder if the rabbit wire would have been ok on the bottom too.......even more airflow.

 

good repurpose Chris F I wouldnt have thrown it out either. Good point as well papadave

 

Good work there

 

I have one about half this size behind the woodshed under the overhang and the bottom is wire. Whatever goes in this one will be there a long time and will be well dried before transferring to the one behind the woodshed. I can't get to the old barn in the winter unless I blow it out and this would be the only reason to do that.
I've got lots of kindling but more is gooder.

 

You could put some wheels and a tongue on that too

 

I wouldn't be able to throw that away either. Great job on the reuse.

 

Mark me down with the guys that couldn't throw that away! I would have found some use for it. Looks like your idea is a good one! Nice clean build.

 

My son and his friends who didn't know where it came from were speculating I was making my own coffin!
Not yet boys, not yet...

 

X2 for sure!

Hahaha! Nope, I'm gonna live plenty long enough to be a problem to my kids LOL. Actually they think I already have.muhahaha.

 

Dropped that fir tree and cut it up. Got to use the splitter for the first time. Had so much that I had to put some in the kindling cage behind the shed.










You might be wondering why I cut it off so high. Fact is I'm a chain smoker and I have a plastic container with a lid tied to the tree that I empty my ashtray from the truck into all the time. Summer and Winter.
It was my wife who suggested cutting it that high to save the container for use. I thought it was a good idea.

 

I saw a coffee table. With the right slab of wood on top of it, you could sell it and re-coop some of the cost of the splitter.

 

I tried smoking a chain once, couldnt get it to light, even with an acetylene torch!