Black & Blue extension to my wood stack!

Just filled up my new Black & Blue pallet extension
to my wood stack yesterday! Two rows of 3 blue 40" x 48"
pallets with a black 39" x 43" pallet on each end cable-tied
to the t-posts. Filled with 1 row of Red Oak, 2 rows of Black
Locust, 1 row of Apple, and 1 row of Shagbark Hickory.
I'll post a picture of my tarp tent cover later today after I
cover it for the storms coming up tomorrow.

 

Nice!!!

I'd love to get my hands on some plastic pallets someday.

 

Hey now, that looks great! Nice airflow and those things will never rot. Nicely done.

 

sirbuildalot I paid $5 each for the black pallets, and my son-in-law brought
me 15 of the blue ones free from his work!! rainking63 , thanks for the nice compliment!
Here's the pictures of the stack all buttoned up for the thunderstorms coming
tonight/tomorrow.

 

Very nice JJP... Very neat and well done for sure... That wood will be first class when its done seasoning.

The oak in the first row looks a little like pin oak to me...

 

I like it! Nicely done and some primo wood to boot!

 

I finally got a few plastic pallets this year after wanting some for a few years. However I pride myself on stacking my wood and I have noticed that some of the rows are starting to lean. After checking what the problem was i saw that the plastic pallets had slightly sunk in towards the center. I'll look at it after this winter when I re-stack these pallets and if I find the pallets are caving in to much I won't be using them again. Don't get me wrong they are not settling to much but enough to make the rows lean.

 

Yep that is what I was noticing too. Great air flow and no rot.

 

Plastic pallets and t-posts are the only way to go.

 

Fanatical1 That "oak" in the front row is actually my Shagbark Hickory!!

 

Bill2 These blue plastic pallets seem to be made of extremely heavy plastic,
so I think they'll hold up good, only time will tell.

 

Bill2 You may need some extra support like a concrete pave for the middle of the pallet. I have plastic pallets doing the same thing and I will have to put more support under them.

 

I can get these 43 x 43 double sided pallets for $10/piece.

Is that a decent price?

 

I would spring for at least 10 or 15 of them.

 

I never realized there were so many types of plastic pallets. Looking at Global and Uline websites. I think i prefer the double sided rack able style pallets to the nesting type pallets.

 

The ones I have are very heavy black plastic. After reading the responses I went out to take a careful look at them. I can definitely see that they are bowing in the center. Not a lot-maybe a quarter of an inch. But if you factor the base being off a quarter of an inch at the bottom and i make my stacks 4 & 1/2 feet -that's alot of lean. And they were completely level when I started so the quarter inch drop happened over the last 4 months. I could change my mind once I get a good look at them once the firewood is off of them but right now I am not a fan.

 

Are these pallets sitting directly on the ground? It seems like the nesting type with only nubs on the bottom would sink easier than one with a full bottom due to more area to displace the weight. Moving them around with a forklift would also be easier with the double sided.

 

The stacking style plastic pallets have a lot more flex than the double sided ones. I have a bunch of the stacking ones, but use them for top covers because they flex too much and have no ventilation in them.

 

They are not flat. They have legs-wouldn't call them nubs as they're about 6 inches long. Actually they look like a heavier version of the black side pallets in the original posters picture. And what's even weirder is I put two rows on a pallet with about 12" of space between them so the weight is mostly on the outside of the pallet yet they are sagging in the middle.

 

Awesome set-up JJP! Your stacks look

The ones I got that are like those were $5 ea.