For guys without a tractor with forks but stack their wood on pallets I just had a thought about those who are living in snow covered country who store their wood a fair distance from their house. If you stacked your pallets separately with the wood not touching others in any way on other pallets (and crib stacked the whole pallet for more stability) it might be feasible to drag the whole pallet slowly across the snow if the bottom runners of the pallet were modified like skis. You could attach the winch of your ute and drag it along the snow close to your houses as needed. Because you couldn't get it all the way under your porch (because your vehicle will prohibit this) you could also rig up another winch to a strong point and wire it into your house to finish the last 5 metres or so. Ive noticed a lot of you guys have flat land that goes right up to your houses. Alternatively with a modified ski pallet there could be a way to push it somehow with your bull bar right up to your house for those without a winch. I cant do this because my land is sloped and not snow covered and wouldn't work but for those with flat land and are tractorless it may be a cheap and easy solution to stop double and triple handling wood. For extra stability you could wrap the pallet with plastic and tie it with a rope like a big belt just before you drag it and then take it off when its in position. Pallet Pete could possibly add his experience with pallets and identify the possibilities of this. What about a full pallet "cage" that's tied in on all sides with modified skis on the bottom pallet with a pallet lid which you drag or push and then recycle as needed? With the pallet cage you could also top cover with plastic without the negative condensation effects as it would have airflow.
Sounds like an interesting idea. In just not sure where you'd hook the cable to to pull it. Most pallets I get are pretty rickety, I don't know if they'd take the force of being dragged without coming apart
I keep my wood on pallets and you need to put boards between the pallet and the ground so the boards freeze and the pallet doesn't. I learned the hard way.
I need to get some pictures of my system. It is pretty much exactly what you described. I got several shipping crates from work. I built skis for the bottom with UHMW runners. I fill up the wood bins out side, then slide them across the snow and into the garage through the overhead door. The filled wood bins are cribbed up on timbers. When I want to move one I lift each side slightly with a hilift jack, toss some snow on the cribbing then set it back down. A little push by hand and the sucker takes off across the yard. I developed this system to reduce the ammount of time the overhead door is open. I can move a 1/4 cord of wood into the garage in under 5 minutes.
