Giving up on pallets for storage...building a open face storage Hut

I have not seen a winter with this yet, but I plan to enclose two of the sides entirely, pulling from the far end in the picture. What little rain gets on it from the wind etc, quickly dries and in my case is not a bother. I guess if you lived in Washington or another area where it rains nonstop, it could be troublesome. At the end of the day, I wanted one storage area that was not under a tarp and could hold 8-10 real cords. I block and split the wood in a large pile under a tarp, and will move the current pile into the shed next spring.

 

This one cost me about $1200, but I went with all treated wood. I was on the fence about building one but figured it would serve me for the next 40 years, hopefully. I put the wood on 2 x 4 runners and stack front to back to help with first in first out and allowing rows of oak to sit longer. It is cut into the slope otherwise would leave back open to allow access to wood from both sides. Only other change would to make overhangs 1.5' instead of 1'. It is fairly windy all the time and with clear roof I hope it seasons well while in the shed. Time will tell.


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TWSS?

Sorry, I just had to.

 

Trike rider do you have a roof on that thing ?


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Yeah, clear poly roof from building center. That and 6x posts were half the cost of shed. It is 8' x 20', so with 6' stacks and 5 per side I should get 240 square feet per side or 7.5 face cord, which is more than a typical years worth for me.


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I agree with Shawn the attached woodshed is the best, but I built mine to hold 10 to 12 cord

Just don't tell my wife as she thinks it her wine and sunset deck in the summer... We are filling it now with wood for winter..

like everything it has it good and bad points... at this point who likes to restack that much wood... but I got a so when I get forks I can just load a few pallets on deck and Good to go.. IF pallets are still good in 3 years...

So my recommendation is if you have a spot build a deck or porch.. I also live in real snow area.. not uncommon to have 2 feet on ground 4 months a year.. but lately its been ice so... real nice to get wood 2 steps from the door... yes I work very hard to be lazy

 

I was waiting for Backwoods Savage to respond!

Like him, I dry all my wood outside. It sits in 3 rows of pallets, with 3 cords to a row double stacked (that’s the amount I burn in a year). Normally around September I topcover the stack I’m using for that year. From there, I bring in 1 week’s worth of wood at a time and stack it in my garage next to the stove. As long as the wood has had 2-3 years to dry, it'll be more than dry enough with just a top cover.

I burn wood to save a few bucks during the winter, there's no way I'm going to build a structure just to store my wood in!! Pallets are free, the corrugated roofing I use as a top-cover is free.

 

So the wood that you will be seasoning longer and not using you just keep uncovered outside until its time to cover it in septemberish ?

 

Is Cherry wood hard to split? I just got an offer for a bunch of rounds of cherry logs?? But read their hard as hell to split?

 

I want to try to use my homelite 5ton electric splitter i got yesterday on it. Test the limits, it did awesome yesterday with my mulberry wood. So want to see if it will split cherry.

 

I built most of this last year so I had a place to stack the bulk of our firewood. I just added the overhang on the right a couple weekends ago for overflow. We built a barn earlier this year and the trees they cleared out are in a big pile on the property. I feel I need to chip away at it before it starts to rot even though we have probably this years and nexts already seasoned. We don't go through cords and cords of wood like most of you; North Carolina isn't known for it's deep, cold winters! But most of it was leftover barn materials including the roof and the posts for the overhang are cedar trees. Oh yeah, the slats are fence boards we had for our horse pasture fencing project (ongoing). We had ordered extras for when they get broken or need to be replaced so the wife wasn't too pleased I stole from our backup! I say repurposed...

 

wow nice, except you need to get splitting all them logs on the left.lol

 

The real benefit of a shed is best realized if you get a lot of snow. We aren't terrible here but the lake effect can drop feet at times. By the time we would clean off the top cover and what was on the ground would be as tall as the stack. Others that had wood sheds would plow out front and be moving wood by the time we found ours.


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I would love to build a shed but I would still season my wood on pallets for at least 2 full summers. Tends to be pretty hot and dry here durning the summer and I would love the ability to move an entire years worth of wood into the shed around late August or early September!

 

yep, then I'll need another shed!