Just wondering about everyone' s wood storage near the stove. I knocked this up the other day from some scraps and pipe. It is a design inspired from Pinterest that works just great, looks good and holds alot.
That's a great idea! I might make something like that, but I will put the pipe on both sides so I don't keep scuffing my wall! Nice job, looks great!
I don't store inside. I don't want the potential of anything crawling or flying out of the wood. I stack on a rack that's on the deck, three steps out the door of the room where the woodstove is located. Sent from my XT1030 using Tapatalk
I have a wood box a few feet from the stove that I store wood in. I keep about a week's worth in the house and usually refill on the weekends. Never had any problems with bugs doing it this way.
Awesome....I have a smaller one from True Value. Holds about 12 good size splits. That along with a copper oval bucket from Target does the job just fine...
Nice rack!! I do not store anything in the house due to ticks, mold etc. if you can , I say congrats. I used to keep a cord in my basement at my old house, but the ticks were a nonissue there.
Perhaps 30 years ago, I had carpenter ants in the house. It cost me over $600, at the time, to get rid of the suckers. Since then, I will not bring in more than a days worth of burning. Anything I find with bugs in it gets piled for outside bonfire use. I maybe a little paranoid. I do love your rack though.
Here is how I store mine. That was At my buddies house I was renting from him. I will use the same method/racks at my new house.
I keep several weeks' worth on a landing I built in the garage, right outside the door to the kitchen..... I, too, don't like to bring more wood than needed into the warm house, our garage is unheated so the spiders and such stay dormant......
get a cat, they love hunting bugs. we store 1/3 cord at a time in the stove room, it's the concrete floor basememt.... but it's indoors.
I have a folded piece of steel, painted black. Here is a photo, I didn't even bother getting up from the chair to take it. (The missus would be mad if she knew I was posting her legs on the forum.) Exuse the mess, we are continually under construction. That holds about 3-4 days worth of wood in the dead of winter. I have another 2 days outside the front door on a small rack. Other than occasional stinkbugs, no real problem with creatures riding in with the wood.
I tend to keep a third of a cord inside the house and another cord on the porch in 2 racks. one 10 feet long and the other 14 feet long. I don't have problems with bugs other than the occasional stink bud, but as soon as they reveal themselves, into the stove they go! As for the racks in the house, I alternate their use, which helps make for extra crispy wood.
We used to keep some wood in the house but we would see a mosquito flying around once a week or so. I figured they were overwintering in the nooks and crannies of splits and then warmed up. I'll be danged if I'm feeding them in February, I donate enough blood to them in the summer. Now we keep a weeks worth in two big boxes on their side on the roofed front porch. We don't see any more skeeters. If having wood in the house works for others, great! It just didn't work for me.
Normally keep a few days worth plus lots of kindling in the garage/shop that's next door.Also keep a couple wheelbarrows worth under a tarp right outside the garage door.Only a small amount is brought into this room as needed I fill up several 40-50 lb plastic birdseed & cat litter bags,setting them off to the side of the hearth.Saves my back,keeps bark,dirt,crumbs off the carpet too. With the impending ice storm that's due to hit early tonight I brought in about a third more than usual Friday afternoon & last night.Am bringing in another few bags worth later today for good measure.
Ha! Probably one of the biggest advantages of the OWB is that you never have to haul/store wood inside! (Insert smirk here.) I do have the lil kicker stove in the basement that I will carry an armload of wood in as needed. I have a hand cart (dolly) that can be switched into a cart position so that 4 wheels sit on the floor that I will stack some wood on. Works out quite well as I do not have a fire but once or twice a week in the basement.
pine in the right two milk crates, mystery wood and oak (top crate) in the three crates on the left. the 3 or 4 day wood bin outside the back door. a couple more days in the garden shed a wheelbarrow sitting doing nothing all winter, may as well hold some pine nice and dry. The stack I was burning from this year the cover kept blowing off being on the crest of a hill so I gave up on it. Wet and dirty wood. It dries out in the bin and I just keep the baskets in the basement full. They dry out especially not having any punky from dead standing oak this year.
