I need to get a few of these totes, I have one for used oil and tranny fluid. Being able to move with the shop forklift=priceless.
Good idea Looks great . Do you top cover with something ? I store my chunks in free wood crates with air flow and always keep them top covered ,keeping out the leaves, rain n snow
That is a great idea. As a fellow Long Islander, may I ask where you purchased that from. I have a small yard and was scratching my head on what to do with all the odds and ends. My wife will be happy they are no longer in small pods all around the yard.
Very nice, I use the same bins but I didn't put a door or mesh inside of them. They work great for all the shorts and uglies. Door idea is reall good, I know it's a pain to get the splits out if the bottom of the bin.
It's currently 1/2 covered by my house, it's mostly under a small alcove I have in the back.... but I'm getting a canvas cover made, along with canvas covers made for a few other permanent type stacks I have in the yard. I use my marine canvas guy. I'm not sure of the name of the place, but it's a big yard full of landscaping type stuff, large cement blocks, and some firewood, and lots of these containers empty. It's on Lakeland Ave., about 3/4 of a mile North of Vetts highway. Between Vetts and expressway, west side of road. I also see them on CL all the time. Yep, same here. This piles were a PITA, and drove my wife absolutely NUTS! She loves the bin. Happy wife, Happy life!!!
Here is my chunks, I keep them in vegetable crates on a pallet; use a strip of tarp to cover. They burn pretty well, and season fast, due to small size.
Great looking bin, simple and it keeps things neat and orderly. I have a few pallets on the ground with several pallets surround them and I toss all my shoulder wood in this area. Punks, uglies, shorts etc. When it comes time to move the shoulder wood to the house I like your idea better, might look into this. TY
Why yes, yes I do! Had a custom canvas cover made for it. Marine Sunbrella doubled up, with eyes in each corner.
Dang! You crafty kids make me feel soooo inadequate! I wish I had the talent and tools to make things like that! Well, I guess that's okay, cause I'm not too bad at felling trees and makin' farwo0od!
I like the doggy door. I use these crates for "this seasons" wood. I can stack them up by the house and have them right on the step with the tractor, but unloading the last few chunks is a pita. I use the holes to get chunks out of. Look around on Craiglists for totes. they used to be free or cheap, now people caught on and are expensive... I use some plastic Ropak lids that fit fairly well. Stacked they hold just under 1/2 cord when is a foot taller than the cage, but thrown in stuff is about a 1/4 of a cord.
Franking, How do you get them out toward the bottom 1/2?? The door was pretty easy, just cut with a zip saw and wheel, framed with wood which is "clamped on" via pipe holders and then just built an easy door to fit... I like the stacking idea, wish I had the space.
I use the same thing for uglies. I also took the plastic liner, sawzalled the top off, and drilled a couple hundred 2" holes around the sides and bottom to use as a second 'chuglies' bin.
My wife officially hates you. To be honest, she hates anyone that gives me project ideas. I'll be headed to pickup some pressure treated wood to build something similar to this. Chunks and the small debris is something I am always looking to be able to use. This thing with a roof on it would so the trick. Jason from RI
I made one that worked really good for last year. I took a pallet and then screwed an upright 2x4 on each inside corner. And then put 1x6 on the sides like a fence, spaced then about 4-5". I have all the wood pieces laying around so it was free to me and since I used screws I just took slats off as the pile went down so it was easy to unload.
