How I store and move firewood

I love your system BDF, thanks so much for posting it. It has me thinking, as I already have that same trailer and typically do almost the same thing, but with wheelbarrow loads from my stacks to the staging area under the eaves. If I could set up a covered area for the trailer near the house, I'd be all set. You've really got me thinking, thanks for the inspiration.

 

Good thinking.
Always working on ideas to help burning wood be easier. You
have a good system now,
Open the door & grab some wood.

Will be really nice on the windy, cold, snowy days,

 

Opps- just saw this post:

The holt hauzen: in the first couple of photos, I moved the trailer to the 'other side' of the pile as we filled the trailer. The first one I put together was 10 feet in diameter and yep, that is way too much walking around to stack wood. The next two were 8' in diameter and are really not much effort to build; I leave a gap in one side and actually walk into the 'pile' a step or two and stack the wood all the way around from one side.

Brand new stove this year so unknown how much wood I will burn. With the older stove I had, a trailer full of wood would last 6 to 8 weeks in the spring and fall, to as little as 3 weeks in the middle of winter. Three weeks is enough time though so that I only have to ever load on weekends and have managed to avoid loading in the rain or during a snowfall. In the dead of winter, I sometimes fill the trailer when it is still 1/2 full just to avoid waiting until the following weekend if bad weather is predicted for that next weekend. So far, the timing has worked out.

Brian

 

Thanks!

This house, the driveway, the porch and the overall layout made it pretty straightforward for me to do this. None of that was my doing (house built before I was born).

I just hate doing the same job over and over again endlessly, all in little bits at a time. Carrying firewood into the house was one of those tasks for me. I actually took a few other paths that did not work out, and considered a few others with the most promising being an outdoor wood boiler (gassification type- clean burning, and a hot water storage system to require no more than one loading / firing per day). That would have been the opposite method: instead of bringing the wood to the stove in bulk, the 'stove' would be next to the wood source and the heat "shipped" into the house via pump. But that whole thing gets big in a hurry, would involve a lot of time, effort and money and in the end, be less efficient than burning directly in the house I believe.

Looking at other people's mechanics of burning wood, I think a lot of them can be addressed in a similar manner without the porch; a 'winter only' shed dormer located over a flat pad (concrete, crushed stone or similar) coupled with an outside door under the dormer and close to the stove, would amount to the same thing. The thing that makes something like that appeal to me is that the work and expense (door, dormer, ground pad, etc.) only has to be done one time while the carrying of wood is forever. As someone already said, inherent laziness can inspire us to do better things....

Brian