I throw mine on top of the stacks to season.When it all goes into the woodshed, again it gets tossed on top of the stacks.
We keep it all, too. Since we sell wood, most of the pretty splits go that way. We burn shorts, uglies, round limb wood or culls. We store shorts and uglies a couple different ways. We started out with 55 gallon drums, have 25 of those, been drying 2-3 yrs Stack on plastic pallets, metal roofing on top Then we built cubes with 5 plastic pallets, metal on top. Couldn't get oics to load. Then started building bins with 6 plastic pallets, stack 10-12" chunks across front, then other shorts and uglies are piled behind them, have 2 of these full.
They used to make charcoal to feed Hartford stoves on the land I live on. Can still see the large raised rings of soil in the woods. When my grandfather bought the farm to raise milk cows it came with an Indian Woodchopper left over from the charcoal days. He lived out in the forest and chopped firewood with axes and bow saws. Found this in what I think was a pigeon roosting box in the top of one of the old barns. Even as a kid we never explored up there because it looked so rickety I’m know my father never went up there. I wonder if my grandfather ever peeked in. Found an old leather horse yoke too. It’s a paper bag the charcoal used to sold in. Check out the phone number. And of course the frame is an old board I found up there too. They stood logs in teepee fashion, set them on fire and shoveled dirt up and over them. Let them smolder inside for days. I gotta try it some day on a smaller scale.
I could get more pallets for a pallet-cage. I'm hoping I can tweak the hardware cloth cylinder, somehow.
Can you "wrap" a pallet with the hardware cloth using T posts on the corners? I make a 4 sided bin, stack the front with longer shorties and fill in the back. A lot easier to unload Bin pictured was a custom build from reclaimed lumber
If I was to build a pallet cage, then I'd not need to use the hardware cloth. I'm going to wrap a couple of ratchet straps around it and slowly open the cylinder, then go from there.
I built a couple cages from some old fencing that was a free standing stockroom they were throwing out at my work , they were 4 x 8 panels so I cut them in half and put a gate on one side I could swing open for access. They are 4 x 4 x 4 and have pockets on the bottom for pallet forks. I can just toss any shorts and uglies in there and then move them up to the house with the tractor.
I built 2 boxes from pallets, covered with some tin. Everytime I load wood into the inside bin, I fill up 3 Rubbermaid totes and fill the stove up with them every couple of days.
