Mike I use wooden bins. They are good if you can keep them out of the weather. 40x48x28. Holds about a 1/4 cord. With the wood you have you should be able to build some nice ones cheap . By the way I found an old GTG roster that had your name in it with your name from another site. I finally put 2 and 2 together . Duh.
mike bayerl, this was a good thread from fuelrod. He has a bit more lifting power than many of us, but quite a few ideas in the thread. wood crate's
Mike I think you may have already seen these but I will put them up again. I start with heavy duty plastic pallets. Make some pegs that fit in the holes. The sides are prefabricated. They come on top of pallets of food packaging from China. These are nailed to the pegs. With 5 extra boards striped from a wooden pallet to tie the sides together. Fill with your choice of wood, I prefer Aussie hard wood. For extra integrity I strap the frame. And top cover with a plastic slip sheet. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
I've been using wood racks since I got my tractor. Used to make then collapsible but that wasn't worth the extra work. I use only oak pallets and take some apart for materials to make the upright sides. I use unwoven chainlink wire that I straighten out across the top of uprights, to keep the sides from spreading. ALWAYS USE SACRIFICIAL PALLETS UNDERNEATH. These do rot and I don't care if they are softwood. I've only had a couple of the firewood pallets rot out over the last 8 years. I have damaged some with my forks when I'm rushing to move them around. When I split I'm sitting down and turn left or right and place split right on pallet. When done I get tractor and move pallet to sunny storage area Then repeat. I like that there is no big pile of splits to be moved and restacked. The restocking of the big pile was the worst as far as I'm concerned. That's the reason I started with pallets. Got the idea when I was at a stone quarry and looked at how they were stacking and moving bluestone around Never looked back!! I can lift a 42" full pallet of green red oak only a foot off the ground. Same pallet after 3 years is so much lighter! If I want to stack 2 pallets high I make a pallet shorter in height. I can easily move, in a few minutes, a yard full of pallets to reorganize after a year of burning. These pallets only cost me the time to make em. I use epoxy deck screws or galvanized ringshank nails from a nailgun when building. Both work well. Keep in mind this is is only with oak pallets they both pull out easily in softwood pallets. I'm lucky to have a source of pallets around the corner from me. I have 2 tools for dismantling pallets the blue one is very heavy duty. Takes 5 min to take apart a pallet. Once pallets are dismantled just takes a few minutes to make pallet rack. The pallet my tractor is lifting is wet red oak with a sacrificial pallet under it
