I see what you're up to there, putting those long sticker pieces towards the top so that when you tarp it you have a bit of an overhang..
I also use saplings; mostly sweet gum which grow like weeds around here. I don't have a truck so it's difficult to scrounge pallets unless it's neighbors giving them away. Then they go in the back of the honda with the trunk open.
I use pallets. They can rot and be eaten up by termites fairly quick here though if left in direct contact with the soil. I have lots of bricks and pavers lying around though and they help. I've tried simple saplings and the wet soil and termites wreak the same havoc on them as pallets direct contact with ground. Treated wood is nice if you have it. Pallets would be even more convenient if my little tractor had the lift capacity on the loader.
I have been using pallets to stack but I like what a lot of you do and have multiple pallets end to end. I have been stacking each pallet separately and it seems a bit unstable. Now I just got to find a good source of pallets. It seems like big places like Walmart and Lowes don't give away theirs.
I use pallets. After a few years and the stack is empty, if the pallet is rotten/ sunk into the ground I put the next new pallet right on top and keep moving forward.
I just picked up a stack 9'tall from local roofing supply company. Oak shingle skids don't get returned to manufacturer.
Our township won't enforce the ordinaces that are on the books when people have many non running cars, scrap, trash, etc... all over the place in their yard and property looks like sh@#, but build a shed 1 foot over a certain size with no permit, and they come at you with everything they have. I have a neighbor who is a scrapper, with junk everywhere, across our lane the house is a tear down, and some douchebag is hauling junk cars up into the woods on his property. Nothing is done. Makes me not want to follow the rules. And I use pallets too, as well as limb/ saplings.
I use PT 2x4s on top of cinder blocks. I haven't tried pallets, but they don't seem like they'd hold up to the winter weather. There are a lot of rotted pallets on my property from where the previous owners kept the firewood. ...I've got to get rid of them, some day.
Very neat and clean! I use PT boards on cinder blocks a bit differently however it's the same basic principle. Some of the boards were left over from a previous project and some were given to me so I wasn't out much investment. This system works for me for seasoning splits prior to the next year's supply being moved into the wood shed.
Nice. How do you keep those green covers from blowing off? Do you put some wood up on top of it? I'm still try to figure out how I'll cover my stacks.
I use cinder blocks or pallets on top the metal roofing. Haven't had one blow off yet (and I live approximately 12 miles as the crow flies from the home of the world's worst weather so we see more than our fair share of high winds). Mount Washington: Home of the World’s Worst Weather | WeatherBug My stacks are double rows whereas it looks like yours are single so you would have to come up with another solution.
Yes, I'll have 2 single stacks next to each other (approx 4" in between). Total width: 40". I'll figure it out. Thanks.
Yep... pallets. Transitioning to plastic pallets as I can find them. I have 8 of those... used at 2 / stack. I'm going to have to scan more frequently for plastic... really want to get to 100% here. The rest of the stack are on wood pallets. A couple of these are home built with PT wood. So, I really only have two stacks that are on marginal pallets. My two ugly boxes are also affixed on top of wood pallets.
