Great score NH wood! Help me understand: You have 5 cord in the barn and these stacks outdoors. What do you burn it in (OWB, stove inside, etc.) and where is that located in relation to the barn and stacks? Is the barn wood what you burn first and then replenish with the stacks? Do you fork those stacks into the barn via a tractor? I'm just trying to figure out less ways to move wood myself and I'm wondering what the details are to your method... Thanks!
It was... They had little picture puzzles on the underside of the caps for you to figure out. Cost about $5/case in the early 80's and that was about $4 too much....
Hey Deer - I use a trailer with my atv to haul 5 cord from the stacks to the barn - no horse, so I stack 5 cord in the horse stall. I leave the trailer in the barn and every 3-4 weeks, I make about 3 trips with the loaded trailer to my attached garage that has a good sized attached storage room. I burn a wood stove - Hearthstone Mansfield - which is in the kitchen - which leads right out to the garage and the stacks in the storage room. Easier to show: one pic of trailer with a load heading into the storage room - door on the back right. One pic of the storage room getting some rows (can fit about 5 rows - about 5-6'long by 5-6' high), and a view from the storage room into the house where you can see the stove. I never pull wood from the outside stacks in the winter - whole winter supply goes in the barn, and to the garage area from the barn - splits might see a few snow flakes on the trip, but that's about it - always nice and dry. Figuring out the best way to manage moving wood takes some time - it's going to be a lot of work regardless, but good to minimize that work! Cheers!
Indeed! Brings back memories of first year of college in the early 90's - we used to buy 64oz bottles of Haffenreffer - it was real, real bad. Cheers!
Sounds like red white & spew. Errr I mean blue... My old roommate on college and I had a cheap beer contest that went on every Monday night. We had to find the cheapest 6 pack. My buddy won that with the RW&B.
Mix whatever bad beer and a stick of bear summer sausage. The EPA could've fined us for excess emissions. I'm sure that whole dorm wing reeked. Good memories.
It's so satisfying to be able to put someone else's waste / cast offs to good use! I'd love something similar, I'm fed up of tarps getting frayed and torn within a year... I'm thinking of buying heavy gauge damp proof membrane (a little concerned about deterioration due to UV) and then using a staple gun to secure to the side wall pallets. Has anyone tried anything similar?
From what I see on-line the damp proof membrane is 'reasonably' UV resistant - I'd be concerned about it becoming brittle over time and tearing in the wind - being so thin. Scour CL for used rubber roofing - it comes up here and there - I paid about $150 about 4-5 years ago for two big rolls - something like 9-10' wide by 50' long - something like that. Cut them into squares to cover my pallets - ended up with 40 something squares. Tough stuff. I place a pallet on top of the stack as well - stops sharp points from contacting the rubber and keeps it flat to shed the water well - good luck! Cheers!
I'd put pallets on top of the roofing too NH_Wood , if the wind ever got hold of the roofing it could really cut something up
Oops - I actually don't do that - pallet on the wood, then roofing on pallet - I use heavy splits to keep it from blowing off - which they will certainly do! Cheers!
Many people use used lumber wrap. Lumber yards and laminated beam manufactures throw away tons of the stuff. This stuff is actually made specifically for covering wood, very strong and UV protected. Much stronger than house wrap, and best of all you can usually get it FREE! I no longer use it for covering my firewood since all my firewood goes in the woodshed now, but I still use it for plenty of other applications with my work as protective drop sheets, and for covering material on the job site I need to keep dry. Many people also use it as weed control under rocks or bark mulch in landscaping applications, you might want to poke some small holes in it if you do that to let the water drain through. This is my prime source, from a laminated beam manufacturer. Rather then throw it in the garbage they put it in this bin outside their yard for people to come and pick up.
