swags did you keep the liners too? I sawzalled the top open and drilled 20 2" holes in each side and bottom. It stayed together fine full of chunks.
Man, if I could get my hands on a bunch of those ... I would. Around here I can't find them for less than $60 each.
I was told that it is $50 ea to send them back to where they came from - but these particular ones had a organic corrosive liquid in them so do not know if that applies to all.
I didn't keep any of the plastic totes. But I will be looking to get more of these so may keep a few of those. That's a good idea.
Got a few more filled today. Didnt have my phone with me for pics, but have all the splits in the previous pic moved over and into the totes. 11 of them are filled so far, next I will be moving onto the little ash I have to split then the locust. Last I'll do the three big oak logs I have sitting there.
Well I got a good bit more done today. Finished splitting the maple and locust from the dump load I took over there, also split all but a few rounds of the ash. I ran out of room in the totes so I stopped. I've got a few more at my house to take over there. Now just the oak logs are left, I'll see if I can find more totes or if not I'll just stack it on pallets. Figured there's 7 cord in the totes now, another 1 1\2-2 in the oak. This will be a good addition to what I have at home now.
How many cords fit in 1 cage loose stacked like that. Im trying to decide whether to chop the totes up to stak or just toss it in loose..... Tia
A 330 gallon will be 44.115 cubic feet. A cord is 128 cubic feet. So 2.9 totes to make a cord stacked perfect within. In practice and I just chunk 16” splits in 4” or smaller I get around 4 totes to the cord. That’s about 1000-1200 lbs a tote of green wood. Just about All my tractor wants to pick up. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Can't answer for him, by my John Deere 1023e won't pick up a tote full of green wood (stacked neatly in the tote) but will juuuuussst barely pick up that same tote after 2 years of drying out. Won't always lift the tote as high as I want even once dry but it'll be such a close thing that my wife can just push up on the tote and get the loader to raise 6"-12" when we need to get a new tote up on the deck.
I can't afford the metal totes so I make mine out of wood pallets. Almost all red oak. 3 pallets make a cord. I try to stack them 2 high. I can't lift a full one ( freshly split and green) to the top so I lift one 2/3 full and then top off. After a year a full on is lifted just fine. A lot of water weight gone. Then I top cover and one cover does 2 skids of wood (in the back row). I tell my neighbor that I'm making a wood fence. I have a few more skids to fill and stack then I'm done for now. The skids in this pic will sit for 3 years covered. These pallet racks last for 6-8 years.
These wood skids have been out for 2 years now one more to go before they get put in rotation. I'm on a 5 year plan now. They'll get moved under metal roofing next year and burnt a year or 2 later
