palletized wood.

[flyingcow]

Next subject. Plan on stacking my wood on 48x48 pallets. Going to put some stakes on each side and put ropes to hold together, as i stack it. Anybody do this or a variation of it. Don't plan on moving too many times. Stack off of the splitter, move to field, dry for 1 yr, move to garage beside boiler room. Don't plan on stacking any higher than 40 maybe 48 inches on each pallet. Won't be stacking on top of each other either.


Any thoughts? Any pics of what you do? I don't plan on trying anything fancy yet.

 

[carpenter383]

Sounds similar to what I do and several other people on here too. It should work out fine, have fun!

 

[jeffinsgf]

I used light angle iron and took it 5 feet high on 32 x 48 (Euro) pallets --- they were free.

I used an angle on each corner and then at the top, I ran a piece of angle all the way around. Then on the narrow ends, I ran two verticals, splitting the 32 inch width into three equal spaces.

The first two I built, I bolted everything. The next year I built a couple more, after having bought a welder. All four are going strong 5 and 4 years later.

 

[smiley]

I buy it in the spring, seasoned cut and split for $50 a cord delivered by the 10 wheeler load. I used to have it dumped in the parking area about 75 ft from the house and stacked it on pallets, so I could move them to the porch with the loader forks, then place them with a pallet jack. Some shook off moving it over mostly smooth ground, so I wound up wrapping cardboard washer/dryer box around them and fastening it with a rope. Never lost one after that. I don't have the moving problem anymore. I built a new woodshed last year off the end of the porch, with a door wide enough to push the split chunks inside with the loader so I only have to handle it once when I stack it.

 

[Dead Horse]

I try to handle the wood the least amount of times as a primary goal of my logging/wood cutting activities. I put up 25 cord myself this year, so every little bit of efficiency matters.

I like the idea of pallatizing immediately off the splitter, but I have not found a way of handling the loaded pallats into my wood shed that both uses the space efficiently and allows me to load them up to 8 feet high.

Putting that much wood up in a tin roofed shed, such that air can move around the whole of the inventory is important to sasoning the wood quickly as well as keeping the bug infestation down.

 

[studor]

I do similar and tarp just the top. I use narrow and long tarps held on with clips and plastic sand filled bottles. I put the pallets on flat rocks -- they last a long time that way

 

[smiley]

One of my neighbors works where they recieve shipments of parts on pallets with wood sides about 3 ft high. He was throwing the split chunks directly into the pallets and they could be stacked, but it wastes a lot of space throwing them in loose. I don't think they could be stacked over 2 or 3 high because the sides were made with rough cut furring strip frames with rough 1/2 inch sides stapled on. When I was palletizing, the first ones I built were just about like yours Dead Horse, but I still managed to lose some during the move. That's when I went to the cardboard. I had thought about building some with 2x4 corners a top rail and slats on 3 sides and possibly a removable top rail on the 4th side to facilitate loading/unloading. That way it seemed like they'd be sturdy enough for stacking. Never did try it though because I built the new woodshed.

 

[billbill1]

I did the pallets for a couple of years, I found that rodents were nesting in the wood and I was moving them into the garage with the wood. Now I put the wood on my carrier right before moving it inside, no more mice. It is nice to move a weeks worth of wood in.

 

[jimmer2880]

there are several of us who use pallets. I copied someone else's idea. Pallet on bottom, 3 sides and roof. Then, staple plastic on roof to keep it dry.

It works very well. I place the "in use" pallet just outside the basement door.

 

[homedad]

I've been doing this for years. I stack alternating direction for each layer to about 4' tall. Then tarp each pallet. They stay together as long as I don't move the pallet too quickly. I find more pallets than I need behind dumpsters at a local self storage facility. I always find nests but never occupied nests after I move them into the garage.