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[tmajor]

Tmajor if you don't mind how much did those ibc's run you I have been looking for a few. (also nepa)

I was looking for "just the cages", but didn't find anybody, locally, that didn't have the complete units. To answer your question, he was asking $50, but I got these for $35 each. Food grade, seem to run higher than non-food grade. I don't know exactly, what these had in them, but they looked clean with a hint of isopropyl alcohol smell.

 

[MotorSeven]

I also use the cages and crates & have around 20 of them. Good idea of cutting out side doors and leaving the "roof" on them.

Initially, I wanted to be able to fork them from outside, into the basement next to the stove. But, I soon found that it's not a good idea because the insidious mice seem to think that the middle of a nice tight dry stack is a great place to raise a family. So even though thwarted by rodents, I still love the whole caged firewood plan. Part them next to the splitter and split/stack, fork to storage area which can be anyplace I can get the tractor, then fork up to the house & set outside of basement where the wood stove lives.

Next year I will be building a shed that covers my cages at least 2 deep and 2 high:

 

[tmajor]

Years ago, I heated with wood. While I enjoyed harvesting a "small amount of wood for the fireplace". when it came to processing a log truck full, for heat, it became "work". ... with a lot of handling of the same piece of wood. The palletized system and tractor saves a lot of manual handling. Coal, on the other hand, is fairly easy.

 

[aginn]

tmajor. I screwed up my back a couple years ago so I decided to forgo harvesting firewood and go to the pellet stove. Wrong move. I still have to handle all the wood that dies on my property and handle the pellet bags as well. Plus the pellets are darned expensive. Now I get my heat free again and just go about getting my firewood a little slower. I find that it doesn't feel like such a job when I stretch it out a little so the back pain doesn't get as severe. Oh to be 20 again. Or even 30'40'or 50.:mischievous: