Interesting woodstorage Show me Yours.

94BULLITT · Dec 9, 2013

jejeosborne said:
Yes I do. There is a noticeable difference in weight between wet wood going in and dry wood coming out. My B7800 has more strength curling the bucket than lifting. What I have to do is pull up to the bottom rack and curl the basket back and rest the basket against the lower one. I keep pressure against the basket with a little forward pedal and roll the bucket and lifting the loader at the same time then back away and curl the bucket again. It works well but it is the limit of the loader for sure. Obviously I should have mentioned I have forks. I estimate each full basket weighing 800 lbs going in. It would probably help if I had a quick attach bucket and forks to bring things closer to the tractor but it has been working fine for 5 years now and my forks go on quickly. The power steering is also maxed out and have to be moving for it to work sometimes with all that weight. I have proven many many times that the B7800 is indestructible with the exception of my dropping a tree on it a couple years ago causing about $10,000 damage, but that is a different thread hopefully archived and not viewable. lol

That is impressive you can lift them with the loader. I can tell a huge difference in the pallets of green wood and dry wood when I lift them with the BX.

jejeosborne · Dec 9, 2013

Before lean-to. That is black locust which is 90% of what I cut. It is a heavy wood and this is one of my smaller racks. The larger ones I put on the bottom.

slowzuki · Dec 10, 2013

We use apple bins I get for free. They get stacked in a tarp building after sitting out for a while. I used to use pallets with a roof on them but they always got wet on the sides in the middle of winter.

I've never had trouble drying the wood in bins or pallets or anywhere really, just always trouble with wood getting wet again in the winter before storing inside a tarp building.

TnAndy · Dec 10, 2013

jejeosborne said:
I only paid $10 for each. Bought 20. They are available if you look at surplus places or drive through an industrial area and chat about.

MAN, if I could find them for 10 bucks, I'd be all over it ! I would have thought they were worth way more than that as scrap steel.