Moving Firewood

[SkunkWerX]

It's time. Going down to 32F tonight. Time to stack the firewood by the back door. This thread has me "motivated"

This year , having the FEL, I will bring a couple of pallets under our back porch, then dump a few bucket loads and stack it up. If the pallets are 4x4, and I use two of them, I should be able to get about 3/4 of a cord on them.

 

[jimmer2880]

Rat Zapper 2000, Electronic Trap for Rats, Mice, Rodents

I have used 2 different brands of these in the past. They work great for a while, then they start to loose their effectiveness. It seemed like once a couple mice got a good shock, instead of killing them, they all stayed away.

 

[crossfire190]

Thank you everyone for all of your great ideas. I picked up a 3 Pt. CarryAll from TractorSupply and I built up a pallet to hold the wood. I have to load it and empty it by hand, but it still beats anything else I have tried.

Thanks again!

 

[HarleyEnough]

I've built a box out of pallets to move my wood in and out. See pictures here (Click the thumbnails for full size):

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[ChuckinNH]

Here are a couple of ideas that might be adaptable to the problem of more wood per load....
I believe that the 3pt mounted attachment in the picture is a dumping unit.

 

[tommu56]

There have been some great suggestions so far.
So how do you guys get your wood UP to the level where the stove is?
For example, where there are stairs or steps to a deck or porch?
Mine is like 8' up to the first floor. Any suggestions?

Rob can I see you building an elevator in your shop?

tom

 

[pat32rf]

I also live in snow country and use wood as my main heat. The older I get the more efficient (lazy) I get as well.
The first thing I did was build a proper woodshed so I could keep my supply dry. I drag/carry the logs to the woodshed, then cut,split and pile them. The shed is about 8' wide,7'high and 7' deep.
I also built a bolt-on snow bucket extension for my FEL and have a removeable woodstorage unit on the front porch. This unit is about 5'wide,5'high, has an open front and the wood gets stacked in it until it gets moved to the fireside wood box in the front room.
I have to handle my wood twice (once it is in the woodshed) but it is easy to pull wood off the top of the shed pile and chuck it down into the FEL. Then I place the FEL bucket right in front of my front porch storage and stack it.
If you are dumping into a basement stairway then you save restacking.
I found that my woodshed was too small for a bad winter so I made a few pallets that I can lift with my forks. Most pallets I have seen however require you to bend over to unload them. Mine are open front design that I can cover with old lumber tarps. I staple the tarps in place, then store these "skids" somewhere out of the way until needed.These also get positioned opposite the front porch unit and the wood transferred over, without a lot of bending and lifting.
I am 63 with arthritus and its only because of the QD bucket and forks that its possible to use wood instead of installing an oil burner.

 

[garry]

I have some plastic pallets now and they would work nice with this setup.

where can a person find plastic pallets?

 

[randy41]

when my boys were teenagers i never had to carry in firewood but now that they've grown up and moved on and i've gotten older i'm back at it. theres something wrong with this system.

 

[SpringHollow]

where can a person find plastic pallets?

I got mine used locally for only $2/each - they are quite expensive new. He contacted me a couple of weeks ago and has a couple of hundred more if someone wanted to pay shipping. Someone else was selling 4 of them for $8 each.

Ken