Timber Storage

[jigsaw 11,863]

Lol,a diagram is a neccessity where im concerened im afraid

[04fox8 168]

Hilti a few sticks along your walls just below your coping, get a post in just about where your dog's standing, frame it up and put up a few sheets of Profile / corrugated sheeting.

[Rake aboot 4,935]

I just built a heap, kinda house shaped.

Sloped the 'roof' with some of the smaller bits of stick, and this kinda ran the water.

They have been under a good foot of snow last winter, but when the summer came and I was topping up my shed, they were bone dry.

 

I have now got a similar problem tho.....Bigger scale........I've just gone and bought 2 Artic loads - Aprox. 50T of them! ..long story.

Got to tackle that when I get home in the New Year,

 

 

Oi OI

 

Where did the 50T come from, ? any contacts, prices. Was that mixed, or hardwood,? seasoned or green ?

 

PM me if yeh like bud

 

 

You`ll be glad aboot Angola after the night we`ve had oot here ! fekin hell, wild isnae the word, African sun sounds ace aboot now like !

[04fox8 168]

 

I just built a heap, kinda house shaped.

Sloped the 'roof' with some of the smaller bits of stick, and this kinda ran the water.

They have been under a good foot of snow last winter, but when the summer came and I was topping up my shed, they were bone dry.

 

I have now got a similar problem tho.....Bigger scale........I've just gone and bought 2 Artic loads - Aprox. 50T of them! ..long story.

Got to tackle that when I get home in the New Year,

 

 

Oi OI

 

Where did the 50T come from, ? any contacts, prices. Was that mixed, or hardwood,? seasoned or green ?

 

PM me if yeh like bud

 

 

You`ll be glad aboot Angola after the night we`ve had oot here ! fekin hell, wild isnae the word, African sun sounds ace aboot now like !

 

 

It's absolutely f**kin ROASTIN Here the day!

On a plane Tonight, so Happy Days....

 

PM Sent.....I think.

Forgot to say tho, the details I have given ya are for soft wood.

 

We use in the region of 3 wheelbarrow fulls a day, so they don't last that long. Fortunately, it does heat the water and is plumbed into the radiators as well.

Depending on the weather, we should squeeze 3 years out of the 1st 25T load we got 2 years ago.

[Rake aboot 4,935]

PMd yeh bud

 

Obviously comin hame then,

 

Ours feeds tha hot water as well, does the central heating, hot water etc etc

 

Try and use hard woods where we can as they def make a difference.

Like I said, looking for offsite storage just now, then try and fill it this year.

 

headin tae Aberdeen ?

[the_stig 6,614]

at last I got the wood stacked.but i need to get it covered and sorted.I was stacking it this morning for 2 hrs,after the holidays I will proceed to build a storage area with covers and tidy the place up.this lot below should keep me going for a few weeks,mainly ash,chestnut,holly and some spruce thrown in.

if thats where your going to keep it jigsaw your half way there bit of 3x2 screwed to the wall to make your frame some sort of roof --either tin/plastic roof sheet ,or even tarp pulled tight job done

[walshie 2,804]

Stig nails his together, paints it with emulsion and sells it as period furniture.

[the_stig 6,614]

your right with the nailed together bit walshie ----not the best looking thing i`ve knocked together but doe`s the job and when the sun starts to come out to play i`ll make something a bit better looking ...holds 5 whellie bins full of logs and 5 bags of coal up top ..

Edited December 29, 2013 by the_stig

[moxy 617]

Stack it and throw a board or sheet over the top but allow air to come through the stack.

I can have beech bone dry in a few month from felling.

[Brewman 1,192]

Reading this thread has made me think, I have 20' long by 3' at the side of my garage with a fence where I could stack up wood approx 8' high underneath a lean to roof yet to be built.

 

My question being how many tonnes of wood could that hold and how much would it cost to fill it?

[moxy 617]

Don't measure by weight unless the timber is bone dry and seasoned.

 

Use volume. A large builders sack is just shy of a cube. Should be able to work it out

[Brewman 1,192]

Cheers, was just about to edit and say it could hold upto 250 bags of logs or approx 18 cubes perhaps?

[Waz 4,253]

Stack it and throw a board or sheet over the top but allow air to come through the stack.

I can have beech bone dry in a few month from felling.

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Is that a pto splitter Moxy? Been looking at prices of second hand hydraulic splitters round here and when they come up they are too trumpy for me, looking at direct pto screw type one, bloke near me has made some smart ones 300 euros.

[moxy 617]

14 at a push?

[moxy 617]

Pto or just hydraulic mate. Tend to just use it on hyd.

Homemade. Rough and ready with plenty of sharp edges

Does the job and beats swinging a maul