Where do you store your firewood?

[makka619]

Am interested because I have a big pile right in the middle of the side yard. I would like to move it into a nice shelving/box system.

If you can, please post a pic of your Firewood Storage System, I'd love to see how it's done. Would love to see ones that you have made yourself!

[Barry_White]

I keep my bulk firewood out in the paddock but at the house I store it in an old refrigerator that lies on it's back but I have attached a picture of a firewood storage box that I took at a customers place.

[scooter]

Here's a pic of our woodshed just after the kids cleaned it out.

Usually keep a barrow load on the front veranda to feed the beast inside.

[JDarvall]

Heard the best way to store it,,,is,,,,to not....leaving it out in the rain I've heard leaches out all the sap or whatever, making it better burning.

[makka619]

I keep my bulk firewood out in the paddock but at the house I store it in an old refrigerator that lies on it's back but I have attached a picture of a firewood storage box that I took at a customers place.

thanks.

I have an old freezer, it's pretty big and I am going to check out if it would big enough. Definately keep the rain off of the wood. Maybe I could paint it.

[makka619]

Here's a pic of our woodshed just after the kids cleaned it out.

Usually keep a barrow load on the front veranda to feed the beast inside.

Hey your kids did a great job, it looks spotless and the wood is piled beautifully. A woodshed sounds like an ideal idea, looks nice and holds a lot of wood.

I may be able to pave an area with bricks, then make a roof of something. Okay, still needs some thought! May also be an idea to see if I can get my hands on a mini shed.

[ptc]

Out in the weather.
will post pic later.

[woodsprite]

Ours is about 2 metres wide and about 4 metres long and about about 6 feet high - has a doorway opening at one corner, fitted into a long side. It's actually a 2 storey woodshed - built a cubby for the kidsd on the top, complete with verandah! The vernaday part sticks out another 1200 or so past the edge of the shed. I am lucky in that I live about 5 minutes drive from the bush where I canget wood with a permit. I saw it in about metre lengths, cos it is lighter to lug and fits better inthe trailer. When I get it home I stack it criss-cross style to about head height. While ity is usually fairly dry timber I don;t mind keeping it stacked for a season anyway.

At the start of winter I block it up - just cut the metre lengths in half. A day with a hired bench saw sees me cut up enough for the 6 months burning we need around here. As it is benched, the family pitch in and stack it in the shed. If we stack well it holds about 8 cubic metres.

DSE recommend stacking green wood outside with the ends facing North if possible - the criss cross style of stcking is used widely around here, but a lot of the timber getters also stack it on its side in long stacks and a few stack it on end.

If you stack it on end, stack it upside down -ie with the narrower end pointing down. There are tiny little valve type gizzmo's in the veins of the timber that stop the sap flowing backward with gravity when the tree is alive. If stacked upside down the sap will 'drain' better becasue the valves are facing the right way for drainage.

Will post a pic - along with about 7 others I owe the forum - when I get time to take some pics and figure out how to post them!

Good luck - a good wood shed is a pleasure to behold.