. I know...get a retractable roof LOL. I was thinking of using those IBC totes people talk about, I see them on marketplace for $20 each for the metal with sides. Makes it easy to move the wood up to the house in the fall. I do have 13' metal awning around the house to store the wood in the fall, but I do not want to keep it there Also instead of the IBCZ totes, I have a few hundred feed of old 3" pipe to keep it off the ground if not using the totes.
I build them out of scrap or low grade lumber right off the mill,
Stacked North to South - great sun in Summertime. The pallets are free at the construction yard in town. The end pallets are held up with t-posts. I have a very large Fisher Papa Bear stove that really likes fat chunks. But two summers in the California sun seasons them just fine. I don't cover them in winter. Works better for me it the piles breathe. And I'll leave up to 10" chunks unsplit for overnight pieces.
I was going to ask if the rainbow was extra, but you kinda beat me to it.
I was going to say too bad that rainbow got in the way of the pretty power pole LOL. Looks nice.
I was going to say some of your scrape looks better than the good stuff at big box stores.I build them out of scrap or low grade lumber right off the mill,
I ALWAYS use (3) 4' PT 4x4's under the boxes that touch the ground, and I use deck screws to put the boxes together, as that makes the boxes MUCH stronger and also if needed, the screws allow the boxes to be easily taken apart for any repairs.
Over the more than 15 years since I started making them, they have held up very well, like this old one,
Sometimes I just use whatever wood is lying around the mill,
They are fast to make and work VERY good for drying splits, and to be able to easily move the splits to the house to be burned.
I know not the correct forum for this, but what type mill do you have and do you like it or would you get other if bought new today. I want to get one, but I am still building in the house and wife says no toys like that until the house is done inside.Depends on how much rain you get. Here in Ohio we get 35-40" per year. I keep my split wood under roof (an overhang), but open to the air. It also gets sun from morning to mid-afternoon. My wood gets below 15% moisture that way. I use the 2x4 rack kits and each rack is 8' high x 16' long. I have then 3 deep. One problem I have had is opossums tunneling under the racks (they are on soil) to hibernate in the winter. This destabilized the racks and made them fall over. After moving the wood out I put down chain link fence fabric on the ground and the racks on top of it. The critters have not figured out how to go under that, though they do squeeze into the 3.5" space under the wood.I see many different methods for seasoning I live in east Texas on about 15 acres of land I was thinking of putting up a car port type roof to keep the rain off the wood, but this also keeps the sun off the wood
Is it better to keep in sun or covered up with something like a metal carport roof?
