Right now I pile wood on top of rotted railroad tie chunks in a small horse pasture that is now the wood yard. I have to handle the wood up to 6 times from cutting to woodstove if it needs to be split. I don't have pallet forks, or clamp on pallet forks to handle pallets currently.
I pretty much wheelbarrow my wood from the stack where its seasoned to the OWB, where its piled again before loading into the OWB. Have to walk 40-60 feet with the barrow to the stove. Its not bad, but does take lots of time. And I don't like to pile wood by the OWB in the non burning months so i can mow there. Get too crazy with wood piling there and it spills onto the driveway and gets hard to plow snow.
I have pallets and scrap lumber out the wazoo to make storage racks. Is it worth it to do so?
Do you have any luck loading the pallets in the timber in the back of the truck then unloading with a machine?
The only alternate solution would be to trench new lines to go all the way under the driveway to the wood yard, and move the stove out there.
I pretty much wheelbarrow my wood from the stack where its seasoned to the OWB, where its piled again before loading into the OWB. Have to walk 40-60 feet with the barrow to the stove. Its not bad, but does take lots of time. And I don't like to pile wood by the OWB in the non burning months so i can mow there. Get too crazy with wood piling there and it spills onto the driveway and gets hard to plow snow.
I have pallets and scrap lumber out the wazoo to make storage racks. Is it worth it to do so?
Do you have any luck loading the pallets in the timber in the back of the truck then unloading with a machine?
The only alternate solution would be to trench new lines to go all the way under the driveway to the wood yard, and move the stove out there.