Who's run out of wood, now scrounging?

[mainewoods]

An open ended shed is quick and easy to build, for minimal money. I hang tarps on each end for winter.

 

[mainewoods]

Those garden carts will haul a lot of wood with ease, too. I like them better than a wheel barrow. You get twice the amount of wood in them with half the effort to move it.

 

[zogger]

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Zog,

Con-Ex containers are AWESOME!! Neighbor has 3 of them, 2 big ones and one smaller one.

We have 2 here at the house and he keeps one at one of the local shopping centers that he has a snow plow account for. He keeps salt stored inside it.

All of them showed very little wear when arrived and the little one looks brand new.

Storing wood would in one would be an awesome idea! They are actually vented so they can breathe and they are insanely built.

The trickiest issue has been unloading them off of the tractor trailer but it's not a problem.

ANOTHER possible option that a few of my friends utilize. Semi trailers. You can get them relatively cheap and just dig out so the butt end of the trailer is at ground level.

They are not built like Con-ex containers but for a storage shed.......pffffft, who cares. Would get the job done.

ETA - It's early and reading is fundamental. I missed the last part of you talking about semi trailers.

Ya, an old road trailer would make a nice wood storage shed or even a shop.

One of my little bros has an old single wide he got for free that he knocked some walls out and stores small round bales in.

 

[Whitespider]

I'm in real bad need of spring wood (ya' know?? shoulder season wood). When (if ) it ever starts warming up I cringe at the thought of burning oak into April and possibly May... that just don't seem right. There is one dead elm I can get to relatively easy along the north edge of the yard. It just started dropping bark last fall... thinkin' I'll make that into firewood this weekend and get it in the basement so it can start drying out some. Still, I'll be workin' in at least knee-deep snow... might haft'a actually use the pickup to haul it up to the house. If we would get a few days above freezing with sunshine in the next couple weeks I may be able to get into the woodlot by March... at least parts of it.

No doubt about it... my firewood supply has takin' a serious hit this year. Nothing but oak left in the stacks.
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[zogger]

View attachment 332989 An open ended shed is quick and easy to build, for minimal money. I hang tarps on each end for winter.

Ya, I'd like some steel containers, but gotz no scratch for even a cheap one. So...clearing out one wood stack area, let some friends and neighbors talk me outta some wood (no one but me has anything left dry around here...), just to get it moved out. It's almost cleared and building me a little shop out of some spare greenhouse table tops made from pressure treated and 1/4" mesh. Just going to treat them like wall panels, knock em together, and cover with scrap curtain wall plastic, which I have loads of. Well, a little shop, then a little "carport" thing to park the mule, wheelhorse, snapper, push mower, tiller, etc. I have enough for both projects.

Wood is just gonna hang out outside. I cover the top of the pile I am pulling from, that's it. I'd *like* a metal container or something for a wood kiln, then I'd pump the hot moist exhaust into the greenhouse on real cold nights.

 

[zogger]

I'm in real bad need of spring wood (ya' know?? shoulder season wood). When (if ) it ever starts warming up I cringe at the thought of burning oak into April and possibly May... that just don't seem right. There is one dead elm I can get to relatively easy along the north edge of the yard. It just started dropping bark last fall... thinkin' I'll make that into firewood this weekend and get it in the basement so it can start drying out some. Still, I'll be workin' in at least knee-deep snow... might haft'a actually use the pickup to haul it up to the house. If we would get a few days above freezing with sunshine in the next couple weeks I may be able to get into the woodlot by March... at least parts of it.

No doubt about it... my firewood supply has takin' a serious hit this year. Nothing but oak left in the stacks.
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You know, you really don't have to have an engine connected to everything all the time. You can even prove this to your little racer guy. All ya need is some snowshoes and a toboggan, and you can go out and cut and haul back a bunch in any depth snow.

 

[Whitespider]

I own the snowshoes, and there's a toboggan in one of the sheds somewhere.
Let me think about that for a second... ummm... I'm thinkin'... NO‼
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[zogger]

I own the snowshoes, and there's a toboggan in one of the sheds somewhere.
Let me think about that for a second... ummm... I'm thinkin'... NO‼
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BWAHAHAHAHAHA!

We all have our wuss thresholds! I simply can't take anything even close to the cold I used to be able to go out and work and play in. Heck, I remember some of my more fun dates with wild hippy girls was to go out on cold and dry winter nights, camp out with no tent right on top of the snow and watch the northern lights.

Hmm, ice diving

rock climbing in the winter

working on vehicles outside

and etc

now..MAJOR LEAGUE WUSS! hahahaha!

 

[mainewoods]

I'd hate to think of all the toboggan loads of wood I've dragged out over the years. Too bad snowshoeing is becoming a lost art these days. They sure did make a difference getting to the wood lot in deep snow, until the snowmobile came long.

 

[mainewoods]

Got to love motorized conveyance though. At least these old bones do!

 

[hdp]

ha you all talking like you got a cord or so left, I got enough till about 4 o'clock

 

[zogger]

Got to love motorized conveyance though. At least these old bones do!

I do too most of the time, but I always snag a few logs over the year, drag them out by hand, just to remind me of my insane youth.

Mostly I cheat now and use a tractor and the tote box. That's my favorite, load that thing up two rows deep and you got some serious rear weight and traction. Now steering gets weird, but you will go where ya need to go.

 

[farmer steve]

BWAHAHAHAHAHA!

Heck, I remember some of my more fun dates with wild hippy girls was to go out on cold and dry winter nights, camp out with no tent right on top of the snow and watch the northern lights.

Been there,done that.

hey Zog,are you ready for more ice?

 

[mainewoods]

ha you all talking like you got a cord or so left, I got enough till about 4 o'clock

Got any furniture you aren't particularly fond of? I sympathize for you though.

 

[zogger]

ha you all talking like you got a cord or so left, I got enough till about 4 o'clock

That sucks!!

I know it would be expensive, but..got to be some real dry wood sold by the bundle around you someplace. Now, those places are charging *retail* prices. The bundle guys charge *wholesale*. Go get one bundle with the tag, call them guys up, ask for a wholesale price. Might get a hundred bundles (whatever...)of primo real dry wood for cheap compared to propain or electricity heat, etc. Bound to be better wood deal then cut a month ago, split, and now sold as "seasoned" cord wood, your typical craigslist ad "loads" of wood guys.

 

[Noah's Ark]

I got about about 5 small ash (8-10") that had died and am buring that. If i had not gotten them out this weekend I would have only had a week or so of wood. I used to have a couple of years of wood but we moved this spring and I had to start from scratch. The new house has an OWB whick I love but was not ready for the amount of wood I needed. Won't make that mistake again. By the way I did not use the snow shoes but I was dragging the rounds out of the woods on a small sled I built with my two daughters. Need to get the mammoth donkeys trained to log and make life easier on me and the girls.

 

[mainewoods]

I use motorized firewood procurement every chance I get. You can teach an old dog new tricks.

 

[zogger]

I got about about 5 small ash (8-10") that had died and am buring that. If i had not gotten them out this weekend I would have only had a week or so of wood. I used to have a couple of years of wood but we moved this spring and I had to start from scratch. The new house has an OWB whick I love but was not ready for the amount of wood I needed. Won't make that mistake again. By the way I did not use the snow shoes but I was dragging the rounds out of the woods on a small sled I built with my two daughters. Need to get the mammoth donkeys trained to log and make life easier on me and the girls.

Sounds like a fun project. We have two donkeys but I never tried to do anything with them (because I have absolutely no clue...), they are basically just coyote guards. I did do firewood with a big dog as a skidder before, but I had to tramp the snow down for him first.

 

[zogger]

hey Zog,are you ready for more ice?

Yep! Just throw another chunk in the smogger!

Only seen two nutsos out driving this morning, my boss went out (He's only got skunked once here in decades, so he switched to driving his road grader that day) and one other vehicle went down the road. I think most folks staying home today. The kids with their quad buggies will be out soon though, for sure.

I might try out the mule in the white dirt later.

 

[kyle1!]

No doubt about it... my firewood supply has takin' a serious hit this year. Nothing but oak left in the stacks.

That is what you get for being a wood snob You shouldn't have wasted all that boxelder....ya know....shoulder season wood. Brian