Wood rack build

[Whitbread]

Hey guys, thought a few might get a kick out of the current construction project. Got tired of dealing with tarped piles in the middle of winter so I'm doing something about it. If my math is correct, should hold around 24 full cords. Last winter I burned about 20, so it won't cover two seasons, but it's all I have room right here for. I'll just make some stacks elsewhere on the property for the backup/next season wood.

Old girl still working!


Split a 3pt auger with a buddy to poke the 26 holes




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[johnnyballs]

Hey guys, thought a few might get a kick out of the current construction project. Got tired of dealing with tarped piles in the middle of winter so I'm doing something about it. If my math is correct, should hold around 24 full cords. Last winter I burned about 20, so it won't cover two seasons, but it's all I have room right here for. I'll just make some stacks elsewhere on the property for the backup/next season wood.

Old girl still working!


Split a 3pt auger with a buddy to poke the 26 holes




Here's where we are today

Hey guys, thought a few might get a kick out of the current construction project. Got tired of dealing with tarped piles in the middle of winter so I'm doing something about it. If my math is correct, should hold around 24 full cords. Last winter I burned about 20, so it won't cover two seasons, but it's all I have room right here for. I'll just make some stacks elsewhere on the property for the backup/next season wood.

Old girl still working!


Split a 3pt auger with a buddy to poke the 26 holes




Here's where we are today

looks awesome...how many points of access to the wood are you going to have ?

 

[avason]

Looks like it’s coming along great. Keep us updated!

 

[Whitbread]

looks awesome...how many points of access to the wood are you going to have ?

Just one entrance at the edge of the concrete around the front side of the barn. I'm going to cut a hole in the side of the barn in the middle of the wood rack, like a coal chute. I'll make the door swing up and have a bin on the other side. Should make for easy transfer to the indoor boiler.

Looks like it’s coming along great. Keep us updated!

It's finally supposed to quit raining for the next few days so I should actually be able to get something done!

 

[Marine5068]

Looks great.
Did you need or get a building permit and how much is one there?
Are you putting a metal roof like the on the barn/shop/garage?
Maybe consider some snow stops along the main roof of the shop so large ice/snow pieces don't slide off that upper roof onto the lower one and damage it.
Just an good design idea.

 

[Whitbread]

Looks great.
Did you need or get a building permit and how much is one there?
Are you putting a metal roof like the on the barn/shop/garage?
Maybe consider some snow stops along the main roof of the shop so large ice/snow pieces don't slide off that upper roof onto the lower one and damage it.
Just an good design idea.

Thanks! Yes, I got a permit, it was $35. It may or may not be for a 18'x10' woodshed, but the only person that can see the shed sees a permit hanging from the tree facing him through his binoculars .

Yup, I did steel to match the barn, I added the snow stops before I put the steel on when it was nice and easy to set a 16' ladder on the OSB shed roof.


Got the floor halfway done, going to put treated 2x4's on top of the 2x10's with a 2-3" gap between to form the floor of the bins between the 4x6 posts. Now you can see the aisle way between the two sides of the rack where I'll load the bins from.

 

[ShipWreckDiver]

I hear ya on not wanting to play with tarps all the time to keep the firewood covered. Best thing I ever did was building sheds for the firewood.

But my my eyes nearly bugged out when you said it takes 20 cords a winter to heat your place. How many square feet are you heating? Is there any insulation at all? You one of those people that insist on keeping the windows open for fresh air all winter? Maybe some of your money is better spent on a much more efficient stove/boiler, improving insulation and such.

 

[Whitbread]

I hear ya on not wanting to play with tarps all the time to keep the firewood covered. Best thing I ever did was building sheds for the firewood.

But my my eyes nearly bugged out when you said it takes 20 cords a winter to heat your place. How many square feet are you heating? Is there any insulation at all? You one of those people that insist on keeping the windows open for fresh air all winter? Maybe some of your money is better spent on a much more efficient stove/boiler, improving insulation and such.

The issue of my high wood consumption is multifold. I've spent quite a bit of time and money in insulation and other energy saving measures, my boiler is a gassifier also. The issue is I'm heating about 8k square feet, dhw, in the cold north, and last year I had the boiler lit from second to last week of October to first week of May. So I don't actually consider ~20 full cords that bad of wood consumption for 6 months straight of burning. I also run my business out of my pole barn that's in floor heated to 64f 24/7 in the winter. So it's just many factors I can't really change unfortunately and labor for wood is much better than $1+k/mo in natural gas.

 

[alleyyooper]

"But my my eyes nearly bugged out when you said it takes 20 cords a winter to heat your place. How many square feet are you heating? Is there any insulation at all? You one of those people that insist on keeping the windows open for fresh air all winter? Maybe some of your money is better spent on a much more efficient stove/boiler, improving insulation and such."

Ya me too. 20 full cords is one bunch of wood, I can't even see one getting sleep shoving wood in the boiler to burn that much.


Al

 

[Whitbread]

Ya me too. 20 full cords is one bunch of wood, I can't even see one getting sleep shoving wood in the boiler to burn that much.
Al

My boiler firebox is 11cu/ft, loaded 1.5-3 times a day depending on outside cold for 6 months, easily accounts for 20+ cords .

 

[sirbuildalot]

Looks nice. I thought of doing something similar. My plan was to build a 16' wide x 24' long pole barn with three rows of 20" wood stacked 6-7' high along each long side. Leaving the middle 6' x 24' open to drive a small tractor and trailer through. At 6' high it'd hold just over 11 full cords of wood, at 7' high it'd hold just over 13 full cords of wood.

Priced it out and its going to be around 4 grand. Not sure if i'll do it or not.

 

[Whitbread]

Looks nice. I thought of doing something similar. My plan was to build a 16' wide x 24' long pole barn with three rows of 20" wood stacked 6-7' high along each long side. Leaving the middle 6' x 24' open to drive a small tractor and trailer through. At 6' high it'd hold just over 11 full cords of wood, at 7' high it'd hold just over 13 full cords of wood.

Priced it out and its going to be around 4 grand. Not sure if i'll do it or not.

Thanks! It's getting there, I spent quite a bit of time planning the design so nominal building material lengths worked as often as possible. Mathematically the capacity is 23-24 full cords stacked 6.5' high. I have just over $3k in this including my half of the 3 point auger, I don't think that's horrible considering the size. When it's nasty out, pulling clean and dry wood will be worth every penny vs the last 3 years of tarps and piles.

Got a ton done today, will have it finished tomorrow and start filling it this weekend!

 

[101mph]

Looks great!

 

[cat10ken]

Boy I can just see the skunks, coons, possums, snakes and bees that will be living under those floor boards!

Looks really good otherwise. I think it's a real deal for only $3000.

 

[Whitbread]

Boy I can just see the skunks, coons, possums, snakes and bees that will be living under those floor boards!

Looks really good otherwise. I think it's a real deal for only $3000.

Nah, I'm not too worried about anything other than bees, the 2 husky's and 2 barn cats do a pretty good job at keeping anything with legs away.

Thanks! I'm calling it done now! I left boards out of the one middle bin against the building so I can build the coal chute on a rainy day.



I didn't run siding all the way up here so I can build a shelf to set stuff up there with the forklift or tractor. Figure it's too good of storage space to waste as I'm not going to stack wood over 7.5' high inside those bins.

 

[ChoppyChoppy]

Hey guys, thought a few might get a kick out of the current construction project. Got tired of dealing with tarped piles in the middle of winter so I'm doing something about it. If my math is correct, should hold around 24 full cords. Last winter I burned about 20, so it won't cover two seasons, but it's all I have room right here for. I'll just make some stacks elsewhere on the property for the backup/next season wood.

Old girl still working!


Split a 3pt auger with a buddy to poke the 26 holes




Here's where we are today

Dang! We need an over length permit here if over 4ft past the back of the truck.

 

[ShipWreckDiver]

Dang! We need an over length permit here if over 4ft past the back of the truck.

Government is getting so they think we need their permission to take a piss in the morning.

 

[cat10ken]

All you need here is a red flag on it if it is more than four feet beyond the tail lights. Looks like you have it flagged.

 

[ShipWreckDiver]

The issue of my high wood consumption is multifold. I've spent quite a bit of time and money in insulation and other energy saving measures, my boiler is a gassifier also. The issue is I'm heating about 8k square feet, dhw, in the cold north, and last year I had the boiler lit from second to last week of October to first week of May. So I don't actually consider ~20 full cords that bad of wood consumption for 6 months straight of burning. I also run my business out of my pole barn that's in floor heated to 64f 24/7 in the winter. So it's just many factors I can't really change unfortunately and labor for wood is much better than $1+k/mo in natural gas.

8K Square feet... I guess that'll do it. I didn't think till afterwards also, depends highly on what woods you've got available to burn too. Guys that are predominantly in softwood territory are going to burn a lot more to get the same heat as people that have access to good hardwoods.
If there is anything I could call lucky about living where I do, it's easy access to some of the really good hardwoods. Hickory, White Oak, Black Birch, Locust... all plentiful here, have lots & lots more BTU's available per cord than softer/lighter woods.
Kind of a strange irony, the further north into the deep cold that you get, the softer/lighter most of the wood supply is.

 

[ChoppyChoppy]

All you need here is a red flag on it if it is more than four feet beyond the tail lights. Looks like you have it flagged.

Here If past the back of the truck, need red flag and only to 4ft without permit.

We actually lengthened the log trailer a few years ago because of this, permit was $600 or 800 a year. Cost $1000 in metal, so paid off quick.