Wood Chute

[dwinch53]

Howdy...I store all of my wood in my basement and I have been wheelbarrowing it in thru my walk out...But i would like to have a wood chute and do not have a window on the side of the basement where i store my wood...any suggestions on wood chute???? DW opcorn:

 

[laynes69]

We have one here, that dad used a 16" or 18" piece of pvc that was scrap from a city job. He concreted it into the wall of the basement. I don't use it now, I use our bilco doors.

 

[AOD]

We use an old playground slide at my grandmothers, it has been there for at least 30 years, from back when playground stuff was made out of metal.

 

[dwinch53]

We have one here, that dad used a 16" or 18" piece of pvc that was scrap from a city job. He concreted it into the wall of the basement. I don't use it now, I use our bilco doors.

Might you have a picture? thanx, DW

 

[laynes69]

Here is a picture. Its not the greatest, but you get the idea. The walls are around 1" thick. I have put tons of wood down the thing over the years. Now its covered in a porch, and no longer used.

 

[dwinch53]

Here is a picture. Its not the greatest, but you get the idea. The walls are around 1" thick. I have put tons of wood down the thing over the years. Now its covered in a porch, and no longer used.

Thank you for the pic...just one more question...does the outside 45 degree up or just straight...did it have a cover of some sort?

 

[EastwoodGang4]

big relief

Wow fellas!! I made one of these that I could set up and remove from the basement steps and my wife had me CONVINCED I was a few marbles short for making such a device !! I heard about how silly this chute was for the whole season after I made it.....I am really glad to know i'm NOT NUTS! I've kept my chute a secret from AS for fear of harassment and ridicule!!! now if you'll excuse me while i go stick my foot in my wife's arse:censored:

 

[laynes69]

Its just cut 90 on both ends. Dad never really had a cover on it. We have rubber foam in the chute, and thats it. Had a coon get in it this spring, had to shoot the damn thing in the basement. That was fun. If the chute wasn't covered by the porch, I would have a steel lid that would be bolted in the pvc, and have a lock on it. No matter how hard that thing was hit, it wouldn't crack or nothing.

 

[wdchuck]

Make an opening in the wall to handle your needs.
We just pitch it through a rough opening, once used for wood, then coal, now wood again, and since I prefer the natural light coming in, there is a barn sash in the opening when not in use.
Laynes, your basement and mine look identical, and that tube looks pretty handy.

 

[yetty734]

ive got the same problem....except i have windows

except the windows are a foot below ground level...srry to hi-jack but any idears to do that. The window wells are the half oval ones that come out about max a foot from the foundation...the window is also hinged from the bottom and opens in. i think im gonn have to rip out the window.

thanks and great ideas

 

[laynes69]

Yeah, it has served its purpose since dad put it in.

 

[urhstry]

Maybe switch to coal?

 

[Mike Van]

yetty - I had the same thing, later today [when it gets daylight] I'll get some pics of what I did - O.K., it's daylite & 14F outside, so here's the pics. This was the same window well that was set below grade, It was a part of the foundation that was block.

Dug it out & went deep enough to get some footings in, then layed block to get the shape. On the inside it looks like

I used to throw into the hatchway [were no steps in mine then] and wheelbarrow the wood to the other end of the basement. That job sucked. The way it is now, I has to put up a chain & wire net to keep the wood from the chute from bashing the Harman boiler. Talk about a job well worth it. I send a half to 3/4 or a cord in there now, no stacking or moving it.

 

[dwinch53]

yetty - I had the same thing, later today [when it gets daylight] I'll get some pics of what I did - O.K., it's daylite & 14F outside, so here's the pics. This was the same window well that was set below grade, It was a part of the foundation that was block.

Dug it out & went deep enough to get some footings in, then layed block to get the shape. On the inside it looks like

I used to throw into the hatchway [were no steps in mine then] and wheelbarrow the wood to the other end of the basement. That job sucked. The way it is now, I has to put up a chain & wire net to keep the wood from the chute from bashing the Harman boiler. Talk about a job well worth it. I send a half to 3/4 or a cord in there now, no stacking or moving it.

Mike...this is exactly what I was looking to find here...looks like a spring project to me...do you think i could get the dimensions? please and thanx. DW

 

[Mike Van]

DW, the inside opening is 30" tall, 42" wide. Outside it's 4' wide & sticks out from the house 30". The slant part on the inside, I had 3/4" plywood on to keep the cement from getting all dinged up, it lasted 3 years. I replaced it with 1" hickory boards from my mill. They'll probably outlast me. The lid on the outside is 1/2" CCA plywood, it's held up pretty good. It's hinged at the top opens up wide & latches back to a wire. If you have a block foundation, it'll be 10X easier. If you have to saw concrete to get a big enough opening, well, thats a lot of work. Wish I'd done mine years before for the labor it saves not having to wheelbarro that wood.

 

[farmermike]

I use an old section of rollers. Kinda like the kind at the grocery store. I picked up 30 feet of it at an auction years ago. The section I use is about 24 inches wide and 6 feet long. The rollers are about 2 inches in diameter. Works great, just lay them on there and they roll into the basement. My window is about six feet high so I can get a whole truckload in at a time.