Fabrication complete

bogydave said:

Ah Ah AWESOME !
Great top cover, off the ground, great air circulation, makes it perfect
Buying or CSS'ing your own wood to fill it?

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Ive got css in crates at work thats dry and drying. Should be able to move 1 crate per day(1/5 cord per)

Craby said:

Can you add some gussets &/or diagonal bracing to a couple or all (4) of the vertical tube posts in the back? May help keep it from racking/wobbling.

In steel buildings I've seen gussets made from welding steel plate or tube to make a triangle in the corners, and the bracing made from all thread rod anchored to the gussets w/ turn buckles in the middle to tension up the slack.

Also, can you close off the open ends of the horizontal tubes? If not they may collect water & rust out.

Where is/are the gutter down spouts? Are they dumping onto the wood fence or onto a splash block?

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I was thinking about gussets but after I got finished it was pretty stout. If it was somewhere where it would see high snow or wind load I would have added it but I'm on postage stamp lot with houses all around.

I also was going to close off all the open tubes but I just got tired/lazy, no excuses there. I figured it will probably stay with the house since I built the hearth and installed the stove I would imagine most buyer's would want to keep it. Also if I move I would move to a larger lot where I could do single or double rows instead of the 3 rows like this rack it made for. I think it will take many years to rust out.

Gutter down spout is not on yet. that's the next stage, which is a pair of 55 gallon white plastic drums for water storage to feed the grass and plants which have yet to be installed in the yard. Going to build a rack to hold the drums and sit next to the firewood rack.