So my wife and I have a "system" for unloading and storing our pellets. The Fahrenheit pellet furnace sits in the basement (ducted to our first floor), so therefore all wood pellets are stored in the basement. I pick up wood pellets 1 ton at a time with my F-150 pickup, back the truck partially into the garage, then I remove all the bags off the pallet and onto a dry garage floor. Now comes the fun part, getting them into the basement. I don't have a direct entry way from the garage to the basement, but do have a doorway from the garage into the kitchen, and the basement door is just a few feet away in the kitchen. I had some cabinet paneling left over from when my house was built in 2008, so I cut the panel in half with a circular saw which I run down the left-side of my basement staircase, so it acts as a ramp (I duct tape the top of the panel to the top basement stair to hold it in place). I bring 1 or 2 bags in at a time from the garage, then slide them down the DIY ramp while my wife stays in the basement and stacks them on top of wooden pallets (to keep the bags off the concrete slab). We can get a whole ton unloaded into the basement this way in under 20 minutes. Definitely enough exercise for the whole week but it works well. I feel bad that she has to stack that many because one pellet bag is almost half her weight LOL but she manages to keep up with me.
Just wondering what others do in their situations, whether it's stacking them outside somewhere and covering with a tarp, or creative systems that people have come up with to make unloading/storing wood pellet bags an efficient task...
Just wondering what others do in their situations, whether it's stacking them outside somewhere and covering with a tarp, or creative systems that people have come up with to make unloading/storing wood pellet bags an efficient task...
