Friend of mine is upgrading his shed this year. He has a gravel pad with good elevation, drainage shouldn't be a problem.
Lots of metal fence posts, the kind you can drive with a chunk of pipe. Quite a few metal pipes about 3" diameter by 10' length.
He wants to lay out twelve pallets, 6 across the back and then three coming forward from each end. 12 pallets total, kind of a C shape, open to the driveway so he can get rounds out of the truck, split inside the C and then stack on the pallets surrounding the splitter. 6 cords total, so he will need to stack about 6 feet tall.
So far so good. I am curious how you would go about roofing this. I find stacks up to about six feet long stay pretty straight as they dry, stacks eight feet long and longer tend to sag to the point of sometimes needing to be restacked. If he has enough of the metal fence posts i kinda would be inclined to lay the pallets out with enough space between each two pallets to drive two of the metal fenceposts into the ground between every pair of pallets, and then stack against the posts to keep his stack lengths down.
That way when his pallets rot out someday he can just pull the pallet off the gravel, drop in a new one and start stacking on the new pallet.
Can you think of a good way (short of welding) to attach horizontal metal pipe to vertical metal fence posts?
How would you roof that? I can see tarps and rope and bungee cords temporarily, but what about long term?
Thanks.
Lots of metal fence posts, the kind you can drive with a chunk of pipe. Quite a few metal pipes about 3" diameter by 10' length.
He wants to lay out twelve pallets, 6 across the back and then three coming forward from each end. 12 pallets total, kind of a C shape, open to the driveway so he can get rounds out of the truck, split inside the C and then stack on the pallets surrounding the splitter. 6 cords total, so he will need to stack about 6 feet tall.
So far so good. I am curious how you would go about roofing this. I find stacks up to about six feet long stay pretty straight as they dry, stacks eight feet long and longer tend to sag to the point of sometimes needing to be restacked. If he has enough of the metal fence posts i kinda would be inclined to lay the pallets out with enough space between each two pallets to drive two of the metal fenceposts into the ground between every pair of pallets, and then stack against the posts to keep his stack lengths down.
That way when his pallets rot out someday he can just pull the pallet off the gravel, drop in a new one and start stacking on the new pallet.
Can you think of a good way (short of welding) to attach horizontal metal pipe to vertical metal fence posts?
How would you roof that? I can see tarps and rope and bungee cords temporarily, but what about long term?
Thanks.
