Move wood stacks "easily"?

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Yarzy

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Guys

I was wondering if anyone has ever needed to move wood from one area to another without messing up the stacks. My issue is, I season my wood (4 cords a year) on one side of the property for 2 years, then I want to move them over to where the stove is at my house in the fall/winter I also am planning on getting 4 cords each year so I am always 2 years ahead of the game. I hope this makes sense. Other than doing it by hand, any ideas how I could move stacks from one side to another? I am basically trying to avoid stacking 8 cords per year (4 when they are delivered, 4 when I move them).

Any ideas?
 
Got a fork lift or any other machinary with like attachments?
 
Use The Force Yarzy
 
I don't think there is any easy answer here on less you want to stack your wood on individual pallets. I move mine with my trailer and it really does not bother me too much. i back the trailer up to my stacks and either toss the wood into the trailer or stack it nicely. Tossing it makes it quick but staking it makes it very easy to unload. Back it to where you want to stack it and unload. i do it a bit at a time so it does not really bother me.
 
See, I was thinking The Force also, but for some reason, it did not work. Maybe my Jedi skills need improvement or I forgot to pay my membership dues.

So, outside of getting a forklift, I guess I am out of luck, huh? I guess I was thinking of a trailer or something, but maybe I would need to make something.
 
Even if you had a cheap source of wheels/axels to put on sturdy pallets- you'd need to keep them from sinking into the ground.

Have seen pallet systems designed by the user that was lifted with a fork- if I had the equipment I'd do this.
 
CTwoodburner said:
I don't think there is any easy answer here on less you want to stack your wood on individual pallets. I move mine with my trailer and it really does not bother me too much. i back the trailer up to my stacks and either toss the wood into the trailer or stack it nicely. Tossing it makes it quick but staking it makes it very easy to unload. Back it to where you want to stack it and unload. i do it a bit at a time so it does not really bother me.
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For sure if you had a fork lift or front end loader on tractor you could make it really easy. Otherwise, do like CT and I do. Last fall I loaded the trailer, drove it inside the shed and unloaded. I had two helpers. Pete and Repeat. For sure it means extra handling of the wood but I don't mind because from the shed we then take some to the porch and from the porch to the stove. Then one more time, we take the ash from the stove and move it outdoors... Lots of handling here but we don't mind at all.
 
I had Scotty beamed them for me?
 
Wish I had a good answer for you. 4 cords isn't that hard to move, but it is a pain in the butt. My only suggestion is to start seasoning them closer to the house, but I know that having 12 cords outside your back door isn't generally on the landscaping menu.
 
Nobody ever said burning wood was "easy". But I learned that
by manually moving it, the BTU's in the wood goes up a little with every move.
So when it's time to move the wood, get the family out there & move it by hand.
Then everyone will get exercise, & enjoy the heat it puts out even "more" :)
(the extra BTU's, is the calories burned to move it ;) )
 
i am having the same issuse not that i mind moving the stacks to the woodshed but now that i want to start selling wood i am rethinking how i stacked my next 2 years of wood for my self and i stacked it in the wrong sot. now i gotta move bout 5 cords over so i can have maximum space for the wood i want to sell and easy access
 
Yarzy said:
Guys

I was wondering if anyone has ever needed to move wood from one area to another without messing up the stacks. My issue is, I season my wood (4 cords a year) on one side of the property for 2 years, then I want to move them over to where the stove is at my house in the fall/winter I also am planning on getting 4 cords each year so I am always 2 years ahead of the game. I hope this makes sense. Other than doing it by hand, any ideas how I could move stacks from one side to another? I am basically trying to avoid stacking 8 cords per year (4 when they are delivered, 4 when I move them).

Any ideas?
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Make the wife do it :zip: But if you think of an easy way let me know
 
Yarzy said:
Guys

I was wondering if anyone has ever needed to move wood from one area to another without messing up the stacks. My issue is, I season my wood (4 cords a year) on one side of the property for 2 years, then I want to move them over to where the stove is at my house in the fall/winter I also am planning on getting 4 cords each year so I am always 2 years ahead of the game. I hope this makes sense. Other than doing it by hand, any ideas how I could move stacks from one side to another? I am basically trying to avoid stacking 8 cords per year (4 when they are delivered, 4 when I move them).

Any ideas?
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I use this trailer. It holds about 4 cords but I still need to use the tractor to move it around. With the slatted bottem the wood is off the ground and drys well.
leaddog
 

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Personally I like moving wood piles...it's great exercise. But you could always invite some friends over and have a wood-moving party. Order pizza or fire up the grill, fill the cooler with the beverage of your choice, put the game on the radio, load up the wheel barrow and have at it!

Or you could get one of those punk'in chunk'in contraptions and catapult it across your yard...not practical, but fun.
 
We need to add these steps to the "how many times you handle fire wood" category.
"Stack it here then move it there" step :)
Into the trailer/wheelbarrow is one more
Then unloading it is another one.
2 more added steps I do but didn't think about, I'm up to about 16 now. ;)
 
Cate said:
But you could always invite some friends over and have a wood-moving party. Order pizza or fire up the grill, fill the cooler with the beverage of your choice, put the game on the radio, load up the wheel barrow and have at it!
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I find that friends helping does not work well for me. I'm not a great stacker like some on this board but looking at a stack after a buddy has touched it does not make me happy. I find it easier to do it all myself and not have to worry about wanting/needing to go over their work.

I move a lot of wood, I stack 7-8 cords near the house but the rest goes to the back of my yard which is probably 400-500 feet away. I use my garden tractor and a 17 cubic foot garden cart and it goes pretty well. It sucks touching it so many times but it gets it out of the way until I need it.
 
bogydave said:
We need to add these steps to the "how many times you handle fire wood" category.
"Stack it here then move it there" step :)
Into the trailer/wheelbarrow is one more
Then unloading it is another one.
2 more added steps I do but didn't think about, I'm up to about 16 now. ;)
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Never thought of it myself in terms of 'moving wood' but have you counted Savages last step?
"Then one more time, we take the ash from the stove and move it outdoors"
 
WoodpileOCD said:
bogydave said:
We need to add these steps to the "how many times you handle fire wood" category.
"Stack it here then move it there" step :)
Into the trailer/wheelbarrow is one more
Then unloading it is another one.
2 more added steps I do but didn't think about, I'm up to about 16 now. ;)
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Never thought of it myself in terms of 'moving wood' but have you counted Savages last step?
"Then one more time, we take the ash from the stove and move it outdoors"
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Yeh, that made the list.
The step we all look for. The last one :) emptying the ash bucket
https://www.hearth.com/econtent/index.php/forums/viewthread/47616/
 
Backwoods Savage said:
CTwoodburner said:
I don't think there is any easy answer here on less you want to stack your wood on individual pallets. I move mine with my trailer and it really does not bother me too much. i back the trailer up to my stacks and either toss the wood into the trailer or stack it nicely. Tossing it makes it quick but staking it makes it very easy to unload. Back it to where you want to stack it and unload. i do it a bit at a time so it does not really bother me.
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For sure if you had a fork lift or front end loader on tractor you could make it really easy. Otherwise, do like CT and I do. Last fall I loaded the trailer, drove it inside the shed and unloaded. I had two helpers. Pete and Repeat. For sure it means extra handling of the wood but I don't mind because from the shed we then take some to the porch and from the porch to the stove. Then one more time, we take the ash from the stove and move it outdoors... Lots of handling here but we don't mind at all.
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Thats the nice part about firewood. It heats, and re-heats, and re-heats. and re-heats.................you as many times as you want it to!!!!!!!!!!!
 
bogydave said:
We need to add these steps to the "how many times you handle fire wood" category.
"Stack it here then move it there" step :)
Into the trailer/wheelbarrow is one more
Then unloading it is another one.
2 more added steps I do but didn't think about, I'm up to about 16 now. ;)
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what about the oops I should t have stacked all that there step. Lol.
 
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