Bay State Bonanza - cheap firewood cover

[Stegman]

Hit the motherlode on rubber roofing to cover my stacks this weekend. This guy in Shrewsbury MA is selling used stuff for 10 cents a square foot.

http://worcester.craigslist.org/mat/2650157480.html

The stuff is in good shape because the material wasn't laid down with any adhesive. They just had it weighed down. I picked up four 4x18 pieces and two 2x9 pieces. Grand total was $32.

Hurry! Won't last! The guy only has 31,000 square feet. ;-)

 

[Backwoods Savage]

Stegman, are you going to screw that down to the top logs?

 

[gregbesia]

I would love to get me some, too bad it is 83 miles one way for me.

 

[Stegman]

Stegman, are you going to screw that down to the top logs?

Wasn't planning to. Was just going to toss some cinder blocks and a few logs around the corners/edges and hope for the best. That's what I did last winter with tarps and it worked OK. These are heavier.

My one concern is that I have gaps between my stacks - probably about a foot wide. I'm a little bit worried about saggage in the areas above the gaps due to rain/snow, so I was thinking of running a few 2x4s perpendicular across the stacks underneath the covers to help support them.