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BrianK
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In another thread I posted about the hardwood ends I picked up from a local pallet company that builds pallets and skids from PA hardwoods.
I wanted to get them up off the ground.
After looking at lots of ideas here, I decided to throw together a wood rack from some scrap lumber and old bed frames I had lying around. Good Will, second hand stores and Craigslist usually have bed frames cheap and often free (check your local Freecycle Yahoo group too) so someone else might benefit from this.
The brown painted stuff was from the frame of a domestic hot water solar panel I no longer use. I tried to leave some space between the wood, but in the end it wasn't easy to maintain as much spacing as I had hoped. On the other hand it was quite easy to stack. The base of the rack is 20 inches deep, the stacks 6'6" wide, and I stacked 5'6" high, about a half cord total. Real nice wood and worth the $35 they charged ($0.65 per cubic foot) to me. Now if it just dries quickly. (I'd really like to burn this next season.) The rack is in the sunniest spot on my lot, and perpendicular to the prevailing wind so what space I did manage to leave is parallel with the wind.
I cut the bed frames in half and used 8 foot 2x4s, 4x4s to tie in the bottom corners and some plywood shelving I just tore out of the storage room at my office for the base:
The roof line was too high on the right, drove me crazy so I reset it level after the photo.
I'm debating whether to cover the rack with Ondura roofing now, or leave it open and wait till fall.
I wanted to get them up off the ground.
After looking at lots of ideas here, I decided to throw together a wood rack from some scrap lumber and old bed frames I had lying around. Good Will, second hand stores and Craigslist usually have bed frames cheap and often free (check your local Freecycle Yahoo group too) so someone else might benefit from this.
The brown painted stuff was from the frame of a domestic hot water solar panel I no longer use. I tried to leave some space between the wood, but in the end it wasn't easy to maintain as much spacing as I had hoped. On the other hand it was quite easy to stack. The base of the rack is 20 inches deep, the stacks 6'6" wide, and I stacked 5'6" high, about a half cord total. Real nice wood and worth the $35 they charged ($0.65 per cubic foot) to me. Now if it just dries quickly. (I'd really like to burn this next season.) The rack is in the sunniest spot on my lot, and perpendicular to the prevailing wind so what space I did manage to leave is parallel with the wind.
I cut the bed frames in half and used 8 foot 2x4s, 4x4s to tie in the bottom corners and some plywood shelving I just tore out of the storage room at my office for the base:
The roof line was too high on the right, drove me crazy so I reset it level after the photo.
I'm debating whether to cover the rack with Ondura roofing now, or leave it open and wait till fall.