Since Feb 2010 we have switched to the nut shells as our primary heating fuel and storage is always an issue.
Heating the house heating this 2400 foot shack takes a fair amount of fuel.
Storage has always been accomplished using 50 gallon steel drums as well as several smaller cardboard barrels of various sizes.
This past winter with the two Whits churning away day in day out depending on the weather, we plowed through a lot of shells.
My kids hit me up about taking my upright feezer to their place (I dont use it any more)
Sooooo now I will have a spot in a corner of the basement that will allow me to build a lovley storage bin that will hold about 3-1/2 cubic yards of shells.
This is equivalent to about twelve 50 gallon drums of shells. Best part is that the bin will take up less space than 12 drums, plus allow other storage on top of the bin.
Going to make the bin 5 foot on two sides then a 4 foot end and one diagonal side, then four foot high.
I can use OSB to sheet the thing and it will have a lid on it to keep the occasional mouse that finds its way into the basement OUT. Its a daylight basement with a small rollup door at one end.
This will definately solve my delema of not enough storage space.
With shells only available duirng a few months in the fall, I need to get this handled.
I had been contemplating a dumpster, but they are spendy and would have to be stored in an out building.
Once this project gets under way, I will do some Piccy's and some show and tell.
Snowy+---
Heating the house heating this 2400 foot shack takes a fair amount of fuel.
Storage has always been accomplished using 50 gallon steel drums as well as several smaller cardboard barrels of various sizes.
This past winter with the two Whits churning away day in day out depending on the weather, we plowed through a lot of shells.
My kids hit me up about taking my upright feezer to their place (I dont use it any more)
Sooooo now I will have a spot in a corner of the basement that will allow me to build a lovley storage bin that will hold about 3-1/2 cubic yards of shells.
This is equivalent to about twelve 50 gallon drums of shells. Best part is that the bin will take up less space than 12 drums, plus allow other storage on top of the bin.
Going to make the bin 5 foot on two sides then a 4 foot end and one diagonal side, then four foot high.
I can use OSB to sheet the thing and it will have a lid on it to keep the occasional mouse that finds its way into the basement OUT. Its a daylight basement with a small rollup door at one end.
This will definately solve my delema of not enough storage space.
With shells only available duirng a few months in the fall, I need to get this handled.
I had been contemplating a dumpster, but they are spendy and would have to be stored in an out building.
Once this project gets under way, I will do some Piccy's and some show and tell.
Snowy+---
