My first Racks (w/ pics)

[Stax]

With a pending wood insert purchase coming next month, I've decided to get to my firewood stacked. Using steel brackets I purchased on-line and lumber from the big box store, I easily built two, inexpensive 16x1x6 racks. Each rack will hold a little over 1 cord.

 

[trailmaker]

Nice, is it free standing or connected to the fence?

 

[brianbeech]

I may be wrong, but isn't 16X1X6 only .75 of a cord?

 

[jmikk31]

that looks like what i wanna do, but only with pallet flooring.

 

[Stax]

Trailmaker: It is free standing.

Brianbeech: Mathematically, yes. However, those are the dimensions of the rack, not the firewood. My splits range from 12" anywhere to 20". Using 16x1.5(16" average splits)x6 I get 144 cubic feet, a little over 128 cubic feet (cord).

 

[morglum_s]

Where did you get the brackets?

I've been using these Stack Ons with 10 ft 2x4's, but they are not as solid looking as what you have there.

-m

 

[billb3]

I have very similar racks made of leftover and used 2x4 from a garage construction.
No metal brackets, though.

They work rather well.

 

[Backwoods Savage]

That looks really good Rcrozier. Perhaps the only thing different I would have done was to stack that older wood at the top of the stack to use it first.

 

[bogydave]

Just looks great.
Now you have a place in the evening to go sit, & look at the stack of wood & enjoy a beer.
Are the bottom 2X4s treated wood?
Very nice, Good job!

 

[Hunderliggur]

0.975 Cord actually ;-) It looks like you have some spacers on the ground otherwise that wood would rot real last in our area.

 

[weatherguy]

0.975 Cord actually ;-) It looks like you have some spacers on the ground otherwise that wood would rot real last in our area.

Actually if they're 16" it would be exactly a cord. .975 would be 12" splits

 

[Hunderliggur]

Oops. a little rounding error. BTW - Those racks are nice. If the splits are 15.6" (12*1.3) you get .975 cord. If they are 16" (12*1 1/3) you get 1.0 cord. Better get out that tape measure!

 

[ohlongarm]

I have the same setup ,I have 8 racks 2 rows of 4 back to back with 2 feet between them the wood is at least 6 feet tall,I cover the top and come down the sides about 1 foot best way yet to keep wood for the long haul. I use stack it brackets to hold the 2x4's together. Nice setup.

 

[Stax]

You guys are right. Okay, so it holds just about a cord depending on split length. I'm good with that. I ordered the brackets through Ace Hardware. See pic. You can search their website. Type in Hy-C Log Rack Kit. All of the lumber used is PT. Dennis, the darker wood (swamp maple/right most pile) was split just a couple of weeks before construction of the rack. It is also dark because of the rain. It however seasoned as rounds in my neighbors yard for almost a year and a half. The ash (large left most pile) had been split at least a year ago. I had it stacked and lightly covered. The back pile is birch which is at the bottom of the rack.

 

[weatherguy]

You guys are right. Okay, so it holds just about a cord depending on split length. I'm good with that. I ordered the brackets through Ace Hardware. See pic. You can search their website. Type in Hy-C Log Rack Kit. All of the lumber used is PT. Dennis, the darker wood (swamp maple/right most pile) was split just a couple of weeks before construction of the rack. It is also dark because of the rain. It however seasoned as rounds in my neighbors yard for almost a year and a half. The ash (large left most pile) had been split at least a year ago. I had it stacked and lightly covered. The back pile is birch which is at the bottom of the rack.

I like those brackets, I ended up getting a different kind from Northline Express, I ended up making mine wide enough for two rows buit only went up 4 feet and 12 feet wide so mines about one cord too. In retrospect I should have went as high and long as you did.
These are the brackets I have

http://www.northlineexpress.com/itemdesc.asp?ic=5RU-30360

 

[Backwoods Savage]

You guys are right. Okay, so it holds just about a cord depending on split length. I'm good with that. I ordered the brackets through Ace Hardware. See pic. You can search their website. Type in Hy-C Log Rack Kit. All of the lumber used is PT. Dennis, the darker wood (swamp maple/right most pile) was split just a couple of weeks before construction of the rack. It is also dark because of the rain. It however seasoned as rounds in my neighbors yard for almost a year and a half. The ash (large left most pile) had been split at least a year ago. I had it stacked and lightly covered. The back pile is birch which is at the bottom of the rack.

You will appreciate all of it this winter.