Last winter I had a local logging truck operation deliver me a load of Douglas Fir & Larch. The driver asked me if I wanted the load "wooded up" and I, of course, said yes!
"Wooded up" means over-full; ie. over the permitted weight for the scale. He didn't have to go over the scale in this case, so I ended up getting lots of logs to process - ended up being 19.35 cords!!
I palletized all the wood, and moved it up to the old Hydro access road near the top of my property. I moved 2 pallets at a time -one on the bin lift on the back of the tractor and one on the forks on the front of the tractor. The move was a total of about 600 feet. Never lost a piece of wood off any of the pallets in the process.
I ended up with 43 pallets of wood, with the average size being .45 cords.
I experimented alot with different methods of keeping the wood on the pallet as I stacked and moved it. Tried shrink wrap first - it worked, but the stacks didn't look too stable and I didn't want to have to pick up dropped wood and restack it. the 4 or 5 that I did shrink wrap made it up to the storage place OK, but the shrink wrap has since disintegrated and 3 of the pallet stacks have fallen over.
My "final" design worked very well; it consisted of a pallet on the bottom, 2 sides of 2x4 plywood with 2 holes drilled into each piece. The sides were nailed onto the pallet and 2 pieces of baler twine were attached through the drilled holes at the top. Then I screwed/nailed one or more pieces of plywood to the top of each pallet stack - creating a pretty decent roof.
My wood was all cut to 21" (for my Oslo stove). I made two rows on the pallet and left several inches between the rows. I stuffed the wood in as tight as I could -- most of the time you could "play a tune" on the binder twine which of course got very tight as I stretched it to accomodate the wood.
The wood is drying very nicely up on the hill. It gets unobstructed sunshine on good days and there is alway a pretty good breeze as well. (the hay in the adjoining field will quite often be dry enough to bale the day after I cut it
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I sure hope the pics are displayed. I'm not really sure if I did it right - but here's fingers x'd!!
"Wooded up" means over-full; ie. over the permitted weight for the scale. He didn't have to go over the scale in this case, so I ended up getting lots of logs to process - ended up being 19.35 cords!!
I palletized all the wood, and moved it up to the old Hydro access road near the top of my property. I moved 2 pallets at a time -one on the bin lift on the back of the tractor and one on the forks on the front of the tractor. The move was a total of about 600 feet. Never lost a piece of wood off any of the pallets in the process.
I ended up with 43 pallets of wood, with the average size being .45 cords.
I experimented alot with different methods of keeping the wood on the pallet as I stacked and moved it. Tried shrink wrap first - it worked, but the stacks didn't look too stable and I didn't want to have to pick up dropped wood and restack it. the 4 or 5 that I did shrink wrap made it up to the storage place OK, but the shrink wrap has since disintegrated and 3 of the pallet stacks have fallen over.
My "final" design worked very well; it consisted of a pallet on the bottom, 2 sides of 2x4 plywood with 2 holes drilled into each piece. The sides were nailed onto the pallet and 2 pieces of baler twine were attached through the drilled holes at the top. Then I screwed/nailed one or more pieces of plywood to the top of each pallet stack - creating a pretty decent roof.
My wood was all cut to 21" (for my Oslo stove). I made two rows on the pallet and left several inches between the rows. I stuffed the wood in as tight as I could -- most of the time you could "play a tune" on the binder twine which of course got very tight as I stretched it to accomodate the wood.
The wood is drying very nicely up on the hill. It gets unobstructed sunshine on good days and there is alway a pretty good breeze as well. (the hay in the adjoining field will quite often be dry enough to bale the day after I cut it
)I sure hope the pics are displayed. I'm not really sure if I did it right - but here's fingers x'd!!
. Nice work!
