My favorite new piece of gear

[w00zy]

It's just a ramp, no more armfuls of wood up the stairs.

 

[VirginiaIron]

That works for me.

 

[Jags]

Am I envisioning this correctly??? A wheel barrow full of wood, pushed up a ramp on the steps?? Tell me I am missing something.

 

[SpaceBus]

I use large poly (like a tarp) bags for bringing in kindling and firewood. They keep the mess and any spiders contained.

 

[paredown]

Am I envisioning this correctly??? A wheel barrow full of wood, pushed up a ramp on the steps?? Tell me I am missing something.

You just need to get a good run at it! (For my back patio, it is just a short piece of 3/4 ply) to get the wheelbarrow up to the racks).

I was loading my free split wood this way--neighbors moved out and told me to grab the split wood, so I did a single one of my HF galvanized ramps onto the tailgate and would aim carefully and let it rip. Not full barrows though...

 

[WinterinWI]

You just need to get a good run at it! (For my back patio, it is just a short piece of 3/4 ply) to get the wheelbarrow up to the racks).

I was loading my free split wood this way--neighbors moved out and told me to grab the split wood, so I did a single one of my HF galvanized ramps onto the tailgate and would aim carefully and let it rip. Not full barrows though...

Suppose that works, although a slight miscalculation could be painful.

 

[MrWhoopee]

Pushing a loaded wheelbarrow UP a flat, narrow ramp is, at the very least, challenging. Some 1x4 guides attached to the sides of the ramp might reduce the chances of running off. Did that on the ramp I used to use when rolling rounds into the truck.

 

[Ashful]

I used to have a house with a cedar deck that was our primary ingress/egress from the house. I can tell you from more than a dozen years experience falling down those steps and landing on my ass that wooden deck stairs in winter in the icy northeast are suicidal, even when you’re not pushing a wheelbarrow. Hopefully your late winter weather is not like ours.

 

[SpaceBus]

I have four or five of these bags. I use them to store kindling and bring firewood inside. This bag will hold a day or so worth of wood in the coldest part of winter.

 

[Bad LP]

Some of you obviously never saw a demolition job in NYC. Fully loaded wheel barrows of debris up a narrow ramp into the back of a dump truck. I'm lucky that I was the guy with the check book not the wheel barrow.

 

[robj80]

I think we need a video of this just so that we are all clear as to how it works :D.

 

[paredown]

I have four or five of these bags. I use them to store kindling and bring firewood inside. This bag will hold a day or so worth of wood in the coldest part of winter.

Yah, Ikea!

Great idea, thanks--I have a set of bags from Germany like that--they were the approved recycling totes, and I hadn't thought about re-purposing them fo rkindling.

 

[DodgyNomad]

That makes my lower back hurt just looking at it. Be safe.

 

[duramaxman05]

Some of you obviously never saw a demolition job in NYC. Fully loaded wheel barrows of debris up a narrow ramp into the back of a dump truck. I'm lucky that I was the guy with the check book not the wheel barrow.

We do the same thing in st louis. I do demo work and had to wheel block and brick and ceramic tile into a dump trailer. Fun fun as long as its dry.

 

[ChrisRoss]

I see a good number of spiders crawling out of the pile if I keep them like this...

 

[WiscWoody]

Luckily I have no steps to haul my wood up! When I was younger I could have done this but not now. Yowza!

 

[Ashful]

No word on this from @w00zy, since he posted it two weeks ago. What, no WiFi in the hospital?