Log/wood store ideas

Shaunoc

I am looking for inspiration for creating a logstore. Or just a nosey at others.
What I don't have is a shed/garage.

I do have:
pallets
time

I have started the googling and will get cracking in a week or two.
There are many ideas online but I'm curious if anyone here created something worthy or proud of and willing to share a picture?

My first batch of sticks is chopped and sitting in a pallet sized and created box, but its temporary and need to cover.

Cheers

Danny Donut

Hi Shaunoc

I created a log pile using pallets, fence posts and old boards.

Probably a bit "elephant engineering" but here goes:

• pallet for the base
• fence post each corner
• Tied in the fence posts with 3x2 bolted thru with coach bolts
• cut the tops of the fenceposts at 45 degs with a chainsaw
• used the old boards to create a rough roof at 45 degs.

All the best

Shaunoc

Danny Donut wrote: »

Hi Shaunoc

I created a log pile using pallets, fence posts and old boards.

Probably a bit "elephant engineering" but here goes:

• pallet for the base
• fence post each corner
• Tied in the fence posts with 3x2 bolted thru with coach bolts
• cut the tops of the fenceposts at 45 degs with a chainsaw
• used the old boards to create a rough roof at 45 degs.

All the best

My engineering will be similar. I have a fair idea of what i'll do. Any images

wayoutwest

Shaunoc - what are you trying to build - a place to store fully seasoned logs, or a place to season freshly felled and split logs?
Pic of one of my pallet seasoning bays - just filled it with sitka, douglass fir and willow - holds over 9 M3 and dries wood perfectly in two summers.I will transfer the load to my (less ventilated) logstore nearer to the house in Autumn/Winter 2019.
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Shaunoc

What I'd want is place to season and store. Pallet floor off the ground and pallet backing and sides to allow good ventilation. Will add a sloped roof with old ply sheets covered with plastic unless I invest in a few sheets of galvanized sheeting. Nothing too big or bold. Thanks for pics

All in one

Danny Donut

Shaunoc wrote: »

Any images

Sean - I'll do my best weather light permitting

Shaunoc

Danny Donut wrote:

Sean - I'll do my best weather light permitting

Night vision, you'll be grand.
There is no panic, I'm just being nosey

wait4me

Shaunoc: Here is what I built for my logs. I have since put a door on it: Pallet shed. It hold enough logs for my winter needs.

Shaunoc

wait4me wrote:

Shaunoc: Here is what I built for my logs. I have since put a door on it:

Similar to what I have in mind. I will have mine near, not attached to timber rail fence. Pallets floor, back, sides and hopefully slatted doors. Good idea with the felt, had not considered that.

wait4me

And the felt covers a roof made from pallet boards.
Pallet floors and backs as well - so everything drys

wayoutwest

This 'budget' bulk log drying/store holds about 6 cubic metres. Curved roof made of two sheets of 8' x 16' foundation mesh that has 20cm x 20 cm squares (with sticky out bits around the edges angle grinded off and ALL BURRS REMOVED). Built this one for under €100 (using free pallets). I use the logs to build a wall either end , the rest is loosethrown which is better for drying than stacking. Headroom is only 1.5 metres, so would probably incorperate some sort of 50 cm walls to increase that to 2 metres, if i built another one.
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Danny Donut

Hopefully this works

wayoutwest

Love the paint-job Danny .

gozunda

The one I built is made out of two flat fencing panels and pallets as a base

Lay pallets on the ground end to end. Then arrange wooden fence panels each side and bring together to make a tent shaped structure like this /_\ . Secure using battons and screws.

You can use a piece of apex sheeting cut to length along the ridge to ensure that water doesn't get in from the top.

Leave the ends open to allow wind through. Easy and cheap Woodstore that looks class if you stack the wood in rows etc

wayoutwest

gozunda wrote: »

The one I built is made out of two flat fencing panels and pallets as a base

Lay pallets on the ground end to end. Then arrange wooden fence panels each side and bring together to make a tent shaped structure like this /_\ . Secure using battons and screws.

You can use a piece of apex sheeting cut to length along the ridge to ensure that water doesn't get in from the top.

Leave the ends open to allow wind through. Easy and cheap Woodstore that looks class if you stack the wood in rows etc

Sounds like it looks good - got any pics?

Shaunoc

Today's chopping has come to a close. New axe needed. Was a plastic handled aldi axe. Live and learn. Time for an upgrade. I may invest smarter
https://ibb.co/e58KQH

cletus

I built a log store out of 4 pallets, two left over lengths of decking and a spare sheet of square profile corrugated sheeting. Two pallets side by side on the ground, one standing either end. Screwed them together, then the one of the decking boards across the top, and the other across the back to brace it. This also fives a slight run off to the roof. Last of all lag bolt the corrugated sheet to the top. I have it up against a block wall, so that serves as the back, and I lined the inside sides, back and top with a cheap tarp from lidl

Danny Donut

Shaunoc wrote: »

Today's chopping has come to a close. New axe needed. Was a plastic handled aldi axe. Live and learn. Time for an upgrade. I may invest smarter
https://ibb.co/e58KQH

I despair of how long tools last these days. A hickory handled axe from the local co-op are as good as.

Lumen

Danny Donut wrote: »

I despair of how long tools last these days. A hickory handled axe from the local co-op are as good as.

After snapping a nearly new mattock recently I've switched to fibreglass handled tools. Not sure they're necessarily better but a change is as good as something something.

wayoutwest

Shaunoc wrote: »

Today's chopping has come to a close. New axe needed. Was a plastic handled aldi axe. Live and learn. Time for an upgrade. I may invest smarter
https://ibb.co/e58KQH

Thoroughly recommend Fiskars x27 splitting maul - if you've done a lot of splitting with ordinary hardware maul, then using this axe will make you smile.
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Shaunoc

wayoutwest wrote: »

Thoroughly recommend Fiskars x27 splitting maul - if you've done a lot of splitting with ordinary hardware maul, then using this axe will make you smile.
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Thanks for the recommendation. I'll have a look at it

Shaunoc

Lumen wrote: »

After snapping a nearly new mattock recently I've switched to fibreglass handled tools. Not sure they're necessarily better but a change is as good as something something.

what axe brand are you using if that was part of the switch?

Odelay

I'm not sure how you'd break the handle? Was it hitting off the wood? (Base of handle, not the head).

Shaunoc

Odelay wrote:

I'm not sure how you'd break the handle? Was it hitting off the wood? (Base of handle, not the head).

Nope. Had just started this morning and a few minutes in it just broke leaving the head in the wood. Now I have a short handled axe!

I've been using it this afternoon successfully but not good on the back for prolonged use. Looking fwd to looking at new axes, already swamped in YouTube videos

wayoutwest

I like to have a selection of axes. Hand axe for kindling and trimming, x27 for most splitting as its lighter and quicker to use than the cheap heavy maul (which i do use to bust apart stubborn, knotty rings).
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wayoutwest

Check out the Gransfors Bruks axe website - pure axe porn. I've always wanted their splitting axe - it looks like the business (shallow angled wedge ,like the Fiskars X27, but a with a heavier head ) ....but costs £125!
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tabby aspreme

I have the 1.5 kg curved handle Hultafors splitting axe and I'm very happy with it, surprising power in it for its weight, rarely gets stuck in the wood, if it doesn't split with the first blow it bounces off the log and will split anything with the second blow, the only criticism I would have is the handle is a bit short at 750mm, it helps to have the logs up about 600 mm off the ground on a block, for splitting

wayoutwest

Those Swedish Hultafors axes look nice, and they're a good bit cheaper than the Gransfors Bruks ones. Axes with wooden handles are more comfortable to use, and absorb more of the vibration than those with plastic ones.

Lumen

Shaunoc wrote: »

what axe brand are you using if that was part of the switch?

This is the splitting maul I have.

Garant 6 LBS SPLITTING MAUL WITH FIBERGLASS HANDLE | SMS60034FG | 78601
http://www.garant.com/tools/s/garden-construction-tools/axes-wood-tools/splitting-mauls/6-lbs-splitting-maul-with-fiberglass-handle/

I didn't choose this brand specifically, it was whatever was in the shop.

I'm slightly disappointed that a French company advertises axes in lb weights, but whatever.

I've since learned a lot about splitting technique. There's video doing the rounds on FB of a 76-year old Russian woman who lives on a frozen lake and still chops her own firewood. I need to show that to my wife.

Lumen

Oh, and this is my log store, built by the original owner of the house.

It was probably tidier when he lived here.

wayoutwest

Lumen wrote: »

Oh, and this is my log store, built by the original owner of the house.

It was probably tidier when he lived here.

Nice store Lumen - large capacity, well ventilated, overhang on roof, and looks aesthetically pleasing in garden setting.
Anyone else have pics of their stores? - O.P (and others) are looking for inspiration - an image is sometimes more helpfull than description. Long live self -creativity in building this sort of (thankfully unregulated) contemporary vernacular architecture.:)

Shaunoc

wayoutwest wrote: »

Check out the Gransfors Bruks axe website - pure axe porn. I've always wanted their splitting axe - it looks like the business (shallow angled wedge ,like the Fiskars X27, but a with a heavier head ) ....but costs £125!
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there are certainly some fine looking axes out there. i have spent an hour or 2 oogling them. my other half is despairing

Danny Donut

Shaunoc wrote: »

there are certainly some fine looking axes out there. i have spent an hour or 2 oogling them. my other half is despairing

Join the club, we got jackets

wayoutwest

Shaunoc wrote: »

there are certainly some fine looking axes out there. i have spent an hour or 2 oogling them. my other half is despairing

Yeah - i don't get it when my other half's eyes kind of glaze over when I'm explaining to her why we need to invest in more chopping implements......but she does like a nice hot log fire.

jack of all

This is my logstore, on the small side but couldn't go any bigger. Made from a mix of new and salvaged construction lumber and some timber from packing cases.

Shaunoc

jack of all wrote: »

This is my logstore, on the small side but couldn't go any bigger. Made from a mix of new and salvaged construction lumber and some timber from packing cases.

nice and tidy