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Log Store
RossJarvis:
Have just got back from the wood yard, having taken two cutting lists with me, Metric and Imperial and having applied a lot of mandraulics to cut and shift, I now have a flat-pack log store in the back garden. All I need to add now is some blood, sweat, tears and fine Picto-Celto-Anglo-Saxon words! You just don't want to know how much this little pile of firewood cost :doh:
Am now trying to work out which bit is what :coffee:
PeterE:
We also have a wood burning fire place both for cosiness and support during the few very cold spells that come our way in the winter. We live just south of Gothenburg in Sweden and it can get well below -25 Centigrade at times.
So somewhere to store the winter supplies of fire wood is required and I made this one for our house.
Unfortunately the only picture I have is right at the front, but it is a little over 2 meters wide, about the same in height, and about 60 cm (2 feet) deep. That crates enough space for two layers of logs in depth.
The sides are covered with the same panelling as the house and the roofing is the simplest ever, just ordinary roofing tar paper on top of boards.
I divided the storage into two sections, one for burning this year and one for next. That way I can have quite fresh wood to store and suitably dry to burn.
Since the store is high, i made the dividing wall open but wioth standing bars. That way I can place a horizontal stick at suitable levels and prevent the pile to fall out. The "floor" is built with distance between the boaards to enable enough air to flow through the wood stack.
All the wood used was ordinary pine without treatment. After finished build I painted the outside the same as the house with the same colours, and the inside with a suitable wood preservation fluid.
Well, just as an idea not to make the storage too small.
BR
/Peter
RossJarvis:
That looks really good Peter. I think your's is a lot more practical than mine. The one I'm building is just under 2m wide (6 foot), 0.6m deep (2 foot) and about 1.2m high at the front (4 foot). It will hold two layers of logs. How long does your store of logs last? I think this one will take about 60% of yours. What size wood did you use for the frame?
I like the idea of standing bars in the middle :clap: and will think about how to do this. The "floorboards" are to have gaps for good circulation of air like yours. I need to think about whether or not to put roofing felt/tar paper in, however the shingles all overlap so seem to work well to keep the rain out.
Where I live many people have more money than sense so tend to have articles that look nice, rather than being practical. In a way this is an "Arts and Crafts" style project.
The lady next door has seen similar stores in shops but they are not as strong as mine. She says they flex when you push them. My design is a "Space Frame" with" triangulated Braces". I can stand on the roof with no problems and I weigh 92kg (14.5 stone or 200 pounds). You could probably park a car on it (or maybe a motorbike).
Mind you, the cost of the wood alone so far is more than buying a new log store from the shops, If I were to be charging labour it would end up 6 times as much!!!
awemawson:
We have two wood burning stoves, and log storage has always been an issue. So when I re-built one of our timber outbuildings in brick I incorporated a log store into the end of it. The opening is a standard 30" door frame with no door, but it is about 2 metres wide, 2.4 metres high and three metres deep. So realistically about 12 cubic metres as you need to leave air space at the top. I incorporated ventilation into the brickwork at the rear.
Currently I'm swamping in willow, which burns hot but very fast (it was free for the cutting- I have 25 jumbo bags of it in the farm yard and I've stacked 8 more in the wood store to keep dry. I'm confident that we will easily burn the stuff in the store this coming winter.
doubleboost:
This is mine built from reclaimed fencing and big screws
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