Will the logs go mouldy?

[arboriculturist]

11 minutes ago, Woodworks said:

No man handling planed. The idea is to fill the barn in the quiet times in the summer so all the crates will be filled and the barn. Come the winter time I struggle for time to keep all the crates filled. Planing to fit the prospective Gehl pivot steer with a 1m3 bucket to reload the crates quickly with the partly dried barn logs so they should be dry for back end of the winter.

 

And no I dont know what species the go mouldy as we have never had a problem with mould to date.

Gehl pivot steer - does look the business !

[Woodworks]

14 minutes ago, Treeation said:

Ok, I have gone for  a heris fencing square (2 panels on each side). Pallets underneath the logs, and an internal cross of vertical pallets that all meet up in the middle as well.

 

Is that inside a building? 2 panels on each side. Is that overlapping for strength or a very big cube?

[Woodworks]

12 minutes ago, arboriculturist said:

Gehl pivot steer - does look the business !

Yes that's instead of the forklift. May have tracked down a SH one so shouldn't break the bank

[openspaceman]

24 minutes ago, Woodworks said:

And no I dont know what species the go mouldy as we have never had a problem with mould to date.

Ventilation  keeps  mould down. It's warm and high humidity where it causes a problem.

 

We had a customer took a load of logs out of the kiln part cycle and loaded the pick up with them still warm. By morning the load was covered with a grey-green velvet fur.

[Woodworks]

5 minutes ago, openspaceman said:

Ventilation  keeps  mould down. It's warm and high humidity where it causes a problem.

 

We had a customer took a load of logs out of the kiln part cycle and loaded the pick up with them still warm. By morning the load was covered with a grey-green velvet fur.

I can live with some discolouration but fur is a no no

[Treeation]

32 minutes ago, Woodworks said:

Is that inside a building? 2 panels on each side. Is that overlapping for strength or a very big cube?

Yep, inside a dutch barn, panels overlaping at ends only by  a few cms  for strength, fencing supported by deer fencing stakes and bound on with rope to posts

[rowan lee]

Will it be a pain shovelling up loose logs that are sat on pallets in a big pile?

Its a pity the pallet and sheepwire method wouldn't stand up to the rigors of a front end rotator.

[SamWhiting12]

Could you do it the other way around? Put the dried logs in the barn loose around mid summer and store all the seasoning wood outside.

 

 

[Woodworks]

11 hours ago, SamWhiting12 said:

Could you do it the other way around? Put the dried logs in the barn loose around mid summer and store all the seasoning wood outside.

 

 

Now that's sensible talk Sam. 

Edited March 15, 2018 by Woodworks

[richardwale]

15 hours ago, Woodworks said:

So I am looking at ways to up production without buying loads more IBCs. We have a barn that could be cleared out to take lose logs. My thought is to chuck some pallets on the floor and some slats around the edges of the barn to allow air to circulate and load up inside with lose logs. I doubt they will dry that well in there but the idea was to then load them into IBC's when they become free as the first logs start going out. Will the logs in the middle go mouldy or should they be OK? Presuming it maybe species dependant as well so what is best?

 

Thanks

All our firewood is stored in an open sided barn, as long as it's processed dry with pallets on the floor, zero mould ?