Raised rack for log storage

[difflock]

See images, 

2 unwanted(to be dumped) prestressed  concrete slabs 5.5m by 750mm by 150mm(@1.5 tonne each)

plus 2 old heavy section 2.5 m high gate posts(from Lord knows where or why or even when),

All assembled by my I, me, mesel, with some help from the wee Kioti EX 50.

4 No 20mm dia holes bored through the 25mm thick baseplate on each post, secured by 4 No 16 mm throughbolts.

Notion being to keep the bottom logs up out of the mud and grass and ensure the drying wind can whistle through under.

I was quite pleased with my efforts.

Edited September 28, 2019 by difflock

[RabSawMan]

That's a tidy looking job difflock, it certainly solves the age old problem of the bottom trunks getting wet and dirty. It would be a lot cheaper than concrete for the tight Ballymena men amongst us of which I am one ?

[trigger_andy]

Well handy.

 

Why do you leave the split logs so long? They must be close to 1m long, no? I see a local firewood processor stacks them at that length too. 

 

[Mark Bolam]

Marcus is a 17’ giant Andy.

That’s his kindling you can see there.

[monkeybusiness]

That’s a really common way to dry/ process timber on the continent. Less splitting and chainsawing, cross cutting is done with saw benches. Timber dries fast once split and bound. Depends on having good straight grained timber to be able to split into billets (not ideal with arb waste). Looks a great setup Marcus!

[difflock]

1 hour ago, trigger_andy said:

Well handy.

 

Why do you leave the split logs so long? They must be close to 1m long, no? I see a local firewood processor stacks them at that length too. 

 

Well as long as you dinny grass me up tay Big J,

Nominally 1.0m, simply for handy(bale spike) mechanical handling, ease of stacking and good exposure to drying winds.

simply because thats how its done in Germany, an France, an Belgium, etc etc etc.

An anyway the splitter only takes 1100mm max

(But post Brexit, I shall, of course revert to fathoms, groats an yards etc etc)

P.S.

This time I started cutting out the worst(but the best of burning) knots, and tossing them straight into the big crate. As long as the outer ring of billets is full length(with perhaps a few in the middles as well) , most of the rest can be shorter straight lengths from between the knots, which knots are a big problem with my shitty misshapen Lodgepole Pine.

Slightly more time consuming, but probably worthwhile.

Edited September 29, 2019 by difflock

[difflock]

17 minutes ago, Mark Bolam said:

Marcus is a 17’ giant Andy.

That’s his kindling you can see there.

Tsk, tsk, them is me toothpicks Sur !