Firewood Cage From Reinforcing Mesh

[Steve Bramwell]

I’m just wondering if anyone has any experience of using reinforcing mesh to make firewood cages. The delivery on IBC totes is prohibitive but I have a few euro pallets that I could make a cage on. I was thinking of using the lightest reinforcing mesh for reinforcing concrete (A142 mesh)

Any advice from anyone who has tried this would be appreciated 

[Dan Maynard]

I'm sure I've read on here some people are using stock fencing, if you're prepared to make a circle rather than square cornered rectangle then it doesn't need to be too strong. I've the same issue, only 10 ibcs but do have some more pallets.

[Steve Bramwell]

Hi Dan thanks for your reply. The IBC cages seem a good idea but unless you can collect or buy more than I can take the delivery kills it

I stacked a cord in an open stack building a stacked wall around and putting all the irregular shaped stuff in the centre. To be honest throwing it into a cage would be much faster.

The reinforcing mesh seems to be the most cost effective way compared to other options. I was  thinking of making it into a circular shape and welding it so it can’t open out then fixing it onto a pallet base. 

[Steve Bramwell]

Stock fencing might be an idea, hadn’t considered that. I’ll price it up as a comparison, thanks.

[Dan Maynard]

The other thing about a loose ring is when it comes to emptying you can hopefully lift the ring away to get at the last layer, rather than having to reach right down or climb inside like an IBC.

[Steven P]

If you have a supply of pallets can you use stringers to give corner supports to a mesh frame, a 1m pallet will give just under 1m3 capacity. Fix 3 sides of the mesh and the 4th side bolt onto the 2 adjacent supports, come time to empty unbolt it and empty. Get it right you should be able to make them stackable like this too.

[Steve Bramwell]

That’s a good idea, I’d need to get 3 extra pallets as I have 3 of the Euro pallets as a base but I have someone who could get me a couple no problem

Thanks for the suggestion, cutting one sheet of A142 mesh in half would do front and back and as both you and Dan have pointed out you’d not be wanting something difficult to access

[AHPP]

6 hours ago, Steven P said:

If you have a supply of pallets can you use stringers to give corner supports to a mesh frame, a 1m pallet will give just under 1m3 capacity. Fix 3 sides of the mesh and the 4th side bolt onto the 2 adjacent supports, come time to empty unbolt it and empty. Get it right you should be able to make them stackable like this too.

Read it three times. Failure of comprehension or intelligence. You’re going to have to sketch it please. 

[Steven P]

1 hour ago, AHPP said:

Read it three times. Failure of comprehension or intelligence. You’re going to have to sketch it please. 

 

Probably my writing - whoops...

 

With pallets something like this? Might need a frame round the top edge too. Uprights are stringers from other pallets, spare slats make kindling. Imagine the front face has mesh, and could probably wrap around one side of the 'door' to a hinge and lose those 2 bolts perhaps.

 

 

 

 

Never made anything up, though my log stacks are all on pallets / bricks off the ground. Winter inside logs go the 'other side' of my work bench, a solid wood wall instead of the mesh. Anyway, never made anything like this... yet... so I'll take no liability if it all falls apart first time a dog sneezes at it.

 

Edited 42 minutes ago by Steven P

[JAG63]

Last IBCs I got were £25 a piece and £25 for every 2 (pallet space) delivery. Was a few years ago mind.