log storage shed ideas

[simonm]

Im in the process of building a open storage shed for my logs...Ive managed to source some telegraph poles for the uprights was going to use old scaffold boards and strip as many free pallets down for the sides steel box section for the roof... Any photos of your storage sheds would be great "always good to knock a few ideas about"

[rustcutter]

I used to use an old pig ark "roof"; that is semi circular corrugated iron about 6 foot across and 12 foot long. Stack the wood in a pile in a dry stone wall style to the width of the footprint of the pig ark "roof" and length to support the shelter and whatever height you have wood to store. Trick was use the seasoned wood from one end then shuffle the roof along a bit, thereby creating an overhang at the other end for your new cut wood. I found that by the time I had used up the initial pile the start of the new cut was ready to use. I had several of them used for various temporary shelter purposes; so a new start could be made when I had reached the end of the plot. Needs a bit of space though but within reason quite a large travelling log store on these lines could be created on a pair of skids or wheels and dragged along with a tractor. Anybody else done this?

[ballibeg]

Raised off ground. Tin roof. Holds 27m3.

 

 

Use half a year. Does take two years to season as stacked tightly.

 

Dave

[csservices]

Bulit using some 4"x4" timbers given by a customer, some 3" x 2" s leftover from a job and som secondhand tin sheets I had sat on the yard, pallet floor and pallets round two sides too allow good airflow

[Central]

We use car ports.

 

6m x 3m x 2.5m

 

Logs stacked on pallets

 

Car port frames bungeed to the pallets

[the village idiot]

We use car ports.

 

6m x 3m x 2.5m

 

Logs stacked on pallets

 

Car port frames bungeed to the pallets

 

Do you find these to be robust enough? Do they require ongoing maintenance?

I am looking into them myself at the moment.

 

Many thanks TVI

[nepia]

Bulit using some 4"x4" timbers given by a customer, some 3" x 2" s leftover from a job and som secondhand tin sheets I had sat on the yard, pallet floor and pallets round two sides too allow good airflow

 

 

Good access there with all those doors!

[nepia]

I used to use an old pig ark "roof"; that is semi circular corrugated iron about 6 foot across and 12 foot long. Stack the wood in a pile in a dry stone wall style to the width of the footprint of the pig ark "roof" and length to support the shelter and whatever height you have wood to store. Trick was use the seasoned wood from one end then shuffle the roof along a bit, thereby creating an overhang at the other end for your new cut wood. I found that by the time I had used up the initial pile the start of the new cut was ready to use. I had several of them used for various temporary shelter purposes; so a new start could be made when I had reached the end of the plot. Needs a bit of space though but within reason quite a large travelling log store on these lines could be created on a pair of skids or wheels and dragged along with a tractor. Anybody else done this?

 

 

That's excellent; 10/10 to you. I saw a Youtube vid (maybe put up by someone on here) of a classic OTT American domestic setup where the whole shebang was on a length of railway track: the guy used his mini digger to shunt the lot along a bay's length each time one ran out!

 

...Found it.

Edited November 23, 2013 by nepia

[csservices]

Good access there with all those doors!

 

Haha yep my brother dumped them in the shed while doing his house up and I decided they would do as a temporary side til I get the tin sheets on it

[Central]

Do you find these to be robust enough? Do they require ongoing maintenance?

I am looking into them myself at the moment.

 

Many thanks TVI

 

 

So far they have survived the high winds we had last week without issue, though ours are well sheltered by adjacent mature trees, a small hill and a good size metal shed.

 

Condensation occurs on the inside so you have it keep the doors open either end. So we left a 1m gap before stacking the wood to keep the wood away from the worst of the driving rain.

 

As for ongoing maintenance, they have only been up 6 months. The one we bought used had a leak on a seam, but we repaired that with tent seam sealant.

 

Touch wood, ok so far.