Timber stack covers?

[StephF]

Think we'l give the toptex a try, not found anything that does'nt 'pool' water, especially after a lot of snow! Tried some black polythene sheeting before, (used for damp proof membrane) lasted 2 years. The latest stuff is made from recycled material and was rubbish, ripped before it was on logs and useless after a strong wind.

[Logan]

Think we'l give the toptex a try, not found anything that does'nt 'pool' water, especially after a lot of snow! Tried some black polythene sheeting before, (used for damp proof membrane) lasted 2 years. The latest stuff is made from recycled material and was rubbish, ripped before it was on logs and useless after a strong wind.

 

hello Steph, we've been using topgrade green tarps from Tarpaulins Direct Home Page

Been buying from them for 15 years or more, and are still using some of the original sheets!

We buy the larger sizes and cut them into strips, they don't unraval at all. Even if accidentally smash log on them, any small tears don't seem to get worse. Bit of gaffer tape. We used to buy the special tape from them for sticking the cut edges over, but found didn't need to. We use large penny washers and a impact screwdriver and short screws and only sheet over top, sometimes the sheets cover the rows for couple of years til it gets sold.

Cutting up a 20 x 30m sheet feels like a crime, but we like long strips, so...

 

Topgrade does it for us!

 

I should get commission for this:-)

[forestgough]

Saw some tarp type things on ebay,they are the banner advertising signs as mentioned earlier.I took the number down[07850570001]but haven't bought any yet.

They were only about a tenner for a ten foot by twenty foot cover.so worth a punt.

[Joy Yeomans]

best we use are ex curtainsider wagon sheets, heavy but lift on folded up with loadall then can spread out reasonably easy.

[Logan]

We also use truck curtainsides here and there, but sometimes find they leak where they've been repaired.

 

Also, if the stacks are in an area of natural beauty, several hundred tonnes under matching clean green sheets blends in better than a dozen different colour dirty old truck sides. Maybe more expensive though you do get a lot of strips out of a large tarp.

 

You people finding batches of 12m sides for £10 a sheet?

 

Cheers, John.

[Hodge]

just seen this in the new addition of essential Arb.

 

 

Hodge

[StephF]

hello Steph, we've been using topgrade green tarps from Tarpaulins Direct Home Page

Been buying from them for 15 years or more, and are still using some of the original sheets!

We buy the larger sizes and cut them into strips, they don't unraval at all. Even if accidentally smash log on them, any small tears don't seem to get worse. Bit of gaffer tape. We used to buy the special tape from them for sticking the cut edges over, but found didn't need to. We use large penny washers and a impact screwdriver and short screws and only sheet over top, sometimes the sheets cover the rows for couple of years til it gets sold.

Cutting up a 20 x 30m sheet feels like a crime, but we like long strips, so...

 

Topgrade does it for us!

 

I should get commission for this:-)

 

Thanks, been having a look at these, how wide do you cut them?

[StephF]

[ATTACH]162962[/ATTACH] just seen this in the new addition of essential Arb.

 

 

Hodge

 

I missed this, what a machine, could buy one just for sheeting up eh!

[Logan]

Thanks, been having a look at these, how wide do you cut them?

 

hello mate, basically I cut them half a metre wider than the log length of the stack, and try to buy the best sheet that allows for this measurment. this works ok if stack is fairly straight.

 

That picture posted there, I love everything about it. Logging heaven.

 

Cheers, John.

[chris hennelly]

try local scaffold firms,they use stuff only once and skip it,