Best sheeting for firewood?

[gdh]

We used silage sheeting over the top and about 2ft down the sides. It helped a lot and is relatively cheap but you'll be lucky to use it more than twice before it's wrecked.

[jonnygurkha]

Something I keep meaning to try is to get heras fencing, make it into squares, one panel on each side and fill them with logs, put a tarp over them and they still get the wind but not the rain.. At the moment we are just storing them in the shed but we keep running out and having to split more, I need some form of outside storage too..

 

This is the first year I have tried a heras panel square and so far so good. I've heaped the pile up so with a tarp over the top the water doesn't puddle. 4 new panels, feet and connectors cost £120.

[Tom D]

Heras fencing with a tarp on doesn't work too well. Water pools on the tarp , then drips through. Tried using supports but not much better.

 

Don't you just heap the logs into a pyramid shape rather than fill it level?

[se7enthdevil]

try these things, they are a bit expensive if you've lots to cover but i've had 4 of the 20' ones for 5 years and they still look as good as the day i got them.

 

10ft x 20ft Reinforced Heavy Duty PVC (Polyvinyl Chloride) Sheets | eBay

 

10ft x 40ft Reinforced Heavy Duty PVC (Polyvinyl Chloride) Sheets | eBay

 

 

they are tough ass old boots...

Edited March 5, 2016 by se7enthdevil

[richardwale]

This is the first year I have tried a heras panel square and so far so good. I've heaped the pile up so with a tarp over the top the water doesn't puddle. 4 new panels, feet and connectors cost £120.

 

Do you individually stack all the sides to stop the fencing bowing?

[skyhuck]

Have you not still got a polytunnel are these not used as solar driers

 

Yes have a tunnel, but I have the processor in there and use it to store kiln dryer logs prior to selling. I really want to cover far more timber than I could fit in the tunnel.

 

I'm not wanting to cover split logs ready for sale, its more about drying cord and billets, for the boiler and to reduce kiln time once processed.

[nepia]

I find this stuff really good

Roll of 2m x 45m Scaffold Sheeting Waterproof Monarflex type Sheet | eBay

 

At just 2m wide you can simply unroll it along the top of a stack of billets.

It doesn't last forever, that's true, and is as susceptible to punctures as anything else but it's cheap and so quick and easy to manoeuvre; roll it back to get at billets, roll it forward to re-cover them.

[daveindales]

Just bought a 'heavy duty' tarpaulin off the internet. When it arrived, the packaging said its guaranteed to be waterproof for '18 months'. Don't think it will last as long as the one I've been borrowing off my dad. Used it when we went on holiday in 1981, and it's still 100% waterproof.

[R5log]

Would sheds not be better?

[skyhuck]

Would sheds not be better?

 

Would need to be huge to tip into or crane into, much easier to simply pile it up and sheet it.