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  • log, coal storage
  • smartay
    Full Member

    Hi all
    lets see your log storage, coal bunker type solutions. Miine at moment consists of stacking logs, bags of coal in garage

    trail_rat
    Free Member

    No where near as fancy as mcmoonter but works well to dry out wood. Its open on both ends but with shelter from fence slats .

    Coal goes in one of those plastic bins with the twisty tops.

    I rarely use coal but before i found suppliers that would supply wood in 5 tonne loads or multiples of we would run out mid winter and wood was hard to find plus expensive so used to supliment with coal as it was easy to get hold of.

    Drac
    Full Member

    My logs go in a homemade store made with pallets, coal goes in a coal bunker.

    footflaps
    Full Member

    This down the garden

    [url=https://flic.kr/p/m7xsc4]Wood store[/url] by brf, on Flickr

    and this nearer the house with coal just stacked in 25kg bags

    [url=https://flic.kr/p/q3ssM7]Untitled[/url] by brf, on Flickr

    muddodger
    Free Member

    [IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v356/rob4462/logs.jpg[/IMG][/URL]
    For logs in the garage

    for coal, can fit about 200kg in that.Sits in the corner of the driveway

    djambo
    Free Member

    The base is made from one pallet cut in half, the sides from bits of old pallet and for the roof I yielded and bought a roll of cheap shed felt. Works a treat.

    CharlieMungus
    Free Member

    I built one of these for storage, but when i came to stock it, some bugger had nicked all my wood

    wrightyson
    Free Member

    I really don’t see the need to gave that much wood on stock. How much are you lot paying to keep that amount Unburnt? Aimed at footflaps and not djambo clearly 😛

    samuri
    Free Member

    Big log store

    [url=https://flic.kr/p/odsEng]Full Wood Store[/url] by Jon Wyatt, on Flickr

    Little log store

    [url=https://flic.kr/p/iFsbk3]Wood store[/url] by Jon Wyatt, on Flickr

    We keep bags of coal in my bike shed during winter. We also keep a bin of wood in the garage next to the house.

    crankboy
    Free Member

    Can’t be showing mine again it looks like all the others made of old pallets but has the added beauty of being topped by a flat ish roof covered in pondlinner trimmed with wood topped with crushed brick and carden rubble and compost and sown with sedum semper vivum and wild flowers.

    smartay
    Full Member

    Few varitions there and a bit of lateral thinking,

    Crankboy must be a sturdy structure to support all that weight on the roof

    footflaps
    Full Member

    I really don’t see the need to gave that much wood on stock. How much are you lot paying to keep that amount Unburnt? Aimed at footflaps and not djambo clearly

    I cut down a Sycamore tree, which is where it all came from….

    [url=https://flic.kr/p/k9vvv9]Tree felling[/url] by brf, on Flickr

    [url=https://flic.kr/p/kmvZ5g]Bit of a mess[/url] by brf, on Flickr

    [url=https://flic.kr/p/knWANX]Sycamore Tree kit[/url] by brf, on Flickr

    crankboy
    Free Member

    not really the topping is only 1/2 inch on one shed to an inch thick on the other , the thin one has sedum stonecrop and some random stuff the thick has as a wider range.

    ourmaninthenorth
    Full Member

    Last year’s supply (this year’s looks much the same, albeit the store’s still pretty full):

    [url=https://flic.kr/p/oK7ubK]DSC_0151[/url]

    Teetosugars
    Free Member

    Mine..

    Not as big as others on here, but it does us fine.

    cb
    Full Member

    teeto – did you ad-lib with that or build to a certain design? Its the kind of size of store that I want but am pretty clueless as to how to go about it.

    ski
    Free Member

    Been getting on average, one email a month after posting my design on here 😉

    The idea was, I wanted a little extra storage at home that I could fold away once I had emptied the store, a simple, temporary storage solution.

    Using featherboards, old partition planking, door hinges, cut down pallets for a base, plus some guttering on top, screwed to one side only. I use a chain and hook at the bottom which goes under the pallet which sets the angle.

    Only change I would make, would be to add a larger ventilation gap at the bottom to get more air from the sides.

    I sized it so I can get two rows of wood deep, helps keep it secure as it drys/shrinks.

    (edit) I now have six wood stores at home, plus a monster of a store at a local farm, still got some way to go before I reach Footflaps utopia though.

    You can never have too much wood is my motto 😉

    cb
    Full Member

    Ski – always admired those!

    globalti
    Free Member

    Very similar to djambo’s pallet design:

    But my farmer neighbour beats the lot of you; this is just a corner of his shed:

    mrmonkfinger
    Free Member

    Fancy? Er, no. I’m not going to post any pictures of ours as they are an aesthetic disaster zone.

    Coal bunker is a breezeblock extension to the shed. Roughly 3m cubed – enough space to store 2 ton of anthracite, which will do the bulk of our winter heating.

    Wood store is also a breezeblock extension to the shed. Easily fits two full tipper loads of cut logs, or around £300.

    With both full we’re good for the winter.

    Both stores are decaying hulks with leaky roofs put up in haphazard fashion by previous occupants. The coal and wood are covered with pond liners to keep them dry. Happy days (or not).

    mcmoonter
    Free Member

    I’m experimenting with freestanding log piles. Trouble is they are too pretty to burn.

    Tiger6791
    Full Member

    Be tempting to pop a fire lighter in the bottom just to see if it would…..(pun intended) 👿

    Tiger6791
    Full Member

    Anyway……

    It seems you lot have all got it wrong.

    I favour open, chipboard and non square corners to store my wood.

    FeeFoo
    Free Member

    [/url] image by FeeeFooo, on Flickr[/img]

    My neatly stacked stock. All scavenged from friends and family and all free.
    Also have another couple of shelters for newer logs.
    As above, you can never have enough wood!

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