log, coal storage

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

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.

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

This down the garden

Wood store by brf[/url], on Flickr

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

Untitled by brf[/url], on Flickr

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For logs in the garage

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

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.

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

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 😛

Big log store

Full Wood Store by Jon Wyatt[/url], on Flickr

Little log store

Wood store by Jon Wyatt[/url], 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.

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.

Few varitions there and a bit of lateral thinking,

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

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….

Tree felling by brf[/url], on Flickr

Bit of a mess by brf[/url], on Flickr

Sycamore Tree kit by brf[/url], on Flickr

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.

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

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Mine..

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

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.

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 😉

Ski – always admired those!

Very similar to djambo’s pallet design:

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

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).

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

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

Anyway……

It seems you lot have all got it wrong.

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

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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!