Porch daily firewood rack

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Hi everyone. I haven't posted in quite a while... don't know if you'll remember me.

But anyhow, here's a project I did last year (and "road tested" this past winter & early spring). It's a firewood rack for our porch. The east end of the porch itself sits only about 10 yards from the big shed where we stack a winter's worth of mostly split firewood. I bring split wood & rounds over to the porch rack without too much effort.
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I made the rack from 2" and 1.5" square steel tubing that I welded together. We have an efficient wood-heating system, so the rack didn't need to be too awfully large. IOW, I designed the rack so about 24-hour's worth of wood could easily be stacked there, and we can easily get to our choice of the sizes of chunks we need upcoming. Also, there is room underneath for temporary placement of whatever. For instance, we usually use a spot on the porch as a second "refrigerator" in winter (note the largish pot in the pic below).
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I didn't take a shot of the loaded rack during the cold snaps in winter, but we had wood heaped quite a bit higher! We started a habit of stacking small pieces to the left, larger ones to the right so we could easily select what we wanted at any time.

This rack replaced one we had that was taller and narrower but, because of that, made it hard to select the size of wood we might want. Larger, heavier pieces often wound up too near the bottom, and the bottom was actually only a couple inches above porch-floor level.:barnie

Anyhow, we're pleased with this thing.

Wishing you all a good spring, good gardens, and all like that!
 

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Sure wish I had the capabilities to do welding here! So, so many projects that can be done with that. I love the way you designed that rack, Joel....room underneath for shoes, an ash bucket, a cat bed, etc.
I wonder if there are opportunities for you near home? I can think of a couple situations I've seen here & there... Night school or weekend courses (and access to equipment via schools). Shared-use facilities open to the public, often involving a membership of some sort - such as what is called a "maker's space". You need instruction for the safety & the how-to at first... then it's just a matter of practice & your skills improve. You can pick up many tips & refinements via Youtube.

There's no doubt that women can learn to be good welders. They did it as a job in the factories & shipyards during WW2. And many women now are learning through ag-mechanics courses, or art-school classes, etc. You wouldn't need to own the equipment necessarily. A lot of people develop a relationship with a school & afterwards can get access to the equipment at times.
 

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There's no doubt that women can learn to be good welders. They did it as a job in the factories & shipyards during WW2. And many women now are learning through ag-mechanics courses, or art-school classes, etc. You wouldn't need to own the equipment necessarily. A lot of people develop a relationship with a school & afterwards can get access to the equipment at times.
A picture's worth a thousand words...
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(a popular picture on Pinterest)
 

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Sure wish I had the capabilities to do welding here! So, so many projects that can be done with that. I love the way you designed that rack, Joel....room underneath for shoes, an ash bucket, a cat bed, etc.

I love things designed for ergonomics and that rack seems to be just that...high enough off the ground for good access without breaking your back and high enough for dual storage. Excellent design! :woot
 

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Hello stranger, of course we remember you! :) That wood rack is really neat, thank you for sharing.
 

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hey, I remember you! I like seeing your projects! You have a different skill set than me, so seeing your projects helps me think outside my self-created box.
 

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Back in Service...

1st Fall Wood Stack 2017.JPG


Well, freakish weather this year. Long cold stretch during spring, hot & very dry summer (with many extensive forest fires in our province), then coldish nights starting in mid September! That's about five or six weeks ahead of typical. Finally getting some rain in mid and late October, but cool days, cold nights. Snow expected tomorrow, but we’ll see just how much and how long it lasts… or is this the actual beginning of winter?

We were carrying in a few pieces of firewood for morning and evening, but in the last week started to make mid-size loads—like the one pictured—for more hours per day of home heat.

Instead of our usual four-cord consumption, it’ll be five anyway this fall-winter-spring.
 

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