Bang For Your Buck Wood Storage | The Modern Mountain Man Project

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@scottbee501 11 ай бұрын

Well done. I live in the country in central Illinois and I heat a lot with a wood stove. Unfortunately I lost about 5 huge white and red oak trees due to a disease. But, now I have a lot of seasoned wood. I built two lean-to wood sheds from a large re-purposed wooden fence that a neighbor gave me. Thanks neighbor. My wife and I love wood heat. Funny, we can’t wait. Wood stove, cup of coffee and cats in our lap.

@HabeasJ 11 ай бұрын

Too bad the trees died but at least you have some good wood! I started a fire yesterday and it was nice to think about the coming winter. Of course once winter hits I'll be antsy for spring, but that's the fun of having seasons. . Thanks for watching

@aaronsarquist3382 10 ай бұрын

Brought me back to my childhood working with my dad to fell and process logs. Great time with him and my 4 brothers. With all our youthful energy dad didnt have to use a hydraulic splitter lol. Keep it up, i cant wait for the rest of this series!

@SouthoftheBigChicken 11 ай бұрын

Kinda, Sorta, What I do. I live in Georgia, so I have to content with termites, fire ants, and copperheads. I place concrete blocks on the ground, with 2"x4" runners, metal on top of wood, rocks on metal to hold it down and about 18 inches of space between runs for air flow. I burn a mostly hardwood so takes longer to dry wood with our humidity in the summer. I like 2-3 years of drying before burning. Different parts of the country have to do things a little different. Great Video, thanks for sharing. I will tell you; a wood stove fire is one of my greatest simple pleasures in life, sometimes I watch TV, sometimes I listen to music, and sometimes I sit in the dark and watch the fire burn.

@HabeasJ 11 ай бұрын

Totally agree with the joys of wood heat. I just started my first fire of the season yesterday and it was really nice. Something about heating a house with a stove just feels different . Thanks for watching

@alldabeanzracing9650 11 ай бұрын

Those wood pallets will rot out super-fast being laid down on the ground like that. A lot of times you can find those heavy-duty plastic pallets for free as well... and they'll last a super long time. Really though, if you have enough trees to fell for firewood, you have enough to build a lean to, which would be the best long-term solution.

@HabeasJ 11 ай бұрын

Most pallets are treats with chemicals so they rot very slow. And since this firewood is going to be burned or sold every year, if I notice a pallet going bad I can just replace it when needed. If I had access to free plastic pallets, I'd gladly take advantage of them. . I was planning on using logs to build a shed, but similar to your concern about the pallets, untreated pine logs sitting in the ground will only last about 5-6 years at most. You could get 10 or so years if I treated them with oil, but that's no more "long term" than my design in this video. Then if you spec out the cost to build a shed that could hold roughly as much wood (11ish cords), the price goes from $450 for the materials in this video, up to about $1,000-1,200 for all the concrete, pressure treated and non pressure treated wood, and metal for the roof. And once that sheds built, it would be a lot tougher and more expensive to expand. With this design, all it takes to expand is a few pallets an a sheet of metal. . Thanks for watching

@SonOfASilverStacker 11 ай бұрын

wow, that gets cold and dark real quick!!!

@HabeasJ 11 ай бұрын

Yessir. We usually see our first snow sometime in october and it'll stick until march or so. The dark is what really gets annoying... roughly 16 hours of night around the solstice😵‍💫 . Thanks for checking out the channel Stacker! I'm always look forward to your videos

@SonOfASilverStacker 11 ай бұрын

@@HabeasJ Thanks, man! You live in a really beautiful part of the country!

@dcrosco1458 11 ай бұрын

I burn my tarps when they get full of holes I also use pallets with tarps on top

@HabeasJ 11 ай бұрын

I won't open up the can of worm associated with burning plastics, so to each their own I guess

@AN-xm3ym 11 ай бұрын

Hey, just found your channel. Great work. I live on a farm in the mountains in south germany. I store my wood on a construction like yours, direct at the walls around my house so the roof goes over it and keeps it dry Greetings 🎉

@HabeasJ 11 ай бұрын

Very cool. Thanks for checking out my channel. Stay warm this winter!