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[coolidge]

Decided to try some other type of rack to take advantage of the single row theory.
My pallet racks work great, but only one row gets full sun.

This one i built different that the one on the tractor, it is narrower at 18" than the other at 24"
I will be going with the 24" for better stability.

Although i won't be able too stack them like the pallet racks.

[mlappin]

I've rethought mine as well. Was gonna go 4x4x4 but then the middle row of wood in em would take a LONG time to dry out, instead will be building them 4 foot high, by 36" wide and around 5 1/2 foot long which will still give me half a cord per rack.

Got to looking around and have come up with a bunch of 2 1/2 OD pipe with 1/4" walls, also have some channel irons that were the tracks for the trolleys on a couple of augers that overturned. I'll use the channels on the end for uprights.

[coolidge]

Definitely more expensive than the free pallets, but I think maintenance is going to be much easier.
Going to check if I can get a deal on 2x6's if I buy 100.
That would give me enough for ten cord.
Roughly $30 each for materials, about 15 minutes to build one.

[dukethebeagle]

find youself some 250 gallon plastic totes.
we get them from local companies.
take the tote out and just use the rack

[coolidge]

I have seen them around, I looked at some last year they wanted $60 a piece for them. Left them there.

[CRJR]

Around me if you go to a local grain elevator  they will give you those metal totes with the plastic tank in them just to get rid of them

[mlappin]

Around me if you go to a local grain elevator  they will give you those metal totes with the plastic tank in them just to get rid of them

The reason they give em away is they don't want to be responsible for properly disposing of the plastic tank in the rack. I can about guarantee if it comes from an elevator it either had a pesticide or herbicide in it, dispose of it the wrong way and the EPA gets involved...have fun.

[CRJR]

I'm 100% sure that's what was in them. I was going to get a whole bunch of them but I haven't figured out who would take the tanks for disposal yet. I work at a body shop and we have a company who we give our plastic bumpers to so the company's that re-manufacture them can't steel them from out by our dumpster and sell us a crap part back. The company that takes them and grinds them up for playgrounds and other things I'm not sure if they would take them or not, probably not

[mlappin]

I highly doubt a standard plastic recycler would take them.

Any more we only buy totes of chemicals if the supplier will like them back when empty so we aren't stuck with the disposal fee.

[beeman]

farmer down the road gave me one said once rinsed out no health hazerd a guy from work would take all he could get uses them for hydroponics  how bad could it be consider what is in chicken and cows [ look at  our children they don't look like kids] gary