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Title: Drain culverts for moveable storage?
Post by: silver star on January 10, 2015, 05:52:09 PM
Hi. My first post. I am in the second week of my central boiler 6048. Will be illegal to buyin Indiana this year. A neighbor has an older system and came by to look mine over.

During conversation he heard od people using 4 foot diameter culvert pipe to store firewood. Just use hay forks to pick up and transport. Serms pretty slick. I thought i could cut up the fallen trees around the farm, lfill the culvert at the cutting site, then deliver it to the boiler when needed.

Anyone using this method?
Title: Re: Drain culverts for moveable storage?
Post by: Bud Man on January 10, 2015, 10:22:37 PM
Haven't heard of that before but it just might work.

I use hay racks. Old wagon running gears are cheap, put flooring from old abandoned hog confinements on them and you have a rolling 7'X15' firewood storage solution. I let them sit out in the wind and sun until Nov. of the year I need them then back them in the shed to keep snow off them. I pull them out and back them into the shed the boiler is in when I need them.
Title: Re: Drain culverts for moveable storage?
Post by: mlappin on January 10, 2015, 10:53:48 PM
Haven't heard of that before but it just might work.

I use hay racks. Old wagon running gears are cheap, put flooring from old abandoned hog confinements on them and you have a rolling 7'X15' firewood storage solution. I let them sit out in the wind and sun until Nov. of the year I need them then back them in the shed to keep snow off them. I pull them out and back them into the shed the boiler is in when I need them.

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Title: Re: Drain culverts for moveable storage?
Post by: Jwood on January 11, 2015, 12:50:58 AM
If you could find used culvert but buying culvert isn't cheap
Title: Re: Drain culverts for moveable storage?
Post by: silver star on January 11, 2015, 06:31:18 PM
My brother replaces the old type brodges with some new type of culvert, and could likely bring me scrapped out ones from job sites, and I could likely hit up the county road dept. For what they drag back.

I wouldnt want to try cutting one to size. Doesnt sound like how I want to spent time.