This is what I did to store my firewood inside the barn.
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1 Recently rebuilt/fixed my old barn up from being totaled by a windstorm. Took about 2 years to redo and poured a 6 inch thick concrete floor in it with 1/2" rebar. I want to have some wood storage in there so I decided to use some shelving I had. This is the type of shelving that you see in the big box stores.
2 I want to have it so firewood does not touch the wood posts and beams. That way I won't have to rick the ends, I can just stack against the metal. It'll keep the bugs at bay and will help save the barn too. Grinding all the welds out to have single posts and will anchor them to the floor.
3 These were right at 20 ft tall so I cut them in half. 10ft high is more than enough for height. Here is everything cut to length and cleaned up.
4 Top halves need bottom plates to bolt to the floor so I made some up. I'll weld them to the uprights.
5 For the sidewalls, I just let the stock length of the crossmembers dictate where it ended. The backwall needed to be shorter on one section so I need to cut 7 of them down. I just used a chop saw for this.
6 Cut the end plates off and I'll reweld them on to the shorter sections.
7 All done and ready to go.
8 Shot a line and started setting posts and putting the crossmembers in as I went. I left the bottom rail about 6 inches up so I can sweep under it. I'm going to use the cattle panels you see on the floor here to fill in the gap. They will still let air pass through and will hold the wood.
9 I drilled into the floor and secured the posts at the bottom with anchors.
10 I also attached the posts to the upper wood rails to hold them plumb. Just used the U bracing steel I removed from the sections and welded angle iron and flat steel on the ends for attachment. Horizontal rails are spaced so edges of 4 ft cattle panels are supported and 2 rails will be the middle.
11 I used wood blocks on the bottom to keep the panels in place while banding them on. For the top sections, I used 2 pulleys with ropes and hooks to hold them up and adjust as I was working by myself.
12 I'm using Band-it band clamps to hold the panels on. Really strong and smooth so nothing will catch on them
13 These are really nice to use and have a lot of clamping power. These are 5/8" wide and .030 thick.
14 This should be really nice and strong.
15 I have 4 support posts in there so I used 4 posts and cut panels to protect those as well.
16 Plenty strong enough to stack against and they too are lagged at the top via brackets.
17 The post closest to the door I tried to move them toward the center as much as possible. This will give me more roon to back a truck from the center door to the inner bays. Anything that cuts out steps is a win to me.
18 On the tops of the posts, I'm using high tensile wire to help hold the outward force of the stack. Sides connect to each other over top the center. The end wall posts connect are run to the top of the outside post. Just trying to distribute force.
19 Ratchet spools allow tightness/pull to be adjusted. They are braced to the horizontal beams but the wires will help take some of the side push off of them.
20 On the top of the beams where the wire rides and forces down, I used sections of pipe lagged into the beam. Keeps the force from cutting into the wood and binding of the wire.
21 All done now and I'll finally have some nice indoor staorage here at the home place. With it stacked 8 ft high, it figures out to holding 56 cord. With no ricking and no fall overs to deal with, it should make it easier.
22 Cutting at my Dad's and neighbors getting dead stuff and blow downs. kept cutting and hauling while it was dry and figured I'd stockpile the to be split stuff for a rainy day thing.
23 We had a longer than normal dry spell so I was starting to get myself painted in a corner. Stacks are 8 ft high here.
24 I had final stacked the smaller rounds and used my rack system so I have no end ricking to do. I will add a few on out that will require that but I'll get the bulk in first.
25 Splitting inside and using the winch lift saves my back on the bigger stuff. max diameter I can get in with it is 5 ft. Lifting it from behind here.
26 Swing it around and lower it to the wedge.
27 Split the slides and swing the tables out for room. I also leave it hanging on the tongs in the air on the bigger ones. Just another place to store chunks till you get pieces whittled down.
28 Everything I had in there is now split and stacked. Final stacks are 8 1/2 ft high, what I can reach.
29 Mostly beech and ash but have some elm, oak and walnut in there too.
30 That whole block is solid all the way back.
31 This splitter makes quick work of it. I have a 4 way wedge for it but don't use it. Creates too much trash and odd sracking pieces for my taste. I get a lot of crotch and knots so you have to be careful not to create more oddball stuff.
32 On the outside of the racks.
33 After cleaning up after every session ended up with a pretty big truckload of dust, bark and debris.
34 Sure will be nice to push the button and watch all this get pushed out. LOL. Total amount of wood in the stack as of now figures out to 26.5 cord.
