Build Firewood Storage For Minimal Handling

Want to build your own DIY firewood box? Learn to build firewood storage for minimal handling and restacking. This firewood box design minimizes the time it takes to fill and stack wood from forest to stove.

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Want to build your own DIY firewood box? Learn to build firewood storage for minimal handling and restacking. This firewood box design minimizes the time it takes to fill and stack wood from forest to stove.

What takes so long about getting in firewood? Cutting? Hauling? No. When you think about it, the tedious part of the job is the stacking and restacking, right?

Let’s say you get your fuel directly out of the woods, in the form of logs. That means you’ve got to [1] load the firewood on a truck, take it home and [2] stack it again in a pile. Then you cut it in stove-length pieces, [3] pile these in a wheelbarrow or other conveyance and transport them to the woodshed where they’re [4] stacked yet another time. Finally, you [5] bring the sticks as needed to the firewood box by the stove.

That’s five handlings in all! Even if your “stacking” is really more like tossing the chunks in a heap, it still requires moving all that wood bit by bit, one or two lengths per toss. THIS TAKES TIME . . . and the messier the pile, the longer you work to dislodge each unit on the next go-round.

There has to be a less time-consuming way to move firewood from the forest to the stove. After all, the important thing is having that overflowing firewood box in the kitchen where you need it . . . so why not just take the box itself to the woods and fill it on the spot? Then you can transport the whole business straight to the house (forget the intermediate loading and unloading) and — when it’s empty — replace it with a full container.

  • Updated on May 9, 2023
  • Originally Published on Jan 1, 1975
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