So.....what do you have next to your woodstove to put wood in?

[momtomany]

Wanting to have something next to the woodstove to put wood in (just a little, so I can add a few logs on easily). Anyone have ideas that would look nice, but may not be the "firewood log holder" that I see on many websites? Would love to see pics of all your woodstove log holder ideas! Thanks! Sue

[francismilker]

I don't have any pictures of it, but I simply built a box out of plywood 20" wide (to easily accomodate 18" wood) and 30" long. Then, I took some old casters off of an office chair that was ready for the dump and screwed them to the bottom. It works great because I can roll it in and out of the house to load it up with a day's supply of wood and don't have to haul it in my arms getting bark and debris everywhere. About once a week I actually roll it to the edge of the porch and tip it over to dump out all of the bark and dirt that accumulates in the bottom of it. It has really cut down on the amount of sweeping my wife has to do around the fire area. Plus, it's easy to move around if you need to sweep or vacuum around it.

[Alex]

We have a, wood door, so we can load wood from outside without bringing it into the house. In the house we have wood box. We keep small wood and kindling for Katie-the-Cook-Stove on the left and big wood for the Blaze King on the right.

I usually fill the Blaze King before I go to bed, and then during the next day, depending on the weather. I carry the wood from the woodbox to Blaze King.
We used to have both Katie and the Blaze King near the wood box, but we moved Blaze King to the other side, 20'-8" away, so it's not too far to carry it.


Pancakes on Katie-the-Cook-Stove and just beyond is our wood box.


On the outside we put wood through the door and drop it right into the wood box. One person can stack it from outside, and it helps if someone on the inside will arrange it a little.

Our system is fantastic, we have been using it for thirty-six years.

Good Luck,
Alex

[jassytoo]

I don't have a photo either. Our wood is kept in a big copper bucket. It's 19" in diameter, 12" deep and has a handle. I got it at a farm auction about 20 years ago. I have no idea what it's really meant to be used for but it looks nice on the brick hearth next to the woodstove.

[Humburger]

A plywood woodbox that is five feet long, two feet deep, and two feet high with three sections. The first section holds kindling and small wood and the other two sections hold big wood. We haven't gotten the lid on it, yet. (And may not ever. Beloved likes to stack the wood really high in the box. When full, it lasts for over five days.)

[FlagWaver]

I use an old crock with a crack in the bottom to hold kindling and a black metal half circle type firewood rack. It holds about two days worth of wood.

[soulsurvivor]

The woodstove sits in an area where the floor and wall behind it are tiled. The tiled area is large enough to accomodate stacked firewood and kindling on the floor at the end of the stove. When the wood is used up, there's a shop vac to vaccum up the crumbs before we haul another load inside. We don't tend to keep wood inside unless there's an icestorm in progress that makes it difficult to bring in the wood. Even wood that's been well dried can hatch out some interesting critters when it gets warm enough sitting by the stove.

[Beeman]

Use old metal milk crates to carry and keep wood near the stove. An old wood "tater" bin keeps kindling. Martha Stewart never stops by to pass judgement any more so it's function more then form.

[meanwhile]

Beside our Fisher Wood Stove we just use large metal tubs. In one we keep hardwood, in the 2nd we keep softer wood and in the 3rd we keep kindling and newspaper. The Fisher is in the basement and so the metal tubs are OK. Upstairs near the Fireplace we use a nice wood box my son built.

[HermitJohn]

I have an old all steel lawn chair next to wood stove to pile wood for the night on. Cat litter box fits nicely underneath. I have very limited space so this works out well.

I do have a big ring thing to hold firewood. Somebody dumped truckload junk on my property where county road passes through and it was in that. I ever build bigger house, can use it. Or just continue using the lawn chair. The chair is quite functional and can even be used as a chair when empty and stove isnt cranked up.

[sidepasser]

Just a plain wooden box made out of plywood. It is on casters though so can be moved to be cleaned around. Works well for me, though I have thought I'd like something "fancier", this one will serve until it falls apart, which it appears to be doing due to age. Then I'll build something a bit nicer but will always have casters on it, those are a life saver!

[Cabin Fever]

Originally Posted by momtomany

So.....what do you have next to your woodstove to put wood in?

Sliding glass doors and a porch.

[chickenista]

In the barn we found an old crate. It is about 4 feet long and about 2 1/2 feet high.
It is reminiscent of an old ammo crate. It fits in the corner great.
We use 5 gal. buckets for starter and kindling.
I still have to sweep a lot though.

[7thswan]

Next to the cook stove-a 24 x 13 T round copper pot (?) and a 10 gal.crock. Next to the woodburner, a Huge cast iorn pot with lid, holds paper and firestarters. Armfulls of wood come at night and lay on the floor next to stove.

[where I want to]

I'm new with this wood stove stuff but I have been using an old marble topped wash stand what has tall legs. I use the chamber pot cabinet for storing kindling and paper, and the area between the legs holds the days firewood with a carpet underneath. I just pull out the carpet when I need to restock the wood and shake it out the back door.
The remark about insects in the wood coming out in the heat is true- I think I will make a box to fit between the legs when I have time.

[samm]

our sun room is right beside the den, and and we keep wood in the sun room in a recycled lick tub from the cows,we keep 2 lick tubs full of split and unsplit logs, and i have a big old metel pot that my grandparents used to cook outside that we keep smaller kindeling in.... and the wood in the rings is right outside of the sun room..and the cords are stacked down in the yard by the trees..its all very handy...maybe not as purty as some, but my husband likes it, and it works for me...
samm

[DW]

we do not keep our wood in the house b/c of bugs BUT on the porch we have a cute big green garden wagon that holds our wood. We just step out the front door to get the wood.

[Jennifer L.]

I use one of these to haul from the back porch and while it's nothing great to look at, it does hold a day's worth of wood.

http://carts.cartsvermont.com/produc...cat=243&page=1

Martha Stewart doesn't visit here, either, and the Queen of England has not shown up, so I feel pretty safe on the "gosh, that looks bad" department.



Jennifer

[turtlehead]

We use the same cart Jennifer does to haul the wood from the big pile to the front porch. On the porch we have a metal holder that holds a quarter cord, I guess. We bring it inside and store it beside the stove in a sling that is a lot like this:

[VT Chicklit]

We have a wood rack on our front porch made from a kit and two 8 foot 2X4s. This rack will hold a weeks worth of wood. We have a wood box along side the chimney in the living room. Our wood box is a "repurposed" old wooden tool box of my grandfathers without the lid. It is about 4 X 2 1/2 X 2 1/2. It will hold one days wood. We use an old 22 gallon crock to hold our kindling for the week. I made a cushion on a piece of plywood to place on top of the crock for extra seating. We have a cart like Jennifer's to move wood from the porch to the wood box.