What do you haul the firewood into the house with?

A sled!
We have a plastic sled from the farm store, it'll last us 24 hrs usually. Fill it up, drag it in.

5-gallon buckets work for me. The wood is stacked in the barn, about 300ft from the house. Every time I make a trip to the barn, an empty bucket goes with me and gets carried back to the house, filled. About 4 bucketsful will do nicely on a really cold day. Once back at the house, the wood is held in a cardboard banana box in proximity to the stove 'til needed.

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I have a water stove in a wood house beside the living Quarters. WE haul the wood in from the woods with a tractor with a Front End Loader .WE can store enough wood to last all Winter. I love not having to carry the wood into the house. Jay

we tore down our wood shed,, and everythign is stacked now in cellar and back porch,, I have a big upstairs stove on main floor, we have a area next to chimney that hold 4 days worth of wood, I just keep that filled at all time, ds use to help haul alot of wood but this wood is 24" long and alot of it is heavy even for me, but dh like is,, so he has to help.

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We keep our wood against one inside wall of our garage. I bring in several armloads and put them in an old livestock water tank, it keeps the chips and dust in the tank which we dump out in the spring and store it back in the barn. About once a day I'll bring an armload or two up to a wood stand near the woodstove from the livestock tank. Works out real good!!!

Before we moved (no wood here) this is how a typical wood stacking day went:

While I chop the wood the kids play in the yard. When I'm half done (or 1/2 done in) I called the kids over the they start loading up the baby sled (the plastic kind with sides) and start hauling it over to the deck. Our deck have a covered section next to the house, so we just stack it up there. It covered, so very little precipitation hit it and south facing (so it dried faster). Of course my kids are young (9 and 5) so allot of playing happens with that hauling and stacking. The deeper the snow the more fun!

I always try to chop 2-3 days worth at a time (but wood was not our main source of heat...just use during the cold or windy days to keep the bills down...we got the wood for free)

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We carry the firewood from the woodpile to the front porch about once a week. It's a distance of about 20 feet away.

The wood stacked outside on the front porch is about 8 feet from our indoor firebox. Between the outdoor wood and the indoor firebox is a sliding French door. So, we just slide the door open, grab a piece or two of firewood and immediatley throw it in the firebox. In other words, no storage of firewood indoors.

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I use a wagon. I use this in my garden as well. It is a neat tool as the sides come off.

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Our woodshed is not far from the house, so we use those canvas cradle style bags to carry it in. My husband usually brings in 2-4 bags full each day, depending upon how cold it is. If I've run through it all during the day, I bring in one bag at a time because I'm not very big or strong. We have a really neat metal frame that the bags fit over, which holds them open. We put the wooden picnic table in the shed during winter with that frame on it, so we don't have to bend down to pick the bags up.

Big Dave, I've gotten more use out of my son's old wagon than he ever did! We have two little garden carts, plus a wheelbarrow, but I still use that old wagon for everything. I'd say it's a priceless homestead tool.

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I've got a "wood ring" just outside the door that holds about three days worth of fuel (in typical weather here). (The main wood pile is under a metal roofed shed about 100 feet from the house.) I bring wood in as I need to during the day wrapped in newspaper, which kinda'/sorta' helps keep the wood floor and the hearth cleaner than it otherwise would be. The newsaper "wrapper" gets wadded and thrown into the blaze with each load. It works pretty well for me.

As is the custom of some above, I don't store wood inside the house. Sometimes I run into beetles in the pile or other critters (even a Black Widow on very rare occasions). I think it helps to keep the house bug free by storing the wood outside.

One of the nicest things I have seen is to have a pair of cupboard doors near the fireplace (one against an outside wall), open the cupboard and the wood is in there, nicely stacked. On the other side of this cupboard (the outside) is another door, which lets you fill the cupboard from the outside. The house I saw this at had the woodshed right there on that part of the house, with all the wood right there, next to the cupboard, and all that was needed each week was to restack the going-into-the-house closet.

No hauling wood through the house, no mess.

Of course, you might have to be sure of security, too....no point in letting someone come into the house right from the woodcloset.

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Our woodpile is about 100 ft from the house. We don't put it near the house so we don't make homes for rodents.

When I get home from work, I plug in the truck if the weather is cold like it has been/is, and I make 2-3 trips to the woodpile; I carry 3-5 "sticks" of wood, depending on their weight and how amazonian I'm feeling.

We stack right behind the woodstove where there's a space. We can lean the wood nominally against the woodstove, as long as it's next to the ashpan and not the firebox. We try to avoid leaning, though. It gets all full of bits of bark and stuff, but I sweep.

Ain't no children. DH has a bad back. I'm the hauler.

In 1-10 degrees, we'll start the woodstove at 9 am, and use a dozen "sticks" a day. Less other days, depending on how the wood burns, etc.

I use a wheelbarrow or sled when there's snow to get the wood from the garage to the front door. Then I bring it in by hand and put it on the floor. I have to get a wood holder and woodstove brush/shovel etc soon. I should of taken it when I left my old house. I leave any wood I can't carry into the house out in the wheelbarrow or sled until it's empty. Chris

We have a chop saw in the barn for cutting up the logs (first stage).. then we load up a wagon and carry logs ready to split down to the garage (second stage) and pile it up. We split and stack splits in garage and then haul it to the house in either the wagon..or by the armloads..or in a sling thing that came with the house. We use 5 gal. buckets for small sticks and splitting extras..
In the house I have a large wooden box/crate/chest that was in the barn.. It is huge and one filling lasts a day. (though, truth be told..sometimes the wagon just stays parked in the living room) The 5 gal. buckets are rotated in and out as needed.

I have a big plastic container in my living room to hold wood Our routine normally is....use the 2 wheeled cart to haul over a couple f loads and fill the baasement woodbow (Old wooden shipping crate) that can last 4-5 days if we are burning just one stove. We make the kids go into the basement and fill the living room box. I also keep wood on the front porch if it's too muddy by the basement. With that wood I normally just go grab a couple of pieces at a time, and only fill the box up at night.

I would love to build a nice wood box to sit by the stove, we just haven't gooten to it yet. Our stove is also diagonal from the door so we leave a messy trail.

Our old house had a pass through from the garage beside the woodstove. That was nice! Wish I could do it here.

Good thread - good ideas!

I have no covered area near the house so I haul chopped wood by wheel barrow to the house, then up the stairs by canvas tote.
I have on old Lane hope chest that's been converted to a wood box. It holds about 3 wheel barrow fulls. I try to rotate the wood by first in, first out (first into the house, first into the wood stove) as I find that method helps dry the wood out more from the rain & snow even though the wood pile is covered.

Can't wait to get a covered back porch as this method leaves a lot to be desired as one gets older. Messy too. Love the idea of a wood cupboard

Oh, I also have a galvanized wash bucket that holds kindling.

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I also take the basement window out and throw it in. I usually pile 10 to 12 face cords so it is good and dry. When I need some upstairs for that fireplace I use a banana box that has two handles and is good and strong. Most is burned downstairs in the wood boiler.

wood pile to house we use the small john deer tractor and a garden cart.
Then it gets stacked on the deck I guess about 1/3 face cord from there it is brang in the house using a human chain and stacked by the wall about 4 feet away from the stove. the stuff on the deck lasts a good week and the stuff in the house lasts 2 to 3 days. no matter what we do its always messy and i guess thats part of life when you dont pay for heat.

Our wood pile is just ouside our back door and about 50 feet from the stove. We also have a wagon from TSC that is filled up as needed. The wagon holds apprx. 2 wood cart loads. We have 2 wood carts that are used. They were purchased from Harbor Freight (http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/cta...emnumber=44599)
The 2 full wood carts and the full wagon will last us about 5 days.

Our wood stove is in the basement, the wood is cut at the farm, hauled in the back of the pickup to the house, most is unloaded into a covered rack, the remained is placed in the dry, under the carport, in a 5x2 ft. box. When I need wood, I use the wood from under the carport. Dh has built a box on a metal rack (with a shelf on the bottom) it has wheels. I just roll the huge box on wheels out to the back door and load the box with wood, the bottom shelf has two bins--one has fat wood and the other has scrap lumber, then I roll it to the room where the wood stove is. It takes me maybe twenty minutes to empty the ashes, fill the boxes and start the fire!

Since it has been really dry (not much rain) I have been just rolling the box out to the covered rack and leaving the wood that is under the carport for hard times..QB