What do you haul the firewood into the house with?

kidpower (ages 12, 6, and 4) brings our wood into our enclosed front porch where it is stacked.

Michelle

P.S. The 4-year-old outworks the other two, plus some!

Same as shellbug = kid power and store on screen porch.

We use those plastic sturdy black pots that trees are sold in at plant places, I don't know the size but they are big. A friend gave us a stack of them 4 years ago and we are still using them. All summer the kids pick up sticks and stand them up on end into the black pots. Then when we need kindling, we just move a pot to the front porch. We keep two on porch to dry out and the rest under a shed just like our wood sheds.

Then when we haul wood into the house, we use a black pot too. We keep two of these on the porch, and we just drag it into house when needed.

In our basement, where we use an old Fisher wood Stove, we keep the wood in large metal tubs. Kids fill them up as needed - one for that day and the 2nd to be inside and ready for the next day.

If we know a storm is coming or rain, we just put an extra pot of wood on the porch or in basement. At times when a really big storm coming, the kids fill up the wagon and drag it on front porch and a 2nd wagon full goes up near the outside basement door.

We keep the wood shed near the basement door. If your wood shed is too far from house, like ours was when we bought our place, move it! It has made the wood fetching so much easier.

Stay warm.

I agree. I'm not very fond of our set-up, but we didn't build the house and there's no way to move the masonry chimney or the fireplace closer to the door

Michelle

Termites are a huge concern here, so I have the woodpile stacked on concrete under this porch on my shop, built just for the purpose. The porch is pretty full at the start of each winter. It is across the drive from my house.



I use a wheelbarrow to bring the wood to a 4-foot-high wood holder on the covered front porch. Then I use a cloth wood carrier to bring it in near the stove as-needed. At the stove, we have an old copper water tub where we store smaller pieces, while the rest is simply laid down in the carrier until it is used up and a new load must come in.



BTW, in front of the carrier you see a pair of orangish-brown leather welding gloves, available cheap from Harbor Freight or any number of discount stores. This pair cost me $3. They are invaluable for just picking up hot logs and moving them in the stove when needed, and for moving hot damper controls.

Anyone building a place might want to consider the coolest wood system I have ever seen. Next to the masonry chimney was a wood storage box that went from indoors to the attached garage. There was a door inside, and one in the garage. The wood was hauled to the garage, then stacked in this storage area. Open the inside door, and there it was! A really great idea I saw about 20 years ago at a friend's house and have never forgotten.

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We don't have the greatest arrangement (still working on that) as we have two woodstoves basically at the opposite ends of the house (do have outside access to both) but very little room to stack any amount inside. We have a lean-to sort of woodshelter outside each of the rooms with stoves. To save the "nearest to the house" wood for when the weather is worst, I've been moving from the stack a ways from the house with a Garden Way cart. It's been a lifesaver. I then move it on a small wheeled log cart closer to the stoves. We stack by the stoves, but it's not tidy or efficient. Somebody above described a U-shaped rack attached to a handcart (I assume they meant what we call a two-wheeler) which is pretty much what this little cart is, but really lightweight (almost lightweight enough it looks tinny, but it works.) It's a factory-built that we got free from someone who was moving and was going to throw it out because it no longer looked nice (that's ok, we don't mind! ). We bought a bigger, heavier version of the same basic design last year, from Harbor Freight (I think it was only about $30, very reasonable) but the wheelbase is too wide to come through our doors. Our neighbor has an identical one (but wider doorways) that he's had for about 6-7 yrs and is still happy with it. I'm going to ask him if he thinks it'll work to shorten the wheelbase; it'll be a lot more efficient than the little one. I have a dream of building an actual woodroom off the back door (have the cement slab for it already). In fact I'd like to extend the slab another 16 feet, make the room that big, and open up a new door at the opposite end of it into the family room, then we can store all the wood in the same place, just have access to it into both rooms. (That'd make a giant wood room, I know - maybe we could use it for a workshop, too.) My husband is partially disabled but works and can do very little manual stuff, and while hauling wood from the far reaches to these woodshelters (which are not big enough for a winter's supply), I do a lot of brainstorming. Never hurts to dream.
We also use leather welding gloves for loading the stoves. When they were still home, even our kids could safely load new logs into the hot stoves. I wouldn't be w/o those

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Our woodpile, where we bring logs to and cut, is about 30 feet from the house. We usually snake the logs down from the pastures/woods with the Halflinger mare (you can't get into the woods in most places with a truck or even the small tractor ... it's people power or horse power).

If we're cutting at the woodpile, DH cuts with the chainsaw and splits (if necessary) and I haul the firewood from there, using a plastic toboggan, and stack it in the enclosed entryway.

Wood for immediate use is stacked in a metal bin beside the stove. We end up with bark and wood bits on the floor, but doesn't really seem to be a major problem.

I use my two teenage sons.

They use the wheelbarrow to load on porch. From porch into house we use a rubbermaid bin. Take the empty bin, fill it with wood, bring it in....first load goes in the built-in-the-brick nook, next load sits in the rubbermaid tub on floor in front of the nook. This time of year the amount of wood we burn daily to keep the house heated is enough that it would be ridiculous to keep going outside all day long to get a couple logs every time we load the stove. We need to keep a good size stash in the house.

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We have a concrete patio with a pipe framework used for a cover to shade the patio during the summer. The wood is placed on the concrete between the outside pipe supports. The distance from the back door to the wood pile is about 14 feet. I also have a stack 4 foot high and 5 foot long on the porch. I am the fireman and stoker. Wife likes the heat but not the work required. We have a steel ring type wood rack that is on the patio and it is used when we know a snow storm is expected. I put down some 6 mil plastic and fill the rack with wood near the fireplace. We don't heat with wood but I like a fire on a cold night and have the firewood as one of our preps.

Yeah, I had to wheel the firewood from where the supplier dumped it to the patio.

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