Great idea Jay, I seen Chris from In The Wood Yard do a similar thing. He used pallets to make his side walls as well as the floor for air circulation. He used baling wire to tie it all together. Just a thought for side walls if you can get some pallets. Great to see Homestead Jim back in action. Stay safe guys, awesome seeing you guys again. 👍🏻👍🏻
Deff need air flow for sure. Not too much coming from below but I wanted to be able to drive on it with tractor so we’ll have as open sides as possible for max air flow. Not trying to dry it all in a pile. We will sell this wood “green” or re load our racks to season and sell as ready to go
@@HomesteadJay Definitely agree Jay, I was pretty sure that was what you had said and I definitely agree on how you are moving forward. Makes total sense and definitely a time saver. Less “touches” is the key. Product flow that fixes a problem, saves time, and all around easier. Keep the great videos coming, you are definitely making some great videos. 👍🏻👍🏻
Thinking unless it's gonna stay in the pile to get fully seasoned...don't bother doing that ! Better to just stack it where needed to cure ! Unless you have a grapple you probably will be pushing out the back wall pretty fast ! Hope I'm wrong !!! Enjoy your videos !!😊
You might think about putting a layer of pallets down to allow air to circulate under and then up through the pile. Chris in the Woodyard puts a row along each long edge and then a middle row setting on top of the inside edges of the edge rows to provide a central air passage.
I don’t plan on air drying the whole entire rack. This is just storage to sell green or refill the racks to let season till ready to sell. I need a way to store loose wood that I can scoop with the tractor
I 4get, what model's the Echo? Awesome you and old man working 2gether. Make it as fun as possible and enjoy. Lost mine at 24, he was 51. It'll be 30 yrs in Jan. Time is so slow yet flies. We'd go out and cut, him w the homelite 360 pro and me w the, I think, 150? Hated that saw. It crapped out after he passed and I replaced it with a super XL. Only better than 150 cuz it was bigger and ran.
We rock the CS 490 and 590. Those two are very good saws. Sorry to hear again about your pops. I do enjoy the time with pops for sure. Time is precious
Pretty neat. I am curious to see how it works when you try to scoop the wood up with your bucket. I am curious on why you did not pour a cement pad with maybe a backstop wall.
@@HomesteadJay t post and panels are easy to put up take down and add too. And yes like Chris on out in the wood yard it gets plenty breathing room to dry out
Figured that's what the platform was going to be used for when I saw it last video.
Good stuff Jay, the woodyard continues to evolve
Yes indeed. Just wanna keep stuff off the ground so I can keep it clean when we sell it green or re load the racks
Nice!
Thank you Victor
Great idea Jay, I seen Chris from In The Wood Yard do a similar thing. He used pallets to make his side walls as well as the floor for air circulation. He used baling wire to tie it all together. Just a thought for side walls if you can get some pallets. Great to see Homestead Jim back in action. Stay safe guys, awesome seeing you guys again. 👍🏻👍🏻
Deff need air flow for sure. Not too much coming from below but I wanted to be able to drive on it with tractor so we’ll have as open sides as possible for max air flow. Not trying to dry it all in a pile. We will sell this wood “green” or re load our racks to season and sell as ready to go
@@HomesteadJay Definitely agree Jay, I was pretty sure that was what you had said and I definitely agree on how you are moving forward. Makes total sense and definitely a time saver. Less “touches” is the key. Product flow that fixes a problem, saves time, and all around easier. Keep the great videos coming, you are definitely making some great videos. 👍🏻👍🏻
Thinking unless it's gonna stay in the pile to get fully seasoned...don't bother doing that !
Better to just stack it where needed to cure !
Unless you have a grapple you probably will be pushing out the back wall pretty fast ! Hope I'm wrong !!!
Enjoy your videos !!😊
You might think about putting a layer of pallets down to allow air to circulate under and then up through the pile. Chris in the Woodyard puts a row along each long edge and then a middle row setting on top of the inside edges of the edge rows to provide a central air passage.
I don’t plan on air drying the whole entire rack. This is just storage to sell green or refill the racks to let season till ready to sell. I need a way to store loose wood that I can scoop with the tractor
Always great to see you guys working together!
Indeee it is! Pops is a great help when he comes up
Looking great, Jay.. that should help with the production wood too..😉👍
I 4get, what model's the Echo? Awesome you and old man working 2gether. Make it as fun as possible and enjoy. Lost mine at 24, he was 51. It'll be 30 yrs in Jan. Time is so slow yet flies. We'd go out and cut, him w the homelite 360 pro and me w the, I think, 150? Hated that saw. It crapped out after he passed and I replaced it with a super XL. Only better than 150 cuz it was bigger and ran.
Indeed! We can use for boiler wood too if we run into any issues too
We rock the CS 490 and 590. Those two are very good saws. Sorry to hear again about your pops. I do enjoy the time with pops for sure. Time is precious
Pretty neat. I am curious to see how it works when you try to scoop the wood up with your bucket. I am curious on why you did not pour a cement pad with maybe a backstop wall.
Money. I don’t have thousands to spend on a pad. I’d love a pad for sure but way too much money. No one could do it for under 2k
@@HomesteadJay Oh wow. I did not think it would be that much. I might rent a concrete mixer for a day and do it.
T post and cattle/hog panels around it.
Something like that indeed! Thanks Jimmie!
@@HomesteadJay t post and panels are easy to put up take down and add too.
And yes like Chris on out in the wood yard it gets plenty breathing room to dry out
you handle that wood too many times you must like hard work
Trying to minimize moving wood around. Need a bulk storage. It’s easy to move it around with the tractor in split form