Thread: Carrying Firewood

How do you bring your firewood into the house?

The best way is to have the firewood storage shed against the side of the house with an access door from the inside, but while I have long hankered over such a facility, I have never had this. So...

We are faced with carrying the firewood in manually: Can be awkward, heavy and often splintery. This is my solution. A Forum member, who shall be nameless called DaveTTC, saw it a couple of years ago and suggested I should pass on the idea. I never quite got around to it last year, but with a cold snap upon us, here it is. It can be made up for virtually free:

Just a piece of old carpet with two pieces of timber clamped at each end, and held by, in this instance, six screws (could have been small bolts and might be even better).

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I used some old No.8 wire to fashion a handle and a piece of old curtain rod, the sort used for net curtains, to make a fatter grip. No.8 wire is far heavier than required. No.10 would be ample or even 12 1/2 High tensile as the tubing provides the grip. Equally rope could be used instead of wire and the tubing could be almost anything including old garden hose.

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The overall length of this one is 1m, but if I was making another I would make it 1.2m. Also they work better in pairs for ease of carrying. I have another, but that was the first and it was made too short so I continue to use just one and I stagger around leaning heavily to one side: It is not a good look. Two would improve my appearance out of sight

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I load up the carrier like this to the halfway point of the carpet

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Then I flap it over ready to pick up

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Easy. I put the fluffy (it was fluffy once) carpet on the outside to protect the floorboards when I sit it down inside the house while I transfer the logs to the firewood crate.

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I normally squeeze up to four logs in but these were a little larger than normal.

The width of the carpet should be geared to the size of firewood you normally use. Our fire is not large. If you get block style delivered, you might want to make it suitable for two pieces wide. The ultimate size of the carrier is also quite dependent on your strength or your partner's strength. I constructed mine to suit SWMBO in case she wants to give it a try one day. I'm still waiting .

I wasn't quite sure where to place this idea on the Forum, but it ticked the box for here on a number of points or depending on how you view it none of them

Stay warm.

Regards
Paul