Silage Wagon Converted Into Portable Woodshed

Silage Wagon Converted Into Portable Woodshed WAGONS/TRAILERS Conversions When Bill Griffin North Garden Va installed an outdoor wood burning stove to heat his house he converted an old silage wagon into a portable covered firewood hauler “I came up with the idea for a portable woodshed because I didn’t want a permanent structure next to my house The 50-year-old self-unloading wagon was just the ticket ” says Griffin “I fill it up with about 4 cords of wood park it next to the stove and pull it away in the spring when we’re done burning wood I used mostly scrap materials to modify the wagon ” He started with an old Big Blue open top silage wagon that he bought cheap from a neighbor The wagon was designed to unload out either the front or back He removed the beaters from the front of 16 ft box and built a 4-ft high metal roof with slanted sides The roof is nailed to a frame made from 2 by 4’s He uses a conveyor to fill the wagon from the front or backs up a dump truck and tosses wood in by hand “During the winter he parks the wagon in front of the stove and raises the tailgate which provides shelter as he stokes the fire “I take the wood out from the back until I can’t reach it any more Then I use the tractor pto to operate the floor chain and move the entire pile of wood toward the rear Once the wagon is about half empty I refill it through the front The wood has about a month to dry as it’s moved from front to back I fill the wagon about 6 times during the winter ” Contact: FARM SHOW Followup Bill Griffin North Garden Va 22959 ph 434 293-6766; yellowrosefarm@embarqmail com

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