Nifty Firewood Holder And Divider

Nifty Firewood Holder And Divider BUILDINGS Miscellaneous FARM SHOW asked me to check out Sam Irwin’s firewood holder It’s one he features on his GoBuildStuff YouTube channel I was immediately sold It’s simplicity itself as a cheap no-nonsense firewood holder Irwin simply sticks 2 by 4s into the holes in concrete blocks to form a V When he gets fancy he uses two concrete blocks with 2 by 4s in both holes of each block and two 4-ft 2 by 4 stringers nailed on edge from one pair to the other This gives greater stability and stores more wood Either way would be great for temporary firewood storage Looking at the pictures of the single block style suggested another use I have a woodshed that holds dry wood for the coming season However I add fresh wood throughout the year as I cut and split fallen trees At some point each winter I hit the wetter wood that lay over earlier stacked dry wood I had no way to separate the two so I could use up the dry wood and leave the wet to cure Irwin’s holder was the answer I had three cords of dry wood stored and was starting to split some fresh wood I stuck an 8-ft length of 2 by 4 in one end of a concrete block and placed it against the sloping stack of dry wood The slope of the wood and the angle of the 2 by 4 didn’t match up but I fixed that later The next step was to put a 4-ft any length would do in the opposite hole of the block I filled the resulting V with fresh split wood and began stacking more fresh split wood behind it Once the V was partially full I filled in the space between the 8-ft 2 by 4 and the stack’s slope The wood in the V held the 8-footer in place Now as I split wood the wetter wood will always be in and behind the concrete block and 2 by 4s The concept works great with my firewood bookends These are simply a 4 ft long 2 by 6 vertical attached mid-length on another 4-ft long 2 by 6 leg A chunk of wood beveled at both ends to 45 degrees is nailed to the two 2 by 6s to reinforce one side of the vertical leg I’ve used chunks of old barn beams and short lengths of 2 by 6s for the stabilizers Anything you have handy works fine I put one bookend at the front when starting a line of firewood and the other at the rear when finishing While they would probably hold simply with the weight of wood stacked on them I stack my wood on pallets on an old concrete corn crib floor and simply slide the bookend into the forklift space in the pallets Contact: FARM SHOW Followup: Sam Irwin www youtube com/@gobuildstuff

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