My Lumber storage story

red · February 24, 2016, 09:54:44 PM

Just look at the pitch of the roof on that Green Outhouse . . Heavy Snow Load Area

elk42 · February 24, 2016, 10:18:04 PM

YH
Did you restack from top down or bottom up.

xlogger · February 25, 2016, 04:58:38 AM

that's got to make you just want to cry >:( >:(

fishfighter · February 25, 2016, 07:03:18 AM

Quote from: Jim_Rogers on February 09, 2011, 12:10:17 PM
Quote from: flibob on February 09, 2011, 10:39:56 AM
Bill, What is the title of those tractor fork lifts. I have been looking for one. If I were to google. What is the nomenclature?

Here is the label off the forks:

unfortunately you can't read it.

However, when I got up real close to it I could see Guest industries on the bottom of the label. And they are in CT according to a google search.

I couldn't get their webpage to load, but it does say in the google search that they make forks.....

And there are all different kinds of forks. I don't know what the name of this type is. But they just hang from the top bar and rest against your cutting edge.

To attach you just curl your bucket to full dump and drive the hooks up under the bar and roll the bucket back and they attach without getting off the seat.

There was a hole for attaching a chain with a bolt to the back bottom of the fork to come around up behind the bucket to drop into a key hole in the top of the fork for making it so that they would not swing when you dump. That way you could point the forks down more then the position they "hang" in when you roll your bucket to dump. I never did set mine up this way, as you'd have to have good strong chains and get off every time you hook up to secure them to the top of the forks.

Hope this helps...

Jim, can you get a close up picture on how the forks hook up? I have a few ideas, but it looks like your set up is already proving. ;D

Thanks for the write up. I'm sure a bunch of us will use it.

Jim_Rogers · February 25, 2016, 08:00:41 AM

I may have pictures in my gallery. If not I'll take one.

Jim Rogers

YellowHammer · February 25, 2016, 09:54:19 PM

I hope everybody got a good chuckle out of my card trick, I laughed at it myself :D arg-smiley, after I let out enough bad language to knock squirrels from trees and get the neighborhood dogs barking. I mean, what else can you do? It was the first time I've done this and I was pretty spectacular, almost enough to try it again and get a video...maybe not...
Picking it up was pretty easy, I went and got the big tractor loader and scooped the whole mess up and dead stacked it on a pallet to get it planed.

Maybe I should blame it on the snow, except there wasn't any...

fishfighter · February 26, 2016, 07:05:25 AM

Quote from: Jim_Rogers on February 25, 2016, 08:00:41 AM
I may have pictures in my gallery. If not I'll take one.

Jim Rogers

Found it. That is how I planning to install mine. Thanks.

4x4American · May 30, 2016, 11:13:03 AM

I have been building pallets and doing this for my side lumber. Works good. Only things I've been doing different is that on the pallets that are longer than 8' I support the bottom with 3 2x4's spanning the length, and then I nail stickers to the bottom across ways so that the 2x4's aren't laying flat on the good lumber below. And for the roof I couldn't see using good boards, and I've done it before like that on a firewood shed and didn't have luck with water dripping through. So I just used slabs. It gives me enough weight to tame the top row and really I'm more worried about the sun than the rain right now. I need to build a shed but for now this will do.

Don't pay no mind to the stickering of the maple there. I had to saw some out for a guy and that was my left over and I didn't have time to sticker it in my inventory stack but it's hot and I didn't wanna dead stack it so I temporarily stickered it there.

Here's it on top of the 10' pile. I think that I have the bases too far apart I didn't mean it to happen like that but I got tunnel vision when I was leveling those cinder blocks and they went from being 6' apart to 7'. I didn't have the patience to do end ones and middle ones so thats how it ended up.

The other day part of an order I had was 5- 1x12x12 and I haven't gotten around to building any 12' pallets or a foundation yet so I just have it stacked randomly (which is an awful way to sticker lumber). It was hot and I didn't feel like unstacking and re-stickering...So...I decided I might as well try something easier...so I threaded two straps through. I felt that if I chokered the stack it would ruin my stickering so I wanted to cradle it. And my 2 straps were different lengths. So I hooked the short one and got the second one close and did a timber hitch on the loose end and that held good. And this actually worked real well. I am sorta picky about stickering and when I set it back down it was so close to my spec I didn't mess with anything.

tnaz · May 30, 2016, 11:46:07 AM

Pur-Dee work 4x4.

Peter Drouin · May 30, 2016, 09:43:55 PM

reswire · May 30, 2016, 09:53:58 PM

Quote from: Ohio_Bill on February 08, 2011, 09:58:10 PM
Great system Jim. Thanks so much for taking the time to share it. It will solve several problems for me and will allow use of my new to me old fork lift being delivered this Weekend.

I'd love to have something like that! I'd like to get a forklift attachment for my tractor, the only problem is the 2000 pound lift capacity. i've lifted more, but the tractor stability suffers greatly. Stacking lumber on uneven or muddy ground is a little scary, if not dangerous. :