Slab Rack

Treehack · June 22, 2018, 02:16:50 PM

L I'm very tight on space and hate chopping down slabs when they are on the ground, so whipped up this knock down slab rack. Sets up and comes down easy and a cut at each upright leaves perfect length firewood.

Lawg Dawg · June 22, 2018, 04:19:22 PM

Heck yeah! Thats called working smarter, not harder! I like it!

DPatton · June 22, 2018, 07:00:19 PM

Treehack,
It looks like your picket fence is turning into a firewood fortress! ;D

Treehack · June 22, 2018, 08:39:26 PM

Quote from: DPatton on June 22, 2018, 07:00:19 PM
Treehack,
It looks like your picket fence is turning into a firewood fortress! ;D

Yeah, it's starting to pile up. I use nothing but wood in my BBQ pit and have a fireplace, but still way on the plus side.

mudfarmer · June 27, 2018, 10:13:44 AM

That is real nice! We do a lot of thinning, beech, red maple, yellow birch, black cherry and some other firewood species in 2-4" diameter. Have been planning to build something like this and will now just "borrow" your design ;)

Is it just the notched 2x4 on the bottom that holds it together and keeps spacing? How stable is it? I was thinking maybe extend slab holder boards back a ways out of cut zone and add another notched spacer/stabilizer.

Thanks

mike_belben · June 27, 2018, 10:56:43 AM

If you can find a section of conveyor rack on CL or at a scrap yard cheap enough buy it and build off that. Itll save you from bending down to get the pieces, just drop into wheelbarrow or loader bucket.

Treehack · June 27, 2018, 01:07:45 PM

Wildwood,
One notched board on bottom and one on the uprights along the upper back. It's pretty stable.

alan gage · June 27, 2018, 01:26:25 PM

Quote from: mike_belben on June 27, 2018, 10:56:43 AMItll save you from bending down to get the pieces, just drop into wheelbarrow or loader bucket.

say_what

mike_belben · June 27, 2018, 01:43:31 PM

I load the deck by machine, stand upright to cut it all and then push the pile over with the machine. No fishing under the sawbuck legs anymore.

A roller rack right behind the mill is what i was suggesting. Stack up 3 or 4 slabs then feed em into the wheelbarrow.

alan gage · June 27, 2018, 02:35:27 PM

Quote from: mike_belben on June 27, 2018, 01:43:31 PM

A roller rack right behind the mill is what i was suggesting. Stack up 3 or 4 slabs then feed em into the wheelbarrow.

It's a good idea. Just thought it was funny that in your illustrative pictures you showed the rounds being dumped on the ground rather than in a trailer/wheel barrow.
Alan