Over the years I have tried a number of ways to reduce the effort involved with firewood movements and the latest is a shed on wheels. The time between Christmas and New Year is about the only time I get for projects and this was my project last year.
When a few friends first saw what I made they could not stop laughing and thought I was mad. So before I add a picture to the post I will try to justify my madness. I tend to work long hours, have two small kids and all the heating/hot water in our house is from a woodburner. In the winter I was finding that I would get home from work, help with the kid’s bedtime routine, collect the next days wood and then go to bed. I had tried a number of things over the years to reduce the time moving wood and this has been the most successful as the wood handling is at a minimum. I move the trailer shed to my wood store once a week, fill it, drag it to the back door of the house and then we can just use the wood as we need it.
Anyway enough trying to justify it, here a picture of the loaded trailer shed heading back to the house.
The trailer shed has to go over boggy ground so it has lots of nose weight and I always pull it with a strong tractor. It is not unusual for it to sink into the ground a number of inches as it is being pulled. It is interesting to watch the ground move. I keep meaning to weigh it full to see just how much it weighs full.
Iain