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Amber Gold
04-09-2014, 02:46 PM
A friend of ours is using these Dino Firewood Bags (http://www.dinobags.com/firewood-bag.shtml), and I think I'm going order a case of nine to try them out. Should drastically reduce total time processing firewood...touch it once and move it around with a tractor after. Thinking about putting these on a pallet to be easily moved around once filled. Downside is they only fit about 1/3 cord wood and since they're loose stacked, the plan area of wood will need to be larger. He did say the wood dries great in one year, and he puts a piece of plastic over the top to keep rain/snow off. I wonder if set on pallets, if these can be stacked two high?? It would be nice to grab a pallet a night and set it in the SH in no time. Our wood's currently stored across the yard in a portable garage...can fit about 12 chord in there stacked. I guess they hold up to a few year's of use...something like $12/bag plus $20 shipping per case of nine.

Has anyone else used these? Wondering what the experience has been.

Thanks

village idiot
04-09-2014, 03:39 PM
I use them for house wood, not sugaring wood. I've been using them for 4 or 5 years now and each bag lasts about 3 seasons in the sun before it starts to rip apart. I fill them from my wood processor and then store them on a pallet in a clearing with a small tarp on each one. Once they are full they are much easier to move on pallets rather than trying to run forks through the 4 little loops. They do require a little bit more space than stacked wood because it is a loose pile, but also because each bag sort of slumps a little so I can never get them as close together as you think you should be able to. Since they kind of become rounded on the top + sides, I don't think you could stack them (some of mine fall over while drying on a pallet).
For me they work great and are way easier than stacking and restacking of the house wood. I don't use them for my 30" sugar wood because I could only fit 1, maybe 2 bags into my woodshed and there would be a lot of wasted space around the sides of the bag.