Trick for Holding Down Tarps | Keep Seasoned FIREWOOD Dry with No Woodshed
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- In this video i will share with you the process of making custom weights used specifically to hold down a tarp in place.
I made the weight out of cut beech wood and then attached lag screw hook to secure tarps and to help cover seasoned cord wood properly.
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This method also eliminates tripping hazards, great idea!
Excellent.. Thanks for watching!
Nice taprs where did you get them from
This is great! Down here in the South, we have a lot of 3-holed, and misc. other style bricks -- I'm attaching to tarp grommets the inexpensive 3.3 in. poly carabiner and 550 paracord. Thanks again.
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Great idea. I took the simple route today tho ... went to the dump and got milk jugs, then filled them at the sand pit, zip tied to the tarps. 80’ done in 30 minutes. ;-) found your video after I finished - naturally!
Cool..Thanks for watching!
Found this vid. I like the idea. Just going to split and stack some wood this weekend, was going to go get a new tarp...I think I'm going to add some hooked lag screws to my list!
Very clever! I’m gonna try that.
Thanks,
DC
Dan it works like a charm and blends in nicely.
GENIOUS IDEA!!! Thanks Franco!!!
My pleasure!!
GREAT IDEA!
Great idea. Thank you.
Glad you liked it!
I do something similar. I use free shipping tarps that cover the lumber from the lumber yards. They are pretty heavy duty. I use eyelets in the logs instead and tie 2 together with a good rope long enough for the weights to hang past the edge of the tarp. It works great when your by yourself and it's windy. You can hang 2 weights at a time and the rope finds is way into a space between the firewood pieces and you never have to worry about air getting under the top and pulling up the tarp. Your idea is great, I'm just a cheapskate. Lol.
Free as in the general public can get them free? Or only if you work at a lumber yard?
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Enjoyed your video and thanks...thinking I'll do the same but I'm cutting a 10" diameter log and make disks for the hooks to screw in.
Clever idea . I will try this to make hold downs
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@@JohnFrancoNH How heavy and what brand tarp are you using , and what is the spacing on the tarp for the grommets
Nice idea, I like it
Superb! Great solution.
Glad you like it!
Excellent idea.
Thanks for watching!
Very good idea!!! Going to try that….
Great tip thanks brother
Any time!
Great video!
Thank you very much for interesting idea.
Glad you liked it!
Great idea
Thanks for watching!
Great idea ! This will help me a lot :)
Glad to hear it! Thanks for watching!
Yes SIR!...a great video, thankyou.
You bet. Thanks for watching!
ingenius!!!
This video is 2 years old now and a great idea. Do you have any follow up to this? Thanks!
They have been working great. Stay tuned i have some more videos coming with updates on my current firewood setup. Thanks for watching!
creative idea thx
Thanks for watching!
One thought I had was to hook the log through a double grommet when connecting the two tarps together, this may keep them for separating and connect multiple tarps together. I’m curious to hear how this has held up, especially in a strong wind, you have several grommets empty, wondering if you should fill them all to add more weight. Thanks again for sharing this.
They hold up well in strong winds, no issues. Very impressed. I do not put a weight on every grommet. But as i use up the pile i add the extra weights to the remaining grommets.Thanks for watching!
Also, you could just screw a hook into your drill and just drill the 29 into the wood instead of twisting your wrists
drill a 29? huh
Or use an extra long finish nail with no head. Pound them in then bend over a hook
Those will rust. Thanks for watching!
I too have a firewood stack (18 pallets) problem to tarp. Instead of using pieces of wood for weights, I have used bricks and clothes line rope to attach them to the wood piles. However, the rope wears out after a few years and you need to replace them. I use a 5 foot piece of rope with loops on each end to loop through the grommets and loop around the bricks. This gives you about a 3 foot tie down. I usually only use the corners of the tarps. I do like your method though. How bout instead of using pieces of wood, fill plastic bottles with cement and inserting a hooked metal piece into the cement on the top of the bottle. These should last about forever. One could even get scrap pieces of wire or thin rebar to make the hooked metal pieces to hook into the grommets if you did not want to purchase the hooked screws
. Once the labels are removed from the plastic bottles, they will be grey from the cement and would blend into the wood pile. One problem I have had in the past is tops of the piles poking the tarps till they split. I have remedied this problem by dumpster diving carpet places and placing pieces of free used carpet over the tops of the piles to give the tarps a cushion to lie on. The firewood I get are lumber cutoffs from local sawmills so edges are fairly sharp.
Great video. I’m preparing to buy my first fire pit and set up an area to store wood. One thing I’m curious about is quite often I see wood piles only covered on top with a little overhang. Most of the pile being exposed. Doesn’t the wood still get wet from windy and rainy days?
No cover only the topside with some over hang. The pile needs the airflow to properly dry out.
I like it
Great idea! I think my winds would get under and carry the tarp away,
It does pretty good for most wind around here. If its hurricane winds then thats a different story. Thanks for watching!
As an old lady I just use gallon jugs of water and used baler twine. Leave freezing room...
It looks like your ends are stacked Lincoln log style. I was thinking of getting the cinder blocks and inserting 2 pieces of lumber vertically through the holes and also resting lumber on the top horizontally for the firewood to straddle (instead of being on pallets) but wonder if the vertical lumber would not let the tarp drape properly, especially as I start taking from the end. What do you think?
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Bailing wire tide to fire wood works well and cheap to
Never thought of this! Going to try it this winter. Do they really stay in place through winter winds?
Yes. Thanks for watching!
Fast Forward to 13:00 to skip the gabbing
Nice idea. BUTT we hate tarps. They rot in a couple of years. Even with your excellent idea, tarps blow around. We cover with construction ply scraps, rubber roof scraps, metal roof pieces (dump).
i only cover them when i need to use the wood stoves other wise the rest of the year i take the tarps off so they dont get destroyed. Metal roofing is also a good way to cover stacked piles but i havent tryed that yet.
Watching 3 years later...any issues like with windy weather, grommets ripping out?
Heavy winds can unhook a couple weights every so often. But this can be solved by closing the gap on the hook to make them more captive. Therefore harder for the wind to bounce them out.
Grommets are all intact on those heavy duty tarps. Not one has come loose. I only let them sit on the firewood during winter season. The rest of the year i fold em up and put them back in the shed. Thanks for watching!
What type of chainsaw do you have? It seems to work well and quick start.
Husky Rancher 460 but i now have a 562XP
If you drop it you can see it... 😜 really great idea
Exactly. Thanks for watching!
Your wife and children are lucky to have / live with such a smart, handy man. I don't have the elbow grease to rig something like this up.
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Great job,hook from underneath, cause if it blows up, it won't un hook
yes ive tried this and it seems to work better
Does this actually work on windy conditions?
Yes it works very well as long as 9-12 of them are used
How much did you spend on hooks? How much air flow can you have?
There is plenty of airflow. It only covers the top section. Thanks for watching!
Great idea but not sure where you live. I live on an island in the middle of the North Atlantic. What you guys call a hurricane we call Tuesday. Too bad though, I like the idea.
Oh wow! Interesting. Thanks for sharing!
are those 4 ft or 6ft wide tarps? thanks
They are 6x8, Amazon links below video. Thanks for watching!
I like the idea, but the 60 to 80 mile an hour winds will rip them right off that we get here in VT
It does a great job with high winds here in NH. Youd be surprised..the wind will help hold it down because the weights keep a constant tension. Thanks for watching!
Hey guy how did this work out?
Still work amazingly well even in high winds. The more weight on there the better. Also i would make the lag hook opening as small as possible to avoid it coming out.
Great tip. I got smaller hooks, cheaper. Thanks.
Thanks for watching!
What is mill thickness?
1 mil = 1/1000 of an inch (.001") Thanks for watching!
but does it work, that's what I want to know. How does it not blow away under strong winds?
It surprisingly works very very well. Better then other methods. It having constant tension on tarp all around keeps it hugging the pile.
@@JohnFrancoNH I have to two cords that are about a foot apart. I cover both with the same tarp and what tends to happen is water tends to pool on the tarp between the cords causing the tarp to sink into the gap. I wonder if this method would keep water from accumulating in the middle.
Thanks John, for the useful video. I like that you are maximizing the use of existing natural material. Looking forward to seeing more of your channel.
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Hi, the idea is great, I would only change one thing: cut the top end of the weight in angle. Since the tarp is waterproof rain will be driven right onto the top of the weight, also snow can pile up on it. If it is cut in angle, it has a better chance to keep it in good condition and use it for longer.
You bring up very valid points. But i have noticed them getting wet can actually be a good thing (more weight) Next batch i make i will try that out or maybe ill modify some of the existing ones. So far thru this winter they are working better then intended. Tarps do not move no matter how much wind there is and wood is dry underneath Thanks for watching!
I tried such a method last year. Even the material called "tarpaulin" in Ukraine. But if you buy a cheap one than wind and sun disintegrates the cover in 3-4 months. And If you buy a durable and expensive than it is not cost effective. And it is hard to work with it every time you need firewood from this woodpile. So for me worked well the used corrugated roof panels. It has a weight to resist wind and it is durable to resist sun. It is heavier but you don't have to fight with it every time in windy weather like these tarps.
Thanks for posting. What is a "used shiver"?
@Jimisnotunique sorry, my mistake. I had to use another word to describe the elements of the roof. Slate sheets.
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But I think it has been banned in most countries because of its asbestos content.
@@jbnrusnya_should_be_punished Cool, thanks. I wish I had something like that to use --better than a tarp!
FYI, for the picture you posted, in the US those are called "corrugated roof panels".
Here, "slate" is a type of stone. It was used a lot for roofing 100+ years ago, but not very much now.
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Thanks again
Not much good if the wind catches it .
Great tip. FYI I stopped covering my wood years ago and just let the rain soak it. After a day of sun it's dry again. I do season wood for two years but it registers less than 15% moisture without being covered. Still cover in the winter and will try your trick.
Hi Roy, i keep mine piles uncovered most of the year. But come late fall i cover them so they stay nice and dry. Thanks for watching!
Beech bark is nice and smooth because it grows with the tree…unlike most other species okay bye.
great insight. thanks!
Would make more sense to put the eye screws directly into pieces at the bottom of the pile. Use clips to hook/unhook easily.
You could but bunjees do not hold up to cold weather as long as a solid weight. Thanks for watching!
Nice. I use 3 hole bricks.
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Sharpen your chain man
I love the country, thanks for the tip
Tarps are great but everyone gets tired of working around them in winter, no? Subscribe for more firewood videos!
radial arm saw would knock that out in no time at at all and no chain brake on that saw, no saw chaps either, no hearing or face protection
Yes using a radial arm saw could work but im not going to cut branches covered in dirt and debris on a saw i use for finished wood cuts. Thats a good way of dulling your finish saw blade in no time! Im guessing you didnt watch the whole video..i do use a chain brake upon start up. And had hearing and safety glasses on, for this video because i had a camera strapped around my head. I normally use a chainsaw helmet. No need to put my helmet and chaps on for such a small project. I feel that i can trust myself with shortening small pieces. Thats why i put them on a palette, for stability. I appreciate your safety concerns, next time ill be sure to present all of my safety gear in advance to alleviate anyone's anxieties.. Thanks for watching!
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Interesting idea. Before you screw the lags into the end of the wood rounds, rub their threads with some paraffin. Acts as a lubricant, makes screwing them in easier.
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Decent enough idea. I think I'll stick with throwing whatever is around on top tho. Maybe I'd do it like this if I was worried what the neighbours would think. Quite frankly the nosey deer, coyotes, rabbits, raccoons and squirrels don't seem to mind my 'messy' woodpiles so I don't either.
Weights along the perimeter keep a constant tension on the tarp while helps shed water, snow and ice
OCD
Guilty as charged! Thanks for watching!
tou can make them with concred in empty plasticvk cups (milk product works fine)
I use this style as well, another material against rainwater. _The air must go under, over and all other sites.
Cool.
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Really? No enjoying watching you cut your entire pile.....