Chute! Let's see them woodchucks try this...

[SnapCracklePop]

I got real tired real fast lugging firewood down the basement steps in a roomy Home Depot shopping tote. I always put more splits in it than I should have. So they'd bang against my shins going down the stairs. We're just talking shoulder fires here, not 24-7. This just wasn't gonna work. I took a look around...

There's a basement window near the stove with one pane glass, one pane OSB. Aha. I cut a hole 12" square in the OSB. I fashioned a chute from an 8' piece of vinyl soffit left over from a summer project, and some scrap 2-by-3s.

I still had the large box my liner came in, so I positioned it in the drop zone under the window and tried three test firings. Bingo.

In no time, I wheeled two wheelbarrowsful of firewood over to my chute and chuted (chot?) it into the box. Now I'm bored. There's nothing to do...

Okay, I hear you asking, "What about the hole?" I just happened to have a vinyl doggie door cover that I wasn't using. It goes over the opening, held in place with a bungee cord and two screw eyes.

The best part is that I've decided the location of my next firewood acquisitions will be right next to this basement window. I won't even need the wheelbarrow. I can plant petunias in it.

Nancy

Pix may be coming in the next post. If I remember how...

 

[SnapCracklePop]

Pix, outside and in...

 

[Jags]

Ha, ha - I love it.

Necessity - the mother of invention and beer drinking.

 

[ChillyGator]

That's using the ole noggin for more than a hat rack ;-)

 

[shawneyboy]

LOL NOW THATS AWESOME !

 

[EatenByLimestone]

I don't understand, you cut a hole in your basement window and installed a [woodchuck] door so they can come in and load your stove? :D


Matt

 

[homebrewz]

I would put sides on the chute or put some protection on the other window in case a split goes off course.

 

[Backwoods Savage]

Nancy, I recall when most folks had a chute for shooting their wood into the cellar (or basement).

 

[Dix]

Nice job, Nanc !

I remember coal chutes, sadly

 

[billb3]

I remember the coal chutes and big bin on the cellar floor.
The trim that got beat up around that chute window still hasn't been fixed.

 

[Danno77]

I would put sides on the chute or put some protection on the other window in case a split goes off course.

I agree. great idea, BTW. Wish I had an easy way to get wood inside. I've thought about a loading box outside that was accessible from inside.

 

[Flatbedford]

Well shoot! That is a heck of a shute!

 

[zzr7ky]

The animal protection folks will be after you! It's clearly not safe!! The lill' darlings will fall onto the pile of firewood Oh the horror of it all!!

On a more serious note: Nice work; it should reduce the amount of mess tracked inside also. Enjoy!

Mike

 

[weatherguy]

You stole my idea, or did I steal your idea? Good thinking, thats pretty much what i was planning, I have a big plastic bin, its basically a pallet with sides that I was going to put in the basement and chute mine into the bin.
I like your doggy door idea.

I don’t understand, you cut a hole in your basement window and installed a [woodchuck] door so they can come in and load your stove? :D


Matt

:lol:

The otters may like it too

 

[SnapCracklePop]

I would put sides on the chute or put some protection on the other window in case a split goes off course.

Good eye! That actually happened until I lowered my end of the chute to slow down the rate of descent. Now sometimes I hafta give 'em a poke with a pole...

 

[Shari]

I would put sides on the chute or put some protection on the other window in case a split goes off course.

Good eye! That actually happened until I lowered my end of the chute to slow down the rate of descent. Now sometimes I hafta give 'em a poke with a pole...

A chute poker?

Shari

 

[homebrewz]

I would put sides on the chute or put some protection on the other window in case a split goes off course.

Good eye! That actually happened until I lowered my end of the chute to slow down the rate of descent. Now sometimes I hafta give 'em a poke with a pole...

Thanks! You do this for a while and you notice these things. That's why a lot of wood scroungers will put a metal grate across the back window of their truck.