Firewood Storage - DIY Pallet Tote 

You can slide the pallet forks under the logs and hold them waist high to cut them, it saves your back! I use them instead of a grapple. Just don’t ever raise a log higher than the front of your tractor. It could roll off and crush you when you’re sitting in the tractor’s seat. I make pallet totes too. They are super handy. I just drop them off beside my outside furnace and load the furnace right out of the pallet tote. They are nice for loading up with limb wood and also the goofy ends that you can’t rack up.

Nice the money is not the main thing, being creative and making things from left overs keeps you busy and your mind working.Good work and great thinking , these will give new ideas to your subscribers and keep them coming

Alright!! Somebody finally FORKED out for the pallet forks!💵👍🏻 good deal! Your going to love them. They are super versatile. You will use them for more than you think. Looking good Mr back 40💪🏻 great idea with the pallets too

There is an easy way to remove the nails, and very fast, Air-Locker AP-700 Nail Punch, i have sold 100's of these in the past 7 years to people who recycle pallets. Nice tote should save you some time with the Forks also. Stay Safe and Have Fun

Creative thing! Using what you already have to solve a problem. Bravo

Nice idea with the wire , I didn’t take off the boards on the pallet , I put one pallet on the floor & pallet on the left & right and attached them with an angle 2x4. The only thing I should have done was put a wire screen on the back side to stop the wood falling out ,when transporting.

That S Pile really came in handy! I like the tote! You may not get a blue ribbon from the county fair, but I sure will give you a Pabst Blue Ribbon as an award for that project!

PALLET FORKS! Yeah! Now you are workin!

Good idea using the pallets. Always good to repurpose when you can... brilliant!

Nice pallet totes! Always good to have multiple storage options. Nothing wrong with being frugal. Good work.

Goooood Morning 40! Nice job on the pallet tote! I was thinking of doing the same thing since I have an endless supply of pallets at work. I think those forks are going to be your new favorite wood yard tool. Stay safe and B🆒

Your money and time the wood totes you built look great, the forks are my favorite choice around my farm, the grapple is good for in the field with trees scoups up the smaller stuff to a fire.

Way to go Dan, there gonna make a huge difference.

Looks like a great idea there.

Hooray! I’ve been rooting for this piece of equipment. If you get good with the forks they are arguably better than the grapple. Next you need a conveyor to offload your wood into your totes or ibc totes. That’s what I do :). I also use a tractor mounted hydraulic unicorn splitter to bust up my mega rounds before I bring them to the splitter so they are more manageable

Great idea!! I took some pallets last season and made a woodshed out of them. It's a great way to get wood off the ground, keep it covered and the NW wind blows right through it.

Growing up in Minnesota we always knew the only thing you Wisconsin boys had to worry about sticking out were your beer bellies! Lol

Will the FEL on your tractor be able to handle the weight of a fully loaded pallet bin? For $35 per IBC tote and cage made of metal, seems like a great deal when you factor in your time and other materials. Now that you've harvested 3 pallets to make 1 pallet tote, you have 2 less pallets to use for other things on your property. Mike at the Outdoors with the Morgans channel, uses IBC totes for selling fire wood. He cuts away part of the cage on 1 side for an access door, to make it easier to neatly stack wood in there and gets 1/3rd of a full cord of firewood in there. I suspect you could sell your firewood that way locally in those cages and make it easy handling on yourself, your clients. Just be sure to charge a deposit for the return of the IBC cage to cover replacement cost.

Good idea , would be nice if you could stack them too. My problem is getting same size pallets. I made some with a A- frame for face cords which allows me to sell half and quarter fcs off the same rack at my driveway stand.

Good work. That's how I stack and move all my fire wood. Pallets are free and if they rot.. just burn the old one and get a new free one. Hahaha IBC totes are a bit to heavy for either one of my Tractors so pallets are a tool.. I palletized everything. Forks are great. Stay safe and always be kind. Go 603

You will like your pallet forks...we use a set on the farm all the time. Nice firewood tote!

It's nice that you got totes with 2x6 construction. Those should last for several seasons if you can sit them on a reasonably dry site. Good lookin' job.

Great idea for using the pallets.

good idea reperpouse and reuse

Nice tote build and from what you already have... Now get to forking wood..

You could make those and sell them.Great job.

i think the home made ones are just fine. they will do what you want them to do. also saving money. nice going there

Hey Dan congrats on the pallet forks I’m betting you will get your money’s worth out of those. Nice job on the tote looks like something I would create not too pretty but effective. Take care brother.

Wow that was a heck of an idea there!! I don't blame you for not wanting to spend that money and time to get them totes! Even with 3 pallets and little bit of wire you have to be way under $35. Stay safe my friend!!

I was able to pick up 50 275 gallon totes for $15.00 each. You can find them cheap, just takes a little time.

Time will tell. Fill one full of wood and try to move it around. A load of green splits weighs way more than is obvious. My worry is that your sides will rack and twist. I also think you will find getting your forks in the narrow side slots is a pain in the pa-toot. As an added hazard,if you engage the pallet from the notched side, there is nothing to keep it from going over if the pallet tips . We were required to only lift from the ends in the warehouse I worked in years ago. I predict you will eventually buy the totes. I'm rootin' for you none the less. Good luck.

Just picked up 4 pallets last night! Scrap

Congrats on the new forks and I love the pallet totes idea. 👍🏻🍻

yeah we do is with my lt 40 woodmizer we saw out the garbage wood and build our own save money that way and they hold half cord or cord that is how we build ours i see yours will work good to and congrats on the forks they are very handy

Love it, repurposing. Using what you have and saving money. Great idea, I might steal it. Lol Stay safe and stay positive ❤

Honestly the only advantage I see to the IBC tote is you can stack them, which you may be able to do with those, but you also need to stack the wood in it to get a 1/3 of a cord. I have a CK2610 ( I think that’s what yours is?) and I’ve stacked green maple, beech, and black birch on a pallet and 1/3 cord is all it wants to wrestle. I’m thinking you could a 1/3 cord in that pallet tote just blowing it in off the splitter, no stacking. If you could figure a way to stack one on top of the other, that would quite a time saver in the wood yard. Cool idea too.

3 totes as you say is a waste but double up in the trailer might work however you have a better idea of what works for you

I love the pallet idea and I’m doing something like it because or totes around here are 100-120 per IBC tote. FXXK that !!!! That’s highway robbery. You should’ve seen my eyeballs when you said $35 a tote.

1pm central is 7pm EU if I am correct, I hopefully can make it!

Something that I would like to do..

I love it Dan, you just saved yourself $140 and i'm sure those will last several years.If you set them on another pallet when not in use the bottoms won't rot as fast. Take care buddy.

Very cool Dan. You got em , that’s putting some to good use. Them forks are a huge welcome to that Kioti brother. Nice going on this vid. Later on Gotta gooooo.

Great video. I love to repurpose. Great ingenuity! I’m sure as you use them you’ll come up with ways to improve them if needed. But it’s a wonderful start. I didn’t see anyone else do that. You should be proud of your idea and execution of it. Super job.

Good morning from NJ... Have a GREAT day

Nice video. Great idea on pallet tote.

I got a guy that sells them for $15/piece and you can double stack them like cubes. So I can get 4 in the bed of my truck and 4 in the trailer

It's always nice to reuse things. I will say the IBC totes are nice and light and easy to move around. Around here they're $50-$80. I looked for a few weeks and found 10 for $200. There not perfect but for firewood they're great. I will say the added weight of the skids, your tractor might be able to lift a full skid, it will be interesting to see in a future video.

Morning Dan! Great idea I think - lots of material on hand so no need to buy when you can build. Congrats on the pallet forks - great attachment for your wood yard. Cheers!

I like your attitude of using what you have and repurposing it. I try to do that often as well. That said, I did purchase 6 IBC totes. 2 came without the plastic liner. $25 each and I could only transport 2 of them at a time. The first time I even rented a HD truck because I didn't own my Tacoma yet. The totes with the plastic liner (4) I use to store kindling. I drilled holes everywhere to provide airflow except for the top which I cut off. I put the top on when it rains but even if I don't put it on in time the holes drain the water out pretty quickly anyways. The two that are just cages I use to store cutoffs/uglies/firepit/donation pieces. I don't have a forklift so if I have to move a cage it has to be empty. This works out well for me because I was tearing my hair out storing kindling in 44 gallon cans which I did not want to drill holes in and it got to the point where having 12 garbage cans full of kindling was getting ridiculous. Each tote liner holds 275 gallons but I can fit 5 garbage cans full of kindling into one tote. Here's a few pics of my setup. I cut a little flap to have easier access to the kindling. snipboard.io/jkV9X8.jpg snipboard.io/n4QObt.jpg

This is a pretty good system for seasoning wood.

Dan, I guess the question is how long will the wooden totes last versus the aluminum when left in the weather... also, it is known that if you stack wood in the IBC you will get 1/3 cord... how much will the pallet tote hold ? Would be nice to find out.... otherwise, great job

Nice Job!

Fill one of those baby's up and make sure you can safely move it. Shouldn't be a problem thrown in, but stacked might be a problem. I like the idea of splitting directly into it. Come along way quick from the little jd and the lawn trailer.

Good morning Sir ! The great joy of steer quick attach 👍 and Yes it is very useful 👍 You have great and strong pallets Sir 👍 I may kindly suggest to stain/oil/watertreatment ( like I did on my new steel frame deck) Your outstanding work Sir on that wood cage 👍😊 and to me that is the Blue Ruben in a County fair Sir 👍😊 Cheers !!!

I have access to the IBC totes and no cost. So we use them and like em. use pallets in the wood yard for drying IBC for dry wood for sale. Do not have a running tractor or new enough for the forks the IBC frames work for storage of dried fire wood that we can sell in 1/3 a cord etc as the wood is called for...

Nice looking totes Shifty! Might want to stain the wood to get the blue ribbon at the county fair, might last a lot longer. Thirty Five Dollars for an IBC Tote is actually a good deal. Cheapest around these parts is Forty to Fifty Dollars.

There you go! Put the Mongolian Stomp on those boards.

Next time just use a saw zaw and cut down through the nails. Easy way to get the boards off. Then you don’t need to use the grinder.

I like your pallet totes cause the air can go through it Not like ibcs and there is water always in the bottom and your wood is wet not much but most time If you pick out the plastic the gaps between the metal is pretty far I think Have a nice day Greetings from Germany 🇩🇪

Good idea, but it looks easier to fill from the splitter, than to empty?

Nice job. Would the weight of pallets and firewood be too much for tractor? Maybe make them Smaller and stack the pallet totes on top of each other.

I like this i like your new video today you did a really good jop today buddy

Reduce,Re-use,Recycle. The other 3 important things to practice.

Thos turned out great! Folks keep telling me the same thing on my videos, get the IBC. I have run into the same issues as you. They are not cheap and nothing close to home. I think I'm going to build a couple of these. Thanks for the idea!

Move over up-cycle Amy...up cycle shifty is in da house! Nice work, that looks like it will work well for your setup. Only issue I see is tare weight compared to tote frames and the way your engaging bottom pallet. By using it that way you don’t have any cross bracing below fork to prevent pallet from tipping forward if for some reason it were to get loaded/unloaded uneven or forks are not inserted all the way. Also I find it harder to engage the pallet when coming from that side especially when pallet is not on nice level ground.

Hey back 40 I get the IBC totes from my work for free. So if you wanna drive the 3 hr drive south I could get you some? The only problem you might have is lifting them with your tractor. You will have to have ballast in the back on 3 point. Just let me know

If you sold your wood in bulk loads it would be hard to figure out cordage that way. But for moving to your roadside stand they should work great!!!!!! Cerious how full you can fill them and still pick them up though . It took a fair amount of time to build your totes but I too enjoy projects like that. And Amanda will be happy your cleaning up the yard. Lol

Does the Amazing Amanda know you got those forks? You may be in big trouble Sir! Checkered face twenty two oz hammer backs those nails out beautifully!

WOW 35 bucks....around here the cheapest I found them was 99.00!

A man's stuff is never S#!T! Most women will never understand!

I like it ibc here are $100 i have endless supplies of free pellets cheers

Great idea but I would build them the other way. Reason is if for any crazy reason the pallet tips on the forks it’s going down in a dangerous pile. At least the other way you have a slight chance to save it.

Your version is much hevier filled with wood then using a IBC tote!

An IBC toad might be nice if you would sell your wood at a store or something (nce display), but in your situation building them yourself makes the most sense Id say.

HAY BIG SHIF-( D ) I LIKE IT!!! WAY TO ADAPT, AN OVERCOME... THE ONLY THING IS, WATE AN SEE HOW THEY ENDURE... LOOK STRESSPOINTS AN WEAKNESSES AN GO FROM THERE... GREAT DESIGN. ABOUT THE WAY YOU APPROACH THE PALLET, BEING A DRIVER MY PERSONAL WAY TO HANDEL "STRINGERS" THE TYPE OF PALLET YOU HAVE, IS BY ENTERING THE OPISET WAY... BUT TO EACH HIS OWN... ALSO, TRY TO GO BACKWARDS... THAT WILL HELP WITH THE DISTANCE PROBLEM WITH THE FORKS... OR LIFT YOUR FORKS HIGERTHAN THE OBSTRUCTION THAT WILL ALSO MAKE YOUR LIFE A LITTLE EASIER... ALWAYS TRAVEL WITH YOUR FORKS LOW TO THE GROUND WHEN AT ALL POSSIBLE ( SORRY THATS PRETTY OBVIOUS )... HAY WHEN AN IF YOU DECIDE TO GO FOR THOSE I.B.C. TOTES GET YOUR DAD AND COUSIN TO CARAVAN-IT THEN YOU 12 TOTES WITH ONE STONE... WHEN YOU GET BACK HAVE A BBQ WITH PLENTY OF LIQUID REFRESHMENT...( CAN YOU SMELL WHAT THE ROCK IS COOKIN) OH I WAS THINKIN AFTER THE OTHER DAY,... ( SORRY I WAS STARSTRUCK ) BUT MY FIRST FAVOURITE WHEN I WAS YOUNG WAS CHIEF-JAY-STRONGBOW... THEN AS TIME GOES ON YOU FIND OTHERS LIKE HULK, WARRIOR, STONE-COLD-SCHEIB-AUSTON, GOLDBERG, THE ROCK... SAW YOUR OL PICTURES YESTERDAY PRETTY IMPRESSIVE... REMIND-ME NOT TO PISS-YOU OFF ANY TIME SOON!!! WELL WOODYARD WISHES AN PALLET TOTE DREAMS... YOU SYAY COOL AN KEEP PUSHIN ON BROTHER-MAN... PEACE...

Good job better than wasting gas and driving for few totes

Yeah the forks go in the other side. It looks great though. You should use those to sell the wood

thumbnail @17:38 good recycle

I like it. I need to find a place near me where I can get free pallets.

Good idea do you buy pallets or just go hunting for them anyways very good idea

Whats your lift capacity on your tractor

You can get free totes near you, I forget what the website is, but I will message it to you on facebook. I found the sight when i was looking for totes and they can usually get you more than you can handle. I just would ask for all of the broken ones or the totes with no spouts

35 bucks for a tote that will last forever... dam the tote people around here want 150 each.... check out Don DIY and see how he used the totes for his wood supply... ingenious

Surely a step in the right direction of handling the wood more easily an less often

I like it! Nice work on those totes! And with the new forks on Khaleesi, moving the tree service logs should be a breeze!

Nice! At first I was concerned that they wouldn't be sturdy enough but after seeing the end product they should hold up well. Those are some beefy pallets!