Start Your Own Profitable Firewood Business
There are many ways to build all kinds of firewood racks but this is how to build a firewood rack the easy way. With firewood rack brackets you can make a sturdy rack for firewood fast and easy. All you need is the brackets and some 2×4′s and maybe a few nails or screws if you want them. With these brackets you can make the rack just about any size and easily change the size later.
Cut the 2×4′s to the lengths you want them to be:
Two 2×4′s the length you want your rack to be.
Four 2×4′s to the height of the sides of your rack.
Two 2×4′s for the width of the rack. (with some rack brackets you may not need these)
Now stick the ends of the 2×4′s into the brackets. Congratulations, you now have an instant sturdy firewood rack. With the way the brackets are designed it pretty much holds itself together especially when there is wood stacked in them. For added strength you can secure it by putting nails or screws into the pre-drilled holes in the brackets. I recommend doing this, preferably with screws since they will make it easier to take them apart if you decide to.
You could easily build a cover on top onto the rack to keep your wood dry. Just keep in mind the rack itself is not very heavy so without wood stacked in it, a cover attached to the top might act like a wind sail and a wind could easily blow it over if it is not in a sheltered location.
These kind of racks will hold your firewood off the ground to help keep it dry. The simple but sturdy design of firewood rack brackets prevents the need for gussets or cross supports which can take up stacking space or get in the way.
How to Build a Firewood Rack Without Rack Brackets
I found this video that shows how to build a firewood rack out of only wood and screws. I have not tried this method but it looks like it would work well and it is very simple. Bear through the intro of the video and you will soon get to the part where he shows how to make the rack. In the intro you will get the parts list and it says 24 screws. I think his math is a bit off and it should be 32 screws. These plans are for making 14 foot long log racks but it would work for any length you want.
