"Bagged" Firewood Makes Handling Easy

"Bagged" Firewood Makes Handling Easy WOODLOT EQUIPMENT Miscellaneous 30-1-28 "It eliminates one step in handling firewood and leaves you with a stable, secure, moveable quantity of wood to sell," says Janet Janssen, Apache Forest Products, Inc., Millet, Alberta, about the company's new firewood "bag". The firewood bag is actually a plastic mesh tube equipped with a drawstring at the top and bottom. It's designed to hang inside a metal support frame for filling. The frame sets up on a pallet, and the bag hangs from steel loops along the top edges of the frame. Once the bag is filled, the top drawstring is drawn and tied and the frame hinges open on one side to be removed, leaving a plastic mesh "bag" filled with firewood resting on a pallet. The bag and pallet can then be moved and stacked using a forklift. Air flows through the plastic mesh, so firewood stored this way will continue to dry. The bagging system holds about 1/4 cord of wood. "It reduces handling time and leaves you with a stable, secure, moveable quantity of wood to sell." The bags sell for $8 plus S&H per bag but are available for less with a quantity purchase. The metal frame used with the bags sells for $460 plus S&H. Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Apache Forest Products, Inc., 7015 Sparrow Drive, Leduc, Alberta, Canada T9E 7L1 (ph 866 986-0067; janet@apacheforest.com; www.apacheforest.com).

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