MOTHER’S Rebar Log Holder

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The completed rebar log holder bearing a full load.
The completed rebar log holder bearing a full load.
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Use this diagram to help you build the log holder.
Use this diagram to help you build the log holder.

Tain’t nothin’ as soul-satisfying in the dead of winter as a healthy fire cracklin’ away in an open hearth (or any of the newer and more efficient fireplaces and wood-burning stoves now on the market). Nothin’, that is, except the secure knowledge that you have plenty of cut, split, and dried fuel right at hand to keep that of blaze snappin’ and poppin’ for the rest of the day and far into the night.

And that, of course, is perzackly the kind of security that the log holder described here can provide. Just fill ‘er up once and you’re set to ride out most any storm that OI’ Man Winter is likely to throw your way during the coming months.

All you’ll need to construct one of these fireplace accessories for yourself is a welding torch (or access to one), a tape measure, a hacksaw, and three 20-foot lengths of 3/8-inch rebar (construction reinforcing bar). And if you don’t have—or can’t use—a torch or an arc welder, no problem: Most professional welders (or scrap yard men or even body shop people) can be cajoled into making the necessary 13 welds for a reasonable flat fee.

Start the fabrication of the log holder by cutting one full length of the rebar exactly in half to create two pieces of the rod, each approximately 10 feet long. (It really doesn’t matter a great deal precisely how long the lengths of rebar are as long as they closely match.)

And while you’re in the cutting “business,” you might as well go ahead and use your trusty hacksaw to zip the remaining two lengths of rebar into one 63-inch long section, four 32-inch pieces, two 20- inch-long sections, and two 11-inch lengths of the rod.

  • Published on Sep 1, 1978
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