How to keep the stacked wood straight?

[Kevin in Ohio]

I love wood piles AND old barns!!!

If I kept wood in the barn that long, something tells me I'd run into a family of skunks every other row...
:bad_smelly:

Yea, we do have to watch them but not for skunks. It's ground hogs and coons. Seems a new batch moves in every year and we have to trap. We "relocate" them Coons have the desire to make the tops of the piles restrooms. seems like there would be easier places to go to me. Most of the stacks are 8ft high.

 

[Hedgerow]

Yea, we do have to watch them but not for skunks. It's ground hogs and coons. Seems a new batch moves in every year and we have to trap. We "relocate" them Coons have the desire to make the tops of the piles restrooms. seems like there would be easier places to go to me. Most of the stacks are 8ft high.

And they crap like German Shepherds...

 

[J.W Younger]

This time last year we were going tru it fast, in just 10 days i burned pretty much a full cord. I'm not complainin, mind you.

 

[Hedgerow]

This time last year we were going tru it fast, in just 10 days i burned pretty much a full cord. I'm not complainin, mind you.

You get any snow out of this latest cold snap?

 

[J.W Younger]

You get any snow out of this latest cold snap?

None yet, whats it doin up your way?

 

[Hedgerow]

None yet, whats it doin up your way?

Just enough white crap on the ground to make it seem colder than it is... :msp_thumbdn:

 

[rider93hawg]

I usually try to use wood that is "squarer" shaped on the ends of a stack. Helps to build a little stouter stack, less prone to falling. Works for me.

Gregg,

Dang! Is your garage clean and you know where all your tools are too? That is one impressive stack!

 

[Pintony]

not to bad in the rain

Those are some BIG logs!
What kind of wood is that?

 

[tomtrees58]

its red oak

 

[Whitespider]

I’ve posted those same ol’ tired pictures of my stacks so many times I thought y’all might want to see some updated ones.
So y’all can see what they look like after 7-months of settling, shrinkage, wind and weather.
Notice they didn’t fall over, or even lean much… so yeah, I must be an alien.
I’ve got plastic on top of three of the long stacks just in case I need to us some of it this winter… but it’s lookin’ more and more like I won’t be needing any of it.

 

[kmcinms]

Hey WS, looks like we need to have a barn roof party at your place.

 

[Bucko]

lol, I had a similar thought. I was thinking about Woodmizering some lumber to repair that old barn.

 

[dustytools]

The neat wood stacks are cool to look at but what amazes me is all of the flat land in the pictures. I would love to have flat ground to work with. I have 31.5 acres and its all hills and hollers, LOL.

 

[Pintony]

its red oak

Hello Tomtrees58,
I gather that the dark area in the center of those logs is the reason it is firewood not flooring???

 

[Pintony]

I’ve posted those same ol’ tired pictures of my stacks so many times I thought y’all might want to see some updated ones.
So y’all can see what they look like after 7-months of settling, shrinkage, wind and weather.
Notice they didn’t fall over, or even lean much… so yeah, I must be an alien.
I’ve got plastic on top of three of the long stacks just in case I need to us some of it this winter… but it’s lookin’ more and more like I won’t be needing any of it.

I should say you won't need any of that wood...
With a hole in the roof that BIG, starting a fire in the stove would be a collosal waste of time...

 

[tomtrees58]

Hello Tomtrees58,
I gather that the dark area in the center of those logs is the reason it is firewood not flooring???

no they dont mill wood on LI nails ect thear nice saw logs

 

[Steve NW WI]

I’ve posted those same ol’ tired pictures of my stacks so many times I thought y’all might want to see some updated ones.
So y’all can see what they look like after 7-months of settling, shrinkage, wind and weather.
Notice they didn’t fall over, or even lean much… so yeah, I must be an alien.
I’ve got plastic on top of three of the long stacks just in case I need to us some of it this winter… but it’s lookin’ more and more like I won’t be needing any of it.

Spidey, I've not had any luck stacking 3 rows wide, just can't seem to get the center row dry. I go 2 rows wide on mine, and it works pretty good for me.

What's the old saying? "Better to have it and not need it, than to need it and not have it."

 

[redheadwoodshed]

No comment on the stacks, I say do whatever works for you.I just wanted to comment on the Courier, those things used to be everywhere.Lots of the loggers drove them to the set.Does it still run or is that a cutoff trailer?

 

[Steve NW WI]

Spidey, I forgot to mention - those stacks look even better with the white stuff around em. Just gives the pictures a seasonal look. They would make a nice postcard.

Dusty, Spidey's actually in the "hills" of Iowa. Get on I-35 a little south of Minneapolis, and you can dang near see Kansas City! I don't complain about my hills here, if they weren't so steep, they would have been logged off and plowed under. All my woods has more up and down than back and forth, and most of my fields aren't a whole lot better :msp_biggrin:

 

[Whitespider]

redheadwoodshed, What Courier? Where? Or were you not asking me?

Steve NW WI, That three deep stack is from standing dead… pretty much pre-seasoned.

Now, about the roof on the old hog barn… That old building has more problems than just the roof and it needs to come down. The floor heaved during a really wet spring a few years back, foundation fell away on the back side and the wall caved in. I’m not sure how it continues to stand… I keep expecting to see it collapsed every morning I look out the window. I’ll pull it down one of these days and clean off the feed lots on either side… that’ll give me a huge concrete area to stack my firewood on.