Axfarmer
ArboristSite Operative
What did you use for a base? Ours is on a 8 ft circle of brick pavers. I want to make another but I need to design a good base.
Any Holz Hausen wood piles out there?
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StihlRockin'
ArboristSite Guru
I have seen these before and can't get over there's no way wood would dry as quickly as a conventional stack. Looks to me the Holz is more of a project for saving space for wood that's already seasoned. I would also think if it were green wood, the drying/seasoning process would be longer and you would get an uneven result with the inside not as dried as the outer perimeter. There's no sufficient air flow and the sun can not get into the inner pieces of wood.
Looks nice and probably a fun project when you have time to say you've made one. Looks to be a very practical and efficient use of space as well. For some reason if I were inclined to stack wood this way, I'd make them smaller so I can access the inner easier to make building them faster.
Wood is wood and they sure look purty though!
StihlRockin'
Looks nice and probably a fun project when you have time to say you've made one. Looks to be a very practical and efficient use of space as well. For some reason if I were inclined to stack wood this way, I'd make them smaller so I can access the inner easier to make building them faster.
Wood is wood and they sure look purty though!
StihlRockin'
I think it is neat as hell. I would like to try this sometime. Nice pics.
A.S.Woodchucker
ArboristSite Operative
was that a lifted chevy in the background? firewood truck?
Axfarmer
ArboristSite Operative
You have a good eye for chevy trucks. I have 3 lifted k1500 p/u. But my currency woodhauler is a ford!
A.S.Woodchucker
ArboristSite Operative
ya, I love those OBS chevy and gmc trucks, I ran a lifted one at the Michigan sand dunes a few years ago...kids came... high horsepower truck went by-by. ohh well.
It is a myth that wood some how seasons quickly in this configuration They don't dry or season wood as good as in a single row along a fence row . There have been tests done on hearth forum to prove it too. ..The reason they are popular in Europe is a lot to do with tradition and mostly to save space they don't generally have the acreage we have here in America and need to stack it in a small condensed area
Have you ever built one?
Jonathan70
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Mastermind
Work Saw Specialist
Seems like the center would never dry....
there is a "space" in the center that is supposed to be the circulating air "vent" that dries the inner section through natural air currents. (on a rack or pallet as well)
I think the euro nuts just want to make us Americans crazy wasting time building those "mouse houzes"...
however ...as an attention getter I'm sure more people will remark and remember your "mouse houze" then the 5 little stacks of wood you have in your rack at the end of the driveway....
beware of teenagers with baseball skills !!!!
Mastermind
Work Saw Specialist
Cool looking it surely is.
I make somewhat smaller ones, about 5 face cords apiece. In hot, windy Kansas, the wood is as dry as it gets in one year of drying. I do it because it takes up less space and I get no complaints from the neighbors, which has happened when I stacked it in ranks. City life.
