how to manage (consolidate)the wood pile

[ant]

well i am starting to stock pile fire wood in the round dumped at the farm for burning next season. there is a tree service that dumps there but the piles that are dumped are getting scattered all over. BESIDES stacking each log whats the easiest way to consolidate the wood pile? we tried to use the skid loader bucket to pile the wood up but its not working.(wife said that its starting to look like white trash)

 

[beerman6]

Ask her what the heating bill(before wood)looks like...

 

[ropensaddle]

Split and stack it, or sell it!

 

[charlesfarm]

I've got the same problem. A huge pile of elm out by the shop. 'Nother behind the barn. Big pile of ash and Hickory behind the house covered with a "beautiful silver tarp".

Then there's the huge piles of curly fries scattered all about from quartering some absolutely huge rounds. It looks like white trash at our place, but our bank book looks a lot better than if the propane truck was coming here every few weeks!!!!

Gotta love heating with wood ... makes a man feel like a white trashy man!

 

[KsWoodsMan]

Let the grass get tall enough that it cant be seen , park something in front of it or ( my favorite ) paint the windows so she cant see out of them.

LOL

I feel for you. Have her out there to help or let her offer to pay the heating bill.

 

[iCreek]

Our Pile for next year.

Instead of stacking for next year, we just pile up like this, kind of under a cedar tree away from the house. We do have to touch it again next year, but we can use some machinery to help.

we tried to use the skid loader bucket to pile the wood up but its not working.

We use the backhoe to pile it as high as we can....

 

[ropensaddle]

Instead of stacking for next year, we just pile up like this, kind of under a cedar tree away from the house. We do have to touch it again next year, but we can use some machinery to help.

We use the backhoe to pile it as high as we can....

Nice pile there, and great looking woods behind it. That looks like about
what I burned this year!

 

[cabinman]

Give it up

Ask her what the heating bill(before wood)looks like...

Dont you just love it when the Wife is #####in, while you are bustin your ASS to pay the bills,..,...E,J,

 

[ropensaddle]

Man I must have it made mine does not bi??? and has supper cooked
on time and served to me! I don't know why maybe she does but
I aint asking!

 

[cabinman]

Ropin

Man I must have it made mine does not bi??? and has supper cooked
on time and served to me! I don't know why maybe she does but
I aint asking!

Iam on the Hunt 4 one like that,..I dont think thats askin much,.,.I gave here the Ditch 2.08 years ago,.E,J,

 

[logbutcher]

White Trash just is...you think you are, you is.
Not the woodpile, NOT wood, that's some good.

Check:
1. Dead trucks in the yard. Check.
2. Dead roller washing mashine on its side in front. Check.
3. Pile (real pile) plastic bags of trash in front of the rusting trailer. Check.
4. Old unknowns scattered by the road. Check.
5. No teeth. Check.
6. Scraggy mean dog with mange. Check.
7. Random sprinkle of shotgun shells . Check.
8. Beer belly. Check.
and....
9. Wear suspenders AND belt.

Hey, this could be a politcally correct poll :monkey:

 

[turnkey4099]

It is best to cut/split/stack as it comes in for two reasons:

1. It will season waaayyy better!
2. It will not get out of hand and look like a major project.

The additional nicety is:

The neighbors will begin admiring your 'stash' vice wondering why you are so trashy

Harry K

 

[Zodiac45]

As long as it's off the ground and has room for air too circulate, you'll be fine. Some people go to extremes and build Shaker Rounds and other shapes out of the wood pile, but I'm just not that A-retentive. Check it out.

http://www.motherearthnews.com/Modern-Homesteading/1994-10-01/Wood-Stacking.aspx
:greenchainsaw:

 

[logbutcher]

As long as it's off the ground and has room for air too circulate, you'll be fine. Some people go to extremes and build Shaker Rounds and other shapes out of the wood pile, but I'm just not that A-retentive. Check it out.http://www.motherearthnews.com/Modern-Homesteading/1994-10-01/Wood-Stacking.aspx
:greenchainsaw:

Morning Steve. Are you BAC ( By Any Chance) related to the same "zodiac" serial killer from San Francisco ?

Just killing some time before heading out to our "A-Retentive" woodlot. The gear and goodbody get too hard a workout when it's below zero like this morning. I harvest all our firewood during the winter--plus TSI, pulp. Much easier to work the woods on hard ground and cold. Fell, buck, trailer, pile butts for later splitting and woodsheds stacking--usually in late summer/early fall. The red maple, paper birch, odd ash, and odd red oak dry fine for the winter heat. Just plain old stacked woodpiles to lurk over.

What does Mother Earth know about woodpiles ? They're all virtual alternative fool made-up stuff, that none of the authors actually do in real time. Hey, it's "on the internet....has to be true..." :monkey:

What town are you in ?

 

[aandabooks]

It is best to cut/split/stack as it comes in for two reasons:

1. It will season waaayyy better!
2. It will not get out of hand and look like a major project.

The additional nicety is:

The neighbors will begin admiring your 'stash' vice wondering why you are so trashy

Harry K

You mean something like this:

<a href="http://s249.photobucket.com/albums/gg238/aandabooks/?action=view&current=000_0023.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i249.photobucket.com/albums/gg238/aandabooks/000_0023.jpg" border="0" alt="2/28"></a>

<a href="http://s249.photobucket.com/albums/gg238/aandabooks/?action=view&current=000_0022.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i249.photobucket.com/albums/gg238/aandabooks/000_0022.jpg" border="0" alt="2/28"></a>

Those are pics of my woodpile yesterday before I dumped another couple loads. Here is one of the loads that got brought in:

<a href="http://s249.photobucket.com/albums/gg238/aandabooks/?action=view&current=000_0019.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i249.photobucket.com/albums/gg238/aandabooks/000_0019.jpg" border="0" alt="2/28"></a>

I have plans of building a new woodshed on the side of the lawn shed that is there now. My current woodshed is between the lawn shed and another building that is out of frame. I plan on an 8x24. I am tired of handling the wood more than necessary. I'll put up a woodshed in the spring and get all of this split and stacked into it. Then next year I'll split right off the truck and into the shed. I was bringing all the wood in a stacking it nicely. That is some of it in front of the fence at the back of the piles.

 

[Rob G.]

I have a similar problem, but in my case the piles bother me and not my wife.
My wife likes the fact that we only bought 200 gallons of oil in August (I like to have some oil just in case) and barely made a dent in it. In fact, I keep tapping the gage to see if it is stuck.

 

[aandabooks]

It's beginning to bother the wife in the fact that the weather will be getting warmer and the wood is sitting right infront of and under her clothesline. I told her that I would be putting up a new clothesline because the one that is there will be in the way of the new woodshed. Me, I just smile everytime I look in the yard at the piles of wood. By my estimate, I'm cutting for the winter of 2010-2011.

Matt

 

[Zodiac45]

Morning Steve. Are you BAC ( By Any Chance) related to the same "zodiac" serial killer from San Francisco ?


What town are you in ?

Morning to you Logbutcher. Shhhhhhhh.....don't be giving me up! LOL Actually it's Steve Zodiac from the old puppet cartoons Fireball XL-5
http://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/~bat/GA/steve-zodiac.html
I am from Machiasport in Washington County. Your self?

 

[pacman]

pile it up

Keep piling it up this winter because when the weather breaks you will have something to split and work up ,but thats my opinion and you know how that goes !

 

[rtrsam]

Over time I've sort of evolved into my current state of handling firewood where I figure, the fewer times I pick up a piece of wood, the better. So, I do all my splitting in the woods where I cut wood. Leave all the little shard and splinters, busted off chunks of bark, piles of "curly fries" (I just read that term on here tonight, and knew instantly what it meant), all the junk, stays in the woods. If it goes in my truck, it gets burned in my stove.

When I get home, I try to park the truck so I can pick the wood out of the truck and stack it where it will stay (nice and neat and ends of the stack cribbed off) until I go out to get it to throw in the stove.

The stacks stay uncovered all summer, then covered and wrapped with visqueen (sp?) just before it starts raining. Leftover wood from last year (I try to keep a couple years ahead on wood) gets uncovered in the summer and re-covered in winter.