Last year the main pile was in the backyard (covered) with a smaller pile by the door. This year all 5 cords are piled in the driveway right by the door (covered). Anything that doesn’t get burned will get dragged to the backyard for the Summer. Pretty cool neighbourhood. Around here a garden is OK, nice shutters, patio furniture or a fancy workshop/garage will get some admiring glances, but mostly what you’ll hear is: Nice Woodpile !
Never covered any wood or gone to the effort to put it up on an additional base. The wood gets crackling dry without any cover, and last seasons bark and small wood chips are raked into a line and make a decent base to stack the next seasons wood on.
This is my first year in the wood game, but I’m using our screened in porch to hold the wood that I’m burning now. It’s kinda run down, but it keeps the wood dry.
I also have a secondary “pile” that I have in a makeshift wood shed for now. There’s a minimal roof over that wood as well.
I have enough in the breezeway for at least 8 weeks burning and the rest is in the side yard with the tops tarped. Might change my strategy when the heavy snows hit and cover it completely, but the rows are over 4 ft high and might be a bit hard to cover ‘completely’.
bout 16 cords
12 cords cut/split stacked just the top covered.
4 cords rounds/ cut/ not split /not covered (only 5 months old).
I’ll let my wood dry in the open all summer til’ bout late October and then cover the top.
We keep bout 1/2 cord on the back porch w/roof ready to come in.
Have four rows under a 24’ x 12’ wood shed that is 75’ from the house.
The south side row is exposed to the sun thru store front glass.
(Our cat’s favorite spot in the winter.)
And once the heating season is over the next rank is brought to the front.
I live in the city, so not really much of a place to store huge amounts of firewood, at least, not without code enforcement getting on me…
Actually just starting to build up supplies again, the ban on transporting firewood led to high gas bills for a while. On the back wall of the house, it’s kind of covered under the eave, but not too well… The majority of it will be in the garage, can hold enough for about 2 winters in there along the one wall. So yeah, you could say covered. Up at the cabin, in rickety woodshed, so covered.
The Emerald Ash Borer somehow made its way from Asia to southern Michigan, where I guess it’s killed most of the ash trees by now. It’s like those various beetle larva that leave trails under the bark of older firewood, except it does it to live trees. It’s working its way into Ohio and Indiana. All the affected counties are quarantined, and in Michigan at least you can’t transport firewood between counties in most of the lower peninsula or transport firewood into the upper peninsula (only isolated EAB sightings there so far) or Canada. Luckily the EAB seems to only attack ash trees, but all species of firewood are controlled just in case and for simplicitly.
BTW - EAB has been seen in Maryland. Cross your fingers.
Oh, and to answer the original question: Here in MD I have 4 stacks: one is open, one was open all summer but is now tarped, one is under the deck and sort of tarped, and one is under a screen porch (so covered like a woodshed). In MI I’m accumulating firewood much faster than I can burn it (yes, a tragic problem ), so everything gets tarped or stacked under the porch in the hopes that it will last quite a while. I also keep maybe 2/3 cord in the garage for easy access.
), so everything gets tarped or stacked under the porch in the hopes that it will last quite a while. I also keep maybe 2/3 cord in the garage for easy access.
