My 6' stacks survived 105 mph gusts

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SolarAndWood

Minister of Fire
Feb 3, 2008
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Syracuse NY
Walked my daughter out to the bus this morning and was pleasantly surprised to see my 6' stacks still standing after the sustained 50+ last night with a 105 mph gust recorded 3 miles from my house. I'm pretty pleased with the double row pyramid technique.
 
Wow, 105 mph gust !!? Thats like a cat 2 hurricane . probably blew down a bunch more trees in your area. You guys that get all the hurricanes sure are lucky..lots of free wood to scrounge ...LOL
 
A rooftop unit came off one of the hospitals and ended up on someone's hood on the street below. They measure wind speed on top of the Carrier Dome. It is a couple hundred feet lower and about 3 miles away. Feeling pretty good about putting the big hurricane ties on every truss when I put them up a couple years ago.
 
Thats some serious wind solar! I take it no problems with the draft for the stove?
 
No problems at all and had a nice complete burn cycle. It is straight up 8" class A.
 
Wow, good stacking! It didn't get that windy by us, although it was blowing pretty good. Had a STRONG draft in the stove for sure.
 
SolarAndWood said:
I'm pretty pleased with the double row pyramid technique.

I do the same thing...two rows leaning into each other, but only about 5' tall. Haven't had any fall, but haven't seen more than maybe 50MPH winds. If we got 105MPH my woodstacks falling over would probably be the least of my worries, damage-wise.
 
Pics or it didn't happen......... ;-P . Seriously, glad they held up Solar and more glad you didn't get any major damage. Them's some high winds for sure! Cheers!
 
A big branch fell on one of my stacks and knocked some of the splits off--I noted the irony...
 
That's a "roof shingle removal" wind.
Glad you had no real damage.
Gotta be some down trees somewhere nearby to score after that ??
 
Not sure of the gusts over here last night Solar? but it kept us up later than usual :coolhmm:

Gonna head out to the woods tomorrow after a short workday and check for some easy wood ;-)

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NH_Wood said:
Pics or it didn't happen......... ;-P .

Here is the pre pic, you will have to take my word for it they are still standing.

Brogsie, pretty sure the double digit average wind speed at my house is why I get away with drying wood in a heap.

Dave, I have 8' cantilevered overhangs on the the side of the house the wind was coming from. Pretty confident in my design and build after a night like last night.
 

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Yep - that's a big sail to catch that wind - pretty that second stack leaning in must have saved the pile - nice! Next time, get out there with the camera and catch a few shots of the Merry Little Breezes trying to topple your stacks! Cheers!
 
SolarAndWood said:
NH_Wood said:
Pics or it didn't happen......... ;-P .

Here is the pre pic, you will have to take my word for it they are still standing.

Brogsie, pretty sure the double digit average wind speed at my house is why I get away with drying wood in a heap.

Dave, I have 8' cantilevered overhangs on the the side of the house the wind was coming from. Pretty confident in my design and build after a night like last night.

looks like some nice long hot burns in that pile. is that your 4 year plan wood? lol
 
Wow! That is some serious wind. I'll bet there will be some blowdowns for scrounging.
 
ecocavalier02 said:
is that your 4 year plan wood? lol

the far 25' or so is big split Oak, not sure it will be ready in 4 years.

Dennis, I was sure I would get home and find some scrounging opportunities for tomorrow morning. Unfortunately, it seems that there is never anything available during the heating season no matter what storms we get.
 
Okay, we'll try to send a stronger wind next week.
 
Last year my neighbors roof peeled off most of it's shingles from one of our windstorms. I freaked out at first cause I had just finished roofing my 16x20 shed the week before and thought it was from that.

My windguage isn't accuurate, but when the weather station says 70-80mph gusts I believe it. Feels like the darn house is going to blow off the slab.


bogydave said:
That's a "roof shingle removal" wind.
Glad you had no real damage.
Gotta be some down trees somewhere nearby to score after that ??
 
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