Holz Hausen

Always been impressed with these structures. Decided it was time to build one. Needed something that would store alot of wood, not fall over, be close to processing area and be a conversation piece. All red oak. Bark has fallen off most of the red oak so I'm using a bur oak for the roof.

I would be out working on it today but 20 mph wind isn't a good time for being in the woods.

The HH is 10 ft diameter 6 feet tall. Splits are 22" long. Plan to disassemble and burn in 2015. Spent a total of 8 hours spittling and building. Expect the roof to take another 2-3 hours.

Thank you for all the wonderful comments!

Neighbors who drive by and see it will be the people to converse with it about! There were no levels used in the making of this HH, lol. I considered putting in the center pole but decided that I planned to leave it out there til 2015, so it better be dry by then on the outsides or I'm not building one again. I also skipped out on the long cross member supports that some people put in.

MFGlickman...funny you should bring up plymouth plantation, first place I saw the HH when I was 12 years old. Brings up the larger question I am fighting... On the roof, should I build it like a bee-hive like your picture shows or go with the roof shingle look? Opinions?

Based on my calculations with a 3 ft tall roof the total structure should hold 4.3 cords.

firebroad... I plan to use my grapple bucket on my skid loader to dismantle.

Also, look at top picture on the right. See the giant redoak log in the background? Between it and the burr oak I have down, can easily make another one of these HH

Planning --- read hearth threads. Emulate. Pretend you are playing with legos. Pieces need to always lean towards the inside. I stacked two layers of splits on end, inside the HH. Been throwing odd ball pieces, wedges, knots, unsplittables etc inside.

I think the smartest thing I did was lay out the 9 pallets, surround the pallets with lots of logs and split around in circles to build the HH up. The rotation of bucking the logs, splitting, stacking and mauling 40 inch trunk pieces kept things fresh. The HH olympics, if you will. hehe!

I was wrong about the burr oak. Don't know what type of oak this is. But it is a friggin monster. I took the 333 and grapple to the top of the tree and worked off about 1.5 cords of logs. Transported to HH, bucked and pushed up close to the HH. Maybe get time to finish it this weekend.

Anybody know what this tree is? Oak of some sort. HUGE

Also broke my chain brake handle on my stihl 280. I call it the oh sh%$ bar

Finished this afternoon.

Roof turned out pretty good. I know how I can improve upon the next one. Still pleased with my first HH!

Got a bigger picture of urs? Yours is a 10.0 awesome structure btw!

do you suggest I make an overhang and another layer to beef up roof? Ran out of daylight.

I know next time I will save barked flat pieces for roof next time. Road crews were by doing work for township. They are taking down another big red oak of mine bc of overhang. More wood with no bark. May have to build an additional. Hh.

You, your daughter and your HHs look great!

Have to play around with the roof some more. Appreciate the advice! How big diameter is the bot HH?