Super simple wood rack.

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the stack that fell over is now leaning forward after Arthur came through. It has a tree/brush line behind it, so I figured best to bias it forward, didn't reckon in Arthur. I need more rack space anyway so I guess I'll move a few feet off the top.
We got some much needed rain and a little wind up here on the north shore. It looked like Boston and South felt more of the effects of Arthur.
 
View attachment 133950 I've been making these 10' long racks lately. I stack wood on them up to 5 1/2' and I have to shim them with whatever I have as I am on a slope. I no longer use the steel brackets you see in the picture as they cost around $14 per rack. If I use all treated 2x4's to build one they cost me $10 each. More than yours I know. Each one holds near two face cord.
I make mine exactly the same. Mine 8 feet by 5 1/2 . The wood costs ten dollars and the box of 3 1/2 wood screws cost 7 dollars. I have six of them curing for winter.
 
Been stacking on cinder blocks since the first stack I ever made. I crib the ends on all but a few stacks, I had some T posts from a garden that is no longer so I used those on some of the stacks.
 
Dug up a picture of my first stack when I started in 2009 besides for keeping a "face" cord around for the fireplace. Ends are terrible and it looks like I was splitting kindling! Makes a big difference when you're splitting for 4 years out or 6 months out. ;lol I started out stacking in 24' rows which is a cord, now I have some stacks that are 48' long.
 

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7.5 inches of rain down here Buzzards Bay.
Not much for wind.
Any time I try stacking5 or 6 feet high I'm picking some up or knocking back a lean.
I stop at 4 feet now.
Wind/not so stable ground/drying wood/frost heave. Whatever.
I have two 36 foot long rows of pallets and had to start them just so to avoid trees and rocks sticking out of the ground.
 
I've found on this extremely "location" and "personality" diversified web site,---we ain't all the same. Not the same soil, not the same wind, heat or rain. Not the same at declaring "that's good enough" when building something.---Ya'll know what I'm talking.---So I'm just going to say, four foot high and since I don't want to restack I'll probably cut some saplings and jam them into the ground, put them at a 45 degree angle against the stack. ---Sorry it didn't work well for you.
As you can see in my picture to the left my stacks are tall since I lack room for my three year supply. I need to start using 45 degree wood to help stabilize them not so much from the wind here but we've had a lot of rain this year and the ground has softened to a point where some of the racks are leaning and one at the end went down altogether and two next to that one lost some splits also.
 
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