My one day Holz Hausen

Festive!

I like the lights.

I've been kicking around the idea of one of these. My dad and I will probably run out of space for regular stacks on the property where we keep the wood.

kennyp2339 said:

Had a huge heap of fire wood needing to be stacked, I've read a few threads on these Holz Hausen's and figured I would try it and see how it treats me, the size is 12ft round, about 5ft high then tapered roof total height about 12ft high, the wood hopefully will stay stacked liked this for 3 years before I need it, enjoy

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Very nice -happy holidays

Nice!

Any idea how many cords that is?

Nice! I love the lights. I told my wife I wanted to put lights on my wood stacks this year, she laughed at me.

I have found them the easiest way to stack wood when there isn't space on single row racks. My largest is the one in my avatar, which I figure is about 2 cords. I do believe anything that size or bigger is too big, because it requires too much work, ladders etc. to make. I now have several of about a cord, 8 feet diameter, just over six feet high, that can be assembled in an hour or two and taken down without ladders. Mine are designed to be up at most one year, and moved to racks in the late spring when I have burned the wood in the racks. I'm still burning one year wood, and would like to get to two or more, but that requires a lot of cutting, splitting and stacking.

kennyp2339 said:

Huge space saver, and to be honest this is quicker to build since all the prime pieces get used for the outside walls, if you have an ugly or a short you just throw it in the middle.
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I try to keep the bottom of the middle tightly packed with vertical splits, so as to facilitate water flow to the bottom. After that first foundation, though, I also just pile in the junk pieces in the middle. Supposedly there are people who actually carry out that vertical stacking all the way to the top, but I don't have the patience to go that far, and then I'd still be stuck with all the odds and ends that I'm now putting in the middle.

A 12 ft diameter stack has a radius of 6 ft, and an area of Pi r^2 = 113 square feet. at five feet high, that gives a volume of 565 cubic feet, or about 4.4 cords. The volume of a cone is Pi r^2 * h/3, or in this case Pi * 36*12/3 = 452 cubic feet, or 3.6 cords. That means you have about 8 cords in that stack, assuming you stacked the wood as tight as a standard rectangular stack.

With my holz hausen I have started minimizing the cone on top because I think the cone tends to push the upper part of the stack out of alignment, and is the cause of the occasional collapse.