Cover Your Wood Along the East Coast!
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Stevebass4
Minister of Fire
we are getting it now, they say maybe 5 inches of rain and flooding. then that storm that is hitting the Carolina's could come at us also.
donatello
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My cousin installs/repairs above ground swimming pools. I'll ask him for a couple old liners. That is what he uses for covering his wood stacks. They are very durable and are FREE 
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cmonSTART
Minister of Fire
Firenutz
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Good idea. I have some of that stuff laying under my deck from the old owners. That'll give me something to do tomorrow.ClydesdaleBurner said:
pulldownclaw
Feeling the Heat
Covered some of my early season pine and a little bit of hardwood 2 nights ago, as we here in VA have been catching this storm that came off the NC coast. It almost seems like a tropical storm, not sure if they classified it as that or not, but lots of wind driven rain. Looks like it might hang around through the weekend.....
mrurbplanner
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Covered and tied mine down tonight after work in the calm before the storm.
One inch of rain forecast for tomorrow with Kyle or what ever is left of it forecast to track northwest of here on Monday afternoon.
One inch of rain forecast for tomorrow with Kyle or what ever is left of it forecast to track northwest of here on Monday afternoon.
RedRanger
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Jclout
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Mine mostley has been covered on the top and under the deck and the piles kind of close together but they are on skids. Does the wood take on water when out in the rain? Is the way that I have stored it ok?
RedRanger
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fossil said:
UNSEASON-now that is a word that is not often seen on this forum. :lol:
Fossil is quite correct, just the outside will get a little damp. Providing you have got the inners to a sweet moisture content. Hopefully, 20% or slightly less.
I covered mine up before the rain hit. I built a couple of holz hausens sp? and I only covered the one I completed. The nice thing is that I covered with a small, maybe 8 x 10, $10.00 10 mil tarp, the brown/silver one. The blues are cheaper but from what I saw they are 5 mil. I take a couple of ball bungees and tie some gallon milk jugs filled with water at four places around the bottom to keep it from blowing off.
Burn-1
Feeling the Heat
I covered all of mine yesterday. I nearly died when I saw plastic sheeting at Lowes, $15 for 10x25 4 mil!
If anyone still needs to cover wood and lives in the Northeast I would recommend going to Aubuchon's
They have the same thing on sale for $8.97 this week, black or clear. FWIW.
If anyone still needs to cover wood and lives in the Northeast I would recommend going to Aubuchon's
They have the same thing on sale for $8.97 this week, black or clear. FWIW.
snydley
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ScottF said:
I haven't yet covered mine. I may be wrong,(probably), but I think the cycles of rain, then dry, rain, then dry help to season the wood. I have a couple friends that have burned wood for years. They live right down the street from me. I figure once I see their wood covered I'll cover mine. I've got my piles located out in the open in my side yard where they get sun and wind all day long. They're also on pallets. That's the important thing I think, keeping them out of the water and mud so they don't rot.
I have some tar paper left over from a roofing job I did, I'm gonna cover the piles with that when the time comes and put bricks on top of it to hold it down. This will be my first full winter of burning wood only, and this winter is gonna be the test and will show me what works and what doesn't.
Snyde
If you're cheap like me, and just want to cover the top, there's all kinds of free junk you can use. (Try craigslist if you're junkless.) I had, lying around waiting to go to the dump or burn pile, some sheets of roofing tin and old wooden doors. The nice thing, in addition to being free, is these found objects are long and narrow and I just toss 'em on the pile (with a rock or log on the tin to anchor it). With a slight angle the water runs right off. Easy to flip off the pile when the sun shines and put back on for the next rainy spell, too.
The trick is to keep your woodpile from looking like it belongs at the dump - my junk is all in nice, weathered earth tones. The wife will let me know if it gets out of line, trust me. As for plastic, I'm done with that. Holes, pockets of water, wind tearing it off... and it ain't free!
The trick is to keep your woodpile from looking like it belongs at the dump - my junk is all in nice, weathered earth tones. The wife will let me know if it gets out of line, trust me. As for plastic, I'm done with that. Holes, pockets of water, wind tearing it off... and it ain't free!
iceman
Minister of Fire
sonnyinbc said:
i agree with you 2 however, i believe many of us are trying to get to seasoned before the cold comes...
i am afraid that my wood didn't season as much as it should've this summer so i might be 20-30% if i am close i don't want to lose some of the few dry days to get the water off the i am trying use what i have left after all this rain this past summer to hopefully get to the right spot....
i believe that due to the amount of new burners on here combined with all the rain is why we see so much anxiety/ worrying about wood... many newcomers as well as old timers didn't get the summer we were used to...
I'm right there with you on that one. Once I have a stack of green wood in the yard to season, I cover the top only using some old sheet vinyl flooring that's cut to the width of the stack. A couple of old boards and rocks hold it down. I also cover stacks using old popped vinyl pool rafts.branchburner said:
Seasoned wood is stored in a wood shed close to my back door, so no tarps etc. needed there.
snydley
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[quote author="branchburner" date="1222542681"]If you're cheap like me, and just want to cover the top, there's all kinds of free junk you can use. (Try craigslist if you're junkless.)
Cheap? Let's keep my women out of this. :cheese: As for me, I prefer the term "thrifty", if it's all the same to you. ;-)
I scrounged 9 chords of free wood, 3 dozen pallets this year, the only thing I'm "out" is the gas and oil to run my sa, oh yeah, there's the 22T Huskee splitter and the Stihl MS360 AND MS170 saws I bought, but that's an investment, thanks to the "New Math" I was taught 40 years ago, I don't count that money. :roll: I'm still more ahead of the game than I would be if I bought oil this year.
Snyde
Cheap? Let's keep my women out of this. :cheese: As for me, I prefer the term "thrifty", if it's all the same to you. ;-)
I scrounged 9 chords of free wood, 3 dozen pallets this year, the only thing I'm "out" is the gas and oil to run my sa, oh yeah, there's the 22T Huskee splitter and the Stihl MS360 AND MS170 saws I bought, but that's an investment, thanks to the "New Math" I was taught 40 years ago, I don't count that money. :roll: I'm still more ahead of the game than I would be if I bought oil this year.
Snyde
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