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velvetfoot said:
So I went out to the HD last night for some plywood to cover the pile next to the house.
Man, wood is expensive, 13.50 a sheet and I needed 6!
And it is crap. Maybe "next time" I'll go with a real lumber place. Is there a "good side" on plywood?
It's already curling, bad. The whole thing looks bad (next to house). Maybe should've stuck with the tarp, but proof will be in winter I guess.
Gotta get a shed, but it'd be farther away.
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Until we do build a shed it looks like this weekend we will do some top covering of this years wood.


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This is where 4 cords are now reposing:
 

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velvetfoot said:
This is where 4 cords are now reposing:
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nice...

your garage looks high n' dry

i do something similar. its great to have a few cords in the basement or garage. then i never need to go outside for wood for all of dec/jan/feb.

as far as bugs...i wait till thanxgiving to load up my basement, in hopes that most tof the critters die off. haven't had much issue with them. plenty o' spiders but they're carnivores anyway. we get along just fine. before filling the basement i ensure that i burn the big stove down there for a few days to get it nice and dry. works for me.
 
Thanks; high and dry here. How about you? Ulster County got whacked by floods.

I just now drove the Mini Cooper in there, to see if I could. It fits, but I wouldn't want to put in a much bigger car.
 
velvetfoot said:
Thanks; high and dry here. How about you? Ulster County got whacked by floods.

I just now drove the Mini Cooper in there, to see if I could. It fits, but I wouldn't want to put in a much bigger car.
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plus...how would you get out?
well, maybe by february when you're down a coupla cords ;-)

we were w/o power for 9 days..still no phone or internet. no biggie. some folks lost their homes...and more.
 
After 5yrs of woodburning I still go with stacking between trees with heavy duty tarps just along the top of the piles early on in the season for extra drying out time. Then full tarp coverage once the snow,ice, and wintery mix starts up. I have a small barn with a "lean-to" roofed area behind it as well as a covered wood storage area on the side but all these things are 40 feet behind the house- far to far to go in snow ! And it snows often & heavy here. I want that wood 15 feet from my front door ! Heck I'd have it right up against my house if the Fire Dept didn't get their pants up in a bunch about it !
 
velvetfoot said:
The sad part is I'll probably wind up cutting em up next summer.
Oh well, let's see if they help with the snow.
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If you paint it it will last for years.
 
The woodshed I built a couple years ago. It's 12x16, split in two. Half is garden shed, half is woodshed. I've got about 18 cords in total, including what is stacked along the side. Only problem I have is wind blowing snow in through the lattice, which then covers the wood. I wanted max airflow for drying wood, but that same airflow works against me in the winter (the corner shown in the backside shot is the NE corner). Thinking of either finishing the whole thing in board/batten, which will kill my drying airflow, or tarping those sides in winter, which will look awful coming up the drive.
 

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When I read the title of this thread, I thought it was, "Moron covering wood".
But there's no pic of me in here ;-)
 
tamarack said:
When I read the title of this thread, I thought it was, "Moron covering wood".
But there's no pic of me in here ;-)
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LOL! That was me last year. But after this summer, I've moved up to "Moron covering wood in shed..." :)
 
babzog said:
The woodshed I built a couple years ago. It's 12x16, split in two. Half is garden shed, half is woodshed. I've got about 18 cords in total, including what is stacked along the side. Only problem I have is wind blowing snow in through the lattice, which then covers the wood. I wanted max airflow for drying wood, but that same airflow works against me in the winter (the corner shown in the backside shot is the NE corner). Thinking of either finishing the whole thing in board/batten, which will kill my drying airflow, or tarping those sides in winter, which will look awful coming up the drive.
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What about just fastening plywood sheets across the lattice in winter, then moving them over to the garden shed side after the last snow? You could make brackets for them, so you wouldn't need to fasten them permanently. They wouldn't be nearly as noticeable as tarps.
 
DanCorcoran said:
What about just fastening plywood sheets across the lattice in winter, then moving them over to the garden shed side after the last snow? You could make brackets for them, so you wouldn't need to fasten them permanently. They wouldn't be nearly as noticeable as tarps.
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You know, that's a pretty good idea!

I've been thinking of ripping off the lattice on the upper east side and finishing that with B&B, which would then make the ply sheets idea really easy - would just take 5 sheets standing vertically to close it in.
 
babzog said:
The woodshed I built a couple years ago. It's 12x16, split in two. Half is garden shed, half is woodshed. I've got about 18 cords in total, including what is stacked along the side. Only problem I have is wind blowing snow in through the lattice, which then covers the wood. I wanted max airflow for drying wood, but that same airflow works against me in the winter (the corner shown in the backside shot is the NE corner). Thinking of either finishing the whole thing in board/batten, which will kill my drying airflow, or tarping those sides in winter, which will look awful coming up the drive.
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18 cords in one woodshed 12 x 16? How tall are you stacking the wood? I have a 12 x 20 woodshed and figure I have 9-10 cords in it.

Board and batten . . . I went that route and have been very happy . . . very little snow comes in the sides . . . and I still get air flow . . . I do however tend to take the wood out from the inside and the wood on the outside facing the elements is taken last . . . but honestly, I get very little snow penetration.
 
ff he from my pat of the woods,generally cord talk round here is what amouts to face cord(dont shoot,its only a word)
 
geez,what crappy spelling in previous post,
ok for real
ff,he,s from my neck of the woods,round here cord often means face cord...bla bla bla
 
roddy said:
geez,what crappy spelling in previous post,
ok for real
ff,he,s from my neck of the woods,round here cord often means face cord...bla bla bla
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Hehheh . . . thanks for the translation . . . both with your post (I was thinking it was a new language) and in reminding me about cords and face cords (I still for the life of me cannot figure out why folks here don't all call a cord a cord -- I mean when I buy my gas it's either a gallon or liter (if I'm in Canada) -- never had to explain to folks that where I live in Maine we have a Gadabout Gallon which is actually a little less than a normal gallon.
 
firefighterjake said:
roddy said:
geez,what crappy spelling in previous post,
ok for real
ff,he,s from my neck of the woods,round here cord often means face cord...bla bla bla
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Hehheh . . . thanks for the translation . . . both with your post (I was thinking it was a new language) and in reminding me about cords and face cords (I still for the life of me cannot figure out why folks here don't all call a cord a cord -- I mean when I buy my gas it's either a gallon or liter (if I'm in Canada) -- never had to explain to folks that where I live in Maine we have a Gadabout Gallon which is actually a little less than a normal gallon.
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Actually Jake, I think the term Face Cord has been shortened from it's original term which was Farce Cord, and that is where the confusion started.
 
firefighterjake said:
babzog said:
The woodshed I built a couple years ago. It's 12x16, split in two. Half is garden shed, half is woodshed. I've got about 18 cords in total, including what is stacked along the side. Only problem I have is wind blowing snow in through the lattice, which then covers the wood. I wanted max airflow for drying wood, but that same airflow works against me in the winter (the corner shown in the backside shot is the NE corner). Thinking of either finishing the whole thing in board/batten, which will kill my drying airflow, or tarping those sides in winter, which will look awful coming up the drive.
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18 cords in one woodshed 12 x 16? How tall are you stacking the wood? I have a 12 x 20 woodshed and figure I have 9-10 cords in it.

Board and batten . . . I went that route and have been very happy . . . very little snow comes in the sides . . . and I still get air flow . . . I do however tend to take the wood out from the inside and the wood on the outside facing the elements is taken last . . . but honestly, I get very little snow penetration.
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Yes, I mean face cords and not full cords. Noone talks about or sells full cords around here.

The woodshed portion is 8x12 (actually, more like 8.75'x12'). I'm stacking about two cords high... it's as full as I can reasonably make it. I figure I've got a generous 17 cords in the shed plus nearly a cord outside. 9 rows inside, but the first and last rows aren't two cords high due to interference from structure. The remaining rows are just stacked in from wall to wall.

So you're happy with the drying airflow using B&B? Do you just have one entrance (ie: closed in on three sides)? I'm worried enough that the center of my cube of wood is going to be dry and not full of mushrooms.
 
babzog said:
firefighterjake said:
babzog said:
The woodshed I built a couple years ago. It's 12x16, split in two. Half is garden shed, half is woodshed. I've got about 18 cords in total, including what is stacked along the side. Only problem I have is wind blowing snow in through the lattice, which then covers the wood. I wanted max airflow for drying wood, but that same airflow works against me in the winter (the corner shown in the backside shot is the NE corner). Thinking of either finishing the whole thing in board/batten, which will kill my drying airflow, or tarping those sides in winter, which will look awful coming up the drive.
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18 cords in one woodshed 12 x 16? How tall are you stacking the wood? I have a 12 x 20 woodshed and figure I have 9-10 cords in it.

Board and batten . . . I went that route and have been very happy . . . very little snow comes in the sides . . . and I still get air flow . . . I do however tend to take the wood out from the inside and the wood on the outside facing the elements is taken last . . . but honestly, I get very little snow penetration.
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Yes, I mean face cords and not full cords. Noone talks about or sells full cords around here.

The woodshed portion is 8x12 (actually, more like 8.75'x12'). I'm stacking about two cords high... it's as full as I can reasonably make it. I figure I've got a generous 17 cords in the shed plus nearly a cord outside. 9 rows inside, but the first and last rows aren't two cords high due to interference from structure. The remaining rows are just stacked in from wall to wall.

So you're happy with the drying airflow using B&B? Do you just have one entrance (ie: closed in on three sides)? I'm worried enough that the center of my cube of wood is going to be dry and not full of mushrooms.
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Very happy with the board and batten . . . I leave my wood outside uncovered for the first year to get the wood seasoned . . . and then put it in the shed for another year where I believe (never having done any scientific experiments) it continues to season at a slower pace for another year before I use it in Year 3.

The entire front is wide open for easy access . . . a large overhang roof keeps the snow off the wood from the front.

I don't worry about mushrooms, rotten wood or wet wood since the wood is already seasoned for a year.
 
firefighterjake said:
Very happy with the board and batten . . . I leave my wood outside uncovered for the first year to get the wood seasoned . . . and then put it in the shed for another year where I believe (never having done any scientific experiments) it continues to season at a slower pace for another year before I use it in Year 3.

The entire front is wide open for easy access . . . a large overhang roof keeps the snow off the wood from the front.

I don't worry about mushrooms, rotten wood or wet wood since the wood is already seasoned for a year.
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Ah... there's the key difference. I'm running on a one year cycle. What goes in in the spring is fresh cut and I'm burning it the following winter. I'd love to get a year or two ahead... eventually.
 
Good god ! I wish i could have more than 1 yr stashed.
All you wives out there with husbands who do this .....
Should shut up & thank your luckey stars.
 
leaf4952 said:
Good god ! I wish i could have more than 1 yr stashed.
All you wives out there with husbands who do this .....
Should shut up & thank your luckey stars.
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I'm going to have my wife read this post.
 
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