stacking on bricks

Lay them under the pallets, keeps the pallets dry & they'll last longer.

Build a brick chit house? hahahaha

Just place them on the ground with plenty of air space in between and stack on the bricks. You have to lay the first layer of splits carefully so that they are resting firmly on the bricks with lots of gaps for air, but above that it becomes normal stacking. I stack my wood on mostly roundish rocks I hit whenever I dig in the garden.

bogydave said:

Lay them under the pallets, keeps the pallets dry & they'll last longer.

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+1 on Dave's idea. I'd place 2 bricks under each corner of a pallet to get it raised up off the ground. 1. What he said about keeping the pallets dry. 2. More air circulation under the wood. The more air the better.

I used some leftover pavers I had to stack my pallets on, that way I get plenty of air circulating under the pile as well. Plus my pallets should last longer. I answered an ad one time from a guy on craigslist trying to sell a cord of wood for $60, I thought it was a great price so I called, on the phone he said he stacked on pallets and covered with a tarp so I thought it was worth taking a look. When I got there the pallets were rotted, he had a bunch of birch rotted on the pallets, the tarp held the moisture in, it was a rotten mess that I passed on.

The majority of my pallet's are on the ground as well. I only used leftover brick paver's to level some of the pallet's. I did paint the bottom of the pallet's with a couple heavy coats of used motor oil though. Hopefully that will slow down the decomposition process a bit.

I stacked on bricks my first year, it was what I had. Works fine. Just be careful in laying the first run, as mentioned above, and your good to go.

With next years firewood already here, I called the bricks back into service. Easy Peesy

pen said:

It'll work under the pallets for a while, but w/ my ground at least, they would sink eventually. I use large stones I've gathered from an old quarry under my wood and have had good results.

As a testament to them sinking, I have seen multiple concrete block "fire pits" sink so much that the first layer of block is completely in the ground within a decade. We aren't talking swamp land either!

pen

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Stack them two bricks high, that way you have two decades before the pallets below ground, sort of like the Antarctica south pole station ;-)

Why do you have so many bricks?

Danno77 said:

Why do you have so many bricks?

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Keep splitting, Danno