I had about 30 trees cut down to open up a piece of property: oak, tulip-poplar, maple and pine. The diameters run between 6" and 24". I'm in the process of cutting them to 16" lengths. This is probably a 10 year supply of firewood for me and I already have 2 years split and stacked.
This morning, I started stacking firewood-rounds on pallets with landscape fabric underneath to keep the weeds down. It's in an area with at least 6 hours of sun a day and strong winds. I'm putting three firewood-rounds across the width of the pallet with the big stuff on the bottom and smaller on top. I'm thinking of stapling landscape fabric to just the top of the stack so that hard rain will run off--the fabric breathes so it shouldn't trap moisture.
I got to wondering whether the inside rounds will get enough air circulation to prevent rotting.
1. Any problems with this method of long term storage? Suggestions?
2. Any guesstimates at the moisture content of an un-split 16" long--18" diameter oak firewood round after 2 years?
Thanks in advance
This morning, I started stacking firewood-rounds on pallets with landscape fabric underneath to keep the weeds down. It's in an area with at least 6 hours of sun a day and strong winds. I'm putting three firewood-rounds across the width of the pallet with the big stuff on the bottom and smaller on top. I'm thinking of stapling landscape fabric to just the top of the stack so that hard rain will run off--the fabric breathes so it shouldn't trap moisture.
I got to wondering whether the inside rounds will get enough air circulation to prevent rotting.
1. Any problems with this method of long term storage? Suggestions?
2. Any guesstimates at the moisture content of an un-split 16" long--18" diameter oak firewood round after 2 years?
Thanks in advance