sublime68charger said:here's my back up pile for the year.
all stacked up and ready to be covered.
covered up. will open next year.
Wood Duck said:Here are mein Holz Hausen. The oldest ones on the right are about two years old, the rest somewhat younger. Each is 8 ft diameter almost exactly, and they were all eye level at the outer edge of the 'roof' when I built them. The old ones have shrunken about 8 or 10 inches. They are not 'tightly stacked' as per the standard definition of a cord of wood, because I want to encourage air movement through them. The volume each is about 4x4x3.14x5.5 = 276 cubic feet / 128 cubic feet per cord = 2.15 cords. Accounting for the loose stacking, I guess each is between 1.5 and 2 standard cords (or between 1.5 and 13 Craiglist cords). I expect to burn two hausen per winter, so I have three years of wood here. The wood is a mix of everything that grows here, with the majority Black, Red, White, and Chestnut Oaks, Red Maple, and Black Walnut.
I have plans to help a friend clear a bunch of trees next week, so maybe I'll manage to build another one soon, but I also will run out of miscellaneous piles to burn sometime in the next month and HH #1 will begin to be taken down. Who knows if I will ever have more than 6 complete HH at once.
Wood Duck said:Here are mein Holz Hausen. The oldest ones on the right are about two years old, the rest somewhat younger. Each is 8 ft diameter almost exactly, and they were all eye level at the outer edge of the 'roof' when I built them. The old ones have shrunken about 8 or 10 inches. They are not 'tightly stacked' as per the standard definition of a cord of wood, because I want to encourage air movement through them. The volume each is about 4x4x3.14x5.5 = 276 cubic feet / 128 cubic feet per cord = 2.15 cords. Accounting for the loose stacking, I guess each is between 1.5 and 2 standard cords (or between 1.5 and 13 Craiglist cords). I expect to burn two hausen per winter, so I have three years of wood here. The wood is a mix of everything that grows here, with the majority Black, Red, White, and Chestnut Oaks, Red Maple, and Black Walnut.
I have plans to help a friend clear a bunch of trees next week, so maybe I'll manage to build another one soon, but I also will run out of miscellaneous piles to burn sometime in the next month and HH #1 will begin to be taken down. Who knows if I will ever have more than 6 complete HH at once.
GolfandWoodNut said:Nice job on HHs, I have started to tear apart my large one (10 feet diameter), it breaks my heart but it is time to go. Do you use pallets? I can not see any. You might want to try a 10 footer, it is amazing how much more wood you can store. You cannot beat the conversation piece of a HH.
sublime68charger said:here's my back up pile for the year.
all stacked up and ready to be covered. covered up. will open next year.