Professional Wood Pile Watcher

[mainemac]

I am new to wood last year, and really am excited about this next year.

This year I find myself just stumbling around the yard gazing at the BTUs
I am getting really good at staring at the wood..
Is this a form of mental illness?

Or should I hire myself as Wood Pile Watcher? Kind of like house sitting...?

Tom

 

[begreen]

Maybe you could make a time-lapse video so that you can actually see it aging. Then you could watch it 24/7.

 

[smokinj]

I am new to wood last year, and really am excited about this next year.

This year I find myself just stumbling around the yard gazing at the BTUs
I am getting really good at staring at the wood..
Is this a form of mental illness?

Or should I hire myself as Wood Pile Watcher? Kind of like house sitting...?

Tom

Yes,but only when your away!

 

[Redox]

Pretty normal for most of us around here...

Just don't start developing "woodpile envy". THAT is a problem that can only be solved by additional wood aquisition. I think once you pass the 5-year-ahead mark, it might be a bonafide disease! :cheese:

Chris

 

[fossil]

Watching wood dry is a form of meditation, and can be quite therapeutically beneficial to sound mental balance, especially when combined with the appropriate fluid intake. (Always watch responsibly, and have a designated watcher assigned just in case the recommended fluid intake is inadvertently exceeded). %-P Rick

 

[Henz]

yup to everything already posted. I was watching a ballgame on TV the other day and must have popped my head up at least a dozen times to see if the woodpile was still in the sun........

 

[billb3]

Keep an eye on the Pile Watchers in March when there are empty skids and pallets.

 

[Henz]

I hear you there! one of my stacks (2cord) is right near the road. would ahve a ditch to cross but I am still worried about it at times.

 

[smokinj]

I hear you there! one of my stacks (2cord) is right near the road. would ahve a ditch to cross but I am still worried about it at times.

my piles are srinking every day in the sunshine i always look for tire tracks though!lol

 

[Adios Pantalones]

Here's how you make an obsessive pile watcher.

Get a staplegun and staple a piece of orange flagging, or yarn, or tinfoil to a piece of wood at each 1' height in the fresh pile. Lean a yardstick against it.

Now you can measure when it's at 80% height (nominally dry- 9.6" between flags), whether the top and bottom are drying the same, and can- at a glance- get a reading of the pile's state.

Now you will waste twice as much time. You're welcome.

 

[Henz]

yup, I know that I have a really prime location for my stacks. The ends are really cracking good and the splits ahve gotten super dark, moreso than my privious place that I used.

 

[woodzilla]

stack watching is only a problem if you begin to name pieces and/or stacks. I have one named eileen.

 

[johnnywarm]

i was just noticing how nice my 2 cords stack looks.

 

[Vic99]

I helped install a bay window in my kitchen so I could see my holz stacks much more easily . . . okay, maybe that's only part of the reason.

 

[crazy_dan]

It is no worse than having a rock garden.

 

[mainemac]

Glad to hear I am not crazy
Or at least not the only crazy one out there

 

[Henz]

there was a fun thread awhile back that started with something like 'you know your a firewood addict when"....or something like that. Find that thread and read it. You will be suprised how true many of the comments are!

 

[moondoggy]

i hug my Holz's all the time.....and i say keep drying babies.... it makes my kids laugh their butts off.
my little girl is 6 and she spots wood piles everywhere we drive and yells LOOK DAD more wood!

 

[fossil]

Glad to hear I am not crazy

Nobody here said that. It's likely that nobody here is qualified to make that call. %-P Rick

 

[fossil]

yup to everything already posted. I was watching a ballgame on TV the other day and must have popped my head up at least a dozen times to see if the woodpile was still in the sun........

Why not just run a cable & power out there and get a little TV so you can be with your wood while you watch the ballgame? Rick

 

[Redox]

Glad to hear I am not crazy

Nobody here said that. It's likely that nobody here is qualified to make that call. %-P Rick

Isn't that the definition of a catch-22?

I find myself beginning to catalog the wood according to species and moisture content. Is this bad???

Chris

 

[fossil]

...I find myself beginning to catalog the wood according to species and moisture content. Is this bad???

Chris, I don't think any devoted woodburner can know too much about his/her wood. Is this bad? How would I know? I'm an engineer...ask my wife, she's a psychologist. I want to know everything about everything. You've given me an idea for another journal to keep. Just don't tell my wife. %-P Rick

 

[FatttFire]

eileen .......................... you named your wood pile Eileen ............................... :lol:

My girlfriend is giving me that look, give her a minute and she will ask me if I am on that wood site again ......................... any minute now ...................

I think I might take one of my deer cams and set it up so it takes a pic of my wood ........................... there she goes, " yes dear talking to the other woodholics"

sorry where was I, yes, I want to set up one of those cams and take a picture once a week all summer to see how she ages! Like fine wine I tell you, like fine wine............................ the wood thats is ........................ :lol: ................ she is giving me that look again!

Jason

 

[Dix]

stack watching is only a problem if you begin to name pieces and/or stacks. I have one named eileen.

How cool is that

;-P

 

[fossil]

Well...is it stacked, or is it just a piece? :bug: Rick