This mess is for the lazy guys out there...

[privatejoker75]

I never have the patience to stack anything This is all from the national forest across the street from my house and was procured this week. Too lazy to do anything but chuck it all into the shed.

 

[TimJ]

you got enough space to split those rounds where they lay...... and you have air flowing through the wood shed........ and it is some sort of fast drying spruce or pine
but hey, as far as I know you might be too lazy to go out there and get it to burn it when it gets cold.

 

[maple1]

That won't be ready to burn when you want to unless you get splitting.

 

[ScotO]

I'd split them where they lay, just as Tim said......heck you could do it on a rainy day, you'll have a roof over your head. And as Maple1 said, you'll have to split them soon if you plan on burning them this winter, that's the only way that they will season....

 

[Woody Stover]

I'm not the most ambitious guy but I do like looking at rows of stacked splits.
I also like my wood real dry and I'm not far enough ahead to leave any rounds unsplit at this point.

 

[privatejoker75]

Oh, i plan on splitting them all this week. I was just talking about the general disarray. I see so many nice stacks here and then i see my pile and feel like less of a woodsman The shed gets good airflow and we're in NE Washington so the next 2+ months will be dry and hot

I'm not even sure what all types of wood. Some is ponderosa pine and fir. Not sure what the lighter bark is, i found that and a higher elevation than i normal go.

 

[bogydave]

Stacking helps the wood dry better & even.
Which, promotes better & cleaner burning.
Also takes up less space .

If you cut & split wood, you're not lazy
So you can't use "Lazy" as an excuse to not stack the wood . LOL
An ugly stack of wood is a beautiful thing

Nice shed & scenery

 

[privatejoker75]

Thanks...I tried to stack the splits last year and it was a mess because the floor of the shed slopes and is uneven. One of my plans this season was to level the whole thing and possibly pour a concrete floor or lay new wood but that never happened

 

[Hills Hoard]

looks like a nice area you live too....!

 

[privatejoker75]

I love it here, one of the hidden gems in the country in my opinion....as long as you can work from home and not mind cold winters

 

[maple1]

That greenish bark stuff looks like poplar - or what we'd call poplar here. Not a lot of heat in it but it dries real quick. Nice bike!

 

[privatejoker75]

I "think" it's Quaking Aspen, no clue though i'm still new to the tree game

http://www.bentler.us/eastern-washington/plants/trees/quaking-aspen.aspx

Thanks, i wish I could ride it. I think it has a bad float in the carb but the screws are stripped and there's a 6 week wait at the local bike shop :\

 

[Paulywalnut]

You can still stack on an uneven floor if its a dirt floor. I have some stacks running uphill.
Just put a couple of old junky pieces of wood at the uneven spots to kind of level it out .
Hurry up now, you're running out of time for seasoning.

 

[clemsonfor]

Yea i use to not know how to stack then i saw some stacks on here and got the same idea they use. When your stack starts to lean...say foward put a pice that will lift it back level, perpendicular to the other piecs of wood. There is nothing to say that your stacks and splits have to all be parallel to each other. I spend all holiday doing work outside, including getting a bit of wood, splittiing about 3/4 of a cord friday afternoon and stacking and moveing stacks of wood around and into my shed. I too am lazy in your deffinition about dump it and do it later.

 

[MrWhoopee]

I "think" it's Quaking Aspen, no clue though i'm still new to the tree game

http://www.bentler.us/eastern-washington/plants/trees/quaking-aspen.aspx

Yup, that greenish, smooth bark is quaking aspen. Nice, light, straight grained, easy splitting wood. BTU low at 15 mbtu/cord, but all free wood burns.

According to http://www.minotfirewood.com/btuchart.htm
"Worst of the worst avoid if possible"

 

[red oak]

Yea i use to not know how to stack then i saw some stacks on here and got the same idea they use. When your stack starts to lean...say foward put a pice that will lift it back level, perpendicular to the other piecs of wood. There is nothing to say that your stacks and splits have to all be parallel to each other. I spend all holiday doing work outside, including getting a bit of wood, splittiing about 3/4 of a cord friday afternoon and stacking and moveing stacks of wood around and into my shed. I too am lazy in your deffinition about dump it and do it later.

+1. I stack outside on a hill. Stacks have a permanent lean but using uneven pieces is a way to make it lean the way you want, or to make everything straight. As long as it stays up it is all good.

 

[Backwoods Savage]

I "think" it's Quaking Aspen, no clue though i'm still new to the tree game

http://www.bentler.us/eastern-washington/plants/trees/quaking-aspen.aspx

Thanks, i wish I could ride it. I think it has a bad float in the carb but the screws are stripped and there's a 6 week wait at the local bike shop :\

Quaking aspen, Poplar, Popple. All pretty much the same thing. Around here we just call it popple.