Big ol' pile of wood

[pyper]

I was out of town for work and my wife moved all the wood from the old house to the new house. I guess it's my job to stack it.

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I checked a few of the splits with my moisture meter by splitting them again. The smaller ones were 15%; the larger are more like 22%. There is some pear a the bottom of the stack that fell last summer that's 25%. We probably won't need any of this until next year because we have a good half cord of really well seasoned wood already stacked. Don't even have the insert yet...

 

[muncybob]

Lucky you! Nice to have a little help once in awhile. My wife decided last wekend it was time to learn how to run the splitter. Between the 2 of us we split & stacked a truck load I brought home that morning in less than 1/2 the time it would have taken me by myself.....we rewarded our efforts with an enhanced beverage on the deck.

 

[bogydave]

Tell her, all of us here say
"Good Job!"
Now get some pallets down & get it stacked up, She got it this far, & left you the easy step. LOL

 

[Gasifier]

That looks good pyper. Nice and close to the house. Where do you stack it? Inside, outside? How much do you figure you have there?

 

[Iembalm4aLiving]

Pretty pile of wood. Looks like stacking time!

 

[shawneyboy]

Damn, my wife would NEVER do such a thing. You better get her some flowers or something. You sir have a good woman there.

Shawn

 

[pyper]

That looks good pyper. Nice and close to the house. Where do you stack it? Inside, outside? How much do you figure you have there?

Thanks. I figure there's probably a cord, or maybe a little more. I'm stacking it under the deck, which probably isn't ideal, but we don't have a lot of options. Fortunately it's mostly dry.

I have a half cord or so inside that's already dry. In fact, a lot of it is old rough cut oak. I'm planning on burning the indoor stuff first. I won't put any of the wood in the photo indoors because of the bugs in it.

Thanks for the idea Dave! I handn't thought about pallets, but I had some at the other house and your post inspired me to move them to stack on. I've gotten started on the stacking. I like stacking -- kind of like a jigsaw puzzle with no wrong solutions.

;-)

 

[Gasifier]

Pyper,

I stack my wood under a covered porch. But the porch has spaces between the deck boards. So when the snow gets in on the porch and I shovel it off I get snow on the top pieces of wood. Not to bad, but can be a pain. I plastic off one section where the wind blows most of it in. You might try putting some plastic over the top of your wood under the deck and make sure it will stay there. Have a good one.

 

[pyper]

Thanks. I have some pieces of scrap metal roofing, so I just put pieces of that on the wood that's being stored. No snow to worry about here, either