Do you really have to cover your stacks? I mean if you know for sure your not going to use any of the wood from those stacks this year......what's the point?
NATE379 said:I do to keep the snow off the wood (haul less snow into the house that way.)
NordicSplitter said:Do you really have to cover your stacks? I mean if you know for sure your not going to use any of the wood from those stacks this year......what's the point?
oldspark said:NO, and "months of drying rolled back in one rain storm" aint gonna happen.
Backwoods Savage said:Certainly you do not have to cover a wood pile. However, we do cover the wood after the first summer and fall's initial drying. I believe the wood will dry faster with it uncovered but after that big quantity of moisture comes out that first summer, I like to cover the wood. Should one need to get wood from the stack during the winter, or whenever, it is nice to not have to handle wet wood. If it is covered, then you won't have to handle it. If it gets covered with the entire winter's snowfall and then melts mostly in a couple days, that is a lot of water to pour onto the wood and although wood is not a sponge, that amount of moisture might cause some problems including mold, which I don't want to bring into the house.
NordicSplitter said:Do you really have to cover your stacks? I mean if you know for sure your not going to use any of the wood from those stacks this year......what's the point?
shawneyboy said:I only cover that which I will be burning in the current heating season between the woodshed, and the racks under the deck, everything else can be cold and shivver through the winter. Then next fall, reload, rinse, repeate.
Shawn
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