My moms boyfriend is selling me his wood furnace to heat my house with, and helping me get some wood. He buys cutoffs from a local lumber mill, and can get a whole trailer load for $75. They are roughly 4"x6" and 1 to 2 feet long. He's been using them to heat his house with for years with the furnace he's selling me, so I know that'll work great.
He uses 3 trailer loads to heat with all winter, and my house is less than half the size of his, so I'm going to get 2 to play it safe.
However, he just throws them in a section of his unfinished basement to cure for the summer. I don't have a basement, and I have 2 cars in my garage, so I need to stack them in the backyard. I live in town, so I want to make it look as clean and neat as possible, because I don't want complaints from my neighbors. I just moved here and don't want enemies.
He claims he tried stacking it one year and they didn't dry out well enough to burn good, so he's always just piled them ever since. But I want to stack them so I don't kill all the grass in my backyard, I want to stack them on the sidewalk along the back of my house and next to my deck. How would you stack wood like this so that it drys properly?
Thanks!
He uses 3 trailer loads to heat with all winter, and my house is less than half the size of his, so I'm going to get 2 to play it safe.
However, he just throws them in a section of his unfinished basement to cure for the summer. I don't have a basement, and I have 2 cars in my garage, so I need to stack them in the backyard. I live in town, so I want to make it look as clean and neat as possible, because I don't want complaints from my neighbors. I just moved here and don't want enemies.
He claims he tried stacking it one year and they didn't dry out well enough to burn good, so he's always just piled them ever since. But I want to stack them so I don't kill all the grass in my backyard, I want to stack them on the sidewalk along the back of my house and next to my deck. How would you stack wood like this so that it drys properly?
Thanks!