I’ll show you mine if you show me yours...

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livetosail

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Wood piles, that is!

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We’ve got ten acres fully wooded. Only problem is the entire property slopes at 30 degrees. There isn’t a flat spot to be found anywhere, so wood stacking must be done wherever I can find space for a stand. This one’s outside the workshop.

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Underneath the workshop.

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Underneath the deck.

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On the side of the deck.

Notice a trend?

Anyway, I love C/S/S-ing wood, so show me your wood piles!


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If you notice in the picture I have one inch cedar fence boards under the stacks to keep it from pushing into the mud and freezing the first layer to the ground in the winter. Other than that, it is pretty dry here.
 
If you notice in the picture I have one inch cedar fence boards under the stacks to keep it from pushing into the mud and freezing the first layer to the ground in the winter. Other than that, it is pretty dry here.
I see those boards now that I look more carefully. Those are good, they'd buy a year or two here. Probably much more in MT. I'm always on the lookout for stuff to stack on. I hope to have enough for 5 years of stacks eventually. Only at about 1.5 or 2 years now.
 
Nice! Do all the piles lean against trees, or do you have some stakes on the ends?


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I have got a stack running between two trees crosswise across the slope. Then I run a bunch of stacks downhill from the crosswise stack to buttress it. Then I start stacking uphill from it, and that is what I use for my yearly use.

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I see those boards now that I look more carefully. Those are good, they'd buy a year or two here. Probably much more in MT. I'm always on the lookout for stuff to stack on. I hope to have enough for 5 years of stacks eventually. Only at about 1.5 or 2 years now.
I have been using 3-5 inch pine or spruce trees that are dead or on their way out. I cut them in 10-12 foot lengths and just lay two on the ground next to each other. Works great and is free
 
Here's my 50+ cord worth, it's a video:

 
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https://www.hearth.com/talk/threads/simple-pallet-firewood-rack.167322/
Mine make it easy to gage how much I have or have burned, 1 pallet equals roughly a third of a cord.
The stacks are kept dry and have airflow all around them.
I was buying the damaged metal roofing from local big box stores, but now I'm using the inner tanks from the IBC totes I get at work for free
 
I have the same deal. Blocking up stacks has been the challenge for 34 years on this place.
 
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My main woodpile is hard to see, it is inside this wood shed, also known as my solar-powered wood drying kiln.

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I also have this wood pile beneath the kitchen window. Pretty decent size pile, this is all beech, oak, and locust.

I also have a nice sized wood pile under the carport, it is all hickory, don't have a pic of it I am on the road in Texas today will get a pic later this week.

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And here it is! This is a beautiful thing, all hickory. Under roof and gets lots of wind, and 3 hours of sunshine every day.
 
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There's an identical row behind that stack...and lots more out of the picture.
 
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Google finally updated :) This must have been last spring, because the splitter and a bunch of piles were still up in the driveway, and there are only 2 rows of wood. Now i'm up to 3.5 rows, and the splitter is down the by stacks.
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The wagon is the last of the locust, then still have about 3 cord of cherry to buck & split but it always seems too wet to get back to it or more appropriately too wet to get out loaded. Then I still have several piles of hedge posts to collect, cut & split.
It’s not 50 cord but I’m ahead so it’s all good.
 

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2-14-2014 6.JPG 1-14-2014 10.JPG They looked a lot bigger in the summer.

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Those are some nice piles of snow Coaly. How do the burn? Lol. We don’t get snow like that around here very often, it just seems to rain every other day here lately making finishing up a very slow process.
 
Good thing we have a cookstove. Sometimes logs go in the oven and leave the door open. They're ready for the firebox in about an hour.