Labeling stacks by year split?

[wahoowad]

I got ahead in my wood, then got behind, now I'm trying to get myself a couple years ahead again. I will use some of this bone dry standing dead next year so want to mark those stacks as such. I like my red oak to season 2 years and want to mark them as such too. Most of my stacks are 8 to 10' rows using stakes to prop the ends. Does anybody have a labeling method they use to keep track? Maybe a little plastic tag on a end stake?

 

[Sinngetreu]

I've been thinking of this too and was kicking around the idea of dusting the end with a tiny bit of spray paint to color code the stacks. That would at least not wash away and couldnt get lost. Only draw back is, its paint on wood.

 

[jatoxico]

Hate to admit it cause I always think I'll remember but then after a year and half I found myself wondering 'was that lot split Nov or Aug'?

So I've been cutting up plastic milk juggs and label using a sharpie. Nail it to a split with a roofing nail. I try to keep track of the month and yr cut and split if those are a couple months apart.

Probably won't need to do that forvever but for now it's good.

 

[paul bunion]

Just write on your wood with a sharpie.

 

[wahoowad]

I did write on the wood with a sharpie one time - worked great. I actually found that split and burned it this year and it was marked 2007! I like the idea of using a milkjug tag as I can mark the whole row by attaching it to the stake.

 

[Paulywalnut]

I ask who wants to go next? No I actually put them on paper in the shed and just have a position number. Also backed the modern way up on my IPad with pictures
What gets hard is when you have a stack you want that is in back of a stack not ready. Happens all the time.

 

[KB007]

Sharpie on the pallet at the end. Thought I'd be able to remember, but after a year or two it all looks the same.

 

[Beer Belly]

I have mine all mapped out on a piece of paper hanging on my cork board in the home office

 

[firefighterjake]

Yeah ... I will admit to doing this. I take an old cedar shingle and Mark the year and often the month that the wood was split and stacked -- this gets tacked to the stack so I can remember which wood is the oldest. When the wood goes into the woodshed I Mark the year on the end rows for when I put that wood into the shed so I will burn my oldest wood first.

 

[jebatty]

My way is too simple, since I don't know how to write. Two rows 4 x 4+ x 36'. And I just rotate through and refill. All dries a minimum of two summers, most is pine and aspen.

 

[BobUrban]

I just get so far ahead it does not matter. Take from one end and work towards the other -filling the void in the spring with new splits. By the time I get back to it 3+yrs have put it past it's expiration date. 4-5 rows deep, 4' high by60' long. Then there is all the other stacks indifferent locations around the yard/property

 

[JP11]

I've got a store shelves thing going. I do occasionally blast a pallet with some paint.. but I don't have a 'key' to the colors. I've got a row of 70 pallets or so. they are stacked up to 6 pallets deep. So newest splits go on one end.. I 'deal' off the other end.

 

[Flatbedford]

I have three distinct areas that I stack in. I just rotate and refill each year. So far I have been able to remember. I'm only in my early 40s now. We'll see how long it is before I am spray painting and mapping.

 

[Backwoods Savage]

Never have labeled any stacks but do remember when they were cut, split and stacked. Perhaps when I get old it won't be that way?!

 

[jatoxico]

Never have labeled any stacks but do remember when they were cut, split and stacked. Perhaps when I get old it won't be that way?!

Whipper snapper.