I must be doing something terribly wrong, and I'm sure it's another inevitable newbie mistake so I'm hoping the seasoned pros have some suggestions...
I am forever rearranging my woodpiles.
I have a stack of the really good stuff I'm saving for the dead of winter, a stack of small rounds, a stack of decent to good for current burning, a stack of really well seasoned stuff that got left out in the rain, a stack of the maple I just took down, another huge pile of a red oak I just took down, a stack of stuff that's too long and needs to be trimmed.... and so on.
Which would be easy enough, except that I always want the good stuff nearest the door, so that pallet is always near empty and needs filling up. So then I rotate the next best and the rest in sequence like musical chairs. So far this year I have done a complete top to bottom rearrangement twice and need to do it again.
I have an excellent 20x30 carport facing south and west right outside the door to my burning room as well as nearly unlimited room beyond that (uncovered) for next years stuff, so lack of room is not the problem. Lack of organization is.
I accept that a certain amount of moving is necessary- summer in the sun and winter covered- but feel like there has to be a better way than what I have devised so far.
So either I am too OCD about keeping my stacks in order (which is very likely) or am missing out on some simple principle not included in my "Woodburners 101" manual.
Which is it, do we think??
Is it unreasonable to want to step outside and be able to choose from three or four different stacks of the various sizes of wood?
Is there a way to minimize the constant empty pallet by the door and the good wood always all way down at the other end?
The only saving grace to the whole issue is that I gets lots of exercise :lol:
And of course the next part to this question is stacking efficiently with hand split (and therefore non similarly sized splits) wood. My stacks have a tendency to lean...
I suspect it is just experience that will work out the bugs in my system, but I'd still enjoy hearing any hints.
I am forever rearranging my woodpiles.
I have a stack of the really good stuff I'm saving for the dead of winter, a stack of small rounds, a stack of decent to good for current burning, a stack of really well seasoned stuff that got left out in the rain, a stack of the maple I just took down, another huge pile of a red oak I just took down, a stack of stuff that's too long and needs to be trimmed.... and so on.
Which would be easy enough, except that I always want the good stuff nearest the door, so that pallet is always near empty and needs filling up. So then I rotate the next best and the rest in sequence like musical chairs. So far this year I have done a complete top to bottom rearrangement twice and need to do it again.
I have an excellent 20x30 carport facing south and west right outside the door to my burning room as well as nearly unlimited room beyond that (uncovered) for next years stuff, so lack of room is not the problem. Lack of organization is.
I accept that a certain amount of moving is necessary- summer in the sun and winter covered- but feel like there has to be a better way than what I have devised so far.
So either I am too OCD about keeping my stacks in order (which is very likely) or am missing out on some simple principle not included in my "Woodburners 101" manual.
Which is it, do we think??
Is it unreasonable to want to step outside and be able to choose from three or four different stacks of the various sizes of wood?
Is there a way to minimize the constant empty pallet by the door and the good wood always all way down at the other end?
The only saving grace to the whole issue is that I gets lots of exercise :lol:
And of course the next part to this question is stacking efficiently with hand split (and therefore non similarly sized splits) wood. My stacks have a tendency to lean...
I suspect it is just experience that will work out the bugs in my system, but I'd still enjoy hearing any hints.