Ooops ... Restacking On The Agenda For The Weekend....

[Dix]

Waiting for the "earth quake" sound

I'm just going to take the tilters off, and move them to the outer rows, then restack the top.

Unless it crashes, then it's filling in the row on your right

 

[jatoxico]

I had a major fail over the winter and had to restack about 20-25' of a 4.5' tall row. It's what I get for using trees as end posts.

 

[Dix]

End posts???????

 

[jatoxico]

Yeah, you know like when you stack the wood between two trees. The trees swayed in the wind and caused the stack to go down.

 

[Dix]

Yeah, you know like when you stack the wood between two trees. The trees swayed in the wind and caused the stack to go down.

 

[jatoxico]

Funny now! Not so much at the time!

 

[Dix]

Funny now! Not so much at the time!

I've got 2 10 foot runs of that to move .... never again. I used pines, and they are dying left & right.

 

[splions]

get four pallets the same size and make one of these...you will never have to worry about that again

 

[Hasufel]

Yeah, you know like when you stack the wood between two trees. The trees swayed in the wind and caused the stack to go down.

I do the same but haven't had too many problems. The trick is to pick big trees with stiff trunks. When I've had partial collapses, they usually happen in the first few weeks after the wood dries enough to shrink. Once I restack they're usually pretty stable from that point on. I found that I can head off collapses by watching recent stacks for signs of leaning and then tap the splits back to level.

 

[billb3]

I've got 2 10 foot runs of that to move .... never again. I used pines, and they are dying left & right.

pine beetles ?

 

[Dix]

pine beetles ?

Yep.

 

[xman23]

Dix, Start those two single rows with 6 inches between them on the bottom few rows. As you go up, place an occasional tie split that is half in each row. As you go up the rows come closer together. the ends can be done a few different way

With that two row construction my rows are eight feet tall. And used to be hundreds of feet long. Never had a row fall.