Stacking the shed, barn or whatever.

[wdenton]

Ok so out of curiosity when do you start to bring your wood in to stack in your shed, barn or whatever for the coming Winter?

I usually start the beginning of Oct

When does everyone else start?

 

[BrotherBart]

I always reload the shed in April just after shutting down the stove for the season. Gives me the room in the stacks for new wood.

 

[owingsia]

We have a covered porch just outside the stove room. So as far as bringing wood up to the house as it were.... well I start that once we start a regular all day all night burn. Once the stove is running 24/7 thats when I bring wood into the house and right outside. Here that is usually a Turkey day activity for me. (I smoke the turkeys all day and while doing that get ready for the up coming cold.) Last year we ended up burning all day on Thanksgiving.... it was chili and we needed an extra spot to cook as we had more guest than normal... the old Englander cooked up some good mashed potatoes, scalloped potatoes, and some other potato dish.... This year we have the Woodstock ideal steel to break in... gonna miss the old smoke factory it was a great stove.... to be honest I never really had a huge smoke issue with it.. guess try wood and we would not lock it down and smolder it like others....


As to a wood shed.... I leave everything out in stacks uncovered until about OCT (unless we start getting rains before that... summer rain is different because 90+ degree days dry that up) when I start to Tarp things...

 

[tigger]

Im with Bart. I reload in the the spring. I dont like the look of an empty shed all summer. I also need the room for the next round of wood. Space is limited.

 

[markam]

my wood pile is almost hidden by spider webs, so I'm not touching my wood until after a good freeze.

 

[Bret Chase]

I bring the bulk of my wood in in very late october, early november... I bring some in earlier, but I like to use the dry fall air and wind to my advantage.

 

[maple1]

I start checking the weather forecast starting the end of September or so, and shoot for the end of a longish dry spell or just before the start of a wet spell.

I don't move anything in in the spring - figure might as well get a few more months of drying. I've got a fair sized yard though.

 

[wdenton]

maple
I am the same. I like the extra time for it to dry even more.
Also I am not 2 years ahead yet and after last year I am not even 1 ahead

 

[firefighterjake]

Spring a few weeks after the last fire has been lit in the woodstove . . . typically in May . . . sometimes as early as April or as late as June.

 

[Applesister]

I dont rotate, too much work. Ive stacked inside buildings/sheds and dont like it. I stack everything outside and the wood is top covered and it gets pulled from the stacks as it gets used.
But I have reserve wood in sheltered spots for power outages or really bad weather.
Wood gets stacked in its 3 year rotation spot. Anywhere from 12 to 21 cords of wood.

 

[English BoB]

Full since April snow left. Its nice when you are years ahead.

bob

 

[DougA]

I stack in Spring and that gives me most of one full winter's supply in dry, airy conditions all summer to finish. I get back to stacking as soon as we get cooler, dry weather in the fall. I HATE doing anything with wood in the heat of summer. Too many bugs, too much sweating. We were cutting down an enormous oak that had fallen 2 yrs ago last Sunday and it was too hot for all of us. That wood will be 2017.