STW is the obvious place to ask this. I have 6 cubic metres of firewood arriving this week. Last year it took me all weekend to stack it, as the pile kept collapsing. Any tips?
cut logs or in cords?
If in cords, use a tree or a stake as a "bookmark" and stack against the stake.
If in cut logs then make a bay out of old pallets and "wall" the front with laid logs and fill.
The willy waver* from fife will be along with his piles soon 😉
Meanwhile is a preview of his work.
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* is secretly jealous of his piles 😯
is his day job as a dry stone waller?
@bruneep - I was just thinking how jealous you must be when I spotted your line under your photo. The man is an artist!
McMoonter to the forum please!
SB
Thanks Stoner. Cut logs, about a foot long, semicircular in profile. The pallet idea is a good one, but I need a long thin pile along the side of the house. Nowhere else to put it really. It's a sort of passageway, and a pallet would block it
This a ~4m^3 log pile. Build the corners like a jenga tower (split the logs to get something you can stack), build the outer walls by stacking normally and fill the middle up anyway you want.
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Same kind of thing for a long pile. Build regular jenga towers and in-fill.
As said previously to make best use of the space you'd need bookends at either end of the wall.
When stacking against a wall I always pull the bottom rows of logs out from the wall a little bit so that the pile leans into the wall.
My effort done in the dark. 😀
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Pallet at either end and tip it in with a wheel barrow.
I had a lesson last weekend in splitting wood & stacking from a neighbour.
Who went into great detail about which way up split would should be, how high to stack, how to interlock the corners & how to top out the stack
He even brought out a meter to check the water content of my stack, which tbh, looked like a drunk 1970's farmer (that's me) had stacked them!
& the Log store that I had spent ages building the weekend before, from old pallets, fencing posts and old fence panels was completely wrong apparently!
I have so much to learn 😯
Squidlord - MemberThanks Stoner. Cut logs, about a foot long, semicircular in profile. The pallet idea is a good one, but I need a long thin pile along the side of the house. Nowhere else to put it really. It's a sort of passageway, and a pallet would block it
Joking aside, I have the same problem you Squidlord, so bashed up a wood store that lets me store two rows of wood to the height of the neighbours fence & still gives me just enough space to pass by the side of my property, not got a pic, but might take one to show you it in all its glory 😉
@ clubber - yes, I do the same, to minimise damp also.
Don't have a splitter, so looks like I should try to hack some logs into a squarer profile with my axe so I can play giant Jenga with them.
@ ski - maybe you could send your neighbour round to me?
PS @ 5thElefant - your dog looks well hard with a chainsaw apparently bolted onto his head! 😀
Just what I was thinking. Anti-zombie Dog!
Just what I was thinking. Anti-zombie Dog!
He's a lover, not a fighter...
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Eeeuw! Is that dog doing what I think he's doing?
MODS!
He's got a fine set of pickles on him.
@5thElefant - Lol!!! Brilliant picture. Almost a tea over keyboard job! It was the caption too!!!! Brilliant.
Needs to go in the dog thread that one.
Do you live in a marquee?