There's a FHC stack crash epidemic... quick, go get the wimin and chilren... there's stackin' to do...
I'm hopin' I'm not the one to start it... then again, I've noticed gravity never takes a break, so I'm about due...
Glad no one was close Much over 4' high & it begins to get unstable over 5' & you'd better tie the rows together some how, I use rope & plywood on the face of each row , not fail safe, but helps a lot. this is 7' high. 2nd row
Oh, OK, so the stacks were outside the shed. From the first pic, I thought they fell out of the shed. I was gonna say "Stack crash in the shed?? I thought only my SILs could do that." Then I saw that bogydave was taking precautions...but maybe his shed is subject to frost heave because he couldn't get the pilings down below the 10-foot frost line.
Woody, I had three rows "in the shed" and two fell out of the shed. I was going to put a fourth row in but as you can see that didn't happen
You might be able to fish a rope thru all the rows & sandwich them together in a few spots & give them some stability.
Gravitational pull of the earth's axis, combined with the two moons of Jupiter and a little wind and some pixy dust, can cause that.
I'm not above blaming crashes on frolicking deer...or cats, even. Or aliens will occasionally beam up a split for analysis. You would think they'd know to take it off the top instead out of the middle of the stack, but I guess they have their reasons...
I had a row fall this year in my shed. Heard a loud noise on night but didn't put 2 and 2 together. Found it a few days later. Luckily it was at the end of the burning season and a row that I wanted to move anyway.
I feel your pain! I had about 3 cords fall over this spring. I planned on moving 2 up to the house but the 3rd one wasn't going to be touched. I started stacking in a new area last year and didn't realize how wet it got in the spring. When the ground thawed the cinder blocks I stack on sank more on the west side of the stack then the east side, the rest is history. I may put the blocks on 2x8 planks to help span the load out to see if that helps since I like the place it's stacked.
One of the advantages of tossing the wood in a pile, it won't fall over. However, this year I started to palletize the wood as I split it to make it easier to move around as I go. I am trying to get 50-60 of the metal tote cages to use. I am also considering the pallet sized mesh bags. Anyone using them? Know of a good source for them?
Often wondered about your hardwoods if they shrink more than our west coast soft woods when they dry ? Bad news that your stacks feel over . Pretty hard to go wrong with our 22" lengths when stacked!
