Anybody have tips or methods for dealing with drying and storing firewood on steep slopes? I live on a mountainside and have very little flattish ground. The firewood therefore needs to be stored on pretty steep slopes somehow. If I have to, I’ll start building woodsheds, but I’d like to avoid the extreme cost of materials right now if I can avoid it. I would like to eventually get enough IBC totes and make small platforms for them with cement blocks or stone, but I can’t find any totes for reasonable prices these days. I have over 10 cords of rounds that I need to make into firewood and get stacked and drying somehow. Please help if you can! Thanks everyone!
Level some pallets with cinder blocks / bricks / stones / whatever ya got. The side of my yard has a gradual slope and this works well for me.
What degree of angle are you working with? Could you make a platform with some 4X4’s, or shovel out a level strip to place some racks? Is there room along your driveway for racks? Know anyone with a backhoe, trackhoe, or rental, to cut steps into the hill?
Pallets and blocks with a couple 4x4's under them would work great. Wish I had known when we visited, I might could have offered better advice.
I’d suggest renting or hiring a backhoe or excavator to flatten out an area and build a retaining wall if needed
I was thinking about how to do that. I have lots of humidity and water on the ground here, so pallets are hard to keep from rotting quickly unless elevated well.
I’m over here in the mountains to your west. I have lots of 25-45 degree slopes. Hard to walk on for most people. No driveway room, but I can probably get some racks near the road.
It is one of the important things I forgot to get your advice on while you were here. I’m sorry, and wish I had remembered to ask!
I am normally not a fan of stacking against trees, but find some sacrifical trees and stack uphill from there?
Where I live has pretty similar terrain to Beech Mountain. It’s the price I pay, but I’m hoping I can come up with a reasonable plan. Worst case, I can level an area that is a more gentle slope and just stack it all there. Thanks to all suggesting leveling with excavators, etc.
That’s another good idea I hadn’t thought to try. I guess you would put runners/sleepers down going straight uphill from the tree trunk?
That’s the idea in the long run for sure, but I’m struggling with ground contact treated lumber prices here right now. HD has a waiting list for 4x4x8 GC, for $18 a stick!!!!
Yeah, little high...but would only take 2 to get the first stack started, no? Or have a long enough hill to make 1 long stack? Might want to upsize the posts a bit if you did that...
That makes too much sense. I want to solve the whole problem all at once, but one stack a time would be more manageable.
