Yeah I had just about enough of this weather. Send it back to Seattle where it’s the norm for 364 days a year Tomorrow looks like there might be a few breaks in the rain. Good luck
Same here for a couple months now. Totally socked in today like too many days since March, atleast no more snow. It interesting to see how things grow here with a little rain (which we never get), but if I wanted to live in Seattle I'd move there. I'm more interested in sunshine. 40's and 50's are okay if the sun is out, hoping for some sunshine tomorrow.
Another vacuum filled. The burning season is winding down here, and I'll be restricting stove duty to the early mornings and late evenings. I made time yesterday to start bringing in next season's wood well ahead of schedule. This rack (just shy of a face cord) sits under my deck and has red maple on top, sassafras on the right, and a smudge of Bradford pear in the lower left corner. The gray wood in the lower mid section is some hickory that I should be getting into around December 2022. I still have my half face cord rack on top of my deck, with cherry and spruce for the rest of this spring shoulder season. I can replenish that as needed if the cold lingers on well into April. Usually by then I let the furnace run though.
You been busy! We have had great weather but I'm stuck in kitchen remodel he11. I'm living vicariously on posts like these for now. Brad
More organization today. I stacked another 2 (1) cord piles, and got halfway through a third pile before calling it quits. I’m getting closer to having everything in consecutive rows, which is the goal. Once that’s accomplished I can start building the woodshed around my piles so I can finally ditch the tarp/roof panel system. Piles in progress: The dead red cedar posts I scrounged recently, which I’m using in lieu of buying 4x4s: The pile of 12’ 2x6s that buZZsaw BRAD so graciously hooked me up with back in the fall, which will become the rafters:
Stacks look really nice Eric! Gonna look even nicer with the shed. Cant wait to see it going up. Ill have you come over and tidy mine up!
Post holes are dug. If you’ve ever dug a hole in New England you know how much fun that is. One location I hit a rock about 4 inches down. I tried moving it over a foot one way, then the other. Looks like I’ll be pouring a shallow concrete footing directly on top of this boulder. Good thing it’s only a wood shed.
I can relate digging a hole in this state! Did you use a posthole digger? Will you use sonitube or just pour concrete flush with grade?
Post hole digger, and yes I’ll be picking up some 8” sonatubes for a nice clean footing I’ll also sink a 1/2” bolt head first into the concrete before it sets, and drill a hole on the bottom of the cedar posts, as insurance to keep the posts from scooting around once the frame is up.
In keeping with my “little more organization, a little bit at a time” theme, I started moving one of my white pine stacks from March 2021. Unfortunately it absolutely had to be moved because I’m digging a swale for drainage in my backyard. I figured it was a good time to try something different, so I started building a Holzhausen. At this point it’s probably 60% done. I don’t want to go too high and have the thing topple over. So far so good.
I should’ve kept track of how much I was adding to the pile. No idea how much is in there at this point. A lot of wood is all I know I still have enough white pine and spruce to build another one, so that’s in the works. Probably have to buy another couple tarps now, and trim them round to fit as top covers. The organization continues.
2nd and final holzhausen is built. This one is a mix of white pine and spruce. Now to find some decent top covers.
Did the holzhausen actually save space or just give your woodyard more of that Marta Stewart look? Looks good though. I have the same problem with room...my house sits on a 0.39 acre lot. I have a small area accross the street where I stash about 2 cords on land owned by the gas company. But rest is in the backyard.
It definitely saved space, without a doubt. Prior to all the conifer being in holzhausen form, it was in 2 long rows taking up a much larger footprint. My lot is about the same size as yours.
My younger son helped quite a bit handing me wood from the wheelbarrow so I could add it to the pile. My older one wasn't interested much in it though. He's getting to that age where he just wants to do his own thing. They both were impressed with the finished piles though.
You have been busy, my friend. Those stacks look really nice. Good job on the reorganizing. Well done...
Back at the endless organization project. This week I decided to set up another pile utilizing one of the long pallets I scored a couple years ago. I opted to put standard length pallets down first, to elevate my woodpile further. I noticed that in heavy rain, the bottom course of all my piles ends up getting splashed with muddy water. This should help alleviate that. The front of this pile is a mix of the mulberry and hickory I got in the last couple weeks. The back side is a little more hickory, a smudge of ash, and some red/sugar/Norway maple skinnies I’m saving for my brother-in-law’s fire pit. I left a lot of open space on the backside in case I run into a score of white oak, more hickory, mulberry etc that I won’t have the willpower to say no to Before the cold sets in I’ll have to top cover this pile.
im wondering of the two of us who has ANY willpower! Stack looks great and smart thinking to make room for a future "possible" score!
