How many stabilizers do you use when stacking wood? I have seen it on this site sometime in the past. Guys were using 32 inch pieces of wood across a couple rows of wood to help keep them from falling over.
Really depends how tall and long the stack is. It also depends what I have available to use as stabilizers.
I learned about that trick here and use it regularly. I use a bunch of limbs and sapling type stuff , not much bigger around than my thumb or thereabouts, cedar mostly, saved about 30 from a spruce I just took down. I’m pretty liberal with them throughout the stacks and haven’t had one topple yet. We have 40mph sustained winds right now with gusts of 70! Blowing directly 90* perpendicular to my stacks, if’n they are all still standing in the morning you can bet I won’t be doing anything different in the near future. Much easier to put in a bunch of cross ties as I go than to restack a blow over
I don't use any. I have some rows 34' in length, stacked 5'3" in height on top of double pallets.....so ~6' from the ground. I have one t-post on one end and another on the other end. I keep ~9" in between my stacks for air flow. Only issues I've had in the past are when I was stacking on single pallets and the pallets were not that great and cracked. This caused the stack to lean. Also, before I did all my own stacking and had others help, the stacks would not make it a week before they toppled over. They did have a nice curve to them though, both horizontally and vertically. Since I've taken over the stacking, I have not had one single stack topple over in 7 years now. Hoping to continue this trend. I'm aiming to not have any leaning stacks either, and so far since I've started stacking on double pallets the rows have been staying pretty straight. Taken this spring after I finished splitting. This is ~50 cord worth. The stuff on the far left (A) was stacked in Spring '18.....far right (C) Spring '15. The fresh looking splits (B) are what I just put up this spring. I started stacking on double pallets a bit to the right of (A). Here are my leaning stacks. (D) stacked in Spring '16 and (E) in Spring '17 and (F) in Spring '18. This is the good end, the other end has them leaning more.
And this is why I stack in holz hausen formation. I use gravity for wood stabilizers! That said, just had a pallet fail (that's on me for using a plywood pallet - I should never have used it) and the corner of the hausen was leaning the wrong way. Took a few hours but I managed to minimize the touches and rebuild it with more angle now that that particular pallet has completely collapsed. I'll replace it with plastic after I burn the stack.
When I first started off I only made single row stacks and had many topple to the unforgiving wind. Unfortunately it seems you have the same wind issues that I deal with. I only have one single row rack left in my stacking and the rest definitely get stabilizer sticks to fight the wind.
I have had some shrinkage in my wood shed where I am piling wood 6 rows deep and the front rows would be the ones that would collapse. I need to stabilize wood both on pallets outside and also in my wood shed.
I have 2 stacks where front center is bulging out. I used maul to push back and got a little better, but I know its a matter of time until
