Wood mountain is complete. 3.75 cord of red oak, white oak, and apple. The pile is 8' - 6" from the pallet to the top, 12' long and 3 rows of 20" splits deep. Covered with epdm rubber Gratuitous pic of girlfriend sporting an FHC shirt included.
Impressive for sure. Hope the wind and frost don't move it around too much as she starts to dry and shrink.
That's a tall cube you got there. Got any fear of it toppling? I wrapped my latest high cube with a piece of 3' high garden fence to keep it tied all together. I have too much fear of it falling over on someone like my neighbors kids. I figure the garden fence stapled on it will hold it together as it shrinks and shifts. It might make for a few problems when I start pulling wood from it if it has prevented a failure and is holding the stack together under force but for now it gives me some piece of mind.
Looks good pyro. I like stacking high too, if not its deeper into the woods where its shaded. How do you like the shelterlogic shed in the last pic?
A thing of beauty right there..... When you said a mountain of wood I pictured something like this....... This is my "overrun" pile, mostly white oak and sugar maple. There's around 4 cord here and I gotta make a new cube because I'm fully stocked on the main cube....this puts me comfortably at 5 years ahead......yes its getting ridiculous. .....
This is the second one I have done. The last one was rock solid, but it was mostly slab wood. This one's pretty stable. I've been on top of it and did some shaking. We'll see, it's on a pretty good base. I have 4, 2x4 stickers stacked in there across all three rows at about 5' up, then I start leaning everything together from there.
I've had the shed in a box for a year and a half now. It's held up pretty good. It's developing a small tear at one of the front corners where most of the tension is, but no leaking yet. It'll last another year or so. I hope to build my barn before it craps out. For $200 it has kept a lot of my stuff out of my way already. I'd buy another if I needed it.
I've never stickered my stacks. But I have been known to run pieces of 1" nylon web thru them, with a nail into the face of the split that it is laid on. The slings are repurposed from my rock and ice climbing days. Works for me as I'm butting the ends together. Holds it pretty tight.
