What was on my chest is now on my waist, I hate to think what it will be when it is around my knees! Too funny, But.............
I've had the same thing happen. Finished stacking a perfect stack of red oak one evening, go out the next morning and it's laying on the ground
Whatever you want to be bigger gets smaller and whatever you want smaller gets bigger and either way none of it works like it used too.
I never realized that a fallen over stack would cause so much bad luck! If I make sure my stacks never fall, will i be safe against what you speak of?
Sorry for your loss. You should start fresh with new splits. Get rid of those backstabbing ones that fell. If you need help I can get those nasty fallen splits out of your yard. I've given up on using pallets. After a while they rot and are useless, you can't even burn them. You don't realize they are rotted 'till the stack falls. I use 12' pressure treated 2x4s. Cut 12" spacers, screw them together and use bricks underneath to make sure they are level. Started using them about 6 years ago. The first couple of sets I made are still like new and are getting their third stacks this year... KaptJaq
I wonder if a guy used pallets, and put them up on bricks, and top covered the stacks... how long they'd last then?
I've started just using scrap lumber, timbers, and branches/saplings to stack on. I had the same trouble with pallets rotting. Everytime I'd start a stack id step through half the slats
Off the ground and dry they will last at least as long as the rafters in the attic do. That is unless termites or carpenter ants get to them (same as the rafters). No matter how well I top cover my stacks the bottom couple of splits always seen to get rain or snow on them (like the rafters when my roof leaks or I have a major ice dam). The PT lumber is pretty cheap, does the job for me, and the sticker say it is guaranteed for 30 years with full ground contact . KaptJaq
Yup, been there! As far as the tricks with the roadkills go, I always tease 99lbs that I'm going to pick up a bunch of generic pet collars and just put them around the necks of whatever met their demise. That's not sick, is it?
I'll always remember the first load of logs I got in the winter when we first moved in here. No woodshed, no pallets, the only place to stack was in a corner of the driveway that was packed snow. The spring came and they all fell down.
Out here they started a road kill program where you can pick up a dead animal off the road and use it as you will,have 24 hrs to call it in.Used to be all that went for food to homes/shelters,etc but by the time they(gov workers) got there the meat was bad.People are amazed at how much this system has been used this year,and less wasted product.Amazing what happens when you take the gov worker out of the system!But they still take frozen coyotes and stand them up in the back of pickup trucks!
I just nudged one last year with mine, I lucked out, it stayed up. I have one stack that if it makes it through the winter I'll be lucky, it's been stacked since 2010.
A very long time, many seasons if you keep them dry. I picked up some pallet shelving verticals a while back. For some unknown reason the bracing had been cut out of them. About 3" square and at 14' long a near perfect fit for 4 pallets. At first I used them as stringers (left), but then I realized I could lay down three to support pallets (can see the bottom side of middle stack). With three rows on a pallet I could stack up 2x as much wood on them. Level it off with PT or other iron that I have lying around. Wood doesn't rot, nor does the pallets.
