Holz Hausen. Once you go 'round', you'll never go back. And a pretty un-even round woodpile still looks great. Stable too- the stacks all fall inward rather than outward. Really not a bad way to stack firewood so it is stable, not unattractive and pretty easy to both stack and break down to burn. I've been doing it for nearly a one- hundreth of a century now an am a big fan. Brian
The last bit was done with the truck right next to it standing on the bed rails with the gf handing me splits out of the bed. Not the most efficient, but it was fun and it'll be nice to look at for a couple years.
Since I stack on pallets, and crib the corners, I take extra time to make sure they are as even and stable as possible - they sit for about 4 years, and I don't want to restack. The end results is a very nice looking stack, but that's a by product of making sure I'm careful to make them stable. Not to say I don't like looking at them! Cheers!
Thats some nice looking dirt for sure. Have you ever tried your luck in the creeks up there? as the tv shows i watch make it look like gold is everywhere in Alaska.
Haha, you're funny Dave.....problem might be I don't see a plumb bob in that pic. My stacks get maintenance, like brick needs pointed, or clapboard needs painted. Especially if real green when split, after 6 months or a year I go around and pound in the splits where needed, 'specially on the ends, tighten em up a bit. I wonder if wood species contributes to stack problems, like the amount of shrinkage changes from say oak, to spruce, maybe that causes a stack to move more while drying out....
I've been doing it this way for 3% of a century and couldn't agree more! I think it's pretty easy to make a stack look decent, but to me, as long as the wood dries and doesn't fall over that's all that matters. I've got too many other projects to make my stacks look like art!
When my stacks start to wander," have a few between trees", I use a piece of 4x8x 1/2 plywood. I hang it on the side of the leaning stack and give her a few good hits with the grill guard on the quad. Every thing just settles back down, my stacks are 3 rows of 22" on pallets they only seem to lean on the sunny side. Don't think it would work to well on single rows though.
When doing long term storage we've decided that a heavy lean in is best. We stack about 8 ft high so the outward pressure, even with a slight lean in sometimes goes the other way when the drying occurs. Force from the inner stack pushed on the outside and ends up making a mess. Can be bad as we stack inside barns and you have to take care of it. I've used High tensile fence wire with tighteners before to hold it in with pretty good success. This one will be fine till it is needed. This one will be used first so it doesn't have as much. Sometimes you just feel the need to stack to the ceiling! Dad's not vertically challenged either, He's 6 ft tall to give it some scale.
Yea 12 of us got together with a guy with experience & went to a place where there's gold & you can prospect for a day for $x. We worked all day (12 hours) , ran lots of dirt , by hand, thru a a couple small sluice boxes. I think we got about $37.50 worth of gold. Fun learning experience & we found gold. It is impressive to see it in the sluice box Just like on TV, those doing the work never get rich. spend money on labor , food , equipment, fuel, bills, taxes ...>>>etc get 1000 oz make a profit of $25,000 per man for 5 months, if you're lucky. Pay your bills, end up broke . But made a living. No 401 , no retirement plan, no medical , just good hard healthy work that you gotta love doing. Like firewood, you gotta love doing it , not gonna make you a bunch of money, but if it makes you happy & keep you dreaming, that's worth more than the money anyway A good hobby. IMO No gold mines near me, bed rock over 200' down.
