I keep about a week's worth of wood in the basement, never had any problems with bugs or spiders, in fact I see more in the summer than the winter. I keep more under my deck right outside that I can get to without going through any snow. The main pile is about 100' away that I pull off of if it's not too snowy.
I built a wood rack that sits on the tile for the wood stove. That is 6' tall, one row wide of 18" and three feet wide. On the other side of the wood stove is a hoop ring. Between the two it's about a weeks worth of wood. My thought is to keep enough indoors that is nice and dry. The hoop is next to the wood stove, and I put any wet wood in that hoop for it to dry out some before burning. Now that I am moving my operation from the old family room/new master bedroom to the living room, I'll be rebuilding the wood rack as there is an 7' section where I can stack wood 4' high. That should give me four or 5 days. Plus I'll have Envi-8 bricks in to supplement the wood. My wood will be this years wood. As I build up my reserves I'll slowly get rid of the Envi-8 bricks.
Thanks for the heads up. I've been concentrating on gathering not the forecast. Looks like a great weekend start pushing the new stove. Cool.
I keep 1.5 cord in the furnace room to start the burning season and refill as needed. No bug issues. Most wood is barkless and the rotten sections go to burn pit.
I started my set up for a little NC-13 1.8 cubic foot firebox, I got it cheap and never burned in a home only at dad's camp.. I did not know what draft was when I started (really embarrassing) or dampers or seasoned wood for that matter. in this situation you can understand why 12 cord a year was standard. One of my sayings is fake it til you make it! I started lurking here and people were like get 3 years ahead and I was like that's 45 cord! But I am a thrifty Vermonter... which translates to I go for a walk and see a penny I pick it up and it goes in a change jar.. Heating oil hit 4 dollars a gallon... Set all thermostats to 45 degrees so pipes would not freeze and your good to go! My now Wife moves in and says ah NO... So 12 cord went up.... Now then I learned about dampers but you still had to put wood in every 2 hours at 3.5 it would be a match re-light. So I got really good at starting fires find the positive in a situation so here is a pic of current set up which will probably change as the IS gets 8 hour burns no problem and I should need less kindling! Far left bucket is newspaper and small kindling. next bucket is bigger kindling, then small splits on firewood rack. old stove I could fill rack 3 times a day why covered firewood deck is right outside living room where stove is..
Well, it's going to be a whole different ball game this year , will be interesting to see how much time and wood you save
Those wheels are for transport only. I store the boxes in my pole barn and put the wheels on them when moving the boxes in the fall and spring. Wheels come off when I get the boxes in the garage.
Basically it's a 4 4x4's for the floor the dimension of a 8x4 sheet of half inch plywood with 3 sides and a open front for loading it. I made the sides out of rough cut 8 ft one inch thick popular boards that I had. I'll try and get a pic. Tomorrow or Friday All the lumber was scrounged except for the plywood
We have two good size boxes,on their sides opening to the front, one on top of the other on our front porch with a roof. We usually just go out a grab what we need as the it's right close to the stove. I stock them full before the snow flies and pull the tarp down to keep the blowing snow out. We have had problems with skeeters waking up when we store wood near the stove. Sometimes it seems like it's more work keeping the trails open to the wood when the snow gets three or four feet deep, than actually getting the wood. That's a 48" pool! check out the sign on it!
Tore out the old Bilco stairs... turned it into a hopper... roll 2 boxes in, chuck wood down... roll them into the basement next to the stove... 3 weeks worth in cold weather...
ish I had some room to store wood in the cellar, but real small house. This is what what it looks like when the snow melts, notice the pool is gone. The snow fattened it
Mountain man, I hear you.. some southern folk don't understand shoveling sides of driveway so you can see if it safe to pull out... Boston learned last year... 8 foot snow banks yeah that's winter
I can try to imagine what it's like, but don't have the slightest desire to understand. Those snow pics make me want to curl up in the fetal position and suck my thumb.
