Saturday I was hauling loads of firewood from the woods to my driveway and had to keep driving through this "hallway". I noticed that the stack on the right was leaning pretty bad so I went back out Sunday with a 4lb hammer to persuade it back into place, but I was too late!! With all the rain we've seen lately one side of my pallet sank into the ground just enough to cause this.
Can't like that,....nope. Try doing like bogydave , and do a gradual lean to the two stacks to the middle.
I had a stack go over this past fall after a few days of rain. I think I deleted the pic, not sure. It was a single stack, 16 for long by about 5 feet high. I was a landscape timbers on cinder blocks rack. I had put some crushed stone under the back side of the blocks to make it level. The front side sank into the wet soil and it fell forwards. Lesson learned to put stone under the entire block.
That's were I messed up. My ground isn't level so I have a bunch of smaller logs under the pallets in several places to level things. But in one place I only had 2 smaller logs supporting about 5ft of pallet length. That worked fine in the dry weather, but now that things are wet those 2 logs sank a couple inches. If I knew I'd be at this house for 20 years I'd put a gravel base through the entire area and grade it level. But for now it's going to stay dirt and I'll try to level things out with fill dirt here and there.
That's normally what I do; I stack up straight for 3' and then the remaining 2-3' I'll lean towards the center. But the inside lean on the outside stack became too far and pushed over the inside stack as one side of the pallet sank. It's all fixed now, hopefully it stays put this time!
I've come to learn with firewood we do thing multiple times. c/s/s, move, stack, move, burn. Still is pain when a stack falls over.
I hate it when that happens. I now put concrete blocks under the outer edge so there is an ever so slight lean inwards. I also stack 22 inch wood, so it is a little more stable. Just bring that stack in if you can.....
I call it "planned rotation" for better drying!! Although I try my best to avoid it. I walk my piles every couple weeks and persuade them back and forth. I stack on 2x6s on edge tied with 2x2s. Ground where my stacks are stays rather dry and compacted hard clay/soil mix helps the stability I think.
I hate when that happens.... Just a reminder to me that I didn't do it right the first time. I have a leaner right now that I'm using a 2 pound persuader on, but it's going to tip eventually. I have been using some old 12" x 12" pavers under my landscape timbers on all my new stacks and it's helping to keep them from settling. Doesnt help I stack on hilly wet ground ether... The leaner is the 4th stack from the left.
Well, it is like my neighbor and I say. Why do a job once when you can do it twice or sometimes 3 times? After all, just look at all the practice you get and they say that practice makes perfect...
A few weeks ago I knocked the end of a double row 6' tall stack off with the snowblower on the tractor You know as much as I cussed that wood it still has not stood it self back up yet guess I'll have to do it myself …one day. It's the far end of this year's stack but at the rate of use so far this season, it might be for the begining of next season. I'm trying to convince myself it can wait until this spring when it's not mixed in with the snow!
Twenty or thirty years ago, I had a brother in law that need a place to store his speed boat on a trailer for the winter. No problem I have tons of room down back, just stick it in the woods. Well, spring came and he showed up to get it when I wasn't home (not that I cared). BUT, when he drove his trailer back up to the road by my stacks he caught the corner end of the wood stack and knocked over almost a cord, and drove off. It took me months to find him. He never stored his boat here again.
