I think we are hoarder amateurs....

I was in Petersham, MA yesterday and I took these pictures. These stacks are of split 4' (?) lengths, stacked 8' high. These pictures do not do it any justice. These stacks traverse this persons property; I only captured a small portion. Enjoy...

 

There is a fellow here who has some massive stacks. Not on scale of the above pictures, but most impressive. When I drive past I think "that guy does not like to be cold!" Gotta be 25+ cord setting there.

 

I could stare at them stacks all day.

 

Looks like I've got some catch up to do - both in the hoarding and OCD stacking department! I joke about using a level, but I'm pretty sure this guy actually did. I'll bet there were more than a few hours spent just leveling out the tops of those stacks.

Impressive hoard for sure! You should leave him an FHC business card!

 

Surprising that there are still trees in his yard! :stacke::stacke::stacke::stacke::stacke::stacke::stacke::stacke::stacke::stacke:

 

Wow!

 

He's been busy for sure!

 

I wonder how long a row it would be if Scotty Overkill restacked his like that?
Or, any number of other folks on here pulled all their smaller stacks together.

 

That's not a stack of wood, that's a perimeter fence!

 

Can that be seen from space like the great wall??

 

sure would be nice to know the story behind that wall of wood.

 

I tried looking for it on Google Earth. I couldn't find any ginormous stacks, but I did see a couple sizeable piles of logs around Petersham, MA.

 

Here you go. It's just South of the Petersham Curling Club on Rte. 32

 

I posted this on a Facebook group of small scale/tractor loggers and the reply I received was:
"That's the Dixon family. They truck all that wood on flatbed semi's down to Nantucket and wholesale it down there. My father cut for them a few times, as well as my uncle. They have been friends of the family for 50 years."

In response to my question about trucking it all the way to Nantucket:
"You know what a cord of seasoned firewood goes for down there compared to around Petersham? 3 to 4 times as much. They have been trucking wood down there since the 70's

In response to my question about the long 4' lengths:
"Easier to truck it, they stack 2 rows on a 53ft flatbed. It gets cut to 16" firewood length down on the island. It's split so it dries before it's sold. Everyone did their firewood in 4ft pieces around New England. That's what true "Cordwood" is."

 

Thanks for the reply. The stories here are some of the most interesting ones. Cutting, slitting and hauling wood is certainly hard work. Good they found a way to earn a living from it and employ others while doing it.

 

Beautiful stacks! I bet around here they would get ticketed for having all that "mess" on their property.

 

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