had to take care of the weeds and grass and brush growing around all my piles today. cut tamed and blew all the crap away so their nice and ready for continuing to season and dry think my covering is good ? Some covered some not
Looks pretty good Nicholas. But knowing what your area is like with rainfall, if it were me, I'd be having all the wood top covered right away. I'd also keep in mind for the future that heavy rains can cause another problem and that is when the pallets are close together, much of the water running off the sides of one stack can pour right onto the bottom part of the next stack so spacing can be critical. But I would certainly not be so concerned that I'd move what you have! lol Looks like some great firewood too.
Is that shale you have piled up in front of the stacks ? otherwise, the stacks of firewood look just like an awful lot of other tarped stacks.
I've come to leave my stacks uncovered through the summer and I cover in early fall, say 2nd wk of Oct. I have a satellite lot that I did some experiments on and it seemed to me drying was quicker uncovered.
It may be, it's rocks from when my inground pool was dug up 15 years ago. Your saying my stacks are awful? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
I agree in 98% of the cases and that is what we do too. However, I know that area where he lives (have a son lives near there and he used to live in that county) and the awful amount of rainfall they normally get so that is why I would recommend top covering right away.
lol ya I would love to not cover at all from what people say but I feel it'll never dry like that and rain will lead to moldy wood ? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
They look wicked good !! We get shrooms growing on the ends of splits , especially in the Spring, if uncovered. From the rain/humidity. It's no big deal, they dry up in a dry spell or freeze and fall off in the Fall.
Looks good. One piece of advice - if you use pallets, you can crib the corners and fill the middles to get a lot more wood per pallet and they are pretty solid if you stack well. Then I place an old pallet on top with a small slope - then top cover it. Rain sheds in one direction and very little hits the wood. Added a sample pic of how I do so. Good work! Cheers!
What do you mean crib the corners ? I can't tell from the pic. I'm sitting here thinking bout the hard work and investment and time I put into my firewood stacks and starting to think a nice slope at top even without a pallet on top and just tarp sloping down would shed the water off instead of sitting on top in a puddle... Hmmmm Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Crib- to stack the ends/corners of a farwood pile kinda like a Lincoln log set up (or Jenga)... e.g., reexamine NH_Wood's stacks, but zoom in to see exactly what the corners of each of his stacks reveals. Very sturdy deal! Takes a little finessing, but well worth the soothing therapy. And makes for sweet :stacke:
A couple examples of cribbed ends. It really is not difficult to build strong end like this. We also usually top cover using old galvanized roofing. It works!
That first picture is part of an old supply that is now all used up. We totaled well over 20 cord at one point. I think 27 was the most we've had. The second picture was one winter's cutting and a 3 year supply. That too has all been burned now. We still have plenty more ready to go! It surely gives one a good feeling when you have that much on hand, especially when your body is giving you some problems and not sure if you can cut more right away. Yesterday I even notified a neighbor that he can come to help himself this coming winter to help him get through after injuring his back. I'm sure that will help him sleep a bit easier. We've done this for him in the past so he knows it is there should he need it.
