I just keep 2 or 3 days of wood in the living room in a rack, with about 2 or 3 weeks of kindling on the top. And a metal bin in front full of splitter trash (also used as kindling...). Outside on the porch about 15' away, I have one of those plastic storage boxes 6' by 3' by 3' tall. So a reload is pretty easy. When that box is empty, I go to the Firewood hoist! How to build a Firewood Hoist! 3 stories up! | Firewood Hoarders Club Firewood Hoist Living room storage:
Yup got one set up but have a 7 or 8 ft and put a prop in the middle, works awesome but make sure it is on solid ground and level from side to side...Meant to reply to the cement block set up...
Actually, before I do anything, I do think things through including any possible negative ramifications. Even then I still tend to proceed with caution giving whatever the hairy eyeball until I'm sure what I've done will work as I intend it to. Putting the wood that close to the stove is a little risky, but if I steered away from everything that was risky, I would have no life at all. (my affinity for chainsaws and firewood for example) When I first started having stacks that close to the stove, I was constantly checking temperature and looking for any sings of scorching. Everything seemed fine and still is years later. I had also read on the various forums where if one has firewood that is too wet to be burned, it was suggested that they put some near the stove to attempt to dry it. I figured, if wet wood can be near the stove, why not dry wood to make it prime wood. I did as papadave did at one time, in putting wood on top of the stove. The wood scorched and definitely had a significant odor, but did not burst into flames. Of course I didn't leave it on top of the stove for more than a few hours. But having the wood near the stove, within a few inches really didn't yield any negative results. Heck, there is the Englander 17 (I think that's the model) that has firewood storage directly underneath the stove. I also keep my smoke detectors in working order and a large fire extinguisher nearby as a just in case. After all, I don't want to become a crispy critter myself.
I think your right as far as the CTCs being meant for structural safety rather than for "all combustibles. And really, anything the gooberment has their fingers on has the tendency to be way overdone. But in following many conversations about the placement of "too wet to burn properly" type firewood, I've seen pictures of walls where they had things set at less than minimum clearances. Scorched and black! Now that would make me nervous, enough so that I would no longer use that setup. I personally think stacking wood near the stove, like within a few inches is fine on either side and no where near where an ember could fall into them or a log roll out of the stove into them. The same applies for putting kindling near the stove. I would highly recommend NOT placing any wood on top of the stove. That could make for a very bad day. Of course the choices are the operator of the stove, and I would imagine most would lean to the side of safety paying strict attention to the manuals. Even adding more distance to be sure. There is nothing wrong with that choice either. Eventually (once I'm done with my other projects) I would like to build a box on wheels that I can slide through the wall to the outside where I have the firewood staged. Once filled, push it back through and it would come out within a foot or so of the wood stove. that idea still requires more thought.
Short story was running a franklin and had big stack beside stove cause it was a wood hog, but stack shifted and was leaning against stove and actually started smoking...Beware....
I used to keep a cribbed stack about 6 inches from my old stove and it had no heat shields or anything, checked it with an IR thermometer a few times, it wasn't getting hot enough to hurt anything, no way it was going to burst into flames. I also put wood on top of the stove to see what it would do, never left the room, when it started smoking I figured it was time to take it off, LOL
