The worst thing ever is having to restack. One was my fault and the other was some horrible stacking from my BIL and cousin. Oh well was beautiful out and my wife was gone, so just me and the helper stacking. He isnt much help but I think he learned a lot! Still have a little more to do but not to shabby with a 2 month old hanging around.
How's he gonna' learn if he's facing the opposite direction of the stacks? I'm thinkin' those pics was staged to show off your "helper".
It's amazing how much wood can shrink as it dries. On my stacks in the shed I can pile them eight feet high at the front and after a year you can see they've dropped down a good six to eight inches from where they were originally.
Awww....Priceless Picture! That's why I started stacking in cubes.... less like to fall down like that...
Yeah, that sucks, had that happen to me one time I was standing right there, luckily I was standing on the opposite side. Won't be long that little one will be helping you stack the
Around here every year some of the stacks get blown over by the wind. I try and brace them and it helps. Yep start them when there young.
The one good thing about restacking is that it is a chance to rotate the wood. Move the stuff that was near the bottom to the top, etc.
This year I started doing what I saw on a thread here, putting small double long pieces in 2+ piles stacked next to each other, it's truly amazing what 6-10 sticks can do when placed in the midst of a 6'tall 10' long pile will do. Just pushing a pile before and after is night and day difference.
I do that now too, just put some pallet wood boards across the two rows to stabilize them works good. Got that tip from bogydave
I don't remember who put it up, or if I saw it in pictures or what but whoever, THANK YOU!!!! It should be the first rule of stacking in my book, so simple, so ingenious, so stupid that I didn't know this sooner!
Had a guy at our camp pile some wood with the first row tight against the wall from base to top at about 5' high and then proceeded to stack the second row tight to that first row. Well that lasted about 2-3 weeks before it toppled over to which he said "it must have been bears that knocked down my nice piles"
Yep I do not even try. Probably would not last even one day. The up side is the wood dries out pretty quick.
Mine were knocked over in the most recent flood a few months ago. Splits stayed in my "wood holder" this time but I didn't bother re-stacking. It just sucks to do it twice... Was that wood to be used this year?
