Always wanted a fire and now I have one I swam to be obsessed with hoarding .started this aft ripping knots up but unded up splitting logs as long as I could get in the machine. The plan been to stock between wire cage and log store with as much as I can cram into my garden . My question is it blows a gale down side of my house but the wood won't get any direct sun . Is it going to give me grief?
Nope, good air flow is important. Your wood should be fine in all that wind. You may want to top cover it too depending on how wet your weather is.
Cheers doesn't get no where near as cold as you lot but it's always damp or raining in the uk . I had to throw a tarp over it seconds after these pics due to heavens opening .
I know about the rain in the U.K. I spent a lot of time cycling around the U.K. and I remember being stuck for 4 days in my tent in Marlborough because of the nonstop rain. But there was a nice tea room in town just below the campground. That made being wet almost tolerable.
Sounds about right , moan when it's hot moan when it's wet or cold . I'm usually happy with most weather but rain is mostly boring for photography ( one of my hobbys ) Although I do love a bit of storm.
Ralphie, think PNW for weather in the UK. You won't be far off. The gulf stream keeps them sort of warm in winter, for the high latitude where the island is located. It is well north of Maine but that gulf stream keeps things reasonable. It also gives them a fair share of moisture. Why do you think the "well dressed" brit in the last century is always shown carrying an umbrella?
One mans obsession is another mans passion. It's all in how you look at it. I think it's a good hobby, as it gets you out and about getting some exercise. Wood heat...the feeling of warmth a wood stove throws just can't be beat. Even my better half has crossed to the dark side and complains about furnace heat and how it has a different feeling. Getting away from the oil cartels strangle hold. Nothing worse than stove oil in a tank at the local distributor jumping from 95 cents a liter to $1.19/liter just because some guy in an OPEC meeting sneezed. And with the reverse, taking a week to drop the price when OPEC floods the market and there's a surplus. I realize that's how the world works, but I don't have to like it. Self reliance of keeping your home and family warm. That one explains itself. Or maybe you're obsessed, and that's okay too.
Obsessed , sat in dressing gown wi a jd . Keeps ya warm while it's cut split n stacked . Then warms ya again when it's burned . Gas bills started coming down , even got a fan on top of it drying our washing
The only grief will come because there is not much space behind the wood stack and fence. This will block a lot of the air flow so yes, it could cause a bit of grief. As for the laundry, my wife likes to dry the laundry near the wood stove but the only fan we use is the ceiling fan. Even without the ceiling fan, the laundry dries fast because of the radiant heat from our soapstone stove. A plus for the laundry is it puts moisture into the house air in winter. A minus is that on those days the glasses really fog up the minute you walk through the house door. I've always hated that but have had to live with it. Just go without the glasses until they warm up and all is well again.
I'm fine I don't wear them . There's a good six inch gap in places and the rest is 4 inch . More to allow hedgehogs to pass behind the wood ( bit of a rarity hear but iv three visit my garden ) Iv only just started if you think gap is not enough ,
A gap will definitely allow more air flow to dry the wood. I'd like a foot or more between wood pile and something like a solid fence. In your area, the greater the gap would seem the better just because it is so wet there.
It always gets a southerly wind down the side and I have it on 3x2 wood then split logs to get a good airflow underneath . I were hoping that plus four inch behind would a been enough .
I have a few loan trees that I like to photograph. This tree marks the spot where the war of the roses started . Hawthorn tree and I'd be swinging from another if u felled this
All joking aside in BC Canada its against the law to cut down any live trees unless its on private property and even then if its in a city like Vancouver you need special permits to remove trees. I live in a rural part of BC and can be fined heavily if I go out in the bush and cut down a live tree although its up to me if I want to drop a tree in my own yard. Fortunately there are just enough standing dead and blow downs on public lands or "crown" land as we call it here to keep my hungry stove happy. Thats a real pretty tree and a nice picture you took!
Pretty much same as hear . There's a fair few been cut down around hear for new houses so I'm hoarding while I can . Thanks a lone tree just gives me some foreground for my photography .northern lights storms sunsets I'll take whatever's going .
Iv a few odd shaped rounds of this between 6 and ten inch thick . Wish I had the skill and tools to make something with it instead of a pile of ash .
