If a stack falls in your processing area, does it make a noise?...YES!

I was in my processing area this afternoon splitting oak from last weeks score when suddenly "CRASH"... this stack falls over about 20' behind me. I turn around and it was a 6' tall stack of 12-14" shorts piled between two trees. Was it the wind rocking the trees? My chopping creating seismic activity? i dont know, but either way it has to be restacked.
I have a habit of trying to go taller with stacks.
It was one of those "well this seems like a good place to stack this" ideas at the time and only had enough of them to fill it. Maybe a face cord. I had a pile of the same there last season. Actually a good thing as i wanted to move it anyhow and have a bunch more of the same length.
There's only one thing worse than stacking...having to restack!
And i didnt even get a chance to yell "TIMBER"!

 

Well it wouldn’t be hoarding if there wasn’t a chance you could get buried in it, right?

 

Those little shorties are a pain to stack.
I tried going more than 5' when I first started, and those stacks almost went over.
I made 'em shorter. I won't go taller than 5' anymore.

 

I'm with papadave , on this one!

 

4-4.5 foot tall is when I notice a wobble develop. No higher.

 

Gets worse when the stack is more than 8' wide. They like to develop a bow in the middle. I give 'em a chest bump every once in a while.

 

This is true mrfancyplants . Mebbe ill be on that reality TV show about hoarders! Do you think they'd film an episode about wood hoarders?

 

The trees sway and wiggle quite a bit.
In a good wind sometimes you can feel the roots of a pine tree wiggling under your shoes.

 

If i was more than 8' wide id definitely have a bow in the middle too papadave !
I do more or less the same...belly bump or use a log or board.

 

papadave must be short.. We use butt bump under 5 feet

 

ive used the butt bump too. Mebbe its more popular in New England? Lets take a survey!

 

Well I'm the runt of litter on my mom's side. I'm only 6' 1" and 225.. if I stand straight

 

Butt bump, belly bump, and chest bump.
The FHC triad.

 

I head bumped once and it hurt. Ill never do that again!

 

Where's THAT pic?

 

In the X ray files at my doctors office!
OMG im so overly punchy tonight...dunno why but im laughing and thats a good thing

 

It was the neutrinos

 

If a stack falls in your processing area, does it make a noise?...YES!
Nope means you didn't stack it properly! Try again!

 

My grandpa used to call them avalanches, it’s happened many times in the wood room in the basement.. got 20 facecord stacked green/wet.. come fall that 2o cord shrinks...one wrong pull off the stack and it avalanches... seen it many times... it’s dangerous.... iv learned over the years to measure each log with a 18 inch piece of conduit... run down the log with the conduit and can of spray paint... it stacks better when everything is same length... expecically when you u got multi rows.. just my 2 cents

 

I call them logalanaches. Hopefully, not too often.