Ladies and gentlemen, its time to top cover...

After what I think ended up being 44 days of temps in the 90’s here this summer, (96 just last Thursday) and no rain since late August, we are getting our first seasonal weather and supposedly 1.5-2.0” of rain...I pray...Supposed to be 44* here Tuesday night so chimney gets swept today also-Trust all are well

 

ive been meaning to top cover...for several months. Most of my wood is in the shade unfortunately. Great to hear from you Ashwatcher . Have you worked that score at all?

 

Nope-summers for golf and other things...I’ll fill the new rail rack and rest of shed soon as cooler temps are the norm, first frost hits the ground and I’m not chasing whitetails....

 

Always cool to see that consistent rail-stack of wood Ashwatcher !

 

Looks great AW! You got a lot of hoarding done this year already...

That topcover looks like some nice heavy stuff...

I've got a little red oak to cut, split and stack myself. It's been hot for a long while now.

 

Gotta love those rails as well as the top cover!

 

Top covering was in the work plans yesterday, until the ladder mishap. It's been raining here since about 0200. After today the weather looks good, but cooler till about Thursday, so I hope to get the stacks covered by Wednesday.

 

Is it beneficial to leave them uncovered in the sun only? Pretty much all of my place is shady. At best, I have spots that get maybe 4 hours of sun in full summer. I cover the tops only on my stacks, now.

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Uncover as much as you can. But any rain on top can kinda ruin your work on getting it dry. If your wood doesn’t seem to get dry enough as it seems, you could opt for bringing some in and have it dry out near your burner a bit before putting it in. That’s a low amount of sun but maybe you have trees?

 

This place is about half cedar, the rest is oak, hickory, Ash and walnut. My place is about 8 acres, but surrounded by nonresident family from my great grandfather's homestead. There's also the lake humidity to deal with. Dad always had roofing tin over his stacks. I'll probably do that unless I'm taught a better way.

Edit- I guess I should have been more clear in my answer. The only "open to the sun" places are the very tiny yard around the house and the electric company right of way.

Thanks

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This answers all the questions on the subject of top covering period

Dry your wood and cover it period.

 

Hey sir, hope summers been good to you-Yes, I got lucky, in my last office before now, they replaced the rubber roof and I talked to the contractors during the job and became friendly talking deer hunting on their breaks-Its the heaviest they said they utilized-I scored a 10x10 piece cut it to 24” so I got 50’ worth of coverage-I have a lot of metal, some used roofing and galvanized and I like it fine but its a lot bulkier to deal with, the wind is a biotch and if you’re not careful and bend or duct tape the corners, it will rip ya! Pound for pound, I’ll take the rubber roofing-It draws heat too!

 

A man with priorities.


Not into the golf thing myself, but then again when I've played it was more beer drinkin than puttin


Or maybe more puttin after drinkin


GL hunting.

 

Hey sir, GL to you as well if you partake...I dont drink while golfing, but I set aside time for that too....

 

That EPDM roofing is the way to go... I have a bunch of left over steel roofing that's yours for the taking if you ever get to Vinton county on one of your hunting trips... Unlikely, but I had to offer...

 

I top covered my pepper plants for a possible frost, does that count ?

 

I covered some fresh split with Epdm this summer. 5’ wide strips that in reality give 8-10” of flap over on the sides.
It was suggested that moisture might be trapped up top. I began checking for that every couple days. Did see slight signs of moisture up there in the mornings. Not drops of water just darker shades of moisture on the rubber. Being summer it disappeared fast once the sun warmed it up. Within two weeks that stopped altogether.
That black rubber gets hot under there. I have no problem covering whenever you want with rubber.
Tarps may be a different story. They allow water through and don’t absorb much heat.

 

Do what you can. Even if the lake is highly humid, your wood will dry in that sunny spot. What also works is keeping the wood dry at all times, in the wind and the humidity hopefully it changes during the winter??

Interesting caveat we have. Whilst in PNW its rainy a lot, not so much in Michigan? Yet wood doesn’t dry out as quickly in your area as mine. At least if we’re talking oak.