Rebuild Train Steam engine, some new & some old parts

Yea
some duck bill anchors , cable & turnbuckles
Have to be tough metal roofing, the new stuff is thin,
I used the duckbill anchors to tie down my greenhouse, after I lost one,
Had to put extra glue on house shingle , got tired of replacing some every spring.
Reinforced 12’ wide garage door panels, they
bend (bow) when the wind gets serious.
Had to anchor down my burn barrel last
year, found it by the frontage road 1/4 mile away .
60 - 70 mph wind events thru winter normal,
40 mph winds called “breezy “, past 3 days I was out stacking in 35 mph with 45 mph gusts, breezy day

 

Well, the indiginous people made canoes with birch bark. That stuff is waterproof.

To be honest, I don't put much into the thought of bark up or down, but on birch I sure do.

I might be processing some in the near future, so I'll have to remember this again.

 

Typically it goes to the wood shed after 1o months ,
To the shed in August, just before the
rainy season starts.
I don’t know how long it would last if not top covered , bark up or down,
Maybe a time trial test with my uglies

 

Isnt the "smokestack" already going through the test?

 

Got it. It's been a while since I processed any birch.

 

yea
Not split few years ago.
It’s close to compost, wet & heavy,
bark holding it together.

 

Locating the correct smokestack is probably hard to find in the woods.

 

My grandma was a ball buster. When we stacked wood for her she'd make us pull it all down and restack it if she could fit a finger in between any of the splits and it wasn't all bark side up. Stacking wood today I can't figure out how we even managed to meet her standards a single time, but we did. Must have been the magic of the child's brain.

 

I stack loose in the seasoning stack
Probably not drying much today
Dreary foggy day:

 

does the train have its fog light on?

 

Of course.......
Northern Lights

 

Looking good as always, bogydave.

I try to stack bark down on the bottom course to keep moisture from the ground out, and bark up on the top course to shed rain and keep a flatter surface for top cover. Inside the stack, however it fits.

 

Your way is probably pretty good
The splits mid stack were/are in good shape.
Top couple of layers, maybe I should “bark up “ it.