From the blue arrow up, none of the splits are in the same places. I'm not going to live long enough to spend time identifying the splits from both pics to find which are still there and which (if the case may be ) are not. From a cursory view, some easily identifiable splits are in new places. At bare minimum, for whatever reason(s), the top half of the stack has been re-stacked.
LOL, yep that’s the same split I used for a reference point. Too funny. 7 splits on top in one pick and five in the other. You’ve been robbed bro. LOL
Truth is Stoveaclause stacked my original piles with a buddy. They did a chit job AND AS A JOKE PUT EMPTY BEER CANS IN THE STACKS! A few months later I noticed they began to lean a little and then one night at dinner in late June I heard a tremendous crash. The stacks had all collapsed onto my neighbors white vinyl fence and blew it apart. I spent over an hour restacking all the wood with my son. Same height. So the difference in wood placement is because of that. I’m sure Stoveaclause will come on here and corroborate my post.
Stacks will shrink as it dries but not near that much. I use a 4' driveway marker for reference and make the stacks 4' 4-5" tall. By fall they will be at 4'.
I stacked 6 cords in my new woodshed. Three rows of 20” long wood. I also had the rows drop several inches over the course of 6-8 months. I don’t think it’s shrinkage, it’s wood settling and grouping together tighter. Gotta remember each of the three 6’ 6” tall rows is two full cords, so probably 7-9 thousand pounds when seasoned, considerably more green as it’s mostly Oak, Rock Maple and Shagbark. That much weight pushing down can cause stuff to move around.
