Much better to be addicted to hoarding wood than say addicted to.......cocaine, alcohol, clubbing, bar hopping.....this is actually useful and healthy....albeit a bit dangerous sometimes. Hoard on pcable89! You're off to a great start! I started last year having had the exact same experience as you with the wet wood sellers falsely claiming to sell "kiln-dried" wood. Kiln dried my you know what!!!! Remember the number one rule of firewood - you can never have enough!
Got the last of my poplar rounds split and stacked lastnight from rounds I had left from earlier this year. Amazing how much the stack has grown since ~10 months ago when I started. It now stands ~3.5-4 ft in height and ~42 ft in length for a total of around 2 full cords if I am calculating out correctly, plus I have a little "bin" full of shorties/miscuts ontop of all that, and some extra unsplit cedar and some small rounds that need to be cut to length (in the front half of the pallets towards the "bottom" end of the stack). Thanks to everyone for the tips and words of encouragement along the way. Starting to cut and split oak for the years to come (which will be segregated out into a separate stack since seasoning time will be significantly longer).
You just bought a house you are going to have a honey do list! In fact i have had one for years.. since I got married.. funny how that works. In time your wife will understand your hoarding addiction. Probably when you loose power and you will be warm and toasty. Welcome to the FHC and keep the pics coming
Pcable89.....that stack looks awesome!!! I'm stoked just watching the progress in size! Reminds me of our starting piles....no wood stove, no idea where or how to stack it, but it was coming in. And one score led to another, with folks calling or asking if we'd take their downed tree....or roadside scrounges. Then, in search of how-to, I ended up here. It wasn't till a year and a half later, when we put in a gas furnace, that our chimney was freed up for wood stove use, that we found and bought a used unit, and installed it. So, where, how and on what your stacks are built, will change. FHC and you tube are rife with cutting, splitting and stacking ideas. Will watch for updates on the pile, scrounges you come by, tools and saws you acquire..... Sca
I find it very satisfying to look at stacks after all the hard work that goes into making them! Keep going Pcable89. Next is the 3 year plan.
Thanks for the words of encouragement guys! Starting to also find enjoyment in locating good scrounges on FB marketplace. Working on cutting/splitting on stuff for the years to come now.
As family or friends know you pick up the occasional scrounge, you'll be the one they call when there trees on the ground after a storm. Will pray good scrounges into your sphere of influence.
