That's what I blamed it on. Pretty strong storm the other night. To be fair.... she was leaning a little bit more every week.
I had that happen 4 times in one year. Twice on the same stack. I could have sworn my neighbor kicked it over when he drove by on his riding mower. Those were single stacks, I have yet to have any fall over since I started double stacking on pallets.
That same rack decided to give in to gravity....again. grr... Not wanting to strike out, I decided to relocate to a recently moved rack. There's a second rack leaning to the left. So, those splits were also moved. The 2 racks were hastily placed. I can now re-level them both. And, clean up the "put it there for now" area between the racks and compost bins. It felt good to be doing this type of activity again. I was shuffling wood around for about 2.5hrs, using mostly my left arm, but allowing my healing right arm, to assist when appropriate.
Everyone is always sooo helpful on this site. The offers are so overwhelming, I get emotional. I'm over it now, thanks!
So I've started putting 4' pieces between rows to stabilize them against eachother. I dont do enough.....should have one every 3 or 4 feet. The middle beween the rows of 18" are filled with shorts and uglies. (Like former girlfriends). So far, I haven't had anything fall. Nothing here is single stack though. Everything on pallets. Also, since my cribbing abilities suck, I stuck a pallet upright near the end of the pile, (one of the pics) and then cribbed outside that. Nicer appearance for the neighbor's sake. Glad you're out and stcking MikeInMa. Sca
I must say, my legs and back were feeling it towards the end. In a good way. My right hand is feeling tired and weak this afternoon. Also, my right bicep is sore. Also, in a good way. Lots of repetitive activity, with light-ish weight. 3-5lb splits.
This stack on the right side looked like it was leaning outward as the wood dried out, so I added that crossways 2x4 to keep it in place.
I try to stack them pretty snug and use tapered pieces to correct any slope while stacking. I have had them tip over in the past, it's not fun.
Just like live trees stacked wood leans toward the sun. The shady side gets stacked straight up. The sunny side leans back eventually becoming just two splits wide. Since I’ve started doing this my stacks don’t budge.
Look at it this way Mike...the wood Gods felt bad about your injury and wanted you to stay busy with something wood related! If you get a leaner rack attach a 2x4 cleat across to other racks to help hold it up. I give you lots of credit working with that hill to stack. PITA at times. Ive made 5'x10' single tier racks and they need to be pretty level front to back from the start to avoid leaning and toppling. Trying to get out of stacking over 5' if i can, but storing multiple cords of wood on a postage stamp or two isnt easy.
We used to use posts on the ends, then switched to cribbing, and now we just stack it. No posts, no cribbing, just stacked. It's faster and easier and the stack can settle as it wants. Been doing it for 3 years now and it seems to work well. The ends aren't straight up, but are pretty steep if done right.
Brad, I hear you about stacking high when space is limited. I also like stacking on pallets...2 cord takes 5 pallets (40" x48"). So stacking to 5' gets 2 cord in a pretty small space. I agree that repetitious moving of wood is therapeutic. Sca
Haha i get paranoid my neighbor will push my stacks over sometimes because i know he doesn’t like them
I hate when that happens. I had same stack fall twice. Its all dry splits, so I tossed a tarp over it and will move to the shed in a couple weeks. I'll show it who's boss!!
